Domino’s Gourmet Pizza Range
Domino’s recently launched their new Gourmet range of pizzas and asked me if I wanted to try them, not being one to turn down a free meal I rounded up a few friends and ordered online. The Gourmet range features a new thin crust, hand stretched base and is made up of the following 3 […]
Smoked Chilli and Fennel Pizza Recipe
I’m completely obsessed with smoked food at the moment, whether it be meat, cheese or chilli’s, I’m also totally obsessed with fennel and aniseed (with the exception of ouzo) so when Dave from Hardknott gave me a bottle of his latest beer and told me it contained star anise I couldn’t wait to try it […]
Dominos Reggae Reggae Pizza
Yesterday when a press release landed in my inbox I got quite excited, Domino’s the pizza delivery expert have teamed up with legendary singing spicy sauce creator Levy Roots and released the Reggae Reggae Pizza. We’ll when I say released it’s not officially available until April 11th, but the press release said that if you […]
Mr Vikkis Smokin Ranch Pizza with Mackenzies Smoked Chicken.
Regular readers will know that a combo of Mr Vikkis and Ye Olde Friars sent me a couple of packages of hot Cumbrian goodies including the green chilli jam (thoughts on all will be coming soon). The package also included Mr Vikkis, Harry’s Smokin’ Ranch Sauce, a sweet and smokey BBQ sauce that uses the […]
Peppadew Pizza
A couple of days ago I saw this video of a lovely lady making a Peppadew pizza and then got http://twitter.com/peppadew_uk on twitter and decided to do my own version of the pizza. It’s not quite as quick and easy as the Peppadew version but I promise it’s worth the effort. You can also multiply […]
My Wood Fired Oven
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about my wood fired oven lately so thought I’d do a bit of a blog post on it. There will no doubt be loads missing but if you’ve got any questions drop me a line. I’ve wanted a wood fired oven ever since we bought our first house […]
Bacon Wrapped Jalapeno Poppers Recipe
Since getting my wood fired oven (more on that soon) I’ve been experimenting with ways to use the heat as the oven gets up to pizza temperature to cook snacks or starters, I saw a photo of some of these on Instagram so decided to give them a go, the picture used a fancy bit […]
Hickory’s Suicide Sauce
One of my favourite parts of our trips to Hickory’s Smokehouse in Chester is their Suicide wings, so when a friend brought me a bottle of their newly bottle sauce up a few weeks ago I could’t wait to get stuck in. The first thing we did was put it on some steak for the […]
Super simple chilli and tomato sauce
This is quickly becoming my go to sauce for pretty much everything, it works well as a sauce for meat, fish and even on pizza, the base sauce can be spiced up however you want, If you want Mexican flavour add Mexican spices, if you want to add smoked chilli then add smoked chilli, if […]
Hairy Dieters Meat and Potato Pies
Those of you who read my other blog or follow me on twitter will know i’ve been cooking lots of food out of the Hairy Dieters Cookbook, one of the best things about the book is that in order to get flavour into a lot of the low calorie food they use a lot of spice so […]