Date Night: Katsu Curry and Gourmet Popcorn

As much as I love cooking from scratch, I also like to cheat every now and again. The blue dragon katsu meal kit catches my eye every time I go to the shops, I swear the stuff is addictive. So I thought it would be perfect for me and my boyfriend to make. As I've said before my boyfriend eats meat so we made two separately, I had sweet potato (the kit suggests aubergine, sweet...

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Lemon Drizzle Gingerbread

I had a terrible cold last week, which left me craving lemon and ginger and as my cold got better that craving was naturally replaced with cake. So that's how this recipe popped in to my head. It was also down to the fact that Miss Annie Holland tweeted me saying 'I have a new aim in life....to make it onto Hef's Kitchen!'. It was probably sarcastic, nonetheless this post...

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Filo Pizza Pockets

My vegan friend Emma came round again this week with promise of earning cool points and going to summer solstice (sun rise at stone henge) but as we're poor we stayed in and cooked up another vegan feast. This time we made filo pockets filled with pizza sauce and vegan cheese. This is the first time I've tried vegan cheese and I almost pussied out after I smelt it (touching...

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My Nan's Piccalilli Recipe

Ever since I can remember my nan's made piccalilli, but up until a few years ago (like with lots of other things) I thought I didn't like it. I've wanted to try and make it since it's become a standard part of my roast dinner, and I've finally got the recipe off my nan (see below). I went to see my nan the other day, and she gave me some tips. One of the things she said was...

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Getting To Grips With Polenta

The first time I had polenta was when a chef that was working with my uncle made an amazing goats cheese polenta cake. Since then I've tried to make polenta myself but it usually fails! There was the time I tried to re-create the polenta cake at Christmas and it fell apart and the time I forced Simone to eat griddled polenta that tasted of nothing. So this week I decided to...

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Mexican Feast

Refried Bean Quesadillas with Nachos, Homemade Guacamole and Chili and Garlic CornMy boyfriend and I have completely different tastes in food which makes hard to know what to cook for both of us. The main issue is that he doesn't like vegetables and I do, and I don't like meat and he does. Most of the time we have two separate meals (meat and veggie version) which mostly consist...

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