Creamy pasta with chorizo

Ingredients
300g pasta
200g chorizo, chopped
1 tin of chopped tomatoes
100ml creme fraiche
oregano
basil

1. Boil the pasta for 5-10 minutes until cooked

2. Fry the chorizo for 5 minutes then add the tomatoes

3. Stir in the pasta and herbs and cook for 5 minutes

4. Stir in the creme fraiche and cook for another 5 minutes

Serves 4

Fish goujons

Ingredients
400g white fish
flour
egg, beaten
2 slices bread, grated into breadcrumbs

1. Preheat oven to 200°C / 400°F / gas 6

2. Cut fish into about 5 cm long chunks and season

3. Roll in flour, then egg then coat with breadcrumbs

4. Wrap in foil and place on a baking tray. Bake for 15 minutes

5. Open up foil and cook for another 10 minutes until breadcrumbs are golden

Serves 4

Ciabatta sandwich

Ingredients
1 ciabatta loaf
sun dried tomatoes
mozzarella
green pesto
dried basil
olive oil

1. Preheat oven to 200°C / 400°F / gas 6

2. Cut the loaf in half and spread the pesto over the bottom half

3. Place the sun dried tomatoes on top, sprinkle over some dried basil then put the mozarella on, then the top half of the loaf

4. Bake for 15 minutes then drizzle the olive oil over the sandwich and sprinkle with more basil

Serves 1

Sausage rolls

Ingredients
5 sausages, skins peeled off
2 sheets puff pastry

1. Preheat oven to 200°C / 400°F / gas 6. Grease 2 baking trays

2. Lie the pastry out on a board and lie the sausage at one end

3. Roll the pastry, with the sausage over until it meets. Wet the pastry where it meets and press down. Cut along the length of the pastry

4. Cut the long roll into 3-4cm pieces and place on the baking tray

5. Repeat with the rest of the sausage and pastry. Then brush each sausage roll with milk

6. Bake for 15-20 minutes until golden

Chicken pie

Ingredients
4 chicken fillets, chopped
1 leek, chopped
100g sweetcorn
300ml milk
2 chicken stock cubes
puff pastry (enough to cover 4 pie dishes)
1tsp sage

1. Preheat oven to 200°C / 400°F / gas 6

2. Fry the chicken and leek for 10 minutes until cooked

3. Dissolve the stock cube in the milk and pour over the chicken and leek

4. Add the sweetcorn and sage and mix well. Heat for about 2 minutes until the sauce has thickened slightly

5. Cut the pastry into the shapes for the pie dishes

6. Divide the mixture between the 4 dishes and place pastry on top of each one

7. Brush with milk, make a hole in the middle of each pastry lid and bake for 30 minutes

Serves 4

Potato cakes

Ingredients
400g potatoes, boiled and grated
200g carrots, grated
1 onion, chopped
1 egg, beaten

1. Preheat oven to 200°C / 400°F / gas 6

2. Fry the onion until soft.

3. Mix together the potato, carrot and onion. Season and stir in the egg.

4. Shape the mixture into burger shapes and place on a greased baking tray

5. Bake for 15 minutes, turn over then bake for another 15 minutes

Makes approx 12

Toad in the hole

Ingredients
2 sausages
1 egg
60g flour
150ml milk

1. Preheat oven to 200°C / 400°F / gas 6. Grease a baking tin

2. Put the sausage in the tin and bake for 20 minutes

3. Meanwhile mix the flour, egg and milk together, season then whisk until smooth.

4. Remove the tin with the sausages from the oven, immediately pour the batter over the sausages and return to the oven for another 20 minutes until batter has puffed up and cooked

Serves 1

Breaded salmon with hollandaise sauce and parsley

Ingredients
1 salmon fillet
egg, beaten
flour
2 slices bread, crusts cut off
1tsp dill
hollandaise sauce
fresh parsely, chopped

1. Preheat oven to 200°C / 400°F / gas 6

2.  Grate the bread into breadcrumbs, stir in the dill and lie out on a plate

3.  Dip the salmon into the flour, then the egg, then coat with the breadcrumbs

4. Wrap in foil and bake for 20 minutes, open up the foil and bake for a further 10 minutes

5. Make/heat the hollandaise sauce according to instructions and mix in the chopped parsley

6. Place the salmon on a plate and pour the sauce over

Serves 1

Fish Pie

Ingredients
500g white fish and/or salmon
500g potatoes, peeled, boiled and mashed
400ml milk
10 black peppercorns
50g butter
40g plain flour
1tsp dill
1tsp parsley
1tsp lemon juice
50g cheddar cheese (grated)

1. Place the fish in a pan and cover with the milk. Add the peppercorns and heat for 10 minutes until cooked.

2. Preheat oven to 190°C / 375°F / gas 5

3. Remove the fish from the pan and place in an ovenproof dish. Remove the peppercorns and discard. Keep the milk

4. Melt the butter in a saucepan and stir in the flour, stir in the milk and bring to the boil. Keep stirring into a thick sauce. Season

5. Pour the sauce over the fish in the dish, add the lemon juice, parsley and dill and stir well

6. Put the mashed potato over the top and sprinkle the cheese over

7. Bake for 30 minutes

Serves 4

Lasagne

Ingredients
250g lasagne sheets
500g minced beef
500g tomato pasta sauce
500g white lasagne sauce
1 onion, chopped
50g cheddar, grated
basil, oregano

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

2. Fry the onion until soft then add the mince and cook until the mince has browned

3. Stir in the 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