Creamy chicken and bacon

Ingredients
1 chicken fillet (chopped)
2 slices smoked bacon (chopped)
Half an onion (chopped)
1 chicken stock cube
2tbsp double cream
3 or 4 leaves of lettuce, torn up
Dried thyme
Potatoes

1. Preheat oven to 200°C / 400°F / gas 6 and bake potatoes for 35-40 minutes until cooked

2. Fry the chicken and onion until brown then add the bacon and thyme and cook for another 5 minutes

3. Dissolve stock cube in 200ml water and pour over the chicken, onion and bacon

4. bring to the boil then simmer for 15 minutes stirring regularly

5. Stir in the lettuce and double cream and serve with the potatoes

Serves 1

Cheese and onion filled baked potato

Ingredients
1 baking potato
30g cheddar cheese, grated
30g butter
Half an onion, chopped
Olive oil
Salt

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

2. Wash the potato and stab all over with a fork. Brush with olive oil and sprinkle with salt

3. Wrap potato loosely in foil and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, turning over halfway through

4. Cut potato in half and scoop out some of the insides. Place in a bowl

5. Add butter and mash. Add cheese and onion and mix well

6. Put this mixture back into the potato skins and bake for 15 minutes

Fish cakes with cheese

Ingredients
1 white fish fillet
2 medium potatoes, peeled and chopped in half
50g soft cheese
Small lump of butter
Dried parsley
2 slices bread, grated to make breadcrumbs
2 tbsp olive oil

1. Boil the potatoes until soft

2. Fry the fish and crumble it into small pieces

3. Put the potatoes in a bowl, add the butter and mash together

4. Add the fish and parsley and a pinch of salt and pepper and mix well

5. Preheat oven to 200°C / 400°F / gas 6 and grease a baking tray

6. Divide mixture into 4 equal sized burger shapes and put the cheese on 2 of them

7. Put the other 2 on top of the ones with cheese and press the edges together

8. Stir the breadcrumbs and olive oil together and coat the fish cakes with it

9. Bake for 25-30 minutes

Makes 2

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

Cheese and bacon potato salad

Ingredients
150g small potatoes (or larger ones cut up)
3 slices bacon
5 tbsp mayonnaise
2 tbsp parmesan, grated
1 tsp poppy seeds
1 tsp parsley
1 tsp chives

1. Boil the potatoes for 20-25 minutes until cooked. Meanwhile fry the bacon

2. Mix the mayonnaise, parmesan, poppy seeds, parsley and chives together in a bowl

3. Add the potatoes and bacon and mix well

Serves 1

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

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

Sausage and mash bake

Ingredients
400g sausages
800g potatoes
400ml water
2tbsp onion gravy granules
25g butter
1tsp sage

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

2. Boil the potatoes for 15 minutes then mash with the butter

3. Grill the sausages for 25-30 minutes then place in a baking tray/dish

4. Mix the water, gravy granules and sage and stir well. Pour over the sausages in the tray/dish

5. Spread the mash over the sausages

6. Bake for 30 minutes

Serves 4

Corned beef and potato pie

Ingredients
225g plain flour
50g butter
50g lard
30ml water
pinch of salt
340g tin of corned beef
300g potatoes, boiled

1. To make the pastry mix flour and salt then rub in the fat to make breadcrumbs. Add cold water and mix into a stiff dough.

2. Preheat oven to 190°C / 370°F / gas 5. Grease a 20cm / 8 inch ovenproof plate

3. Divide pastry in half and roll out. Line the plate with one half.

4. Mash potato and corned beef together and place it in the pie.

5. Wet edges of pastry and cover the pie with the other half of the pastry. Seal edges

6. Brush with egg or milk and bake for 35-40 minutes

Mediterranean eggs

Ingredients
200g potatoes (chopped into small cubes)
2 slices bacon
250g tomato pasta sauce
2 eggs
half an onion
tomotoes and red peppers
basil

1. Boil the potatoes for 10 minutes until soft. Drain

2. Fry the bacon, onion, tomatoes and peppers for 5 minutes then add the potatoes

3. Add the pasta sauce and herbs and stir well.

4. Make a hole in the middle of the mixture and crack 2 eggs into the hole

5. Cover and cook over low heat for 10 minutes until eggs are cooked

Serves 1

Salad nicoise

Ingredients
50g tuna (drained)
Lettuce
4 small potatoes
2 eggs
15ml olive oil
5ml vinegar
Parsley
Chives

1. boil potatoes for 15 minutes. Boil the eggs

2. Put potatoes, lettuce, tuna, totmatoes, parsley and chives in a bowl

3. Mix olive oil and vinegar together and pour over the ingredients in the bowl. Mix well

4. Peel eggs, cut in half and place on top of the rest of the ingredients

Serves 1

Baked Potato with sour cream and cheese filling



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

2. Wash a large baking potato and remove any bad bits

3. Stab it all over with a fork (to let the steam out so it doesn't explode) then brush the skin with oil

4. Wrap loosely in tinfoil, leaving a hole at the top and bake for 1 hour - 1 hour 15 minutes, until soft all the way through

5. Mix some sour cream, cheese and chives together for the filling and add when cooked