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• 3P soup (pea, split pea and paprika)

  • adewar on February 26, 2016

    I could eat this every day. I find pea soups very comforting and moreish, but this one is nice because it also has fresh flavours from the herbs and frozen peas. Incredibly simple and an ideal homely lunch.

• Stir-fried beef with black pepper and basil

  • LouiseStaley on August 07, 2012

    Despite having 2 tsp of ground pepper in it this was not all that peppery. Still we liked enough for it to go in the pile to be made again. I used rump instead of eye-fillet and that worked well.

• Blue cheese, butternut squash & gnocchi bake

  • CRCarroll6 on November 28, 2014

    This was very yummy but VERY rich. Would nicely accompany a light salad and no thing more.

• Spiced pumpkin, carrot & sweet potato soup

  • Shelmar on March 15, 2021

    Easy.

• Small batch blackberry jam

  • eliza on August 19, 2025

    This is close to my own blackberry jam recipe. I am getting a huge crop of blackberries this year from the allotment (approx 450 g every day at the moment), so I made a double batch with the following measurements; about 910 g blackberries, about 500 g sugar, and juice of 1 small lemon. Mash berries and add sugar and lemon. I didn’t leave the berries to draw out juice, just raised temp gradually then boiled. Mine took 12 min this time. Poured into sterilized jars and I will store in the fridge. Made about 5 of the smaller sized jars.

• Green pea and ham soup

  • saladdays on December 31, 2024

    Made this from some pulled ham hock that needed using up. I used 250g of frozen peas instead of the suggested 500g which seemed a lot and it was fine, tasted even better when it was reheated the next day.