Recipes

What herbs suit which dish? Taking the guesswork out of the recipe

By luisa / October 11, 2013

Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice – That’s what girls are made of…so what are great dishes made of? Certainly not bugs and snails and puppy dog tails. Well, not in my kitchen anyway! One of the requests that was made recently was some more information into what herbs match what types of dishes. […]

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Let Them Eat Cake (birthday cake that is)

By luisa / October 8, 2013

It was my boyfriends birthday recently and course we had to celebrate with cake! What is a birthday without cake after all! I have always enjoyed making birthday cakes for friends and family and watching their delight as everyone sings a song in their honour whilst embarrassing them with how off tune it all is. […]

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Easy Peasy Lamb Burgers

By luisa / September 30, 2013

Creating interesting and nice dinner options can be a bit of a chore when you really aren’t sure what you feel like and the thought of opening a recipe book seems too much like work. Well for me it’s a lot like being at work but that’s another story! I decided burgers were on the […]

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My 4 top tips for creating a signature dish for dinner parties

By luisa / September 7, 2013

One of the questions I am frequently asked when people learn I am a chef is “what’s your signature dish?” This question is like a giant spotlight on me as I feel like how can can I choose just one thing that I like to cook? But then I realised there are dishes that I […]

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Strawberry jam tarts

By luisa / September 7, 2013

Looks delicious might just have to try this one!

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Nutella and Strawberry = French Toast Delicious

By luisa / September 4, 2013

I have to attribute this idea to a pinterest post I found when lying in bed trying not to salivate as I explored some recipe inspiration. Her blog is found on navywifecook.com and is rather cute and interesting to explore.  So the recipe. Essentially Nutella French Toast….I had you at Nutella right? My last post […]

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Match Made in Heaven – Salmon, Orange and Fennel

By luisa / August 27, 2013

As a chef you learn food matches that are just meant to be – and some that are not. These flavours compliment in their contrast or their compatibility. There is of course science behind this and the plant families etc etc which you can look into if you are so inclined but this is more […]

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Not just a pumpkin scone – my mother’s pumpkin scones

By luisa / August 4, 2013

  Well actually, this is a recipe for pumpkin scones, but not just any pumpkin scones, old school recipe from the 60’s pumpkin scones -mmmm. Once again I baked some treats from my mother’s high school recipe book and happened across the pumpkin scones and with a 1/4 pumpkin looking forlorn in the fridge and […]

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Let’s Get Baking – Jam Drops

By luisa / July 26, 2013

My oven isn’t the trustiest for baking more delicate foods such as cakes and desserts but biscuits and pies that require heat but aren’t quite so temperamental work wonderfully. I was looking through my bookshelf and found my mothers recipe book from her year 10 home economics classes and was excited to find jam drops […]

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Chocolate Fondant Pudding

By luisa / June 5, 2013

It was my turn to do dessert again and chocolate fondant was the dessert of the day at work so I thought, why not make some for home too? Mmmm….What is chocolate fondant you ask? Well it is a hot chocolate pudding that has a sumptuous melting middle of chocolatey gooeyness. Now who wouldn’t want […]

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