Lunch

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.

Coronation chicken is a great way to use up leftover roast chicken to make a tasty lunch. Use as a sandwich filling or pile on top of a hot buttered jacket potato

This hearty sweet potato and chorizo soup is perfect after a long walk in the winter months. With a hint of smoked paprika and chilli to give it a kick it will have you warmed up in no time!

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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 do it in a saucepan instead, simmering the soup until the leeks, carrots, onions and celery are lovely...

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...

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....

This delicious, warming soup is made from a rich combination of roasted red peppers, vine-ripened tomatoes, red chilli and roasted skin-on cloves of garlic. This gives the soup a great depth of flavour. The chilli gives the soup a little warmth. If you don't like...

Having a steaming bowl of noodles swimming in a beautiful, warming stock not only raises the spirit it warms the heart! There's nothing much more comforting than having a big bowl of Chicken Noodle Soup when you're feeling stuffed up with cold, or when you need a...

Warming Roasted Butternut Squash soup with Chilli and Ginger Recipe As the season turns from Summer to Autumn and a slight chill appears in the air, I suddenly need to start making soup again. This wonderfully warming soup uses Roasted Butternut squash as its base,...

Broccoli soup is very quick and easy to make and uses only a few ingredients. If you fancy adding cheese or cheese subsitute at the end go ahead. Otherwise it’s vegan

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.

Leek and Mushroom soup harnesses the lightness of the leeks and the earthiness of the mushrooms to bring a delicate, flavoursome soup

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...

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...

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...