An easy to make pork pie with egg, this takes a long time to cook but well worth the time. Ive added a video of how to make the pastry.
Recipes

May 25, 2015
Low Carb Lasagne

March 22, 2015
Low carbing, no rice egg fried rice.

March 22, 2015
Leek and Bacon Tart

February 22, 2015
Avocado and Banana Mousse
Paul like Avocados I don’t, when I saw this recipe I had to try it. I found this recipe on Paging Fun Moms A delicious way to get the goodness of Avocado into your kids, or in this case, me.

February 19, 2015
Nutty Apple Compot Cake
Apple compots are fairly high in carbs, but in a 10 – 12 portion cake this is a low carb cake in by books. Lots of nuts, no flour but does have a lot of eggs in it.This cake is so simple to make.

February 15, 2015
No Flour, Nutty Cake
This food is perfect for people trying to lose weight or for diabetics controlling there blood sugars while still enjoying tasty food. But this shouldn’t be classed as diet food, its a tasty nutricious cake for anyone to enjoy, No flour, no sugar and no butter (you will need a little butter to grease the tin). yet tasty and nutricious. I used Hazelnuts, Walnuts and Almonds in my 340gms mixed nuts.

February 5, 2015
Sugar free Chocolate Brownies with Cranberries

February 5, 2015
Tuna and Chickpea Fish Cakes
So simple to make, probably the best fish cakes you will ever eat, I use tinned tuna in mine but would work well with fresh or frozen fish cooked in a little milk and shredded after.

February 1, 2015
Potato and Cabbage Bake.
I had a very busy day yesterday and didn’t really have time to cook, fortunately I had got some beef tongue and onions out of the freezer so just needed something to go with it. In the garden lots of cabbage, Potatoes in the cupboard, old Cantal Cheese in the fridge and onions in the root store, This recipe can be made using so many different ingredients, but to me its a use up what you got recipe.

November 23, 2014
Sausage Rolls, Shortcrust Pastry.
This is a very buttery recipe for shortcrust pastry, it works perfectly but it is important to refrigerate the pastry for at least an hour before using. This recipe is a basic pork sausage roll, the only addition I have made to the mince is black pepper, but feel free to use your imagination (or the internet) to create your own flavours.

November 16, 2014
Crumpets

November 11, 2014
Apple and Blackberry pie (Sweet Pastry)
I have a blackberry hedge growing along my fence line and during the season pick them regularly, using some fresh but freezing a lot of them, Frozen blackberry’s need to be cooked from frozen, if you defrost them first they just go mushy and very wet. I also have apple trees but they are rather small and I’ve long used up the fruit I got from them so had to buy but I’m buying more trees, different fruits next year as I continue to build my orchard.

November 5, 2014
Cornish Pasties
I do love cooking Cornish Pasties, my family enjoy eating them hot for dinner or cold for break time at work. I’m sure there is a proper traditional recipe for these all though this isn’t it, but this recipe suits me.

November 3, 2014
Chicken Kiev
How many people throw away stale bread and then buy bread crumbs? I guess possibly the same amount of people that throw away a meat carcasses and then buy stock cubes.
Any old stale bread I have goes into the oven after baking, I break up the bread, put it into the oven and turn the oven off, when its dry I put it through my processor and then into an air tight container for later use.

November 2, 2014
Chocolate Concrete and Custard
Memories of school meals, this was a regular on the school menu when I was at school, shall we say, a few years ago. I don’t have mains gas, although I have an electric oven I had to use the microwave to make the custard when my gas ran out. I’ve never used the microwave to do this before, to be honest I don’t use the microwave to cook, only to heat or reheat food.

October 26, 2014
Sriracha Sauce (Hot Pepper)
The recipe for this sauce was sent to me by Dian Vayda who is a regular contributor to Rosie’s Kitchen, I didn’t have enough hot chili peppers but I bought a mixed bag up from the garden of hot and mild, the sauce still had a bite, was still hot and was well worth making, next year I hope to grow a lot more hot chiles and I’ve seen some great recipes to make this sauce suitable for long-term storage in jars. I’m typing the recipe as it was posted to me, the sauce should be a redder colour than mine but as I said I used a mix of peppers and a lot of them were green.

October 23, 2014
Magic Custard Cake
There are a lot of recipes for Magic Custard Cake on the internet, I’ve just slimmed this one down and it worked. The idea is you get a thin crust, a moist custard filling with another thin crust on top.

October 20, 2014
Sardine Simple Snack
I wanted to come up with an easy, cheap but satisfying meal for one, I actually cooked it for 2 but the recipe below is for one, add one extra of everything per person to cook for more.

October 19, 2014
Ginger Nut Biscuits

October 19, 2014
Roquefort and Walnut Whirls

October 16, 2014
Pumpkin and Cranberry Loaf
Still using up a glut of pumpkins, that’s not a complaint, I’m loving finding new recipes for them, this recipe is one I’ve adapted from cookinglight.com I’ve adapted the recipe slightly to suit my tastes.

October 14, 2014
Apple pie with Scrunchies

October 13, 2014
Pumpkin (Swiss)Roll
The Idea for this came from an American recipe where pumpkins go into just about everything, so I’ve posted the recipe in cups, I will convert to grams later and post when I’ve done it. After the glut of Courgettes its now a glut of Squashes and I love experimenting with different ideas.

October 5, 2014
Humming Bird Cake
The basic recipe for this came from http://www.myrecipes.com/ I made a few changes to some ingredients but added no extra, I ended up with 2 cakes, I suggest if you follow this recipe you bake 2 cakes the same size and stack them with cream in the middle, wish I did. The slight changes I made are in bold next to the original recipe.

September 30, 2014
Apple and Cinnamon Cake

September 24, 2014
Shortbread Biscuits

September 22, 2014
Rhubard and Banana Pudding
My son bought a bag of frozen rhubarb, I still haven’t got any growing here, and he made a lot of compot and gave me some, I was going to make a banana and custard pudding but now I had the compot I would do something else. There was no need to add sugar to the rhubarb, although it was very sour I had that much sugar going in with the other ingrediants I decided not to add any, I got that right, the sugar and the sour just went so well together.
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September 22, 2014
Butter Making

September 21, 2014
Prawn Bisque

September 18, 2014
Basic Bread Dough, with Plain Flour

September 18, 2014
Eggless Chocolate cake.
My chickens are off lay, maybe I should be off feeding them, anyway I wanted to make a cake and do it without eggs, like I had a choice, A quick browse aroung the internet, idea from here, idea from there and came up this.

September 14, 2014
Mozzarella
A traditional Mozzarella is made with Buffalo milk, if made with cow’s milk it’s called Fior di latte but for home-made cheese purposes this is Mozzarella. This recipe uses 4 litres of milk (a gallon, close enough), don’t use Ultra pasteurized, Haute or UHT milk, it won’t work. Use fresh milk, you can use skimmed though, I don’t.

September 9, 2014
30 second Banana Ice cream.

September 6, 2014
Swiss Roll
I’ve made so many Swiss rolls before but I only just realised I hadn’t posted a recipe.So here we go. I’m using home-made jam in this, feel free to use any jam you like or add soft fresh fruit such as raspberries or sliced strawberries.

September 6, 2014
Coleslaw 2
Coleslaw is simple, Sliced white cabbage and carrot with mayonnaise, but I ,like to do mine a little differently. Here in France coleslaw is a new idea, no idea why, but when I first came to France people were surprised by it but enjoyed it, maybe it’s because of my influence (joke) its now on sale in the shops, but it’s so simple to make and home-made definitely packs more punch than the rather insipid version sold in the shops.

August 31, 2014
Sea Bream in Pastis

August 28, 2014
Chicken and Broccoli Pies
I love summer cooking, less meat more home-grown vegetables and salads, Theres two of us living at Half Acre Farm and one chicken can last 4 days. Our last chicken provided two roast dinners, four Pies A pizza topping and three litres of soup.

August 28, 2014
Almond Tarts
I decided to call these almond tarts, as far as I’m concerned there Bakewell Tarts, now having said that I’m expecting comments from Derdyshire folk telling me I’m wrong and then giving me half a dozen alternative recipes, so maybe they should be called Rosies a bit like Bakewell tarts sort of, or maybe I will stick with calling them Almond tarts My sons love these so I ration them.

August 24, 2014
Ricotta(ish)

August 20, 2014
Fruit Cake

August 19, 2014
Green Tomato relish

August 19, 2014
5 TIER FOOD DEHYDRATOR / FOOD FRUIT DRYER WITH ADJUSTABLE TEMPERATURE CONTROL

August 16, 2014
Salty,Sweet, Summer Salad
I’m claiming this as mine, I’ve never seen this done before with amazing flavours in this salad. I’ve used four different cheeses in this, a goats cheese, a buffalo cheese, a cows cheese and a sheep’s cheese but it doesn’t mean you can’t make this without the exact ingredients, this could be a four cheese salad, a five cheese or even a one cheese.

August 15, 2014
Apple and Blackberry Crumble Pie
Shall I make a crumble or a pie from these home-grown apples and blackberries? Originaly it was going to be a crumble then remembered I had a shop bought pastry in the fridge. So came up with this;

August 6, 2014
Gnocchi
So simple, so many options for serving, I am posting the Gnocchi recipe here and will add the different ways I will serve it underneath as I cook them.

August 6, 2014
Moussaka
No one knows what the origin of moussaka is but a recipe from a thirteenth-century Arabic cookbook known as the Baghdad cookery book was proposed by one food historian as the ancestor of moussaka. The layered version that is more popular in the west was devised by Greek chef Nikos Tselementes (in the 1920′s) who wanted to “clear” Greek food from Turkish flavors, By adding a Bechamel he made the dish more French. Now this is not the classic moussaka devised by Nikos, a classic moussaka is made from lamb but my adding potato doesn’t change the idea of the dish as it is accepted that it can be made using available fresh ingredients, if you wanted to add courgettes or anything else, feel free to do so.

August 2, 2014
Linguine
Search for Linguine recipes and they will all talk about your pasta maker, that is if you own one, but they are not necessary, you think hundreds of years ago they existed? Ok a machine makes it easier and you get a more consistent pastry but without a pasta maker you can still follow this very simple recipe.

August 2, 2014
Carbonara

July 30, 2014
Lemon And Courgette Cake

July 30, 2014
Banana, Walnut and Nutella Cake

July 28, 2014
Briam, Roasted Summer Veg
If you want what has to be one of the easiest dish you could possibly cook, then you should cook a Briam, this Greek dish uses what is available in the garden,The only ingridiants that are constant in what ever you include are tomatoes and olive oil, lots of it.

July 21, 2014
Courgette and Goats Cheese Loaf
Looking for lots of recipes using Courgettes, this is based on a Tuna loaf I made on my old blog.

July 18, 2014
Ciabatta Pizza
Pizza doesn’t always have to go on a pizza dough, if you look through my recipes you will find different ways to serve a pizza. This was uses a whole Ciabatta which is a lovely soft white Italian bread. Don’t get to hung up on my recipe, like all pizzas there’s no limit to what you can do, but maybe this will give you a couple of ideas, The recipe below is to make two different pizzas.

July 17, 2014
Nectarine Cobbler
I bought some fruit that was near the end of its life at not a lot of money, most I’ve turned into jam, I was left with 4 nectarines to use up and decided to make a cobbler.

July 17, 2014
Bok Choy Stir Fry
This is the first time I’ve grown Bok Choy, won’t be the last, started as seed in my greenhouse they are growing well in the garden. I was looking at what else I had growing and came up with this recipe.

July 15, 2014
Green Chili Roasted Chicken
With a glut of chilies, peppers and squashes coming up from the garden I’m looking at different ways to use them.
This recipe is for a green chili paste.

July 14, 2014
Plum and Nectarine Jam
In the supermarket they were selling some cheap fruit, it was past its best and soft, so straight home with it and use it. I have another plum jam recipe on this site and on that I show how to peel plums but with this soft fruit it was easy just to peel without any preparation, don’t worry too much about getting all the peel it’s not going to harm the jam leaving some in. Peel the nectarines with a knife, remove the stones from all the fruit, A kilo of plums gave me 700gms of flesh and 3 nectarines made the amount up to 1kg

July 13, 2014
Duck leg in Red Pepper and Chili sauce
A lone duck leg in the freezer, how can I make it feed 2, I’ve put a link to my video on how to make chili and pepper jam on the bottom of this post, I used the jam as a base for a delicious duck sauce.

July 13, 2014
Green Chili, Pepper and Tomato Jam
I’ve made a red pepper jam before so I thought I would do a green version, the chili’s, peppers and tomato cam from my garden, I just made a small amount as a test.

July 12, 2014
Pattypan Squash with Garlic and Cheese.
This is a Pattypan squash also known as scallop squash, sunburst squash, granny squash, custard marrow and custard squash. Normally have a more scalloped edge, but this one grew in the same place as the ones I grew last year, maybe I’ve accidentally made my own squash!
I came up with this idea of a………………..well I’m not sure what, a snack, apero? Try it, you might like it.

July 12, 2014
Macaroni Pudding

July 5, 2014
Coleslaw

July 5, 2014
KFC,
This recipe for Southern Fried Chicken has now become a regular in my kitchen, its my night off recipe as Paul cooks this, he marinates the portioned chicken overnight in brine and then cooks it the next day, apart from a little flour its virtually carb free, The recipe below gives a pretty authentic KFC taste but weve now updated the recipe to make it a little more spicy.

July 2, 2014
Tuna and Courgette (Zucchini) Cake
One thing I’m never short of in the summer is courgettes, my American friends will know these as zucchini, as well as roasting, frying and boiling they have lots of other uses, they work well in breads and cakes. I have so many variations on this, but this I love, with tinned tuna.
This is so simple, bung the ingredients together and cook, warning this is very moreish especially while still warm.

June 29, 2014
Scotch Eggs, The Ultimate (for now)

June 29, 2014
Chili Baked Beans
I cooked a baked bean recipe awhile back, it was delicious, better than you would ever get out of a tin but it took a long time to cook and not very economical, I saw Jamie Oliver cook a recipe for Baked Beans and thought I would give it a go, I’m posting the full ingredient list here but I made this from ingredients I already had so made a couple of changes, I will write them in the list.

June 28, 2014
Plum Jam

June 28, 2014
Egg Custard
One thing I’m not short of at Half Acre Farm is eggs, my chicks are great layers and usually have a glut of eggs, I had a ready-made pastry in the fridge so decided to make an egg custard.

June 21, 2014
Red Berry Crumble

June 20, 2014
2 Fish on Pastis Sweet Potato

June 20, 2014
Kirsh Laced Tiramasu

June 3, 2014
Hot Water Pastry

May 29, 2014
Lemon Chicken

May 26, 2014
Pork Wellington

May 15, 2014
Shortbread Biscuits

May 14, 2014
Kiwi Cheesecake
I made a Kiwi Cheesecake, I made a couple in glasses to eat after dinner, also made a couple in bottomless moulds so I could send them to my sons.

May 12, 2014
Charlotte Russe
The whole point of Rosies Kitchen is the food I eat, its food from my kitchen that I cook for my husband and I also for my family and friends. Its about cooking and serving good home cooking, I’m not out to impress but more to inspire. So most of my recipes are recipes that anyone can cook, and are made from ingredients readily available in the shops where I live.
Now this recipe is a little more complicated but easily achievable, I’m including a lot of photographs and I hope you give it a go and let me know how you get on.

May 8, 2014
Eton Mess (Sort of)
Eton mess is a traditional English dessert consisting of a mixture of strawberries, pieces of meringue, and cream, which is traditionally served at Eton College’s annual cricket game against the pupils of Harrow School. The dish has been known by this name since the 19th century.
So mines nearly an Eton Mess.

May 5, 2014
Baked Camembert

May 2, 2014
Fish and Potato “Scotch Eggs”
This recipe is the basic recipe, first time I’ve attempted cooking what are essentially fish cakes wrapped round a quails egg. So changes that I could have made, use a smoked fish instead of fresh, chopped leeks in the potato, chilli flakes in the bread crumbs. This is a recipe to read, look at what you have and come up with your own recipe.

April 24, 2014
Courgette and Walnut Loaf

April 23, 2014
Îles flottantes

April 22, 2014
Quiche, no pastry
Lying in bed, unable to sleep this simple snack was going through my mind, I had to get up at 2am to make them.

April 20, 2014
Fruity Bread and Butter Pudding
Another bag of dry bread bought for feeding to the animals put to other uses, I’ve posted before how shops in France sell large bags of the previous days bread called Pain Dur, basically hard bread, but the bread from supermarkets can include any bread item including croissants and malted loaf, but always includes bagged breads that are still in date.

April 19, 2014
Cuisses de Grenouilles (Frogs Legs)

April 16, 2014
Salmon Tart, with Goats Cheese and Broccoli

April 10, 2014
Lamb Tagine

April 7, 2014
Chicken and Lamb Tandoori

April 3, 2014
Baked Spicy Cauliflower.

April 2, 2014
Smoked Salmon Whirls

April 1, 2014
Strawberry Tirimasu

March 31, 2014
Treacle Pudding

March 29, 2014
Fish Pie

March 28, 2014
Spicy Oven Chips

March 27, 2014
Curries

March 25, 2014
Sunday Lunch Leftovers Soup

March 25, 2014
Yoghurt and Nutella Rose Cake

March 23, 2014
Sunday Lunch
Can mounted chicken, juicy meat and crisp skin, served with stuffing, don’t get much nicer for a sunday lunch.

March 23, 2014
Very Easy Apple Pie
