A Crock Pot is basically a slow cooker which is usually made from a ceramic material which has been glazed, that again has been surrounded by a metal housing, and in turn contains an element which is thermostatically controlled to slowly cook the contents of the pot. It is basically an all purpose cooker and [...]
Dinner Plates: The Complete Guide
By ChloeEveryone knows what a dinner plate is but most people do not know just what a varied choice the consumer has when buying dinnerware sets. Having a variety of different sized plates is best for most households as different meals call for various shapes and sizes. They are the most basic item that we use [...]
Electric Coffee Makers Guide
By ChloeElectric coffee makers are found in just about every home. Even people who do not drink coffee use them to make a quick pot of tea. They can be very cheap costing only $20 at the low end working their way up to much more expensive. They come with many options to make lives easier [...]
Coffee Pods Explained
By ChloeCoffee pods are an innovation in coffee machine use that ensures making great coffee is simple. They are paper capsules that contain measured amounts of freshly roasted, ground and compressed coffee. The paper filter package is made of food safe materials. All you do is pop a coffee pod into a pod adaptor in your [...]
How To Cook Chicken Fillets
By ChloeChicken is one of those meats, unlike beef, that needs to be cooked thoroughly to avoid food poisoning. It needs to be handled separately prior to cooking to keep it away from other foods and you should not use the same chopping board or knife to prepare the rest of your ingredients.
When we come onto [...]
Gaggia Coffee Machine Top 3 Choices
By ChloeDesigned in Italy the Gaggia coffee machine is one of the most respected in the business. That is why every day coffee lovers all around the world are enjoying espresso coffee from one of their many machines. Gaggia coffee machines use steam pressure to push water through ground coffee in a way that ensures all [...]
Customize Your Wedding Cake With A Wedding Cake Topper
By ChloeWeddings these days are a costly business. From the time that the wedding date is set, the race will be on to find the wedding dress, the wedding venue, the wedding rings, the wedding tiara, etc, etc. Everything costs in terms of either money or time, and the wedding cake topper can be one of [...]
Braun Coffee Maker Choices
By ChloeFinding a Braun coffee maker is made easy since Braun is known for reliable, affordable and competitive products. In business for nearly a century, Braun is consistently considered a leader in coffee makers. Currently, the Braun CaféHouse, Sommelier, and Classics coffee makers are among the designs, and their features keep them ahead of the industry [...]
Three Delicious Pork Chop Recipes
By ChloeMany people enjoy cooking pork chops as they are one of the easiest meals to prepare. You don’t have to be an experienced chef and have a wealth of ingredients to make a mouth watering dish. Whenever cooking chops you should make sure the meat stays tender, don’t let it go so hard that your [...]
Cheesy Mince Recipe
By ChloeThis recipe is from BBC Easy Cook Magazine (BBCEC).
Serves 4 | Prep 10 mins | Cook 35 mins
1 onion, finely chopped
1 clove of garlic, crushed
1 carrot, diced
1 celery stick, diced
2 tbsp olive oil
450g minced lamb
2 tbsp sundried tomato paste
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
300ml beef stock
2 tsp cornflour
(1) Fry the onion, garlic, carrot and celery in the [...]
Saucy Macaroni Cheese Recipe
By ChloeThis recipe is from BBCGoodFood.com (BBCGF).
I love macaroni cheese. It’s my favourite comfort food. I saw this recipe in the 2009 Good Food Calendar for March. It looked a bit of a variation on the norm so I thought I would give it a try.
Serves 4 | Prep 20 mins | Cook 15 mins
splash sunflower [...]
Garlic Zoom
By ChloeI just treated myself to this nifty little gadget. I used to chop garlic and squash it with salt using the back of a knife but it made my fingers and the plastic board smell something terrible. Then I got a crusher but cleaning it was a real *****. I tried to [...]
Cheesy Baked Onions Recipe
By ChloeThis recipe is from BBCGoodFood.com (BBCGF).
Serves 4 | Prep 10 mins | Cook 25 mins
4 large onions, peeled
75g ball light mozzarella, roughly chopped
85g cheddar, grated
2 tbsp olives, halved
50g roasted red peppers from a jar, drained and roughly chopped
1 garlic clove, crushed
50g breadcrumbs
leaves from few thyme sprigs
(1) Heat oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7. Halve each [...]
Tagliatelle with Lime Chicken Recipe
By ChloeThis recipe is from BBCGoodFood.com (BBCGF).
This is an old favourite of mine. The torn out recipe is so battered I could hardly see where I had found it from in the first place. I have to say the thought of the “lime” puts me off ever serving this dish to friends or family as I [...]
Credit Crunch Friendly Version of Birds Eye Beef Burgers
By ChloeWell as you can guess this isn’t actually the Birds Eye Beef Burgers recipe. I used to buy Birds Eye burgers for my 7 year old son who wouldn’t eat any other sort. But then my local English shop here in the Spanish countryside stopped being able to get hold of them. We tried other [...]
French Onion Soup Recipe
By ChloeThis recipe is from BBCGoodFood.com (BBCGF).
Look at the size of these onions! I had to make this as my neighbour had kindly given us two humongous onions at the beginning of the week. I’d used about half of one on the two previous night’s meals but I was never going to get through them otherwise [...]
Quick Beef Stroganoff Recipe
By ChloeThis recipe is from www.bbc.co.uk/food (BBCF).
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 large onion, sliced
500g rump steak
2 tbsp plain flour
2 tbsp paprika, plus extra for sprinkling
250g chestnut mushrooms
200ml beef stock
2 tbsp white wine vinegar
284ml carton soured cream
(1) Heat the butter and oil in a large frying pan. (BBCF)
What butter? There’s no butter listed. I guessed and went with [...]
Crispy Prawns With Wasabi Mayo & Sweet Chilli Pepper Dip
By ChloeRight, sweet chilli sauce, I used to have this but lately our local English food shop had been stocking “Tiger Tiger Fine Chilli Sauce”. I had a taste of this and it nearly blew my head off. I added the lime juice and some sugar to sweeten it up but it was still like fire. Then I remembered a dip from one of the summer issues which had yogurt and mayonnaise spiced up with chilli so I added in a heaped tbsp of natural yoghurt left over from last week’s Lamb Rogan Josh and a heaped tbsp of mayonnaise. After mixing this all in together I had a nicely spiced dip so went with it.
