Recipe Index

Chicken or turkey meals

Chicken and carrots with lemon - ideal for the crockpot; this recipe is for a large number of people, a British version of an American recipes.
Chicken curry - use fresh or leftover chicken - or any other meat, or even vegetables - to make an easy mild (though not authentic) curry
Chicken in gunge - small pieces of chicken or turkey breast, in a 'gunge' made mainly of ketchup and HP sauce
Marinated chicken - kebabs or cubes of chicken marinated for a few hours to give a quick and easy meal
Mexican chicken - using filletted chicken or turkey, in a spicy tomato sauce
Sticky citrus chicken - quick to make, chicken breast strips with fresh citrus juices, excellent with rice
Stove-top barbecue chicken - using any kind of chicken, this is cooked on the stove top with a barbecue-like sauce
Teriyaki chicken - a simple, Westernised version of a Japanese dish in a soya sauce based marinade

Beef meals

Chinese savoury beef - simple to prepare, serve with rice and stir-fried veg
French stew - very quick meal using stewing steak that bakes gently for four hours
Stifado - easy version of a Cypriot speciality, gently cooked using inexpensive stewing steak

Sausage meals (use any meat or veggie sausages)

Sausage bean-feast - quick and easy to prepare
Sausage tomato bake - sausages, onions and tomatoes in a tasty casserole
Toad in the Hole - traditional British meal with sausages in batter

Mince meals (use any ground meat, or veggie mince)

Chili con carne - a spicy dish, quick and adaptable depending on taste
Enchiladas - use packaged tortillas for speed, to make this simple version of a 'Tex-Mex' dish
Lasagne - layers of tomato sauce, cheese and pasta for a traditional Italian meal
Shepherds' pie - a traditional British dish topped with mashed potato

Vegetarian meals

Cheese and lentil bake - simple high protein recipe using red lentils
French bread pizza - very quick and easy to prepare, popular with children
Nut roast - ideal to serve as veggie alternative to meat roast
Quiche - simple cheese and onion quiche
Sweet and sour cheese - tasty and unusual recipe for a quick meal
Vegetable and nut cobbler - cauliflower and other veg with a walnut scone topping

Desserts, cakes and biscuits

Apple cake - bar cake that uses apples which don't even need to be peeled
Apricot (or loquat) crunch - soft fruit with flapjack-like topping
Banoffi Pie - biscuit crumb base, condensed milk 'toffee' filling, banana topping
Christmas pudding - steamed dessert, served with cream, custard or brandy butter
Chocolate biscuit cake - a quick uncooked dessert using chocolate and broken biscuits
Chocolate chip applesauce cake - Simple to prepare, this is even low in fat as apple sauce replaces most of the fat
Chocolate chip oat cookies - a reasonably healthy variation of a classic biscuit recipe
Chocolate crumb cake - a frugal cake with canned fruit underneath
Gingerbread - traditional gooey cake or dessert that gets better with keeping
Lemon cream crunch - A rich lemon filling on a digestive biscuit base. Similar to American 'key lime pie'
Lemon meringue pie - A traditional favourite, not quick to make but worth the effort
Pineapple chocolate fudge pie - A smooth chocolate pie in a crumb base
Rice pudding - old traditional British dessert made in the oven or microwave
Soft-scoop vanilla ice cream - evaporated milk is the basis for this simple ice cream. Requires an electric mixer.

Bread

Beer bread - quick and easy, with no kneading - just flour, sugar and beer make this bread
Tomato and rosemary loaf - a pleasant savoury flavour - ideal for a breadmaker
Wholewhat and oat loaf - a basic light loaf, with part wholemeal flour. Works well in a breadmaker

Miscellaneous

Apricot jam - a basic recipe for using apricots in season, which keeps well.
Curried carrot and ginger soup - delicious with warm bread on a cold day
Frappé - chilled coffee drink popular in Cyprus in the summer
Fruit smoothies - pure fruit, with juice and ice - perfect in the summer
Lemonade - refreshing drink to make when you have copious lemons growing, or when they're inexpensive in the supermarket
Lemon curd - microwave recipe for this sweet preserve, known in some countries as lemon butter
Mango and apple chutney- not too difficult, much less expensive than the bought variety if you can find fresh mangoes at a reasonable price
Mincemeat - sweet mixture using mainly dried fruit. Make in November and store for Christmas mince pies
Pear-based healthy breakfast - ripe pears, nuts and seeds ground together to make a delicious
mixture
Strawberry Jam - very simple, great when strawberries are in season

Tomato and apple chutney - excellent with bread and cheese, simple to prepare
Tsatsiki - a simple yogurt/cucumber dip popular in the Middle East
Yogurt - based on evaporated milk, easiest with an electrical yogurt maker