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Chicken Pasta Salad

Serves 2 A quick easy lunch, ideal for tomorrow at work. Chicken pasta salad is a wonderful dish that tastes fresh and delicious, it is a perfect healthy way to keep you going throughout your afternoon. This lunch is very quick to prepare, and if you are having chicken or pasta for dinner even better, just cook a bit...16:37 Mon 24th May 2010

Chive Flower Salad

Serves 2 This is a wonderful side dish, and a very good reason to grow your own herbs. Chive flowers are delicate, purple, very pretty and taste fantastic. It is rare to find chive flowers in supermarkets but you can buy living chives in most supermarkets and seeds from most garden centres. The great news is chives, l...16:37 Mon 24th May 2010

Ameijoas A Bulhao Pato, Portuguese Clams

Serves 1 This is a wonderful traditional clam recipe, popular all over Portugal. Bulhao Pato was a Portuguese poet who is attributed with creating this dish. The dish is similar to mussels cooked in a white wine or garlic sauce, like mussels, you have a massive bowl piled high, with a light, fragrant garlic sauce. Th...16:37 Mon 24th May 2010

Arroz De Marisco, Portuguese Seafood Rice

Serves 4 A delicious Portuguese seafood rice dish, full of prawns, crabs and mussels, but you can pick whatever seafood you like. White fish is also very good. Arroz de marisco is similar to Spanish paella but it is a bit more like a fish stew, as it still has a broth that isn’t completely reduced like paella, t...16:37 Mon 24th May 2010

Low Fat Easy Banana Ice Cream

Serves 6 Bananas always seem to go to waste; they start going black before you have a change to eat them, easy banana ice cream is a great recipe to make the most of ripe bananas and cut down on waste. Banana ice cream is a perfect creamy treat to cool down with on a hot summer’s day and it is extremely quick a...16:37 Mon 24th May 2010

Candied Violets

Candied violets are sugar coated violets. Violets are wonderfully colourful flowers that can be eaten, they can be used in salads or cakes, eaten raw or cooked. They are fantastic to brighten up a salad or decorate a cake. Candied violets are still popular in France. The French have always been wonderful cake makers, ...16:37 Mon 24th May 2010

Apple And Cinnamon Doughnuts

Delicious freshly made doughnuts with an apple and cinnamon filled centre, coated in cinnamon flavoured sugar. Doughnuts are a fantastic, comforting snack all year round whether it is a ring doughnut or a jam filled one they are sure to please adults and children alike. Doughnuts and a cup of coffee may not make the he...16:37 Mon 24th May 2010

Amaretti Biscuits

Makes 30 Amaretti are small almond flavoured Italian biscuits, they are crunchy on the outside with a chewy moist centre. Perfect to serve with coffee as a naughty little tea time treat or an after dinner nibble, that will impress your guests. Amarettis go wonderfully with ice cream particularly coffee ice cream or a...16:37 Mon 24th May 2010

Apple Sponge Pudding

Serves 4 A delicious traditional apple sponge pudding, soft tender stewed apples baked with a soft, moist sponge. This dessert is quick and easy perfect if you want to throw something together at the last minute. The sponge is a classic Victoria sponge recipe while all you need to do with the apples is stew them. Thi...16:37 Mon 24th May 2010

Albondigas, Spanish Meatballs

Serves 4 Albondigas or Spanish meatballs are a great tapas dish. In Spain tapas are traditional served with drinks in bars.  They are appetizers often severed in small dishes meant for sharing. Lots of little tasty tapas dishes can make up a whole meal. It is a great way of eating with friends, it is sociable and...16:37 Mon 24th May 2010

Leek And Potato Soup

Serves 4 Leek and potato soup is warm and creamy perfect for an autumn day. Leek goes beautifully with cream, the leeks become rich and tasty; the cream becomes flavoured by the fresh taste from leeks, onions and garlic. While the wine adds an extra touch of luxury and warmth, exactly what you need during the cool win...16:37 Mon 24th May 2010

Spicy Crayfish Salad

Serves 2 Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans that look a bit like small lobsters, but they taste sweeter with a firmer texture. Crayfish tails are available in supermarkets throughout the year. Crayfish tails from a supermarket will most likely be pealed and already cooked; they look similar to prawns but redder. ...16:37 Mon 24th May 2010

Thai Green Curry Paste

Thai curries are wonderfully fragrant and taste sweet, light and delicious. The secret to making a great Thai green curry or any other type of Thai curry is the paste. If you make a really good paste the rest is effortless and it will be perfect. Making a paste is simple and takes a few minutes; you could always make ...16:37 Mon 24th May 2010

Thai Red Curry Paste

Red curry is a popular, delicious, fragrant Thai dish. The secret of cooking a good Thai red curry like any other Thai curries is a good paste. Making a paste is so simple and only takes a few minutes, you can make it ahead of time and make more to keep in the freezer. I suggest using a pestle and mortar before blendi...16:37 Mon 24th May 2010

Philly Cheesesteak

Serves 1 This is the ultimate in gluttony and definately not something you should do every day. But if you are having a junk food craving Philly cheesesteak is amazing. Philly cheesesteak was first invented in Philadelphia and it is the ultimate in sandwiches. Lots and lots of thinly sliced steak with onions toped of ...16:37 Mon 24th May 2010

Beef Soup With Dumplings

Serves 4 Beef soup with dumplings makes a delicious lunch on a cold winter’s day, wonderful for when you have just got in from the wind and rain. This rustic soup is full of tasty warm comforting flavours onions, leeks and lots of root vegetables. Potatoes, carrots, Swede and other root vegetables soak up the ri...16:37 Mon 24th May 2010

Peanut Brittle

Peanut brittle is a wonderful old fashion sweet, which is very popular throughout America. Peanut brittle consists of lots of peanuts set in caramelised sugar, although you can get brittle with almonds, pecans or any type of nuts. Nuts, particularly peanuts go fabulously well with caramel and toffee. They add a delicio...16:37 Mon 24th May 2010

Portuguese Custard Tarts, Pasteis De Nata

Makes 12 Pasteis de Nata are little custard filled pastries that originate from a monastery in Lisbon, Portugal’s capital city. These Portuguese custard tarts have become a tourist attraction in Lisbon, with tourist waiting hours just to taste these delicious creamy tarts. For those of you who aren’t in Po...16:37 Mon 24th May 2010

Rocky Road

Rocky road is about as indulgent as you get and it is a perfect recipe to make with children, sweet, fun, messy and no cooking to do at all. This recipe is versatile and you can adjust it to suit your taste, so long there are lots of marshmallows and chocolate everything else can be changed. Nuts and dries fruit work g...16:37 Mon 24th May 2010

French Silk Pie

Serves 6 This delicious creamy chocolaty pie is very luxurious. What makes this pie special is that the chocolate filling is so light and fluffy. French silk pie is not actually French it is American and very popular in the south. This delicious American dessert is very easy to make and involves no cooking. Everythin...16:37 Mon 24th May 2010