At the weekends I love to spend time in the kitchen experimenting with ingredients. Recently my husband Howard and son Ted really wanted a cottage pie for dinner. I had lots of mince beef in the freezer so I was …
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Beef and Butternut Squash Cottage Pie with Mash or Sweet Pot Mash
There is always a dispute in our house. When baking a pie we always disagree on what kind of potato should go on top. A very long time ago my son Ted and I would have voted for sweet potatoes. …
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Googie’s Kitchen presents Butter Bean and Chicken Stew
Butter Beans, or Lima Beans as they are also known, are a great food to eat at any time during the year, but especially in winter. It is thought that these beans originated in Guatemala and they were a major food …
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Spicy Turkey Pie with Sweet Potato Mash
In my early twenties I worked in a local supermarket. I worked with a girl who every Christmas looked forward to Boxing Day. The day after Christmas day her mum would always make a curry with the leftover turkey. She …

Slow Cooked Pork and Prune Tagine
While I was making this dish I wondered where the tagine originated and who would have eaten it. Thanks to my dear old dad subjecting me to cooking programmes when I lived at home, I have known for some time …