Ingredients; 4 cooked chicken breasts, shredded or finely chopped Small tin sweetcorn (260g) 2 carrots, julienned 1 leek, cut in fine rings (or substitute 1 onion) Half a bag of beansprouts Thumb-sized piece of ginger, finely diced 1 red chilli, finely diced 2 cloves of garlic, finely diced Soy sauce Toasted sesame oil Oyster sauce [...]

Ingredients; 2 foot-long bread sticks Large handful grated cheese (strong cheddar or goats cheese) 30g butter, brought to room temperature Teaspoon dried thyme Teaspoon dried basil 1 clove garlic, crushed to a paste (or substitute with 10 twists of dried garlic grater). Heat your oven to 180C. Mix the butter, thyme, basil & garlic together. [...]

Ingredients; For the sponge: 170g softened butter 170g caster sugar 2 eggs 170g self-raising flour For the icing: Freshly-grated rind of 1 lemon Freshly-squeezed juice of 1-2 lemons (I used the juice of one and a half lemons, so add the juice of one and then taste) 110g caster sugar Preheat your oven to 180 [...]

Ingredients; 2 x 125g bags “boil in the bag” couscous 2 sticks celery 1 small bell pepper (your choice of colour) 3 medium tomatoes 1 200g tin sweetcorn Handful frozen peas Handful baby broccoli Handful fresh flat-leaf parsley Handful sun-dried tomatoes 3 handfuls raisins Half teaspoon chilli powder Herbs to taste (e.g. dried oregano, basil, [...]

Ingredients; 3 x 7g packets of dried yeast 1 large tablespoon of honey 625ml beer (I like Hoegaarden but I’ve also done this with Smithwicks as well) 500g of strong white bread flour 500g of plain flour 30g salt Plain flour for dusting Lets talk about beer for a moment, I mentioned two brands of [...]