by Anne Murphy | Jun 4, 2013 | Baking, Lunch/Snacks, Pastry, Recipe
I tell you, it doesn’t take me much to make me happy. One thing is to have a well stocked pantry and a few extra ‘luxury’ ingredients. I was scrounging for something a little bit nicer for lunch one day and I spotted the jar of olives and roasted...
by Anne Murphy | Feb 22, 2013 | Baking, Lunch/Snacks, Mains, Pastry, Recipe
With the last of the anchovies I had in the fridge, I decided to whip up this easy as pie (or tart in this case) Anchovy, Caramelised Onion & Tomato Tart. I love having puff pastry in the freezer because you can always make these things in a flash. All I did was...
by Anne Murphy | Jan 24, 2013 | Lunch/Snacks, Mains, Pastry, Recipe
Sausage rolls can hide a multitude of sins (or vegetables some people call them). Things like the bamboo shoots I mentioned at my last Mystery Ingredient Monday that were taking up valuable pantry space made it into these Oriental flavoured chicken sausage rolls....
by Anne Murphy | Jul 22, 2012 | Baking, Lunch/Snacks, Mains, Pastry, Recipe, Salads/Vegetables
We were invited to a Christening yesterday. I hadn’t been to one in ages. Now that my children are turning 8 and 6 this year, I don’t have too much to do with babies as most of my friends have children the same age, except this one who had a baby earlier...
by Anne Murphy | Jun 19, 2012 | Lunch/Snacks, Mains, Pastry, Recipe, Salads/Vegetables
I picked up a couple of leeks on the weekend to make a potato and leek soup sometime this week but talking about tarts to a friend of mine, I just had the urge to do something like this for dinner the other night. I had feta and cubes of frozen spinach in the freezer...
by Anne Murphy | Jun 4, 2012 | Lunch/Snacks, Pastry, Recipe
I was cleaning up my blog photo folder last night when I came across some older dishes I’ve cooked these last couple of months which I completely forgot about. One such dish was some lovely fresh asparagus I had recently purchased and wrapped with a bit of ham...
