Food & Drink

Frittatas have to be the best fridge-raid meals around. You can chuck almost anything into this recipe from Home Bird and end up with something delicious. Please use the additions to the egg in these recipes as a guide and add in whatever you have to hand.

 

Mushrooms and tofu have a natural affinity as ingredients, and they are combined here in a fresh vegetarian take on a classic Chinese hotpot. Serve this dish from Totally Tofu with steamed rice or boiled noodles for lunch or supper.

It’s so easy to blend these simple ingredients into a creamy hummus-like dip, and it can be used in variety of ways: as a healthy snack with raw veggie sticks or crackers, as a topping for pizza, or like here, as an open sandwich spread.

This is the ideal companion to a festive brunch party. It’s light, refreshing and if you use an Italian Rosé Vino Frizzante, it will be a little lower in alcohol than a Prosecco or Champagne-based cocktail, so perfect for drinking before midday!

This is also known as Beef Wellington and brings greedy smiles to all assembled faces around a dinner table. This is real special occasion stuff. Take a little time to decorate the surface of the pastry lavishly with pastry leaves, flowers, tassels, a birthday name, mushrooms – whatever takes your fancy. 

This quick kale salad recipe from ScandiKitchen Christmas is a great go-to for a simple meal or side salad idea.

Is it a tart? Is it a brownie? Who knows! Who cares! It’s delicious, all the same. This mash-up of two sweet treats from Binge-Watching Eats is the perfect bake to make before a weekend marathon of your favourite TV shows.

You can turn your home into the perfect night-in with this hotpot recipe from Big Night In.

The simple jacket potato piled high with vegan spicy bean chilli with charred sweetcorn is a comforting and simple dinner idea for winter nights. This recipe from Piled High Potatoes is a quick and easy dinner idea.

This recipe is a great way to make a meal out of simple mashed potato. Bacon, leeks and cheese make a particularly perfect trio, but you can add just about anything to this versatile dish. 

These gingerbread witches cats and hats from Magical Animal Cakes are purrrfect for Halloween or any other witchy-themed occasion. Look for different shapes of cat cutters and edible Halloween sprinkles in green, orange and black in cake-decorating stores or online suppliers.

This is deliciously rich and smooth soup with a colour of deep vibrant gold. Author of Delicious Soups Belinda Williams had a similar dish at a Gordon Ramsay restaurant as an amuse bouche, and that is where the idea for this recipe in her book came from. The silky nature of the cep works so well with the smooth soup. Truffle oil finishes this off and elevates it from the everyday to something really special – but this is at your discretion.