Taste of Glasgow

  You know there isn’t much wrong with the world when you can sit down to a big plate of Italian meatballs! This recipe takes full advantage of slow cooking and is a real winner. I am sure there must be some Italian blood in me because I bet this is as good as any [...]

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I came home from work the other day with the plan of making some sort of mince dish for dinner.  However I realised that I had some potatoes to be using up, so instead of the usual mince n tatties, I thought I’d rustle up something a little different for a change….. Ingredients: 1 onion, chopped 400g lean steak [...]

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Wintertime is when I get the most out of my slow cooker, it’s ideal for making tummy warming home cooked delights. One of my favourite meals that I cook is my beef Hungarian goulash, just the dish to warm you up when it’s cold out. Now if you don’t have a slow cooker (invest in [...]

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Just another typical day in Glasgow… it was a cold and wet Sunday afternoon, and I wanted to whip up something warm and hearty to welcome the boys home from a hard day at work (seriously, the only 2 people I know working on a Sunday!). Hungarian Goulash is a very thick soup, or even [...]

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Carne asada is a staple dish in Mexican cuisine. Found throughout northern Mexico and the American Southwest, I was eating this stuff from the moment my first set of teeth emerged in my wee mouth. Carne asada is a roasted beef dish, in which pieces of beef are either marinated (for extra tenderness and juiciness), [...]

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Visit any Italian restaurant and you can pretty much guarantee that there will be lasagne on the menu. There are so many different lasagne recipes out there but this is the one that I use. It tastes and looks great, is pretty straight forward to make….. what else matters!

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