A Glug of Oil

Easy and delicious recipes including midweek dinner ideas, English and world cuisine.

Oooh, yummy yum yum - I love goats cheese! I made a red onion and chilli marmalade to serve with it which turned out to be really good. ...
Sausages with Champ Mash and Caramelised Shallot Gravy. Champ is an Irish dish of mashed potatoes with spring onions and goes down real...
Chicken and leek pie is easy to make and delicious too, but when you add wholegrain mustard it becomes something truly special. T...
Delicious Spanish-style Chicken and Chorizo Stew  Marks and Spencer sells a fantastic range of ready-prepared meals and they do ...
I needed some ghee for my last recipe and since I couldn't get any without going here there and everywhere, I had a go at making it mys...
Minced Beef and Cabbage Pie is a whole meal in one dish, even down the gravy. A while back I was sent a fantastic cookbook from 'Ab...
Conchiglioni Rigati are large pasta shells, which I think look amazing. In Italian cuisine, ragù is a meat-based sauce that is commonly...
In this recipe, Pak Choi is stir-fried with ginger, garlic, chilli and oyster sauce. Two or three minutes and it's on the table! The ric...
Carrot Chutney Recipe With more carrots in my fridge than I could shake a stick at, I decided Carrot Chutney was the way to go. ...
Chicken fillets, wrapped in Parma ham and stuffed with apricots - simple and yet so good. This post may contain affiliate links, ...
Chicken saltimbocca is just so delicious. Imagine the sweetness of the Marsala wine and the slight saltiness of the Parma ham along with chi...
Rigatoni pasta bake - this is my titivated version of a recipe by Nigella Lawson. The alterations I’ve made are basically adding a puree of ...
Pork with green peppers in black bean sauce is so good to eat! This post may contain affiliate links, as an Amazon Associate, I earn a...
Mixed Bean Salad This is a really nice mixed bean salad that is so simple to make.  I saw it on TV ages ago but can...
Sticky, sweet chilli and lime marinated chicken - lovely. Spatchcock chicken is much faster to cook as the chicken is flattened out, therefo...
Anyone in the UK will, by now, be familiar with the M&S 'Dine in for two for £10' offer. You can choose from a range (to serv...
Bibimbap It is quite time-consuming preparing all the vegetables then cooking them all individually, but worth it in the end. Bibimbap i...
Bulgogi is a lovely Korean dish usually made with beef. It's sweet and spicy but you can control the spiciness simply by using more or ...
It's true, you could get food poisoning from eating reheated rice. But it's not actually the reheating that's the problem –...
When I saw Gordon Ramsay make baked salmon with herbs and caramelised lemons, I had to make it pretty much immediately. Now, he cooked a who...
This is proper garlic bread as it ought to be! We've all seen those horrid ready made garlic baguettes in the supermarket. They also s...
I came across Hot Chocolate Fondant by Gordon Ramsay. As I'd never made chocolate fondants before, I followed the recipe exactly an...