No more takeout! Make this easy lo mein at home and customize to your heart’s content 🙂

15 minutes and only 8 ingredients for some extra delicious garlicky spicy noodles!

A “new” old vintage, country recipe for “Everlasting Mint Sauce”. I make every year with my garden mint, before it dies back in the winter.

An Old Country Recipe from Northumberland

A “new” old vintage, country recipe for “Everlasting Mint Sauce”. This fabulous recipe is one I make every year with my garden mint, before it dies back in the winter.

I usually manage to make several jars, which last right through until the mint is back in late spring and early summer.

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The Elusive Japanese Mr. Cheesecake: Tokyo’s No. 1 Cheesecake

The viral Tiktok Cucumber Salad that’s pretty much everywhere

Traditional Spotted Dick Pudding – A School Dinners favourite and a classic British steamed suet pudding, which is great served with custard.

A Classic British Steamed Pudding and School Dinners Pud

We are well into what I call “The Cosy Season”, aka “Pudding Season“, so in readiness for this, I am sharing a classic British recipe for Traditional Spotted Dick Pudding today.

This traditional steamed pudding has many other names, as I’ve shared below – other names include:

• Spotted Dog (especially in Scotland),
• Plum Bolster,
• Currant Pudding,
• And less commonly, Spotted Richard as restaurant-friendly euphemisms.

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Chicken Alfredo is perfect for a weeknight dinner: Super juicy pieces of chicken in a smooth and creamy, extra cheesy alfredo sauce.

Full of large rock formations and an endless sky, Alabama Hills is a nature lovers paradise and the perfect place to try dispersed camping.

Dishoom’s famous signature chicken ruby curry recipe: super simple to make and utterly addictive. No regrets, just great curry.

The best chip flavor, now in pasta form. This is a pasta sauce you’ll never forget.