Quick Fresh Tomato Salsa

Quick Fresh Tomato Salsa recipe , packed with fresh coriander and of course, fresh tomatoes.

A dash of minced garlic, a splash of white wine vinegar and some lime, whats left is a bowl of salsa thats fit to be in and on most things this summer.

Goats Cheese & Avocado Dressing

Avocado and goats cheese dressing is perfect for salad and to smear on some toasted sourdough with a few slices of crispy bacon. Drizzled on this fresh mackerel and prawn salad giving a creamy dimension to this already filled salad.

Tiramisu

This Tiramisu recipe is super easy to make and just as easy to eat. Traditional, authentic tiramisu with Creamy mascarpone, piped creamy top with a thick dusting of cocoa powder over the top. Perfect to double the ingredients and make it a show stopper for a family or friends get together.

Sweet Potato & Wild Garlic Gnocchi in a Three Tomato Cream Cheese Sauce with Charred Sesame Oil & Ras El Hanout Courgettes

Sweet Potato & Wild Garlic Gnocchi in a Three Tomato Cream Cheese Sauce with Charred Sesame Oil & Ras El Hanout Courgettes recipe has a few steps to it but is a super easy dish to make.

Enjoy the gnocchi in a big bowl with the charred courgette on the side. Gnocchi is a great make ahead dish, letting them sit in the fridge until the next day. Just re-heat the sauce, cook the gnocchi and then let them sit in the warm sauce until each one is coated in the sauce.

Lamb Peka- A Croatian Lamb Dish

Lamb Peka- A Croatian Lamb Dish , a recipe that needs to be in every family recipe book for those days that you need amazing flavours but don’t want to work too hard. Full of flavour and a Croatian dish and sends love smells around my kitchen every time i make it.

Asparagus Tart with Wild Garlic Butter Flaky Pastry

Asparagus Tart with Wild Garlic Butter Flaky Pastry recipe is one of the easiest savoury tart to make and really showcases the summers crop pf asparagus.

Using wild garlic butter to make the quick flaky pastry is a game changer, and the pastry takes this tart from something good to something great.

Kuglof – Croatian Apple Bundt Cake

Kuglof – Croatian Apple Bundt Cake recipe. A cake that looks as good as it tastes. With undertones of citrus and with apples running through the light sponge, It’s light and comes out of the tin in that unmistakable shape from the Bundt tin. Its the tin that gives the name to the cake, so if you can find a pretty one in a charity shop, i’d snap it up straight away.

No Yeast Beer Bread with Black Olives & Rosemary

No Yeast Beer Bread with Black Olives & Rosemary so easy to make without any yeast. Once it’s mixed it just takes a hot oven for it to rise to perfection every time!

When the beer is added to the dry bread ingredients, the beer’s yeast content reacts with the baking powder and starches in the flour, causing the dough to rise and start to leaven. I hope that sounded as though i know what i’m talking about?!

Slow Cooker Shredded Chicken Lettuce Wraps

Slow Cooker Shredded Chicken Lettuce Wraps, an easy to made and delicious to eat recipe thats great for those days when i want to have the comfort of the slow cooker and also want it to taste a little lighter. Introducing the magic powder of Vegeta, a Croatian staple in every kitchen that is always right next to the paprika, another staple.

Chicken Thigh Pie with Red Pepper, Baby SweetCorn Surrounded by Rosemary Flaky Pastry – Made with Chicken Cuppa Soup

Chicken Thigh Pie with Red Pepper, Baby SweetCorn Surrounded by Rosemary Flaky Pastry – Made with Chicken Cuppa Soup

Not much time to get stuff together, so a batch of my 30-minute flaky pastry, some packet chicken cuppa soup mix and I was ready to go. There always seems to be just a little pastry left.

Those bits left over from rolling out, and i cant bear to waste them, so i always have to find something else to use them for and what i wrap the pastry around depends on what i have lying around

Harissa & Dark Chocolate Chunk Banana Bread

Harissa & Dark Chocolate Chunk Banana Bread recipe. Really black and overripe are the perfect bananas to use for any banana bread recipe. Those bananas that lie in the fruit bowl forgotten and rejected are the ones to use.

So, why harissa in this recipe? The only way to answer this question is to make it for yourself and try it.

The short answer is that the harissa adds a little bit if umami and a small bit of heat on my tongue, a combination i like.

Honey Nut Cornflake & Coconut Biscuits – Gluten Free

Honey Nut Cornflake & Coconut Biscuits recipe – Gluten Free recipe. So easy that making them with kids is a great way to spend an afternoon of messy baking.

Then there’s the fact there’s no need to rush out to the shop if I want to satisfy my sweet fix, all of the ingredients are in my pantry right when I need them.

Pistachio Cream Filled Biscotti

Pistachio Cream Filled Biscotti recipe, a combination of layers of smooth pistachio cream surrounded by a firm yet crumbly twice baked biscuit. Not too sweet and nothing difficult about making these, which is why they are on my favourite biscuit list. Fancy biscuits that are so tasty.