Easy Pea and Pesto Soup
Recipe by:
Annabelle
Very easy, elegant and light soup. Ideal as a starter, or for lunch. Most ingredients you will already have, ready in 15 minutes. Very easily doubled or halved.
Creamy fettuccine carbonara
Recipe by:
Sarah W. Lennox
This carbonara is a delectable, mouth watering pile of yummy goodness. I recommend a nice salad with it - that's all you will need for a complete meal.
Whisky Bananas
Recipe by:
dakota kelly
Bananas are simmered in brown sugar, butter and Irish whisky for a delicious warm treat to serve with vanilla ice cream.
Kheer (Rice Pudding)
Recipe by:
PATRICK7
This is a very flavourful Indian-style rice pudding. It's the best rice pudding I've ever had, and very easy to make!
Blue Cheese Fettucine
This is a delicious and simple vegetarian pasta dish. Use your favourite blue cheese -- I always use Danish blue as I'm a lover of strong flavours. Use spinach fettucine if you like!
Creamy cauliflower soup
Recipe by:
Maggie Pannell
Cauliflower makes the most divinely creamy, mild, sweet-tasting soup and looks particularly pretty sprinkled with fragrant, dark green chives.
Vegetable paella
Recipe by:
Maggie Pannell
Perfect for vegetarians, but great for meat-eaters too, this hearty rice dish made with starchy short-grain rice is wonderfully rich and satisfying.
Fresh egg pasta
Recipe by:
Maggie Pannell
Save money by making this simple, versatile egg pasta. You won't want to return to the packaged brands after tasting your own homemade version!
Spaghetti with fresh tomato sauce
Recipe by:
Maggie Pannell
There are few dishes as classic and easy as spaghetti with tomato sauce. Try this lovely version with a little added green from parsley and peppers in the summer when fresh tomatoes are at their peak.
Curried lentils
Recipe by:
Maggie Pannell
Nourishing lentils are great value and very good for you. The warm spices and rich coconut milk combine to create an intoxicatingly flavoured dish.
Chocolate covered toffee
Recipe by:
FUNKYSEAMONKEY
Chocolate and almonds top off a rich buttery toffee. A simple recipe that you could easily remember and whip up any time. It might be easier if you use a sugar thermometer the first few times to check if the toffee is ready. I always get compliments and requests for more. Use any type of nut that you like in place of the almonds.
Carbonara Lite
I am not suggesting for a minute that spaghetti carbonara can be a diet food. However, if you are a fan of this creamy, comforting pasta dish and balk at the calories, here's a method that shaves a few off by omitting butter and cream. It's still yummy though!
Winter Leek and Potato Soup
I have made this many times in the past few years and its great on a cold wintery evening and has a feel good factor!
Roast Vegetable Soup
I had a few left over veggies which I didn't know what to do with, so I thought I would do this lovely warming soup! You can vary the ingredients to what you have in your cupboard.
Green Day Creamy Pasta and Gammon
I made this recipe to deal with a "green day" on Slimming World. If you use the pasta as free food, the gammon as a healthy B choice and the soup as a Healthy B choice, it is "syn" free! Fabulous. It works; I lost 4 stone.
Pierogi
Recipe by:
TAB
These Polish dumplings feature traditional potato and sauerkraut fillings; they're a perfect way to use leftover mash. Hearty winter fare!
Tattie Soup
An easy, cheap, comforting soup that always makes me think of my mum's.
Clapshot
Straight from Orkney, here's a traditional clapshot recipe for Burns supper. Serve hot with oatcakes or haggis.