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    Beef in Black Bean Sauce

    By Susan / 6th May 2025

    Beef in Black Bean Sauce must be one of the most requested Chinese dishes in either a restaurant or a take away. Thin slices of tender, silky beef and crispy chunks of onion and green pepper are…

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  • Photograph of Soy and Ginger Noodles with Beef
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    Soy and Ginger Noodles with Beef

    By Susan / 17th April 2025

    Easy to make, bursting with sweet and salty flavours and a slight chilli kick, Soy and Ginger Noodles with Beef is an Indonesian inspired super quick noodle dish. I like to enhance the recipe by adding lots…

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    Beef Casserole

    By Susan / 1st January 2024

    This classic Beef Casserole is quick and easy to prepare but benefits hugely from a long, slow cook. The result - melt in the mouth, fall apart beef, swathed in a thick, rich gravy infused with red…

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    Beef Cooked in Guinness with Black Olives and Prunes

    By Susan / 1st December 2022

    Rich with Guinness and tomatoes, studded with slightly salty, piquant olives, sweetened with juicy prunes, slow-cooked red onions and red pepper, this unique Beef and Guinness Casserole has layers of intense flavour, as well as interesting texture…

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    Beef Brisket Ragù

    By Susan / 20th September 2022

    This ragù is made with beef brisket and is cooked over a long period of time to both tenderise the beef and intensify the flavour. I have been making this Donna Hay recipe for years: warm and…

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  • Photograph of Vietnamese Shaking Beef - Bò Lúc Lắc
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    Vietnamese Shaking Beef – Bò Lúc Lắc

    By Susan / 12th April 2022

    Melt in the mouth, cubes of tender, luscious beef steak, marinated in a flavourful mix of soy sauce, oyster sauce, fish sauce and sugar, cooked with onions, garlic and butter and served with a salted lime juice…

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    Beef Rendang

    By Susan / 31st December 2021

    Beef Rendang is a stunningly delicious internationally famous, classic, spicy, slow cooked Indonesian/Malaysian curry beloved well beyond Asia. With complex, deep flavours developed through long, slow cooking, layers of spices, aromatics and toasted coconut, this intensely aromatic…

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    Beef Stroganoff

    By Susan / 9th September 2021

    Beef Stroganoff is an internationally famous, classic Russian dish; this version is made from sautéed beef, flavoured with mustard and paprika and served in a rich sauce with sour cream and beef stock.

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  • Photograph of Slow Cooker Pot Roast Beef with Lashings of Luscious Gravy
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    Slow Cooker Pot Roast Beef with Lashings of Luscious Gravy

    By Susan / 1st April 2021

    Cooked for 8 hours in a rich red wine gravy, loaded with vegetables, this fall apart beef, will melt in your mouth, excite your tastebuds and delight your lazy side! A quick 15 minutes prep in the…

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    Hungarian Goulash

    By Susan / 19th March 2021

    Chunks of fall apart beef cooked slowly in a rich sauce made from onions, peppers, tomatoes, beef stock, some red wine, layers of paprika – sweet, hot and smoked – the kick of aniseed from caraway seeds,…

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Rum and Raisin Bread and Butter Pudding with Orang Rum and Raisin Bread and Butter Pudding with Orange and Ginger

Rum-soaked raisins are topped with a layer of soft, ginger sandwiches, cooked in a silky, smooth, orange custard and finished with a crunchy sugar and ginger topping. Serve hot with ice cream, cream or even custard. This luscious dessert has a range of luxurious textures and flavours yet sits firmly at the top of the comfort food category. Bread and butter puddings work well all year round, but I feel that this recipe is particularly suited to this time of year, when Christmas is around the corner and we are looking for comforting seasonal treats and flavours. Indeed, if you are not a Christmas pudding fan, this would make a wonderful alternative on the big day.

It comes together very quickly, uses mostly store cupboard ingredients and can be prepared, up to the point of baking, in advance. Furthermore, you can use whatever bread you have available. I used brown bread, but white bread, brioche, old croissants, or even tea cakes, hot cross buns or left-over panettone, would work wonderfully well too. Simply use the same weight and follow the recipe as described. However, brioche, croissants and panettone are already laden with butter, so I would not add any extra to these.
 
This recipe is inspired by a Nigella recipe I saw recently called My Grandmother’s Ginger Jam Bread and Butter Pudding. 

Ingredients

Bread and Butter:
- 50g raisins
- 2 tbls dark rum (or use orange juice)
- 160g/4 slices brown bread
- 35g unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 4 tbls ginger jam

Custard:
- 150g milk
- 150g double cream
- 30g soft brown sugar
- grated zest of 1 orange
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- small ⅛ tsp fine salt

Topping:
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- 1 tbl demerara sugar
 
To read more about this recipe, or to find other great recipes, please take a look at www.daffodilkitchen.com or go to the link in my bio, tap on the picture and go straight to the recipe.

If you make this recipe, do please tag me on @daffodil_kitchen. 💛🌼
Quick Lasagne with a Creamy Mascarpone Topping L Quick Lasagne with a Creamy Mascarpone Topping
 
Layers of rich, beef and tomato ragù, flavoured with red pepper, red wine and fresh herbs, layered with lasagne sheets, and topped with a silky, cheesy mascarpone and parmesan sauce. Finished with mozzarella and more parmesan, this fantastic, made-from-scratch lasagne can be on the table in around an hour, from start to finish.

Unbeatable comfort food, lasagne is one of my favourite pasta dishes. Wonderful at any time of year with a crisp salad and some garlic bread, I particularly enjoy it in autumn, when the days are getting colder and the nights are drawing in.
 
Ragù:
- 100g/1 small onion, peeled, roughly chopped.
- 70g/1 carrot, washed, trimmed, roughly chopped.
- 140g/1 red pepper, stem, seeds removed, roughly chopped.
- 10g/3 plump garlic cloves, peeled
- 2 tbls olive oil
- 250g minced beef (ideally 5% fat).
- 125ml dry red/white wine (or use extra water or stock)
- 500g passata (plus 100ml water to swill out the bottle/carton).
- 1 beef stock cube/stock pot
- 35g tomato puree
- ⅛ – ¼ tsp chilli flakes (optional).
- 1 tsp Worcestershire Sauce
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme (or ¼ tsp dried thyme)
- ¼ tsp fine salt, or to taste
- ¼ tsp freshly ground black pepper
- parmesan rind, if you have one
- ¼ – ½ tsp sugar, if necessary
 
Pasta:
- 8 sheets of dried lasagne
 
Topping:
- 250g mascarpone cheese
- 75ml milk
- 30g grated Parmesan, divided.
- 125g ball of mozzarella.
- ⅛ tsp fine sea salt flakes, or to taste
- freshly ground black pepper
- freshly grated nutmeg
 
To read more about this recipe, or to find other great recipes, please take a look at www.daffodilkitchen.com or go to the link in my bio, tap on the picture and go straight to the recipe.

If you make this recipe, do please tag me on @daffodil_kitchen. 💛🌼
Delia’s Roasted Salmon Fillets with Crusted Basi Delia’s Roasted Salmon Fillets with Crusted Basil Pesto Topping
 
Soft, beautifully seasoned and perfectly cooked salmon fillets topped with a crunchy, cheesy basil pesto topping. Quick to throw together and easy to prepare ahead of time, all this wonderful dish needs alongside is some salad or vegetables (or both) and perhaps some new potatoes as well. Here I chose some broccoli and ratatouille giving the whole dish a wonderful feel of the Mediterranean. Although it is best served alfresco, you can genuinely make this dish all year round. 

Just as we were getting used to more Autumnal weather, it seems to be warming up again this weekend. This dish would be perfect! The recipe below is for 2 people but it is a fabulous recipe to scale up or down. It works really well for entertaining because it can all be prepared ahead of time and then just popped in the oven 10 minutes before you want to eat.
 
I first had this dish a few weeks ago at my friend Mandy’s house, followed by a really delicious Poached Apricot and Ricotta dessert. The recipe itself is from the wonderful Delia Smith. I’m not sure if it is in a cookery book, but it can be found on line on her website deliaonline.com
 
Ingredients
- 2 salmon fillets, skinned. Around 130g – 175g each
- drizzle of olive oil
- juice from ½ lemon
- pinch of salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tbls basil pesto, either shop bought or home made
- 2 tbls panko breadcrumbs, divided
- 4 tsps finely grated Pecorino or parmesan cheese, divided
 
To read more about this recipe, or to find other great recipes, please take a look at www.daffodilkitchen.com or go to the link in my bio, tap on the picture and go straight to the recipe.

If you make this recipe, do please tag me on @daffodil_kitchen. 💛🌼
Rick Stein’s Baked Sea Bass with Roasted Red Pep Rick Stein’s Baked Sea Bass with Roasted Red Peppers, Tomatoes, Anchovies and Potatoes
 
Tender, fresh, sea bass roasted in one pan with lightly caramelised peppers, sweet tomatoes, salty anchovies and melt-in-the-mouth potatoes. Although this takes over an hour in the oven, it comes together very quickly, and the joy of cooking it in this way, ensures that the flavours concentrate, develop and merge as everything cooks.
 
Spectacular enough for entertaining, but quick enough for a family dinner, I have been making this Rick Stein recipe for many years. I am not sure where I first saw it, possibly in a magazine, but it is featured in his 100 Fish & Seafood Recipes (My Kitchen Table). I am a huge fan of Rick Stein recipes. They are bursting with flavour, exceedingly reliable, use accessible ingredients and are generally very doable for the home cook. Not too cheffy at all. This recipe is a perfect example of all of these things.
 
Ingredients:
- 85ml olive oil
- good pinch of saffron strands
- 2 tbs hot water
- 900g potatoes, slice 1cm thick
- 250g – 400g tomatoes, skinned, halved
- 50g anchovy fillets
- 8 plump garlic cloves, peeled and sliced
- 150ml good quality chicken stock. (Or fish or vegetable)
- 3 – 4 red peppers/capsicum, deseeded, cut into 8
- 8 sprigs of fresh oregano, or 1 tsp dried oregano
- ¼ – ½ tsp fine sea salt
- ¼ – ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
- ¼ tsp chilli flakes
- 1.5 – 1.75kg whole sea bass, cleaned and trimmed
 
To read more about this recipe, or to find other great recipes, please take a look at www.daffodilkitchen.com or go to the link in my bio, tap on the picture and go straight to the recipe.

If you make this recipe, do please tag me on @daffodil_kitchen. 💛🌼
Cherry Clafoutis I am excited that cherry season Cherry Clafoutis
 
I am excited that cherry season is upon us again because this is one of my favourite desserts. Clafoutis is a classic, timeless, rustic French dessert defined by both its simplicity and melt in the mouth deliciousness. It describes a dish of luscious, sweet cherries topped with a thick, lightly sweetened custard type batter, enhanced with nutty brown butter. It is baked in the oven until golden, slightly crispy on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside, with the flavours of the fruit bursting through. You can serve it warm or at room temperature, it can be cut into slices or simply spoon it out like a crumble. Delicious on its own, it also works well with ice cream, fresh pouring cream or Chantilly Cream. Leftovers, served with plain or Greek yoghurt, also make a wonderful breakfast.
This recipe is very slightly adapted from Raymond Blanc, of Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons fame. 

Ingredients

For pan:
- 10g unsalted butter, soft.
- 25g – 30g caster sugar
 
Fruit and batter:
- 400g fresh cherries
- 20g unsalted butter
- 2 eggs
- 45g caster sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla extract or paste
- 20g plain flour or a gluten free alternative
- ⅛ tsp fine salt
- 75g milk. 
- 75g double/heavy cream
- 2 tbls Amaretto or Kirsch. (optional)
 
To read more about this recipe, or to find other great recipes, please take a look at www.daffodilkitchen.com or go to the link in my bio, tap on the picture and go straight to the recipe.

If you make this recipe, do please tag me on @daffodil_kitchen. 💛🌼
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