Recipes

Herb & Garlic Chicken Marylands

Herb & Garlic Chicken Marylands

Chicken marylands: such an under-utilised cut of chicken! Cheap, juicy, flavourful, hard to stuff up. It’s like roast chicken, without the mess of carving. Slather in herb & garlic butter, bake until golden, then serve with potato gratin or creamy mash with garlic sautéed green beans for the perfect meal! Chicken marylands (aka chicken leg quarters) Chicken maryland is a massively underrated economical cut of chicken. I tell people it’s like roasting up a whole chicken – without dealing with the mess of bones and juices from carving up a whole chicken! A substantial piece of meat with plenty of golden skin, juicier* than drumsticks...

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Broccoli Cauliflower Casserole Recipe

Broccoli Cauliflower Casserole Recipe

This broccoli cauliflower casserole recipe by Hearty and tasty tastes incredibly good as how it looks. It is loaded with different vegetables and topped with melted cheese. We got instantly hungry the moment it was out of the oven because it looked so appetizing. It’s so easy to prepare and great for a crowd. Ingredients: 1 lb of cauliflower (cut into florets) 0.7 lb of broccoli (cut into florets) salt, black pepper, curry powder olive oil 2 tablespoons of milk 1 onion (chopped) 1 carrot (sliced into cubes) 2 pieces of bell pepper (sliced into cubes) 0.5 grams of cherry...

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Alice Zaslavsky’s cheesy root vegetable bake recipe: start with a cold oven and finish on a high

Alice Zaslavsky’s cheesy root vegetable bake recipe: start with a cold oven and finish on a high

In her fortnightly food column, cook and author Alice Zaslavsky shares her technique for cooking through underground vegetables – and a recipe for a tian gratinGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailOne of the most useful rules for cooking vegetables is this: if it grows above the ground (stems, leaves!), start it from hot; if it’s grown mostly underground (roots, tubers!), start from cold.This is especially useful to remember for boiling and simmering: broccoli should go in boiling water, spuds should be brought up to boil. But it also applies to roasted vegetables. Your underground friends could benefit from a...

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UK Gardeners Told To Plant These ASAP Before June Ends

UK Gardeners Told To Plant These ASAP Before June Ends

In the current heatwave, it feels like maintaining – and hydrating – your lawn is a much bigger, more time-consuming task than planting or adding to it.  And while it is around about the time to think about planting winter crops like carrots, courgettes and swedes, there’s also time to plant tasty, fast-growing plants like spring onions and radishes in time for a tasty, late summer salad.  So, we thought we’d share the best vegetables, herbs and even flowers you should ideally plant before July begins – along with some handy tips. What can I still plant? Ah, home-grown food. Aside...

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Balsamic Grilled Vegetables Recipe

Balsamic Grilled Vegetables Recipe

THIS balsamic grilled vegetables recipe is honestly the BEST side dish recipe ever. For real, they’re super delicious and perfect for summer. These balsamic veggies can be cooked via stovetop, grill or oven. They disappeared from the table the first time I made them. There was a family argument over who got to have the last (seconds or thirds at this point) serving the second time I made them. Someone came over to my house and noticed the vegetables marinating on the counter who had had them before and said they were changing their plans and were coming back for...

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