A shepherd’s pie with sweet potatoes and turkey, and plenty of vegetables! Shepherd’s pie is a dish where ground beef and/or lamb is used to make a sauce/stew which is topped with a layer of mashed potatoes and baked until the meat sauce is bubbling and the tops of the mashed potatoes are lightly golden...

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A tasty butter chicken with large chunks of butternut squash! Butter chicken, a chicken curry, is a classic dish and in the fall I enjoy adding butternut squash (or pumpkin)! You can add the butternut squash by adding a puree and/or adding chunks of squash to cook in the sauce until tender. Other than the...

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A quick and easy ground meat version of shepherd’s pie that’s great served over mashed potatoes! Shepherd’s pie (aka cottage pie) is a classic dish consisting of a meat sauce that’s topped with mashed potatoes and baked, kind of like a pie except that mashed potatoes are easier than a pie crust! The meat sauce...

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A moist and tender, traditional style, gingerbread cake that’s the perfect holiday dessert! Gingerbread is a classic holiday treat that can come in various forms such as cookies, breads, cakes, etc. The main flavours are typically: ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and molasses. This gingerbread cake is the perfect holiday dessert and it’s easy to make!...

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A casserole baked French toast with all of the flavours of baklava including a nut topping and a honey syrup! I always enjoy French toast for special breakfasts! There is just something that’s magical about the moist bread dipped in an egg and milk batter before being fried until golden brown and crispy on the...

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A tasty homemade madras lamb curry with a blend of warm spices! Madras curry is an Indian restaurant, and an English pub, staple and it’s pretty easy to make at home! The recipe itself is pretty straight forward but it does require a few spices to make the madras curry powder, though you could use...

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Grilled marinated chicken in a tasty and creamy sauce! Chicken tikka masala is a curry that is popular in the United Kingdom, in fact it’s reported to be one of the most popular dishes there! I am a huge fan of curries of all sorts and chicken tikka masala is one that regularly gets made!...

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A traditional, easy to make, English sticky toffee pudding with a sponge date cake topped with a homemade toffee sauce! Yum! Sticky toffee pudding it a British dessert consisting of a date sponge cake topped with a toffee sauce! You really can’t go wrong taking an already moist and tender cake and smothering it is...

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Light and airy, souffle like puddings infused with flavour by roast beef drippings! With all of the hustle and bustle over the last few days I almost forgot to share with you one of my favourite parts of the roast beef dinner , the Yorkshire pudding. Yorkshire pudding is a souffle like pudding that is...

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Light flaky, tender and moist cod wrapped in a beer batter and fried until crispy and golden brown; served in a baguette with coleslaw and tartar sauce. Over the last few days as I have been contemplating my St. Patrick’s Day dishes, but I could not get the thought of fish and chips out of...

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