Recipes at Home

During the lockdown I shared photos of my dads home cooked meals each day on my Instagram. I’ve decided to share some of these tasty but simple recipes here, so you can enjoy them for yourself!

Serrano Ham Pasta (serves 3)

Ingredients

2 cloves garlic

4 slices Serrano ham

2 chicken thighs

100ml white wine

100ml chicken stock

2 handfuls of spinach

penne pasta (enough for 3 people)

100ml double cream

Method On a medium heat, sweat off the cloves of finely diced garlic, slices of cut Serrano ham and diced chicken thigh until brown.

Add a touch of white wine, chicken stock, spinach, and finish with cream. Add cooked pasta and season.

Lamb Pipperada Ingredients

Lamb chops (2 per person)

2 heaped tablespoons cumin

100ml garlic oil

100ml chilli oil

salt / pepper

2 red peppers

2 small red onions

50ml medium dry sherry

100ml lamb stock

handful fresh basil

250g tomato passata 2 cloves garlic

Method

Marinade lamb in cumin, garlic oil and chilli oil, salt, pepper. Seal off lamb in pan ( turn them in pan for a couple minutes each side), then take out the pan.

Add more oil in the pan with sliced onions, garlic bulbs and red peppers, cook off till soft then add sherry, lamb stock, reduce down then add tomato passata.

Simmer for 20 minutes keep topping up with stock if you have to, shred fresh basil through sauce. Add lamb back in then simmer for 15 minutes.

Honeycomb, Blueberry & White Chocolate Cheesecake

Honeycomb Ingredients & Method

Butter to grease

200g caster sugar

5 tablespoons golden syrup

2 teaspoons bicarbonate soda

Grease a 20cm square tin with butter, in a pot on a medium heat, mix caster sugar and golden syrup until sugar has melted.

The heat now must be turned up to simmer until a caramel colour and consistency is created. Quickly turn off heat and add bicarbonate of soda. Use a wooden spoon to beat this into mixture, this will then create a foam. Add to tin.

Once in the tin, the mixture will continue to bubble. Leave for an hour / hour and a half. The honeycomb is ready when the mixture has gone hard in tin and will be ready to break off.

Cheesecake Ingredients

500 grams full fat soft cheese

300 grams blueberries

Half pint double cream

100 grams caster sugar

200 grams melted white chocolate

100 grams of crushed honey comb

200 grams crushed digestives

125 (half pack ) melted butter

Cheesecake Method

Mix together crushed biscuits and butter, press and set into cheesecake tin.

Whisk in a bowl cheese, caster sugar and cream till firm, whisk in melted white chocolate.