Category: Recipes

  • Wild Blue Berry & Thyme Cheese Cake

    Wild Blue Berry & Thyme Cheese Cake

    Wild Blue Berry and Thyme Cheese Cake Serves 8 to 10 I love to bake. When I was working in Newcastle over 30 years ago, I used to make all the desserts for the Fisherman’s Wharf seafood restaurant on the quayside below the Tyne Bridge. Three days a week, I’d drop of cakes, desserts, and…

  • Day Dream Coconut Shrimp Curry

    Day Dream Coconut Shrimp Curry

    Coconut Shrimp Curry Serves 4 The first time I had coconut milk, it was from whole coconut that I won at The Hoppings, Europe’s largest travelling fun fair. The fair was held on the Town Moor during the last week of June each year in Newcastle. This was back in the 1970s, I was a…

  • Chicken, Bacon, Apple & Cider

    Chicken, Bacon, Apple & Cider

    Chicken, Bacon, Apple & Cider Serves 4 This chicken, bacon, apple and cider recipe always makes me think of England, my beautiful home country. Something about it brings back memories of long summer months in the British Isles that are both genteel and wild. I’m lucky that I get to visit once a year and…