Lime & Cardamom Tart With Toffee Figs With National Fig Week just around the corner we thought we share one of our favourite fig desert recipes.   Ingredients: 1 quantity sweet shortcrust pastry (see sweet shortcrust variation with related recipe) 1 tablespoon cardamom seeds 5 eggs, lightly whisked 300ml thin[…]

Roasted Butternut Squash Soup With Chestnuts A beautifully simple recipe with minimum preparation, perfect for those long cold winter nights.   Ingredients: 2 Tbsp. butter 1 medium onion, finally chopped 1 medium carrot, peeled and finally chopped 1 medium about 2 lb. butternut squash, peeled, seeded and cubed 2 Tbsp. olive[…]

Cheshire Cheese Stuffed Pumpkins One of our favourite autumnal easy-to-make recipes, perfect for a light lunch or a side to a hearty dinner.   Ingredients: 2 x 700-800g pumpkins, halved and pips scooped out 75g couscous 2 tbsp olive oil 1 leek, washed, trimmed and sliced 175g chestnut mushrooms, chopped[…]

Sublimely Fresh Breakfast Kedgeree Great at any time of the day, but particularly tasty in the morning, kedgeree fuses the best of British with stunning Indian spices.   Ingredients: 300g undyed smoked haddock fillet, skin on 2 bay leaves 300ml milk 4 eggs handful chopped parsley handful chopped coriander For the rice… 2 tbsp[…]