Dinner recipes

Chickpea Fritters This is part of my resolution to actually cook something from the various food magazines I buy every month. These little chickpea fritters are from Olive. I made them as a starter when some friends came over, but they are pretty filling so would make a good lunch. I layered them with chargrilled aubergine and […]

Fajitas This is perfect for eating with a big group of friends. Surprisingly healthy, this is full of veggies and will make a couple of chicken breasts go a really long way.

Lamb Saag So, first up apologies for the absence. I’ve been cooking of course and I have a whole raft of recipes ready to write about, i guess life just gets in the way sometimes… Next up for OxNosh is a booklet of recipes for students and we spent the bank holiday weekend developing recipes. The idea […]

Red Rice Stir Fry with Poached Eggs We get our vegetable box on a Friday and if we get cabbage and potatoes, I’ve taken to making bubble and squeak for brunch at the weekends. A spoon (or more) of baked beans on the side and a poached egg, what could be better? Now, this isn’t bubble and squeak in the strictest sense, […]

Innocent Veg Pots – Mark II Continuing the Innocent Veg Pot theme from my previous post – here’s my idea for sprucing up the Indian Daal Curry. I took loose inspiration from this Jamie Oliver recipe that I’ve been eyeing for a while and made a sort of spicy seafood and vegetable soup. Simply heat the veg pot with 1/2 cup […]

A New Ready Meal… I can’t remember the last time I bought a ready meal. Seriously. I’d rather eat a boiled egg and soldiers or beans on toast or a bowl of ice cream for my tea. Not only are they expensive, but they are generally pretty unappetising affairs. But now, Innocent have gone and brought out their veg […]

Peanut Noodle Salad My weekends are for cooking and while I tend to rely heavily on leftovers for lunch, I like to make some kind of salad to stash in the fridge during the week for snacking or for lunch when we’ve been over zealous and eaten every last scrap of dinner. Something robust that will survive a […]

Dan Dan Noodles During my visit home, while rooting through my mum’s cookbook collection; I found Chinese Food Made Easy by Ching-He Huang. I knew my mum wouldn’t use this book, she rarely uses a recipe for anything and so, I managed to commandeer it for myself. I’m not a fan of the cookery shows myself, a bit […]

Vegetable Curry I spent the weekend visiting the family in Manchester. While I was obviously required to make brownies, we did most of our eating in some delicious restaurants. I came home yesterday to a rather sad looking romanseco cauliflower and was itching to get back into the kitchen. My knee-jerk reaction is generally to douse it […]

Beef Goulash Our vegetable box is delivered on Friday, so my current Saturday morning routine consists of getting up in time for Saturday Kitchen, sitting amidst my various cookbooks and looking for new recipes to try with my muddy bounty. One eye on James Martin, one on the books. My routine was somewhat upset this week as […]