Homemade Mince meat and mince pies
These are delicious, so much better than shop bought! Happy Christmas. 🙂 You can even give this lovely mincemeat as gifts for Christmas, a great addition to any Chrsitmas hamper!
Easy shortcrust dessert pastry
This is a quick and easy way to make a sweet shortcrust pastry for mince pies, jam tarts and other tasty treats. You can make this and keep it in the fridge for a couple of days, or freeze it until you need it.
Quick and easy Banana chutney
Ooh, it’s beginning to smell alot like Christmas!!
This is an unusual chutney, but it’s really tasty! Enjoy with some leftover turkey, or some nice cheeses! You could also try it mixed with yoghurt for a dip? Why not! Takes around 10 days to mature, so start soon and you can try it out in time for Christmas. 🙂
Tortilla Wrap Pizza Tower
Made this tonight as we had some wraps to use – the kids demolished it, and it was really quick and simple. You can use whatever you fancy to fill it – tomato pasta sauce, garlic mushrooms, beef, chilli, chicken… anything you like! I used a tomato, red onion, basil and lentil filling along with the cheese.
Perfectly cooked steaks
So simple, and so delicious! Serve with some homemade chips, and rocket and Parmesan salad, and maybe even a wee glass of red vino!
Homemade Potato Salad
This is a delicious potato salad with a wee twist. This is particularly good with fish. 🙂
My mum’s Russian Fish Pie
Not too sure where my mum picked this one up from, but it really is good!! Really easy if you use storecupboard tinned tuna, and really tasty and as an extra bonus it is cheap too. 🙂 Try it with http://www.myingredients.com/recipes/homemade-potato-salad/
Christmas Eve Poached Salmon
This is a great dish to make before Christmas Day if you have friends or family round but don’t want to eat something heavy before the big day. Then again its great to have any time of year. Best served with potato salad http://www.myingredients.com/recipes/homemade-potato-salad/ and samphire.
Stovies – The perfect Scottish Stew
This is comfort food at it’s best!!! We had this at our wedding reception, and we usually have a big pot of it on the stove on Hogmonay for folk to help themselves too, great party food! This is also great for leftovers, you can use cooked meat, leftover gravy, and leftover veg from a Sunday Roast – so nothing is wasted!