This one pot, one bowl per person meal can have a Chinese, Thai, Malay, Italian or Indian bias, depending on the spices and vegetables you add to the rice. Use this recipe as a basic guide and adapt it to suit your pantry or palate.

Grilling Salmon can be a chore for most, with pitfalls around every corner. This simple recipe keeps the cook away from most disastrous results, with a mouth-watering opus!

Sourdough secrets to help you make hi-rise bread, pizzas and flat breads. Use this recipe to prevent hard, leathery results or soggy boggy raw dough reflux!

There are some things you should know when going to your first BBQ competition

Homemade pizza from scratch recipe including instructions on how to make the dough and sauce as well as a tasty topping suggestion.

Succulent pan fried pheasant breast fillet served on goats' cheese potato discs and garnished with a spicy pineapple salsa.

Pan fried mahi mahi fillet served on turmeric potato beds with spicy chickpea salsa

Succulent steak and kidney pie is served with attractive and crispy little roast potato florets and sauteed cabbage and onion.

Chicken breast meat and mushrooms are spiced up with chilies and incorporated in a delicious puff pastry pie.

A succulent and spicy lamb burger served between two mini naan breads and with spicy crisp chili wedges.

As someone who has recently downsized, I had to get ruthless with many small appliances, pots and pans and accessories. If like me, you have a much smaller or compact kitchen; it can get hard to create meals in the same old way.  A cooked breakfast can be...

Pork sausages, bacon and black pudding fried breakfast flavored with Guinness sauce.

When I cook pasta I usually get out my big old stainless steel pot, then fill it with water and bring to a boil and try and gently place the spaghetti in without breaking.  Once it is done I have my colander sitting the best I can in the...

Pheasant breast fillet stuffed with cherries and wrapped in bacon before being baked is served with apple sauce and sauteed leek mashed potatoes.

A moderately spicy shin beef chili is served in a chili spiced giant Yorkshire pudding.

Pork loin medallions, bacon and black pudding are shallow fried and served together with garlic spiced potato wedges, apple sauce and tomato chutney.

Bhuna is an Indian dish incorporating a spicy sauce based largely around tomatoes and onions. Cooking a bhuna in a slow cooker allows plenty of time for the full spicy flavors of the sauce to infuse the meat and provides a very tasty eating experience.

If you are like me, you make someone in your life (or even yourself!) lunches every week that they can take to work or school. However, while you may have a lot of acceptable recipes in your repertoire, the same old thing gets exactly that, old. Suddenly, the will to try something new strikes you and you flock to Google and it is nothing but jar salads, quinoa paired with everything and everything, or meals that would be impossible to actually make ahead for a week like you want to.

Fajitas spiced stir fried chicken, peppers and onion is served in a fajitas spiced giant Yorkshire pudding.

A medium spicy venison curry is prepared and served in the well of a giant, turmeric spiced Yorkshire pudding.