When making your Ploughman’s Lunch, select your cheese first, and build the rest of the meal around it.
Add your favourite condiments, build up your sandwich with your choice of extras and you’ll have an quick, easy vegetarian lunch that will carry you through to dinner.
Add a few hard boiled eggs or slices of leg ham.
An easy, healthy and warming slow cooker enchilada soup with only 10 mins hands-on prep time. Simmer stock, enchilada sauce, onion, tomato, garlic and chili in a crock pot and top with tortilla strips, tasty cheese, lime wedges and your choice of garnish.
Add prawns (shrimp) or shredded cooked chicken half an hour before end of cooking time OR heat and add to individual bowls immediately before serving. Details are in the recipe below.
Pure comfort food. An easy-to-follow scalloped potatoes recipe with potatoes, cream and cheese baked to perfection. Read more →
As my love affair with food that involves carbs and creamy sauces unashamedly continues, here’s another flexitarian recipe – Stroganoff Three Ways. Based on the 1970s icon Beef Stroganoff, my mushroom stroganoff is easily turned into a traditional stroganoff by adding rump/fillet beef or chicken strips when you fry the mushrooms.
Fry the beef/chicken strips separately and pour the stroganoff sauce over them as you would a mushroom sauce. Read more →
Creamy, satisfying and comforting, my slow cooker prawn chowder takes only 15 minutes to prepare, then simmers away in a crock pot for 2-5 hours.
I top it with freshly ground black pepper, snipped herbs and a squeeze of lemon and Absolutely. . It!
Turn this into my ultimate vegetarian comfort food, Vegetarian potato chowder, by omitting the prawns.
Either way, you’ll serve up classic comfort food with a gourmet touch. Read more →
Why would anyone post a recipe for Oven-baked Cheese and Ham Sandwiches?
Well , the answer’s pretty simple.
Because they’re baked in the oven, they have less fat, oil, calories and cholesterol than the classic pan fried and ham and cheese sandwich. But they’re just as comforting and filling.
In Australia and the United States, where 80% of my readers are based, there are growing numbers of people looking to lose weight. But losing weight is hard enough, without depriving yourself of your favourite comfort food.
Which is where my Toasted Ham and Cheese Sandwiches shine like the little stars they are!
Three ingredients, 5 minutes and you have an easy and delicious banana smoothie for breakfast on the go, an after-school snack or a quick pick-me-up anytime.
Not keen on ice-cream for breakfast? Substitute the ice-cream with a squeeze of honey or your choice of sweetener. Read more →
Layers of potato and onion cooked in butter and stock. A delicious side dish for meat, fish, or vegetarian dishes. To make the dish more substantial, add some grated cheese, sprinkled over the top just before you bake it. The chilli flakes are optional.
These delicious slow cooker herbed potatoes are addictive. They’re an easy side dish, healthier than roast potatoes, with less mess and a much faster cleanup.
Only 10 minutes prep, then you don’t need to touch them until they’re ready to serve.
And there’s a bonus – the oil and herbs left in the slow cooker make a delicious piping hot herby, peppery jus. Read more →
This is a truly creamy, cheesy lasagna. Prepare in 10 mins, assemble in your crock pot and cook on low for 4 hours.
