How To Make Chicken Stock

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Chicken Stock Recipe -1

Chicken stock is a staple in my kitchen/fridge/freezer and as I use it an awful lot in my cooking it never lasts very long. This is a very easy, non-scientific way of making a great tasting stock and therefore not letting any of the bird go to waste. We had roast chicken for lunch last [...]

Video – Broad Bean & Rocket Salad With Chili Dressing

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Broad Bean crop - 2010

Welcome to my first video, the first of many I hope. Go easy on me as we get to grips with the brand new and very exciting medium of film (we’re working on the sound, it was a breezy day!) One of things I love about having this site is being able to communicate and [...]

Spinach, Prosciutto & Goats Cheese Salad

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Spinach, prosciutto & goats cheese salad - 1

Spinach, Prosciutto & Goats Cheese Salad – serves 2 adults Click here for our cooking & weight conversion chart There is a certain spinach salad that I order every time I eat in a certain Italian restaurant. I eat it with such gusto that even though I order a large portion I nearly always contemplate [...]

Crab Salad with Chili Dressing

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Crab Salad 5

When you are pregnant all of the foods that you are supposedly not ‘allowed’ to eat suddenly become irresistible. Take this Crab Salad for instance. Shellfish is not encouraged during pregnancy and so I had to make myself a tiny wee portion of this salad ‘sans crab’. It was important that I had at least [...]

Thyme & Garlic Butter Baste for Your Turkey

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Thyme & Garlic Butter Baste - 1 - Cherry Menlove

Welcome! I have a GREAT recipe for one of the best ways to baste your Turkey this year if you like a juicy moist golden Turkey on the table during Christmas lunch. Here is a weight conversion chart Take the softened butter, garlic and thyme (leaves only) Cream in a food mixer or use a [...]

Cajun Chicken Seasoning Recipe

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Cherry

This is a recipe that came out of a need to use up a pack of chicken that was in the fridge. I didn’t want to freeze it and it needed to be cooked. So I grabbed an empty jar of cajun seasoning, read the ingredients out loud to myself, omitted the crap that they put in to those jars, gathered some herbs and [...]

How to make Basil Pesto , Eating with Basil

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

How to make Basil Pesto recipe - Cherry Menlove

Basil grows in my garden in a big blue pot. The blue looks so bright against the green and when the sun shines on them both I could very easily be in the Mediterranean. Basil has one of those smells that never fails to make people exclaim, in some way or another, how much they love [...]

Dressing for the Occasion – How To Make Italian Salad Dressing Recipe

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Original Dressing 1 - Cherry Menlove

It’s Tuesday, so I’m talking to you from my kitchen! Dressing for the Occasion – Italian Salad Dressing Recipe The weather here in the South of England has been spoiling us recently and I have been waking up to the sun streaming through my curtains and telling me in the only way that the sun can [...]