Big Beef Cobbler Hello Beautiful Blog Checker! BBC1 here. We have finally seen the sun for the first time this year here in Cornwall…hoorah! Someone who has seen a lot of sun is our dear friend Lizzie, who just had a week in Gambia reuniting with old friends she and her family had met there … Continue reading
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Any Port In A Storm Ragu & Three Ways To Use It…
Any Port In A Storm Ragu & Three Ways To Use It…. Hello again kind readers! BBC1 here to post the recipe BBC2 spoke of. This recipe came about because of BBC2’s Spooner’s Brummie Bacon & Cheese Cake. He had wanted to make this since seeing it on TV. He was also determined to make … Continue reading
Double Sausage & Chicken Pasta
Double Sausage & Chicken Pasta Hello kind readers! BBC2 checking in and I hope you are all well. Thanks for dropping by to read our blog again, or welcome if you’re new to BBC. Things in Cornwall are wet with a splash of sunshine every now and then, just enough to make you think that … Continue reading
Chinese Chicken Curry In a Hurry (ish) With Egg Fried Rice
Chinese Chicken Curry In a Hurry (ish) With Egg Fried Rice Hi folks, BBC1 here, thanks for dropping by. In November last year I was looking at one of the blogs we follow, Happiness Stan Lives Here, and came across this post: Chinese Chicken Curry For People Who Are So Lazy They Can’t Even Pick … Continue reading
Big Batch of Chili!
Big Batch of Chili Happy New Year to one and all! Hi folks, BBC1 here. Our mate Lizzie is coming to us for NYE so we can have a film fest and see the new year in with Jools Holland’s Hootenany. We decided to do a buffet style meal so we could graze through the … Continue reading
Lamb Keema Naan
Lamb Keema Naan: Hi everyone BBC2 here, looking back at the last post I have some work to do with regards my communication skills. When I said about cooking Burmese Style Chicken Curry for Christmas dinner what I meant to say is, that we can have anything we want as we are not catering for … Continue reading
Burmese Style Chicken Curry
Burmese Style Chicken Curry Hi everyone BBC2 here, we are getting closer to Christmas…you only have to watch anything on television or listen to the radio to be reminded that we are in December (although it did start in October!). I know that Christmas has become so commercial these days but, given all that, it … Continue reading
Stir Fried Beef, Vegetables & Noodles
BBC1: OMG! I did something for the first time in my life tonight…I made a Chinese ‘ish’ meal (I say ‘ish’ because I have mingled several recipes and cannot vouch for their Chinese authenticity…nor would I be so bold, on my first attempt, to make that claim!) For those who have been following the blog, … Continue reading
Easy Peasy Tomato Soup
Easy Peasy Tomato Soup Hello kind reader, BBC1 here! This soup has it’s origins and roots firmly in my past. When I was a lad my mum used to make the most wonderful and tasty beef and tomato gravy for steak, mash and peas. A few years back I kinda of replicated this for bangers … Continue reading
Chief Taster Becomes Sous Chef…
Chief Taster Becomes Sous Chef… When our buddy Liz arrived on Friday she said she’d been in the kitchen cooking up a ‘batch’. She then proceeded to produce a cake tin. We looked at each other and thought ooh lovely a cake! I wondered whether it was her deliciously moist coconut cake or one of … Continue reading
Jessica Hall’s Cuban Seasoned Chicken With Rice
Jessica Hall’s Cuban Seasoned Chicken With Rice Hi folks, thanks for dropping by. Once again we have Facebook to thank for this totally scrummy and delicious recipe. Our niece who lives in the USA started an “I Love to Cook” page and we came across this recipe there and asked Jessica if we could reproduce … Continue reading
Minestrone Soup
Minestrone Soup Hi folks I hope you are all well and looking forward to the weekend on this ‘hump’ Wednesday. Not sure we say it often enough, but I’d like to thank you for visiting our blog. BBC2 here, and before I get down to the minestrone soup, I feel the need to have a … Continue reading
Milton’s Beef Chimichangas
Milton’s Beef Chimichangas BBC1:Once again my dear Facebook friend, Milton, has been in his American kitchen cooking up a storm! Being an uneducated Brit, I had to ask what chimichangas were when he posted that he was going to make these. When he replied they were like enchiladas but without the beans, I knew I … Continue reading
Jamaican Beef Patties
Jamaican Patties Hi folks BBC2 here, I hope you had a good weekend and better beginning to the week than we did! I know that Monday brings it own problems but, we had a good weekend, as BBC1 had an old friend and work colleague, and her husband, over for lunch on Sunday. I had … Continue reading
Seasoned Chicken, ‘Tommy Pasta’ and Coleslaw
The night of the storm: Seasoned Chicken Breasts, Tommy Pasta, and Coleslaw Hello kind readers! BBC1 here. What a dreadful Monday here in Britain! Awful stormy weather saw some people lose their homes or worse their lives! Loads of travel disruption and cancelled trains etc., and on top of that we were without electricity all … Continue reading