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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.

Smoked Salmon and Scrambled Egg

Smoked Salmon and Scrambled Egg

 Smoked Salmon and Scrambled Eggs Recipe There's something deeply satisfying about a big plate of glossy scrambled eggs, with lashings of Smoked Salmon sprinkled on the top.  Ingredients for smoked salmon and scrambled eggs A knob of butter At least 2 eggs per person...

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Minestrone Soup

Minestrone Soup

Minestrone Soup is super filling and a great way to use up any root vegetables you might have in your veg rack. Serve with crusty French bread and parmesan cheese.

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Red Pesto and Chargrilled Pepper Panini Pizza Toasts

Red Pesto and Chargrilled Pepper Panini Pizza Toasts

Bring the taste of the Mediterranean to your plate with this Red Pesto and Chargrilled Pepper Panini Pizza Toast. I used a part-baked ciabatta roll (baked before I used it!) but you can use whatever bread you have. Sour dough would work well with this, or even a plain...

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Roasted Tomato and Red Pepper Soup

Roasted Tomato and Red Pepper Soup

This soup is wonderfully vibrant and colourful and packs a flavoursome punch. I like a spicy soup so I've included a little red chilli but you don't have to. If you don't like it feel free to leave it out! Roasting the garlic in its skin allows the flavours to mellow...

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Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake is a childhood favourite, bringing back many happy memories. It is simple to make, with a layer of drained pineapple rings laid on the bottom of the baking tin, topped with a generous helping of golden syrup, cherries and heavenly vanilla cake.

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Eggy Bread Recipe

Eggy Bread Recipe

Eggy Bread is so quick and easy to make with ingredients that you’re likely to already have in your cupboard or fridge. Whether you serve it as a breakfast, brunch or late night snack this recipe is sure to hit the spot.

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Cheese and Tuna Melt Panini Recipe

Cheese and Tuna Melt Panini Recipe

Nothing quite beats the taste of a cheese and tuna melt panini, with cheese oozing out of the side of the bread. They're surprisingly easy to make at home and don't need that many ingredients!  You can customise the recipe to suit you, using mozzerella if you like a...

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Tuna Pasta Salad

Tuna Pasta Salad

Tuna Pasta Salad A light, summery dish, great on its own or with a glass of crisp white wine (for the adults, obviously!) It's also a great way of using up any left over pasta. It keeps well so can be taken to work or school in a tub.  You can have it as it is or...

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Tuna Crunch Recipe

Tuna Crunch Recipe

Tuna Crunch Salad If you're looking for something light and refreshing to serve for lunch, look no further!  Tuna Crunch Salad can be served either on its own, as a Jacket Potato filling or in crusty bread as a sandwich. I quite like having a bowl of it in the...

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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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