There’s nothing special about this cottage pie recipe, I’ve just hosted here because I made it the other day and it was delicious. I’d forgotten how delicious cottage pie is, so I have uploaded the recipe so I can find it when I’m looking for meal ideas. This is my own recipe (in that no
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This is a super easy meal to make, which is inexpensive and healthy. It goes well with all types of crisp vegetables, but today I used green capsicum and zucchini. Ingredients Chicken mince Masterfoods Roast chicken seasoning (Salt, Chicken Flavour 19%, Sugar, Paprika, Garlic 9%, Rosemary 8%, Pepper 5%, Onion, Lemon Peel, Chilli 2.5%, Lemon
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A quick and easy restaurant quality meal. The lamb is glazed with a maple syrup based glaze, while the pumpkin is cooked in lemon pepper cream sauce and finished with dollops of pesto. This dish would probably be improved slightly with the addition of a side of vegetables such as beans or asparagus that had
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I reluctantly call this a “salad” because it’s technically a salad, but the reality of it doesn’t match the image of a salad in my mind. I suppose you could call this a winter salad. Ingredients Chorizo Potatoes Cherry tomatoes Rocket Red onion Parmesan Pine nuts Balsamic Mayonnaise Oil Balsamic Vinegar Egg yolk Vinegar Mustard
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This recipe is tastier than the title makes it sound, but be aware that it is possible to make it in a way that it’s a little oily, because there’s oil in the pattie sauce and in the salad sauce. You can make this recipe as little burgers or just as a mince dish (which
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There’s no doubt that meat and fruit go great together, and is possibly my favourite food combination. This pork with blackberry sauce recipe is pretty fancy and is the sort of thing you might expect to see in a quality European restaurant, but is simple enough to make for a dinner party. Ingredients Pork (I
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This is the sort of meal you’d expect to find in a restaurant, it’s a classy meal, but also bland enough that it would please most palettes. Ingredients Pork Leek Green beans Rice Dijon Sauce White wine (about 1/4 of a bottle) Dijon mustard Cream Garlic Chicken Stock Shallots Oil Salt and pepper to taste
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Cafe De Paris butter AKA Cafe De Paris sauce was made famous by the Cafe De Paris restaurant in Geneva in the 1940’s, though the creator of the sauce is attributed to the restaurant owner’s father-in-law. Ingredients Beef steak, potatoes, other vegetables. Cafe De Paris Butter Sauce Butter Tomato Sauce Olive Oil Mustard Capers Shallots
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This recipe is for a creamy sauce that takes it’s flavour from roasted garlic, shallots and chorizo sausage. It’s very simple but delicious and has complex flavours, despite it’s basic ingredients list. The sauce would also be suitable for a pasta. Ingredients Chicken Vegetables (I suggest mashed potato with salad leaves or greens such as
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