Food Blog

So recently I got a lot of duck eggs in to make Nixon specials when I had a lot of visitors over. However…. said visitors didn’t get up early enough to have them before they left so I needed to decide how to use up the eggs. As such I decided to have a try at making scotch eggs. I...

  Ingredients 1 large onion 1 carrot 6 cloves of garlic 2 stick of celery olive oil 400 g quality minced chuck steak 45 g higher-welfare pancetta 100 ml red wine 250 ml organic beef stock 2 x 400 g tins of chopped tomatoes 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 pinch of sugar 1 tablespoon tomato purée 200 ml single cream...

So I’ve never made pizza before but thought I’d give it a go. It starts off like bread with the dough. The recipe I was using (again from the good housekeeping book) used a ratio of 8oz of flour and 150 ml of water. Once the dough has risen once, it needs to be rolled and had oil spread over...

So last night we had bolognese and had lots of leftovers so decided to make a lasagna. I usually just cover the top of the lasagna with a plain cheese sauce but tonight I thought I’d do a bit of experimenting and some seasoning to it. I added a bit a of pepper, some rosemary salt, some chilli flakes, some...

Now, when making this we had lots of cheese and bacon in the fridge that needed eating up quickly. So we bought a round loaf to make this. All we had to do was cut up the loaf add the cheese, bacon and some garlic. It was amazingly tasty even if very unhealthy.  

Now this isn’t something I’ve ever cooked myself, I’ve always had it done for me. I originally found this on the marmite Facebook page. It soon became a firm favourite with my immediate family and then nicknamed a “Nixon Special” by the rest of the family. It’s a crumpet with lots of marmite and a runny poached egg on top

So last Christmas we hosted for the first time. Sadly, I ended up being quite ill, so I had to get a lot of help from my mum to get the dinner ready. But it all ended up done and was a great success. At the bottom we have cauliflower cheese and cheesy leeks. Behind that we have roast potatoes...

Lobster has always been a firm favourite in my family and actually ended up being our traditional Christmas dinner instead of turkey.  Growing up living on the coast, it was surprisingly difficult to aquire live lobsters – we didn’t have any fishmongers left in the town. It’s actally easier for me to get now, live about an hour and a...