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For Cooking Goddess. From Readers Digest, Great British Dishes the Healthy Way. Serves 6-8 300g dried white haricot beans. 2 tbsp olive oil. 400g lean pork. 175g smoked back bacon Rosemary, 3 sprigs. 450ml Guinness. 400ml chicken or pork stock. 400g tinned tomatoes. 2 tsp brown sugar. Salt...

Steak au Poivre

Skate (ray in this case, caught by me) with Black Butter. Skate, butter, parsley, capers, red wine vinegar.

Tamarind Chicken with Balti Dal. Been looking forward to making this as wanted to make use of two of my new ingredients. Yellow lentils, not sure if they are chang dal, chana dal or moong dal, the name seems interchangeable. They seem to cook quicker than other lentils I've used and...

Quick and dirty tonight, Green Chili and Galangal Prawns. And veggie rice.

Had a look and haven't seen this title here. I want you to tell a story, however you have just four words to tell your part of the story. You post your four words and then the next person posts theirs and so on. My next post will be the start of the story.

Right. I made Chicken and Lemon Casserole today, and not for the first time my results did not look anything like the picture in the book. I'm not the best cook but I can follow a set of instructions, the sauce in the recipe book was almost pure white while mine was a pale brown. I really...

Adapted from an oldish recipe book. 2 Bacon chops 50g butter plus a little extra 1 medium to large onion Half a cooking apple (Bramley or similar.) 25g breadcrumbs 1 tbsp. sultanas pepper 1 egg Slice a pocket in the bacon chops. Cut the pocket as far as you can without slicing right through...

So I posted on the Todays Menu thread that I had cooked Harvest Home Casserole but confusingly to me it was cooked on the hob and I generally regard casserole as being cooked in the oven. This started a bit of a debate with some maintaining that the defining factor was the consistency of the...

At work so had nuked leftovers. I'm not sure what it was as the writing had rubbed off the container in the freezer. It was chicken with some onions, tomato and spices. I added some rice from my stash in my locker.

Pork n Dumplings.

Hi all, I need some help. I have this recipe for a chocolate chip traybake which I have tried to make three times already. Each time I try to make it I just end up with a sludgy mess in the bottom of the tray. I've tried reducing the heat, tried reducing the amount of bicarb, tried using a...

Did Sausagemeat Plait. Dessert was Coffee Syllabub.

1lb Stewing steak cut into lumps. 4 to 8 lamb kidneys depending on taste. 2 tbsp. Plain flour Salt Pepper tbsp Mustard Powder. (depending on strength) 1 onion roughly chopped. Oil 4 carrots peeled and cut into chunks 1 Swede cut into chunks Brown beer or ale. 4 oz mushrooms Chopped herbs...

This was v good, the lime, coriander(cilantro) and almonds combined well. Did it with some rice and some garlicky chestnut mushrooms.

Snapper with Fresh Coriander and Almonds with rice and salad

Hi all, Not sure what to say but here goes. I live on a small British Island which is actually closer to France than it is to England. I am an Air Traffic Engineer (maintain and repair Radar, ILS etc.) I'm male, late 50's, physically fit and luckily healthy, married with four children...