Potato, bacon and onion in cheese sauce

Ingredients
2 small potatoes (sliced)
1 onion (sliced)
3 slices of bacon (chopped)
25g butter
packet of cheese sauce (to make about 150ml)
1 tsp rosemary
1/2 tsp thyme
1/2 tsp poppy seeds

1. Melt the butter in a pan and fry the potatoes and onions for 10 minutes.

2. Add the bacon and cook for a further 5 minutes. Stir in the herbs and poppy seeds

3. Make the cheese sauce according to packet instructions and pour over the other ingredients in the pan

4 Stir well and serve immediately

Serves 1

Fish lasagne

Ingredients

250g lasagne sheets
2 white fish fillets

100g tin tuna
500g tomato pasta sauce
500g white lasagne sauce
50g cheddar, grated
2 tsp parsley 

1 tsp garlic powder

1. Preheat oven to 180°C / 350°F / gas 4

2. Break up the fish and fry for 10 minutes

3. Stir in the tuna, bolognese sauce and herbs and heat through for 5 minutes

4. Place a layer of lasagne sheets in the bottom of a baking tin / dish

5. Spread half of the mixture on top, then another layer of lasagne sheets, then mixture, then lasagne sheets

6. Spread the white sauce over the top and sprinkle the grated cheese over

7. Bake for 30 minutes

Serves 4

Chewy cherry biscuits

Ingredients
30g demerara (brown) sugar
50g butter
3 tablespoon golden syrup
50g plain flour
50g glace cherries (chopped)
30g cornflakes (crushed)

1. Preheat oven to 180°C / 350°F / gas 4. Grease 2 baking trays

2. Melt the sugar, butter and golden syrup over a low heat. Stir in the flour

3. Add the cherries and cornflakes and stir

4. Put spoonfuls of the mixture onto the trays, well spaced out

5. Bake for 10 minutes

Makes about 10