I have to admit I am fairly new to the Alfredo game. Alfredo flavors are not typically anything I have ever explored in the past. It's only been recently that I have been playing with them. I made a Baked Broccoli Alfredo Rigatoni a few weeks back and really liked the flavors. I … | Continue reading
Most of you who have read me for a while know that I worked for a number of years as a Personal Chef on a Manor Estate. This was a fabulous job that I found very rewarding. I was able to cook with really fresh and quality ingredients using the best equipment in the most beautiful … | Continue reading
I love pork chops. They are not something which I eat very often. I usually try not to eat red meat more than three or four times a month, if that. Usually, I just eat chicken or fish, or even no meat at all. I do like a pork chop every now and then, and when I do buy them, I wil … | Continue reading
This homemade three cheese manicotti recipe I am sharing with you today is one you are sure to love. Simple to make it is rich and indulgent. Pure comfort food. If you are looking for a delicious dish to serve for meatless Monday, or looking to cut back on your consumption of mea … | Continue reading
Welcome to my meals of the week post for the first week of June 2025! Every Sunday I like to share with you, my dear readers, a roundup of all of the delicious meals that I have enjoyed as my main meals over the past seven days! I also share the recipes and any menu suggestions t … | Continue reading
Think it's impossible to get a delicious dessert on the table in just a few minutes? Think again! This 2 1/2 Minute Jam Sponge Pudding recipe does just that! It totally delivers on its promise!!! A delicious jam sponge pudding that is cooked to delicious perfection in the microwa … | Continue reading
In an effort to increase healthy snacking habits my sister and I are making more things like energy and protein balls to eat. Let's face it, we all have moments during the day when we want to reach for something sweet to curb a craving. How much better for us if when that sweet c … | Continue reading
I don't think I have met a potato or a potato recipe that I did not fall in love with. They are, simply put, my all-time favorite vegetable. When I saw this Loaded Potato Skin recipe in an email from Kitchen Sanctuary the other day, it immediately went onto my MUST make list! Ver … | Continue reading
One of the most popular places for people to eat, fast food chain wise, in the U.K. is Nando's. This is a restaurant that specializes in Portuguese grilled chicken. Quite a few Brits travel to Portugal on holiday these days, and so they have acquired a taste for the chicken. No s … | Continue reading
We love pasta in my house. It has always been so. Especially spaghetti. When my children were growing up one of the easiest meals for me to cook for them was Spaghetti Bolognese. They loved it. I always cooked about twice as much as I needed to cook because we would enjoy the lef … | Continue reading
I get regular emails from a blog called Barefeet in the Kitchen. I have been a fan of Mary's Yonkin's recipes for years. I have all of her cookbooks and in fact they were the first ones I replaced after moving back to Canada and having had to leave all my books behind. The other … | Continue reading
Hi everyone! Happy Sunday! We all know what that means here in The English Kitchen. It is the day that I take the opportunity to share with you my sweet readers my Meals of the Week! All of the deliciousness that I have enjoyed as my main meals over the past seven days. As I like … | Continue reading
Rhubarb season is my favorite season, next to Strawberry season. I can't wait for it to arrive every year, and when the two overlap each other, I am really happy. It will be a few more weeks before that happens, but in the meantime, I am enjoying rhubarb any which way I can! I am … | Continue reading
From the moment I saw this delicious Bran Muffin recipe I wanted to bake them. Not only did they sound and look incredibly tasty, but they also sounded like they were really nutritious as well. I adore Bran Muffins. They are my favorite of all the muffins I bake. I used to have m … | Continue reading
Everyone loves this curried chicken salad. It is lovely and light without a cloying amount of mayonnaise in it. I find too often people overdo the mayonnaise in their chicken salads. That is fine if it is something you enjoy, but I like to taste each ingredient that I put into my … | Continue reading
I think pasta has to be one of my favorite things and yet it was not something we had very often when I was growing up. My mom never made macaroni and cheese or anything like that. She made hamburger macaroni every now and then (not my favorite) and when we got into our teens, sh … | Continue reading
I made myself a really delicious salad for my lunch the other day. I was always really fond of the Ploughman's Pub Lunch when I lived in the U.K. A delicious collation of ham, apple, cheese, bread, pickled onions and some salad leaves (at it's very basic). Usually, the bread is a … | Continue reading
We are coming into Salad season here now with warmer temperatures. Many people are having cookouts at the weekend or going on picnics and there is nothing nicer to serve on one of those occasions than a pasta salad. This Italian Pasta Salad recipe is one of my favorite pasta sala … | Continue reading
True to form the week has flown past and here we are at another Sunday, another Meals of the Week Post. I have been doing this for about a few years now and these weekly round ups have become something which I really enjoy sharing with you each week. I am determined to cook mysel … | Continue reading
With their digestive shortbread like cookie crust, rich chocolate fudge brownie and ooey gooey marshmallow topping these rich and decadent puddings are sure to please! They are super easy to make and can be made quite far in advance right up to the marshmallow topping which makes … | Continue reading
They had the most beautiful heads of iceberg lettuce at the grocery store the other day and for a good price as well. I think iceberg lettuce gets a bad rap a lot of the time. It often gets overlooked in favor of the fancier and more colorful lettuces and greens. My mother would … | Continue reading
I confess I have always had a great interest in fringe religious groups such as The Shakers, The Quakers, The Amish, The Hutterites, The Doukhobors, The United Brethren, etc. I am not sure why. It's not their beliefs that draw my interest so much as it is their lifestyle and thei … | Continue reading
I decided to make myself a Classic Reuben Sandwich for my lunch the other day. It had been quite a while since I had had one, or at least since I had made one here at home. I think the Reuben Sandwich has to be one of my all-time favorite hot sandwich! I was trying to remember wh … | Continue reading
I had a son who used to live on things like mini pizzas. My youngest son. I used to worry that he would get sick from malnutrition. He was incredibly fussy. He would go through stages. One state was what I called the "white" stage. He would only eat white bread and white rice. So … | Continue reading
Every once in a while, I like to bake myself a batch of muffins. Sometimes I will downsize the recipe I am using and other times I will keep the recipe as a full recipe, freezing the excess so that I have tasty muffins waiting in the freezer for me to indulge in when the craving … | Continue reading
Here I am with another Sunday Meals of the Week post. This is the day I generally share with you all of the main meals that I have cooked for myself in the previous week. A delicious recap of how I have been feeding myself. I determined when I moved into my own place that I as no … | Continue reading
I usually like to bake myself a bit of a treat at the weekend. Old habits die hard, I guess. Sometimes it will be a cake, other times a pie, sometimes a cookie. This weekend I decided to bake myself some cookies. I usually small batch most of my recipes now, but I also wanted to … | Continue reading
I think one of my favorite cuts of beef, when it comes to roasting, has to be the Brisket. Don't get me wrong. I really enjoy a lovely piece of Prime Rib, but my budget never ever runs to one of those these days. It has been a very long time since I have dry roasted a piece of be … | Continue reading
I think Peanut butter is one of my absolute favorite things to eat in the world. If I was marooned on a desert island I would want to have at least one jar of peanut butter with me. I confess I probably eat some peanut butter every day. Usually spread on a slice of toast. Nothing … | Continue reading
Warmer sunnier days means that it is salad season! I love salad season. I love comfort food season as well, but I do like eating lighter meals in the warmer months. I especially love pasta salads. They combine the pleasures of summer eating with light and fresh flavors along with … | Continue reading
Oven Roasted Pierogies with Caramelized Onions. This was a recipe that I had pinned on Pinterest from a page called Hungry Wanderlust. They looked fabulously delicious and like such a simple make. (I did cut the recipe in half. See below for my version.) I adore pierogies. They a … | Continue reading
If you are like me you eat a lot of chicken, and who doesn't these days. The cost of meat is outrageous, and almost unaffordable. Chicken is on the menu in my house more often than not! I am always looking for new and different ways to cook it. I am also always keen to find quick … | Continue reading
Here I am again with another Meals of the Week post, this one for the first week of May. We had a real mix of temperatures this week. A few days were quite balmy and humid, but we had another few days that it was quite cold if you were out in the wind. So I am still enjoying a bi … | Continue reading
I wanted to bake something special to mark Mother's Day. If my mother was still with us, I would be making her a special meal. It's been six years since we lost her and not a day goes by that I don't think of her and miss her many, many times through the day. I think she would lo … | Continue reading
We have had some lovely weather the past couple of days. Nice and summery weather. Not too hot, and not too cold. Just right as Goldilocks would say. Summery salad kind of weather. There is nothing I like more than enjoying a nice salad for my dinner on these warmer days! Somethi … | Continue reading
I have a true confession to make here. I have never made pretzels from scratch. Soft Pretzels anyways. Not hard either. I do love pretzels however. I love the hard ones, and I adore the soft chewy ones. I was really wanting to try to make myself some soft ones. I found a tasty lo … | Continue reading
I am sharing a delicious and simple casserole with you today. Tater Tot Casserole. Another name for it might be Cheesy Hot Dog Tater Tot Casserole. No matter what you choose to call it, there is one thing that is certain and that is this is one really simple and easy to make, del … | Continue reading
We are coming into much warmer weather now and salad season is almost upon us. Of course, I am the kind of person who can quite happily enjoy a salad any time of the year. I do enjoy them even more so during the late spring and summer, however. I have always been the kind of pers … | Continue reading
Well, today is Cinco de Mayo. It's not a day I really celebrate but it is a great excuse to enjoy some Tex Mex flavors! I am not saying that this dish is authentically Mexican. It is probably a far cry from it, but I can promise you that it is healthy and quite delicious with a b … | Continue reading
May the Fourth be with you and welcome to my Sunday Meals of the week post! Yes, I have been waiting all year to be able to say that! lol Most years I forget, but this year I remembered. A little nod to Star Wars there. I am old enough to have seen the original Star Wars film whe … | Continue reading
I really wanted to bake a delicious dessert to get the month May off to a good start. I love Blushing Betty it is one of my favorite old-fashioned desserts. If you have been reading me for a while you will know I really love anything that is old-fashioned and traditional. Traditi … | Continue reading
The temperatures are starting to warm up and we will be soon complaining that it's too hot. At least here where I live anyways. Right now, I am enjoying nice sunny days, without the humidity of the summer months and cool nights for sleeping. I do tend to eat lighter in the warmer … | Continue reading
Hello May! Here's hoping it's a great month for everyone. This Sunday is Cinco de Mayo, or the fifth of May and lots of people like to celebrate it. Its a holiday which celebrates the Mexican victory over the French forces at the Battle of Puebla on the 5th of May, 1862. I am not … | Continue reading
I have always loved tea loaves. By that I don't mean loaves made with tea (although they are also very nice). I mean loave that are meant to be enjoyed with tea or other hot drinks. They are from the quick bread classification of baking and differ greatly from yeast breads. There … | Continue reading
Is it too early in the season to share a delicious pasta salad recipe? I hope not because I have a really delicious one to share with you today! Bacon Dill Pickle Pasta Salad. Dill pickle lovers will find themselves unable to resist this delicious salad which is loaded with flavo … | Continue reading
If you have been reading me for any time you, you will know that I have a great love for vintage cookery books and recipes. I don't know what there is about them, but I am fascinated by them. I think they are a wonderful window into the history of our culinary journey. Things don … | Continue reading
I had two overripe bananas which needed using up the other day. I am not a person who really likes eating bananas, raw, really. There is something about the feel of them in my mouth. They have an almost astringent texture/taste to them. Overripe however, I love LOVE to cook/bake … | Continue reading
Hello everyone and welcome to my Sunday Meals of the Week post! On Sundays I like to share with you my readers, all of the deliciousness that I have enjoyed as my main meals over the past seven days! To all intents and purposes, you also seem to enjoy what I share! That makes me … | Continue reading