Tips and Techniques
DON’T PANIC! One Week Until Christmas: Tips to Help You Cope
If you’re cooking the Christmas dinner this year why not give yourself the best present of all, an easy time! It’s just one day, it’s not really that much more effort than an ordinary roast dinner, and it is ok to cheat if it’ll make the cook calmer and happier. Anyone that doesn’t like it […]
Christmas is Coming!
It’s that time of year again, and if you’re looking for some easy recipes, tips on preparing dishes ahead and classic Christmas recipes take a look at the recipes in my Christmas Category for lots of delicious recipes including Roast Goose, Beef Wellington, Yorkshire Puddings, Chocolate Yule Log and lots of roast meat dishes, vegetables and trimmings!
Roast Leg of Lamb – Syn Free (if you like)
I’m a big fan of roast lamb, and judging by the hits on my other lamb posts (see below) lots of other people are too. I generally use shoulder, it’s fairly cheap and cooked correctly can be wonderfully tender and tasty, but I do like leg. Leg is a lovely lean cut, and with the […]
Something New and Different!
I have decided to start a new blog My Makeup Habit! I’m not abandoning Cooking with Corinna, but simply branching out to involve another passion in my life – makeup and beauty products. As the title of the new blog suggests I am a bit of a makeup addict. I’ve always been fascinated by makeup and beauty […]
Slow Roast Pork Belly with Crackling
I love pork, just check out my Pork category for proof of my devotion to this versatile meat. I especially love belly pork, and it’s a fabulous cut to slow roast. Try to get a thickish piece to keep it really moist. This time I thought I’d try a trick I’ve seen/heard/read about a few […]
Chips/ Fries in the Tefal ActiFry – Syn Free!!!
Everyone loves proper fried Homemade Chips, but they’re often the first thing to get knocked on the head when you’re on a diet. Deep fried food is a dieter’s nemesis, so bad for you, so many calories, but so very tasty. Over the last few years there’s been a revolution in kitchen gadgets, and air […]
Slow Roasted Shoulder of Lamb with Spiced Smoked Garlic Marinade
This recipe is may be for slow cooking, but it’s super quick on the preparation, especially if as I did you have the marinade leftover from another recipe (Sirloin Steak with Spiced Smoked Garlic Marinade). A problem I’ve often found when searching for slow roasted lamb recipes online is they always seem to assume you […]
My Tip for Reheating Roast Potatoes or Vegetables
Roast potatoes or carrots & parsnips are delicious the first time round, but sometimes they can dry out when reheated. Inevitably there are some leftover at Christmas or after a big roast dinner, and you don’t want to through them away so hopefully my little tip will give you perfect reheated vegetables that taste as […]
Roast Goose
The time has come for me to post about the main attraction of my Christmas dinner menu, the roast goose. I have cooked goose before and found it a very easy bird to cook, and a tasty bird to eat. It also has the added bonus of it providing goose fat suitable for your roast […]
Two-Tone Chocolate & Vanilla Cupcake/Muffin Icing/Frosting
This post was meant to be a double-whammy – marble muffins and two-tone icing, but something very tragic happened, the muffins were terrible. The mixes combined while it was cooking, and they barely looked marbled and they tasted rubbish. They weren’t disgusting, they just tasted of absolutely nothing, and they went dry very quickly. So, […]
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