Fresh recipes

Serve this apple chutney with baked ham or other pork roast. Beautiful!

Serve warm mulled wine to your guests as they arrive or serve it later with mince pies.

This inviting recipe for home made mincemeat has a lovely rich taste that improves with time, making it perfect for home canning, or to give as home made Holiday present, and, no doubt, as filling for mince pies.

Prepared tomato sauce is really convenient. The problem most of them come seasoned with Italian herbs, great for pasta dishes, but not suited to other dishes - basil is not our favorite herb for fish, as an example. This home made basic tomato sauce can become Italian, by adding basil and oregano; French cuisine, by adding herbs the Provence and capers; good for game, by adding thyme and rosemary; good for fish, adding bay leaf and white wine.

A very low sugar recipe, suitable for a diabetic diet and also for aweight loss diet.

Roast lamb with a herb sauce is another great dish for a celebration dinner yet easy to prepare.

This recipe is a way to introduce more fish and seafood in the diet. The flavor of shrimp mixed with raisins is actually nice even if it is not your ordinary pairing.

Chestnut stuffing for the autumn. Make it flavorful, make it seasonal.

This recipe for French pea sauce uses chicken stock thickened with cornstarch unlike the gourmet version which requires a proper chicken veloute.