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Christmas Recipes: Main Dishes. No.3 of 12 - Smoked Haddock & Spinach Fishcakes

Christmas Recipe Serves: 8
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes
Calories per serving: 605
Suitable for freezing (after step 4)
Christmas Recipe Ingredients:

Breadcrumbs, fresh 75 g (3 oz)
Semi-skimmed milk, 150 ml (5 fl oz)
Haddock, smoked or fresh 250 g (9 oz)
Potatoes, 250 g (9 oz)
salt and pepper
Spinach, washed 225 g (8 oz)
Egg, 1 beaten
Lemon wedges
Cream, fresh half-fat 400 […]

Hot Dogs

The Fourth Of July is an American holiday somewhere between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
It is a time when Americans celebrate their unique heritage and eating hot dogs are as traditional
as apple pie. During the eighteen-sixties, hots dogs were sold from pushcarts by German immigrants in the Bowery section of New York City […]

Christmas Recipes: Delicious Christmas Puddings

Pudding Recipes given here are easy to cook and absolutely delicious. Properly made Christmas puddings will be extremely tasty and make your Christmas celebrations a memorable experience. Enjoy these Puddings with your loved ones during this Christmas.
Christmas Pudding (1).
Ingredients of Christmas Pudding:-
1 lb. raisins (stoned), 1 lb. chopped apples, 1 lb. currants, 1 […]

Tips for Finding Wines You Like and Pairing with Food…

You know, wine paired with food is fun. Not just the drinking of the wine, but also in deciding which wine you want to purchase and what foods you want to pair it with . Let’s start with some ideas when you go to purchase the wine.
First of all you need to decide the reason […]

5 Tips For Experiencing A Wine Festival

Almost every state in the country has a wine festival. It is a great way to sample the wines of the region and to become familiar with some of the great wineries that are right in your backyard.
If you decide to go to a wine festival, there are some things you can do to […]

Lentil and Sausage Stew

Lentil soup with smoked sauage has always been a favorite of mine. It’s good on those cold frosty evenings or perhaps you prefer this for lunch.
1 bag of lentils
1 large onion (roughly 2 cups chopped)
2 celery stalks (roughly 1 cup chopped)
1 carrot (roughly 1/2 cup chopped)
1 box of […]

Spanish Food - How To Make Spicy Gazpacho Soup.

Home-made soups are so good for you - all that nourishing stock and chock-a-block full of vitamins and minerals.
But … who on earth could face boiling bones for hours on end during the scorching Spanish summer weather, not to mention preparing the soup once the stock is made? I don’t […]

Chicken Stock

The basis of a good soup is usually a good stock. Once you know
how to make a good stock, you can use it for an almost endless
variety of soups. This is a recipe I use for chicken stock
that’s easy to make, and tastes delicious. I usually make extra,
and freeze what I don’t use.
1 Whole Chicken, […]

A Beginners Guide to Chinese Cookery

Introduction
When I first ate Chinese food in the UK in the 1970s, it was really quite unappealing. Everything came in a gloopy sauce and seemed to taste the same, due to the overuse of monosodium glutamate, supposedly a flavour enhancer but in reality, nothing of the kind. Then in the 1980s a new breed of […]

Double Decker Pastry

This recipe is an experience for anyone, it’s kind of unique and
very different from today’s baking, today all you need to do is
go to the market and pick something off of the shelf, put it in
the microwave and you have it.
Well I’m old fashion when it is something I’m going to eat and
enjoy, I need […]