by Anne Murphy | Aug 15, 2016 | Mains, One Pot, Recipe, Slow Cooker
I looove Indian food and before kids and when I was single, I would thing nothing of buying all the Indian whole spices and grinding them into a beautiful Indian curry paste. Now that I’m married and with kids and I’m still the only one who loves spicy...
by Anne Murphy | Jul 18, 2016 | Food, Miscellaneous, One Pot, Recipe, Tips/Hints
I’m not the kind of person who usually slaves over a hot stove making my own stocks but I do love the flavour of homemade stock. It is so easy to make your own chicken stock from a rotisserie chicken and here’s how. There’s not usually much leftover...
by Anne Murphy | Jul 4, 2016 | Mains, One Pot, Recipe, Slow Cooker
I don’t know how it happens sometimes but I find an ingredient in my fridge or pantry and wonder how it got there. That’s how I stumbled across this Slow Cooker Savoury Chicken. I would never have bought it. I know I sometimes get ingredients from...
by Anne Murphy | May 23, 2016 | Mains, One Pot, Recipe, Slow Cooker
Do you ever feel like you’ve won the lottery these days when you see meat marked down at the supermarket, in particular lamb? I can remember when I was young, lamb was on our dinner plates every other night. It was so cheap. I happened to be at the supermarket...
by Anne Murphy | May 16, 2016 | Lunch/Snacks, Mains, Miscellaneous, One Pot, Recipe
We all like to go to pasta or rice as a side to most of our main meals but you really couldn’t find anything easier than couscous in particular a flavoured one like orange couscous. Instant couscous, which is what’s readily available at the supermarket has...
by Anne Murphy | Apr 11, 2016 | Mains, One Pot, Recipe, Slow Cooker
To begin, no chickens were ‘herded’ in the making of this pie! It sounded a bit silly at first to call this easy peasy meal a Shepherd’s Pie. A traditional Shepherd’s Pie is made with lamb (or beef) mince but this particular night I had chicken...