Author Archives: headchef
Default pasta sauce
This is my current default tomato-based pasta sauce. Feeds family of 5. 2 x cartons of passata (Sainsbury’s Basics will do – or chopped tinned tomatoes) handful of fresh basil, chopped 4 or 5 anchovies from a jar 3 fat … Continue reading
SuperFry Chicken Escalopes
Tilly likes these so much we’ve added this to the menu in our Imaginary Café. You will need: Some chicken thighs (or breasts, but thighs are cheaper and tastier. Cheaper and tastier in the Suppertime way.) – 1 per person. … Continue reading
Simple Coq au Vin
It’s old-fashioned but it’s wet & windy and this went down a treat tonight. Easy, warming, delicious. Would feed about 4 hungry adults – 1 adult and 2 children failed to eat half of this, the left-overs are a freezer … Continue reading
Easy peasy quesadillas
Quesadillas are so easy to make, I can’t believe we’ve never tried them before – especially since we have Mexican food every couple of weeks. We made potato and chorizo ones, but I’ll outline a couple of possible alternatives at … Continue reading
Christmassy red cabbage
I was trying to make Nigella’s red cabbage from her Christmas book, but I didn’t have the right spices and I mistook pomegranate juice for cranberry – it worked rather well, certainly much sweeter than my usual winter red cabbage. … Continue reading
Bonne Dimanche breakfast toastie
Ok, this is about as French as cricket, but I was listening to fip as I was eating this, and the presenter wished her listeners a ‘bonne Dimanche’. Bonne Dimanche indeed. To feed one person you will need: 2 slices … Continue reading
Pea, prawn & mint risotto
Dead quick and easy risotto. This was utterly delicious. Serves 2 very hungry people, or 3 normal people. You will need: 200g risotto rice a large mug full of frozen peas half a large onion or 1 small onion 1 … Continue reading
Chipotle baked beans
This is the easiest thing in the world. And we love easy at Suppertime! You will need 1 tin of Heinz baked beans half tsp of cumin half tsp ground coriander half tsp smoked paprika (or less – this makes … Continue reading
Fusion Chilli
I love chilli. I love filling, meaty feasts like Jamie Oliver’s brisket chilli. I also love the fast-food flavours of Meat Liquor’s genius layover chilli, as used to great effect in their Chilli Cheese Fries. Tonight I combined the two. … Continue reading
Kut-price kurrywurst
Okay, I’m not proud of this. In fact, I’m quite ashamed. I wasn’t even full of Kölsch as an excuse. I can merely blame the Meat Liquor cookbook and Son A for making me make Currywurst. Serves 4. You will … Continue reading