Category: Special occasions

Chicken, Fig & Lemon Pies

If lining tins with pastry scares your pants off, just make one big free-form pie. It’ll taste just as good.

Moroccan Chicken

Mint and cumin, ginger, cinnamon and chilli, and almonds, prunes and figs, and, oh, chicken. This is spectacular!

Roasted Lamb Nuggets with Anchovy, Bacon & Shallot Stuffing

This one will ring all the bells – roasted lamb bursting with flavour and deliciously juicy, and so easy to carve. Makes a little lamb go a long way.

A gorgeous little lamb roast

A gorgeous little lamb roast for mum

Heart-shaped egg

For an over-the-top version, serve with bacon and tomatoes, and dust the hot egg with flakes of fresh parmesan. Bliss.

More than cute – they’re edible!

Ah yes, hippiedom, flower power, all of that, but no, actually, these flowers are for eating not sticking in a vase or around your hair. And pretty they look, too.

Pretty in pink

This is hardly a recipe, just a combination of delicious ingredients which are somehow more gorgeously decadent when combined.

Pork Cutlets with Fresh Apple Salad

At my house we all fell in love with this dish at the first mouthful. The clean acidity of apple salad mingling with crème fraîche and sweet juicy pork cutlets had us all in raptures.

Butterflied Leg of Lamb with Preserved Lemon

Preserved lemon and spices really work their magic on lamb, giving it a spicy sweetness which tastes just as good as it smells during cooking.