Easy, healthy and tasty dips for relaxed entertaining.

Tex mex spiced pulled chicken sliders with all the trimmings.

Spicy, hearty and warming Moroccan Lamb Soup

A delicious gooey caramel flavoured banana cake to beat them all.

This is my take on the genre, it’s tasty, easy, you may even have all the ingredients in the kitchen already and is pretty fast. As much as I love a slow cook session once I have a craving for something I need it satisfied. These beans are good for breakfast, brunch, lunch dinner, brinner or supper. I hope you enjoy them and they transports you to happy memories.

With a shell of flaky puff pastry, some quickly assembled bits and bobs and an eggy filling similar to a frittata texture and flavour, it’s delicious warm or cold is super flexible and fast to throw together and looks fancy. Oh and it uses up some of those fridge filing leftovers.

Try though I may to be organised I’m resigned to the fact menu planning is not my forte. I’m more often than not driven by what I feel like on the day, what time allows and what’s in the fridge. Now before you stop me, I know…it’s chicken and egg. If I planned, the fridge would be full of the ingredients I need. But if I did that I might not feel like what’s on the menu…See my dilemma.

Simple butter, sugar and vanilla mingling together really are the very best of friends and often keeping it simple and letting these three ingredients shine in baking makes the best of comfort foods. But we all know there’s an encyclopaedic collection of variations on that theme right? I mean seriously we could fill a whole internet on the many ways to combine these three key elements and methods by which to create that squishy goodness. One of my favourites is the classic melt and mix. Its quick, easy and always your best friend when you’re in a rush to feed hungry hoards. It’s also a brilliant base to work from. My favourite is Brown Butter Chai Cake.

What’s your thing?