I received Jamie Oliver’s new book, Jamie at Home: Cook Your Way to the Good Life at Christmas, but today is the first time I’ve got round to cooking anything from it. We had Steak, Guinness and Cheese Pie minus the cheese, which was incredibly tasty. The recipe can be found here. Well that’s not strictly [...]
Desperate Dan was a character in The Dandy, a long running children’s comic, who loved to eat ‘Cow Pies’. Cow Pies are really just steak pies but the name certainly suited the Desperate Dan character. For as long as I can remember any steak pie (or a variation e.g. steak and kidney, steak and mushroom) was [...]
Who said leftovers are boring? Well whoever it was obviously didn’t have a lot of inventive thought in the culinary department. Using up some of our turkey and ham leftovers from Christmas I followed Nigella Lawson’s recipe for Turkey & Ham Pie (which can be found in Feast: Food That Celebrates Life), it has got [...]