Recipes

It’s a tough task to reproduce the magnificence of a northern ‘chippy’, but with many of them using beef dripping to enhance the excellence in flavour it’s important for the waistline that the indulgence is limited to the odd occasion.

Rest assured that, according to my highly evolved intuition for imaginary statistical food data, our collective love of cheesecake lives on – certainly in spite of a particular northern comedian who recently questioned our desire to eat the oft-consumed dessert. Is there really any question why?

These super tasty and easy-to-make cookies are fantastic for using up random bits of chocolate you have in the pantry and a sure-fire way to add something special to the dreary old lunch box.

Many recipes have ingredients lists long enough to put you off making the dish. My nanna’s toffee recipe isn’t like that. Only four ingredients are necessary and the whole process of making the toffee can be done in less than 10 minutes.

When all else fails, learn new ways to use old favourites. That’s how I approach food ruts – cooking the same ol’ thing week after week.

These traditional Welsh Cakes would normally be baked on a baking stone over a fire. In fact, the Welsh name for these cakes is ‘pice ar y maen’ which translates to ‘cakes on the stone’.