Sometimes when I come home from work I don’t want to make a meal from scratch so I cheat and use a shop-bought sauce like Sainsburys Thai Green Curry Style Sauce.
Mains
Ginger and Lime Chicken Legs with Coconut Rice
Tender chicken legs are served with fragrant ginger and coconut rice in this easy and budget-friendly one-pot dinner.
Butternut Squash Macaroni Cheese
Adding roasted butternut squash to this classic recipe gives it a lot of seasonal flavour.
Char Kway Teow
Char Kway Teow is the classic Malaysian street food dish with that big taste of smoky rice noodles. Quick, easy and healthy.
Roast Chicken with Beer Butter Onions and Kale Salad
A classic roast accompanied with an unusual kale and grapefruit salad
Chicken Paprikash
Paprika chicken or as it should be called Chicken Paprikash, an authentic Hungarian dish.
Beer Can Chicken
The best chicken you will ever taste cooked on a BBQ sat on top of half-full a can of beer!
Poulet à la Forestière
Poulet à la Forestière, that’s chicken in mushroom sauce to the non-French-speaking world is a classic autumn dish in French kitchens.
Roasted Pepper Pasta with Spicy Sausage and Cavolo Nero
This is an absolutely brilliant mid week meal with tasty sausage and dark Cavolo Nero cabbage.
Cheeseburger Pasta
My youngest grandson was staying with me this weekend and said “Grandad, can we make cheeseburger pasta like Mummy makes”? I have never heard of cheeseburger pasta but guessed it was some kind of pasta bake. He is a fussy eater so it had to be tasty but definitely not […]
Hi, I’m Richard aka Grandad
I’m a retired aeronautical engineer living in Tunbridge Wells, England. I love cooking and food history.
My grandchildren said, “Grandad, you ought to share your favourite recipes and histories online”. So here they are!
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