Ridiculously Easy Pastry Dough

Ridiculously Easy Pastry Dough

Laurel Watson This is one of the strangest recipes I’ve ever come across in my travels through the internet… it intrigued me immediately.. a French woman posted it (always a good start) and claimed it made a lovely short, sweet … Read more »

Sausage       Cornish Roll

Sausage Cornish Roll

Ingredients 450g flaky pastry 450g sausage meat 1 onion, grated 1 apple, grated 1 egg, beaten 1 ½ cups cooked rice 1 teaspoon curry powder salt and freshly ground black pepper

Grape       And Mascarpone Pastries

Grape And Mascarpone Pastries

Ingredients 1 sheet frozen puff pastry thawed 1 tablespoons castor sugar 1 cup cream 1 cup mascarpone 2 tablespoons icing sugar 500g mixed green and black grapes 250ml sparkling wine 3 tablespoons castor sugar

Spinach and cheese triangles

Spinach and cheese triangles

Ingredients 500g spinach 1 small onion, finely chopped 4 spring onions, chopped 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 tablespoons chopped parsley ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg ¾ cup cottage cheese ¾ cup crumbled feta cheese ½ cup freshly grated parmesan salt and … Read more »

Cornish       Pasty

Cornish Pasty

Makes 9 pasties. Ingredients 3 medium potatoes, peeled and diced 1 small red onion, finely chopped 100g swede, peeled and diced 100g carrots, peeled and diced 2 cloves garlic, crushed 450g round steak, cut into small chunks salt and freshly … Read more »

Can I Cannoli?

Can I Cannoli?

Virgil Evetts I’m a bit lily-livered when it comes to deep-frying. I used to own a bench-top deep fryer, which makes the process pretty fool [ergo flame] proof, but I got sick of cleaning the perpetually greasy thing and hated … Read more »

Pie Making

Pie Making

Pie Making – Alison McKee Sing a song of sixpence, pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie… Pies, for obvious reasons, were originally called ‘coffyns’ or ‘coffins.’ Savoury spiced meat fillings and sauce that were … Read more »