Your summer dinner guests are going to absolutely love these Grilled Lamb Loin Chops. Marinated with all the flavors of France they are ready to enjoy after just 20 minutes on the grill. Add the following to your outdoor dining grocery list – Herbes de Provence, Dijon mustard, garlic, and lamb loin chops! Grilled Lamb […]

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Youvetsi is a Greek Lamb Orzo dish that is cooked in one pan. The tomato-based stew tastes absolutely delicious and is full of flavour. It’s made into a Slimming World-friendly recipe with a few simple changes and is just 1 Syn per serving if you are Food Optimising. I’ve got lots of great Slimming World […]

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This recipe for homemade Doner Kebabs is really easy to make, and for the same price of maybe one doner from a kebab van or shop, you can make enough for the whole family! There are lots of different recipes online for homemade doner kebab – I basically looked at several and tweaked to my family’s […]

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It’s National Pie Week! I do love a good pie, but don’t make them often enough. To celebrate I thought I would share this delicious pie, inspired by my Greek-Cypriot heritage – Lamb, Spinach & Feta Filo Pie! I like to think of it as a cross between spanikopita (which is a Greek spinach and […]

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Kleftiko is a Greek slow-cooked lamb and potato dish that is a special treat for the dinner table. It is one of the simplest to make, and also one of the tastiest Greek dishes. I cooked it for the first time for my family on Easter Sunday, and it was a resounding success! Because of my […]

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Spring is in the air, and a perfect meat for the season is lamb! It’s not a meat we eat very often, so it’s a lovely treat when we do. This stew recipe from New Zealand Lamb looks and taste delicious and combines lots of lovely different ingredients and flavours. Lamb is often eaten around […]

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Who doesn’t love a roast dinner? Come this Easter Sunday, I’m going to be cooking this roast lamb, thanks to a great recipe from Love Our Lamb. I don’t often cook roast lamb, so when I do, it’s a real treat! I love how this is all cooked in one pan, saving on washing up, which […]

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Barbecue season is well and truly upon us, and instead of regular old burgers, we like to make koftas using lamb mince, fresh herbs and spices. These are great if you’re cutting back on bread (like we are) as you don’t need to worry about putting them into a bun. They’re easy to make, and you […]

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We’ve taken the barbecue out of the shed and been firing up the coals recently, which means barbecue season is well and truly on its way! Throwing a BBQ in the summer months is one of my favourite ways of entertaining family and friends, and I’m always on the look out for new recipes and […]

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Celebrate National Pie Week with this mouth-watering lamb pie recipe. It takes a while to prepare, but the end result is definitely worth it! Lamb is often eaten around Easter, and I’ve got a collection of Easter Recipes that you might like to try out – right-click and open them in a new tab to read […]

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A couple of weeks ago I mentioned to hubs that I really fancied a roast dinner, and bless him, he went out and bought the ingredients, picked up a recipe card from the supermarket and cooked us a delicious Roast Lamb with a Mint Pea Pesto – it was yummy and I’m sharing the recipe […]

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Didn’t do much for St. Patrick’s Day this year (last year I held a dinner party) but I did make an Irish Stew in the slow cooker…here’s the recipe! I made this in the slow cooker, but you could just as easily make it in a regular casserole dish in the oven. Ideally I would […]

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I cooked this for 2012’s Chinese New Year of the Dragon at my Chinese Banquet and decided to re-make it for the Year of the Snake (even though we didn’t have a huge party this year). I served it this time with egg noodles, replaced the oil with oil spray and the peanut butter with […]

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This is one of two dishes I made for my Moroccan Barbecue a couple of weeks ago – Moroccan Lamb Burgers. It was a Jamie Oliver recipe that I saw on his Summer Food Rave Up TV programme a few days before, so it was a good excuse to try out something new :) Moroccan […]

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When I’m not throwing parties, I’m on a strict, calorie controlled diet. I thought it might be nice to share some of the recipes that I prepare, with you. This one, for spiced lamb with mashed chick peas is 399 calories per serving. I *just* cooked it for dinner, and as far as ‘diet’ food […]

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The final meat main dish at my Year of the Dragon Chinese Banquet was Beijing Braised Lamb taken from Ken Hom’s Complete Chinese Cookery. This dish tasted wonderful….there was some left over which we had the next day and was even more delicious! Compared with all the other dishes that I cooked, this one took […]

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