Sausage, Bacon, Eggs, Mushroom and Chips.

The (All-Day) Breakfast Of Champions.

The sausages were Classic Pork and rather good, and part of a mega-order from Perfick Pork of Norfolk.

Sometimes, Simple is Best.

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Stovies - The Scottish Comfort Food

Stovies. It's a Scottish thing, you wouldn't understand. There nothing much to look at. OK. They look horrible...more of a medical condition than haute cuisine , but it doesn't matter. They just so damned comforting. Simply potatoes slowly cooked, with any left over root veg and gravy and scraggy bits of roast beef. Served with a glass of cold milk. Nom. A traditional end to a night of boozing, when I was a youngster.

Dutch Apple Cake

Serves 8 Use a circular cake tin of 24cm Ingredients: For the dough 200 grams butter 200 grams caster sugar 200 grams self raising flour 200 grams plain flour 1 egg (half for the dough, other half to spread on top at the end) For the filling 6 granny smith apples (or other sour kind) 75 grams caster sugar 100 grams sultanas 3 teaspoons of cinnamon Using your hands, mix butter, caster sugar, both flours, half the egg into a firm dough, set aside on a plate in the fridge. Put the sultanas in a bowl of lukewarm water. Peel the apples and dice into little cubes. Put into a large bowl and add the sugar and cinnamon. Drain the sultanas and add to the mix, toss it around so the sultanas, apples, sugar and cinnamon are evenly distributed. Grease the cake tin with butter. Get the dough back from the fridge and split in 3 equal parts. Use 1 part to cover the base of the cake tin, a second part for the edges. Add the apple/sultana/sugar/cinnamon mixture to...

Cheese Buttons

These little biscuits have magical properties. They. Just. Disappear. The recipe I originally had said that these were an ideal way of using left-over cheese. What craziness is this? Leftover Cheese? Insanity. Basically, use 100g of whatever flavorsome cheese you have. I've even used Stilton, ...nothing was wasted :-) Ingredients 75g unsalted butter, softened ½ tsp coarsely ground black pepper ½ tsp salt 1 small clove garlic, peeled and grated to a paste 50g Parmesan, grated 50g hard cheese, such as Cheddar or double Gloucester, grated 100g plain flour How To... In a bowl, beat the butter, pepper, garlic and salt until smooth. Stir in the grated cheeses and flour, and work into a soft, evenly mixed dough, adding a scant teaspoon or so of water if the biscuit mixture seems on the dry side. Chill for about 30 minutes, covered if you like. Preheat the oven to 160C (140C fan-assisted)/325F/gas mark 3. Line a baking t...

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