‘Easter Egg’ Easy Easter Biscuits – perfect afternoon baking with the children
I spent the most perfect Good Friday making these ‘Easter Egg’ easy Easter Biscuits – the 6yr old did the whole thing with me (after three boys, the patience of a girl with the fiddly bits constantly amazes me) and the big boys came in for the ‘fun’ bit. Easy Easter Biscuits – What you need: 200g butter, at room temperature (using a buttery spread makes the dough softer when chilled, and...
Oven-baked leek & bacon risotto – easy weekday dinners for busy parents
Cooking meals for the family after a long hard day can fill you with a sense of dread. The last thing you feel like doing is slaving over a hot stove for an hour or two when you get home from work. If you’re looking for an easy weekday meal idea then read on. Below you’ll find one of my favourite quick, easy and healthy family meals you can try out. Every time I cook this it gets mopped up by the whole family. A one-pot risotto...
Easter Sunday Dinner Menu – Recipe for Roast leg of Lamb with Redcurrant Glaze.
Ours doesn’t ever change much – most year’s we have the grandparents with us for Easter Sunday Lunch, and we’ll have a traditional Roast lamb with all the trimmings, followed by dessert of choice. Often it’s our infamous (and delicious) Pavlova, but sometimes one of the boys – who are always in charge of Easter Dessert – wants to try something new. This year, our menu looked like this:...
Easter Hot Cross Buns – Recipes lie. Also, they take 3hrs people.
Okay – first note. I always forget how long hot cross buns take to make. Never mind the cooking time (we’ll get to that bit) – but if you make them properly with yeast and such like, you need 3 hours for rising and proving. That’s THREE HOURS. So if you want them for, say, Easter Sunday afternoon tea, don’t start them after lunch. Just saying. So. Recipe. I used Tesco’s Real Food Easter Hot Cross...
New Ken Hom recipes, just for #EarthHour – Crackling Rice Paper Wrapped Salmon.
These recipes from chef Ken Hom are in support of WWF Earth Hour. The theme of this year’s Earth Hour is ‘Do It In The Dark’, so Ken Hom has created recipes people can share over a candlelit dinner during the hour. yesterday we showed you the Clay Pot Caramel Pork, but today we have a delicious wrapped salmon meal. Rice paper rounds are made from a mixture of rice flour, water and salt. Rolled out by a machine to paper thinness,...
New Ken Hom recipes, just for #EarthHour (are you joining in?) – Clay Pot Caramel Pork.
WWF’s Earth Hour – Saturday 23rd March at 8.30pm Ken Hom has teamed up with WWF to provide three exclusive recipes for Earth Hour – here’s the first, a totally delicious-looking Caramel Pork that I cannot WAIT to try. Clay Pot Caramel Pork Serves 4 What You Need: 50g (1/3 cup) brown sugar slabs or ordinary brown sugar (3/4 cup) chicken stock 6 tablespoons (1/3 cup) fish sauce 100g shallots, finely sliced 2...