Live For Food

Yet another recipe that involves cooking chicken on a weeknight in a fairly speedy fashion.  Have a look at the original recipe on the BBC Good Food website.  Below is the recipe with my own adaptations.  Like one of the commenters I added some red wine, and I didn’t have garlic flavored tomatoes in so […]

I don’t buy much lamb.  The joint or cuts of lamb always seem to be small and expensive when compared to meats like beef or chicken, and they also often seem to be quite fatty.  However on my last shop I came across these lamb escalopes: They looked quite nice – not too fatty and […]

Chicken pie is a great way to use up leftover meat from a roast chicken.  Its also a really comforting meal in the evenings when its cold outside.  If I make pie on a weeknight I normally serve it just with some steamed vegetables, no potatoes or anything, just to keep the calorie count down […]

I tend to buy quite a lot of lean minced beef (ground beef).  Its always on some kind of offer in the supermarket, and I rarely get tired of bolognese, lasagne or shepherd’s pie.  Every now and again though I fancy a change and go and hunt up a new minced beef recipe. So I […]

This is yet another recipe that uses chicken breasts. I tend to keep this one for holidays or special occasions as its quite high in calories! Ingredients (serves 2): 2 chicken breasts 6 strips of smoked streaky bacon 2 long rectangles of cheese, about half the length of a chicken breast, and about 1 cm […]