Dark Maria Cocktail

This is a lovely refreshing cocktail with a great combination of coffee, vanilla and caramel flavours mixed with orange.

Cacao and Dark Chocolate Chip Muffins

These delicious chocolate muffins are great any time of day.

Potato and Oat Square Bread

This soft Irish potato loaf is baked in a Pullman tin and is exceptional for sandwiches and brilliant for toast. I am using cooled mashed potatoes however you can also use leftover mashed potatoes.

Honey and Date Scones

If you like honey and dates these scones will be just right for your morning tea.

Orange and Chocolate Chip Gateau

A Grand Marnier liqueur infused vanilla sponge layered with orange mousse and decorated with whipped cream a wonderful cake for dessert or Sunday afternoon tea.

Bulgur Cracked Wheat and Oat Bread

This is another easy and healthy bread to make at home. I will never get tired of baking and constantly try other recipes. Bread is an amazing and versatile comfort food with endless possibilities. This breads nutty flavour is perfect together with strong bodied and flavoured cheeses.

Buttermilk and Oat Muffins

These tasty muffins are great for in between meals.

Brandy Alexander Cocktail

Brandy Alexander is a variation of the gin based cocktail Alexander and is a sweet cocktail made with cognac and crème de cacao.

Wholemeal Fettuccine Alfredo with Chicken

Alfredo sauce is a characteristic white creamy sauce perfect with any pasta, a wonderful dish ideal as a starter or dinner with the addition of chicken.

Lemon Choux

Lemon choux balls are a delicious elegant dessert and easy to make at home.

Lemonade and White Chocolate Chip Scones

Lemonade scones are easy to make and these are extra scrumptious with white chocolate.

Pandan Chiffon Cake with Coconut Icing

This cake is very widespread in Malaysia and distinctive for its green colour. The leaves of the tropical screw pine plant, Pandanus amaryllifolius are commonly known as pandan leaves and used extensively in Southeast Asian used in cooking as a flavouring. The characteristic aroma is the compound 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline giving white bread, jasmine rice and basmati rice their typical smell. Making a paste with pandan leaves you have to cut the young leaves into 2 cm pieces and place in a pot on the stove together with water or for this recipe coconut milk. Boil the leaves until they are soft and blend to a pulp in a food processor to create a paste. Place the paste in a ricer and extract the juices.

Fruit Bundt Cake

This fruit cake is unsurpassed enjoyed relaxing with a good cup of coffee or tea.

Parsley and Macadamia Crusted Baked Salmon

This stunning herb and nut crumbed salmon steak is wonderful for dinner any day of the week.

Banana Strawberry and Honey Smoothie

This is an amazing smoothie packed full of flavour.

Pork and Veal Ragu with Fettuccine

This is a slow cooked meal enhancing all the flavours in this Ragu perfectly suited for pasta, rice or potatoes.

Oat and Wheat Bran Biscuits

These homemade biscuits are so easy to make.

Carrot Glazed Ginger and Walnut Scones

These delicious spicy sweet scones are perfect served warm with butter for morning tea.

Lemon and Strawberry Syllabub

This article was published Tuesday 1^st October 2013 featuring myself in the October/November issue of “Xcite”, C.ex Group Magazine presenting “Lemon and Strawberry Syllabub” and it is displayed below with story and recipe.

Lemon and Strawberry Syllabub

Syllabubs are classic English dairy desserts made with cream and wine. This is a delicious modern version with added lemon and strawberries.

Beef Wellington

Beef Wellington is a traditional English dish consisting of  a beef fillet coated with pâté and duxelles wrapped in puff pastry and baked. Whole tenderloin can be wrapped, baked and then sliced for serving or the fillet is sliced into individual portions prior to wrapping and baking. Various spices might be added to enhance the flavour such as curry, allspice or ginger.

Onion and red wine Sauce

This classy and flavoursome sauce is perfect served with any beef steak.

Fresh Strawberry Milkshake

It is so easy to make a superior excellent tasting milkshake using fresh and quality ingredients.

Fettuccine Alfredo with Bacon

Alfredo sauce is a classic white creamy sauce perfect with pasta, this is a wonderful pasta dish ideal for starter or dinner with the addition of bacon.

Burghul Wheat Grain and Flax Seed Bread

Burghul is made by boiling hard Durum wheat berries until they are about to crack open and allowing them to dry. The outer bran layers are rubbed off and the grains are ground. It takes as little as 20 minutes to reconstitute by soaking or by simmering. It is a convenient grain to keep on hand in the pantry and it has a light texture with a wonderful nutty flavour.

Butterscotch Pecan and Date Scones

These sweet scones are perfect for morning or afternoon tea.

Orange and Almond Gateau

Orange and almond is the perfect combination for this moist gluten free cake.

Chicken Mole

This is a traditional Mexican dish and should contain Poblano chilies, which is a mild chili originated in Puebla Mexico. This dish has a complicated depth of flavour with bitter chocolate or cocoa powder, it is a very simple dish to cook.

Pork Normandy

Pork fillet is always great to cook for dinner and is ideal in my version of this classic dish.

Red Lion

This delicious cocktail has a fresh delicate blend of lemon, orange and gin, a perfect mix with Grand Marnier.

Rice Stick Chips

Crispy noodles are great as a topping for stir fries, salads and soups and these home made crispy noodles are made with regular thin rice sticks from the supermarket. The trick to making good crispy noodles is to have the oil very hot.

Fettuccine Alfredo

This classic dish created by Alfredo di Lello is a rich and satisfying creamy pasty dish with endless options here it is served with the addition of sliced zucchini.