Creamy Chicken with Sundried Tomato

Slow Cooker Creamy Chicken and Sundried Tomato

My slow cooker is a life saver. Not in a literal sense, you understand, but I love that I can dump all my ingredients in and walk away. I have only had one for about a year, and now I don’t know how I managed without it. If you don’t have one, you can definitely…

Pork and Squash Stew

Pork and Squash Stew

As part of Squash Appreciation Week, I had to include at least one stew. Squash and sage are beautiful together, and pork and apple are made for each other. Put all four in one dish and you have something mind blowingly delicious. This stew is rich and savoury from the stock and the pork, yet…

Chorizo and Bean Casserole

Chorizo and Bean Casserole

What happened to Spring? It was there for a little while – I am sure of it. This morning started off with a rain storm, for goodness sake. In some ways, I was grateful for the temperature dip, because I had been dreaming about this chorizo and bean casserole all week, and casserole is always…

Aubergine Parmigiano

As we move ever closer to the summer, my eating habits tend to change. I start to move more towards lighter, fresher dishes than the heavy comforting stodge of winter food. It also makes a nice change to have a completely vegetarian dish. Aubergines are a vegetable I don’t use often enough, so I decided…

Beef Casserole

Although today has been a much brighter day than of late, my mind is still on winter comfort food. On Sundays, I am often out on for a couple of hours in the middle of the day, so something that I can throw in a pot and leave to cook slowly by itself is ideal….