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Easy American Pancakes Recipe

If you want a tasty but rather indulgent breakfast or brunch idea, this fluffy American pancakes recipe is just the ticket! Serve the pancakes with lashings of crispy streaky bacon and maple syrup, or add a dusting of icing sugar and your favourite fresh fruit and honey if you’re feeling more virtuous!

Easy Broccoli and King Prawn Risotto Recipe

Broccoli and King Prawn Risotto Recipe This gorgeous summery broccoli and king prawn risotto recipe is perfect when you need something quick and easy that tastes fantastic but takes minimal effort!  I added courgette for a little extra flavour,  but you can leave that...

Quick and Easy Tagliatelle Carbonara Recipe

This quick and easy tagliatelle carbonara recipe uses simple ingredients which are combined to make a comforting dinner suitable for any night of the week. Serve with a side salad and lashings of crusty garlic bread. If you don't have tagliatelle, you can use...

Delicious Roast Chicken Salad Sandwich Recipe

Chicken Salad Sandwich Recipe If you have any leftover chicken from a roast chicken dinner, or some leftover cooked chicken thighs or legs you can make a tasty roast chicken salad sandwich. This is perfect with a little salad cream and a cup of tea. You could toast...

Quick and Easy Ginger Biscuit Recipe

Quick and easy Ginger Biscuit recipe These ginger biscuits are quick and easy to make. They make the perfect accompaniment to a steaming hot cup of tea on a cosy autumn afternoon and are fast enough to make if you discover that you have friends and family on the way...

Chicken and Green Pesto Pasta Recipe

Chicken and Green Pesto Pasta Recipe Succulent pieces of chicken are combined with tangy green pesto and zingy parmesan cheese in this delicious chicken and green pesto pasta recipe. This recipe is inspired by a dish my daughter once ate in an Italian restaurant. I...

The best egg sandwich recipe

This egg sandwich recipe is perfect for packed lunches and picnics. You could add salad cream or mayo, or watercress, cress, crispy bacon bits or prawns to make it taste extra special.

Arrabbiata sauce recipe

This delicious tomato and chilli arrabbiata sauce recipe makes the perfect accompaniment to pasta shapes like penne or rigatoni, or as a spicy sauce for meatballs. It is also a great way of using up vegetables like peppers, courgettes or carrots.

You can customise it to suit your tastes and needs making it milder if like me you prefer the warmth of chilli, and hotter if you prefer a big chilli kick.

Sausage and Red Pesto Pasta Recipe

This sausage and red pesto pasta recipe came to me one night when we had nothing organised for dinner, but we did have a packet of sausages, a jar of red pesto, and some pasta. It’s super tasty and quick and easy to make

Quick and Easy Fish Pie Recipe

Easy Fish Pie Recipe If you've ever needed a bowlful of comfort food that's quick and easy to prepare then this is it. If you like you can add grated cheese to the mashed potatoes and then sprinkle some more on the top when it goes in the oven. This version of fish...

Orange Marmalade Pudding with Orange Sauce

This sticky orange marmalade pudding and orange sauce is simply the best pudding. It is tangy and sweet and nicely complimented with the orange sauce.

Smoked Haddock Chowder Recipe

With lashings of tasty smoked haddock, juicy sweetcorn and comforting potatoes Smoked Haddock Chowder is perfect for a cold winter’s day. It’s also quick and easy to make.

Spicy Curried Cauliflower Soup Recipe

Spicy Curried Cauliflower Soup Recipe

Spicy Curried Cauliflower Soup Recipe. This easy to make curried cauliflower soup is just perfect for cooler autumn days when you need something to warm you up!  I roasted the cauliflower florets in the oven to start off with, although if time is short you could...

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Pot Luck Salad Recipe

Pot Luck Salad Recipe

Pot luck salad – this versatile and hearty protein packed salad is versatile and fantastic for those days when you’ve not got much time

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Chicken Pie Recipe

Chicken Pie Recipe

This delicious chicken pie is a great way to use up leftover chicken and is quick and easy to make. Perfect for a quick weekday dinne

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Summer Minestrone Soup

Summer Minestrone Soup

Summer Minestrone Soup is perfect for lunch on a summers day.

A light, tasty soup packed with Mediterranean vegetables, tomato and basil, serve with a crusty French stick or some garlic and herb croutons.

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Top Money Saving tips

Top Money Saving tips

Are you looking for tips on saving money on your weekly food shop? Look no further! Here are my top tips for saving time, energy and money on your food shops.Go shopping in your own cupboards, fridge and freezer Before you go to the shops, have a good look through...

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All-butter Orange Mince Pies

All-butter Orange Mince Pies

Ingredients 1 jar of mincemeat. The juice and finely grated rind of 1 orange227g of butter (you're supposed to use unsalted but I prefer salted) 454g of Self-Raising Flour Icing sugar to dust. Method Cut the butter into small chunks and rub it into the flour either...

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Roasted Garlic and Tomato Soup Recipe

Roasted Garlic and Tomato Soup Recipe

This delicious roasted garlic and tomato soup combines the mellowness of the roasted garlic with the freshness of the vine-ripened tomatoes to create a wonderfully warming and uplifting soup.      Roasted garlic is one of the most amazing flavours known to...

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Super quick and easy lentil soup recipe

Super quick and easy lentil soup recipe

Lentil Soup is a wonderfully versatile soup. If you don't have much time it can be made quickly and easily by pretty much throwing a handful of washed lentils, some stock, a finely chopped onion and some herbs into a pan and simmering until the lentils go fluffy. If...

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Quick and easy spaghetti bolognese recipe

Quick and easy spaghetti bolognese recipe

This quick and easy spaghetti bolognese recipe uses only a few key ingredients and is quick to cook. Perfect for students who may have little time on their hands. It's wonderfully versatile. Any leftover bolognese sauce can be turned into another meal for another day....

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Chicken and Leek soup

Chicken and Leek soup

Quick and Easy Chicken and Leek Soup. A wonderfully light soup which can use leftover chicken from a roast dinner. Done in the soup maker, this soup only takes 26 minutes to cook If you prefer, you can make it in a saucepan instead, simmering the soup until the leeks,...

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Soup Maker Ham and lentil Soup

Soup Maker Ham and lentil Soup

This delicious soup is a perfect way of using up leftover ham. The lentils are packed with protein and fibre which makes the soup very filling. This recipe is for the soup maker but there is absolutely no reason why you couldn't also do it in an ordinary sauce pan...

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Slow Cooker Cottage Pie Recipe

Slow Cooker Cottage Pie Recipe

There's nothing quite like a big bowl of slow cooker cottage pie to warm you up on a cold, rainy winters night. Delicious minced beef and onions are slow cooked with carrots, celery and herbs and finished with gravy. This is topped with piles of creamy mashed potato...

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Soup maker Celeriac and Sweet Potato soup

Soup maker Celeriac and Sweet Potato soup

This celeriac and sweet potato soup is made in less than 20 minutes in a soup maker. The sweetness of the sweet potato are complemented by the tang of the celery and the warmth of the celeriac. The addition of a little ground white pepper gives the dish a warm twist....

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9 Top Tips for Using A Soup Maker

9 Top Tips for Using A Soup Maker

Here are 9 Top Tips for using a Soup Maker. Soup makers are great, once you've figured out how to work them! Allowing you to get on with doing other things whilst it makes delicious, nutritious soup in 19-26 minutes makes it wonderfully convenient. It is also a great...

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Mama Coops

I love cooking! I'm hoping that by sharing some of my cooking wisdom, recipes and tips with you you'll come to love cooking as much as I do! When I'm not cooking and writing, I love spending time with my family and my cat and reading crime novels

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