Sausages with Guinness Gravy (4)

This recipe from Fiona Beckett is best made with high quality Cumberland sausages or  some plain Italian Sausages. You will end up with a dark sticky onion gravy. And you will want to serve some mash alongside- potato,  a mixed root vegetable mash or Colcannon perhaps. You can use other dark beers instead of the Guinness if you like.

Wild Mushroom Macaroni Cheese (4)

Macaroni Cheese is great comfort food even if it usually blows the diet.  The basic recipe can sometimes  benefit from enhancement. This is my slightly  simplified version of a recipe by Jimmy Garcia aka  ” London’s Pop Up King”. Who would have thought this would be back on restaurant menus!

Oyster mushrooms, or other mushrooms can be used instead of wild mushrooms if preferred.

Mushroom Timbale (6)

When i was a student almost 40 years ago there were very few  vegetarian cookbooks around. In the UK the standard was Rose Elliots ” Not just a Load of Old Lentils” published in 1972- I still have my battered and coverless copy. This was a dish for highdays and holidays, including  Christmas Dinner.

Black Bean Chilli with Avocado Salsa (4)

This chilli recipe is from Delia Smith’s ” Winter Collection” 1995.Many of her recipes can of course now be found elsewhere on line but when Sue’s Recipe Server ( the predecessor  to this site) was set up originally this was not the case. We were one of the very  first British recipe websites back in 1995!