Today’s recipe for Lincolnshire Sausage, Sage & Onion Pies is a cheat’s recipe. and only uses 4 ingredients

Using Store Cupboard Ingredients

Today’s recipe for Lincolnshire Sausage, Sage & Onion Pies is a cheat’s recipe. and only uses 4 ingredients.

Made with ready-rolled puff pastry, butcher’s sausages, a packet of stuffing mixture and an egg, these pies taste fabulous.

Lincolnshire Sausage, Sage & Onion Pies are certainly not “haute cuisine”, but they make a fabulous family meal.

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My recipe for Microwave Omelette in a Mug, is a fabulously healthy and high protein light meal or breakfast dish.

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Pressure Cooker Leftover Turkey & Vegetable Soup - A great way to use up leftover turkey and vegetables, to make a stock and a hearty soup

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My last Christmas inspired recipe is for Fruity Aromatic Slow Cooker Ham (Gammon). This lovely baked ham recipe is simplicity itself.

A Fabulous Slow Cooked Ham with Aromatic Spices and Fruit

My last Christmas inspired recipe is for Fruity Aromatic Slow Cooker Ham (Gammon). This lovely baked ham recipe is simplicity itself and the results are spectactular.

It’s a lesson in how to transform a piece of supermarket ham/gammon into a delicious festive meal…..and for ease, you cook this in your slow cooker, or on the slow cooker setting of a multi-cooker, such as a Ninja Foodi, Instant Pot or Crock Pot.

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Gingerbread Tea Loaf – This lovely recipe for Gingerbread Tea Loaf is over 70 years old, and has been featured in numerous Be-Ro cookbooks.

Perfect for Bonfire Night or Winter Tea Tray Supper

This lovely recipe for Gingerbread Tea Loaf is over 70 years old, and has been featured in numerous Be-Ro cookbooks.

I made it from the 26th edition, which was my late mother’s book. She always had this little book out, and baked from it all of the time.

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I know this Farmhouse Beef and Sausage Shape doesn’t look very attractive, but I cannot emphasise how delicious this is.

An Old English Farmhouse Recipe from East Anglia and Lincolnshire

I know this Farmhouse Beef and Sausage Shape doesn’t look very attractive, but I cannot emphasise how delicious this is.

It’s a very old farmhouse recipe, believed to originate from East Anglia and Lincolnshire. The orignal recipe was in an old Farmhouse cookbook I have by Mary Norwak.

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Meat & Potato Pie – Today’s recipe for Meat & Potato Pie is a much-loved recipe from my childhood. My mum used to make it regularly.

Made in the Ninja Foodi 14-in-1 also with Conventional Oven and Slow Cooker Instructions

Today’s recipe for Meat & Potato Pie is a much-loved recipe from my childhood. My mum and her mum, my grandmother used to make it regularly.

The pastry is made with hot water crust pastry, which is usually reserved for Pork Pies, or raised pies.

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My School Dinner recipes have been very popular lately, and here’s the recipe for School Dinner Cheese Flan, which I promised to share.

Also called Cheese & Egg Flan and Cheese Pie

My School Dinner recipes have been very popular lately, and here’s the recipe for School Dinner Cheese Flan, which I promised to share.

Also called Cheese & Egg Flan, or Cheese Pie, it has JUST four ingredients in it.

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July in the UK has been a WASH OUT! Wet and windy with storms, so today I’m sharing some comforting Retro School Dinners Recipes.

School Jam Tart

Comfort food from the School Canteen

July in the UK has been a WASH OUT! Wet and windy with storms, so today I’m sharing some comforting Retro School Dinners Recipes.

From hearty puddings to pies and flans, I hope you will find some inspiration in the following recipes I’m sharing.

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My latest recipe for Deep Dish Cheese & Tomato Flan was made for a summer’s evening Sunday Tea Tray supper.

A Delicious Deep Dish Flan for Summer Picnics and Celebration Buffets

My latest recipe for Deep Dish Cheese & Tomato Flan was made for a summer’s evening Sunday Tea Tray supper.

Made in an oblong deep dish, it yields lots of cheesy egg custard filling, with sweet seasonal tomatoes, and not too much pastry.

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