This is total comfort food which is one of my daughter’s favourites. It takes a little bit of preparation to make sure everything is ready to go before you start as once you start stirring there’s no going back! Delicious served with a fresh rocket salad. You can get undyed smoked haddock if you prefer but I quite like the dyed fish for this dish as it adds a bit of colour. The spring onion adds crunch and colour as well as flavour. This is not expensive – the fish for 4 is normally around £5.
A perfect lunch dish with some crusty bread and butter. Also good for using up the Stilton after Christmas.
Perfect for a quick lunch if you fancy something spicy, tasty and comforting. This makes enough for one person but obviously you can double up for a speedy lunch for two. You need anchovies from a jar rather than those little tins. The traditional recipe uses black olives but I prefer green – either is good. I like the seeds left in my birds eye chilli as I like this really spicy but you can remove the seeds for a more family – friendly version.
This is a recent Rachel Allen discovery with is great for lunch with some fresh bread but could also be a good starter for an informal rustic dinner party menu and the added bonus it it is really cheap to make but is delicious and impressive. Perfect for the credit cruch dinner party! You need to plan ahead as it needs to cook for 5 hours and cool but it should keep for a few weeks. Don’t be shy about making a full batch – initially I made a half batch and the whole lot went over one weekend.
Don’t worry about how fatty the meat looks as this will all melt away in the cooking leaving a course pate texture. In fact, the fattier the better and you need the belly pork boneless with the rind (ask your butcher to cut it off and pop it in the bag for you). Fresh nutmeg is a must – you could invest in a fab nutmeg grinder as a treat but there are many on the market.