Sweet clams and salty ham are a perfect combination, and this tapas dish or sharing starter can be made in minutes. If you like clams and cockles try the Hake Medallions with Cockles. BBC good food
Recipes
Sauteed Chorizo with Red Wine
🇪🇸 En español: Chorizo Al Vino Tinto This sauteed chorizo with red wine is an authentic recipe for this tapas dish. Let’s face it, chorizo sausage with all that smoked paprika and garlic is one of the best cooking ingredients ever invented and I love it. In everyday cooking, I […]
Mid Week Tuna Tomato Pasta Bake
A tuna tomato pasta bake for a quick and easy mid-week meal should be in every family recipe book. This recipe from Sainsbury’s fits the bill and is a favourite of the grandchildren when they stay. Mind you, they are hungry again about an hour later and the assault on […]
Portuguese Cataplana
“Cataplana” is the word for both the dish and the spherical pot it’s cooked and served in. This fish and seafood stew is from the Algarve, in Portugal. You don’t need a cataplana dish, any deep dish such as a cast-iron casserole dish, Dutch oven or large pot. As long […]
Ceviche
Ceviche is the Latin American dish where really fresh fish and shellfish is cured in lime juice and tossed commonly with onion, tomato, coriander, salt and often avocado. It’s quick, it’s easy, and makes a fabulously light starter or lunch.
Classic Spanish Paella
Most non-Spaniards think that paella is Spain’s national dish. Whereas Spaniards themselves think of paella as a regional dish from Valencia on Spain’s east coast.
Scotch Pies
Scotch pies have been around for hundreds of years. So long in fact that where and when they originated is unclear. As they can be held in one hand, it is probable that they were a working man’s food like the Cornish pasty was for the west country miners. Mutton […]
Bubble and Squeak
Monday night’s dinner would not be complete without all those leftover roasties from Sunday chopped up and mixed with mashed potato and green vegetables all fried together. Cabbage and Brussels sprouts are particularly good done this way.
Irish Bacon Mash and Cabbage
Bacon mash and cabbage has always been the meal of choice for “a taste of home” for people of Irish descent. This is the most popular meal on St Patrick’s day in Ireland.
Both of my wife’s parents are Irish so I have a lot of experience with bacon and cabbage.
Bacon and Onion Roly-Poly Pudding
Bacon and onion roly-poly pudding is a classic British family favourite from the 1960s.