A Glug of Oil

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

Cranberry Sauce Cranberry sauce is so easy to make at home and no Christmas turkey dinner is complete without it! This post ...
Oozy goats cheese dripping down bacon wrapped chicken makes for a seriously good meal. Serve with crispy garlic and lemon roast potatoes (l...
Indian-style Roast Chicken Recipe  There's a TV series to accompany the book being shown on Channel 4 and Jamie cooks w...
Nice fat spicy burgers, each topped with a thick slab of Colston Bassett Stilton  melted in the oven so the cheese runs down the side of...
Find Me a Gift is......well, a great place to find gifts! They have an excellent range of gifts to suit everyone including lots of lovely Ch...
There's nothing like a good dollop of mashed potato to cheer everyone up. But the addition of horseradish turns into something amaz...
Oooh now, this was yummy - Pan-fried chicken with Indian style flavoured butter.   After making Banita's Indian Style Fish and Ch...
As you probably know Jamie Oliver's latest book titled 'Jamie's Great Britain' is out. You can see the TV series to accompa...
Dressing for Steak It's different and delicious!  This post may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I ear...
We love chorizo, we love potatoes, so what a marvellous idea I thought it would be to put the two together and make potato and chorizo ...
Hungry? The recipe book by 'Innocent' is full of lovely looking recipes that are not only quick but easy too. This post m...
Yorkshire Pudding Self Raising Flour One day (by mistake) I used self-raising flour instead of plain flour, which resulted ...
Toblerone snowballs, truffles, sweets or candy - call them what you will but here's how to make them! I made these the other we...
Individual no bake Toblerone Cheesecakes, easy to make and delicious. Each using a different filling of White, Dark and Milk Toblerone Tin...
Okay, I'm going to say these are not quite what I'd call an Elvis Burger for two reasons. The first because I thought they sounded w...
Readers of this blog will know how I like to make recipes up as I go along! Using whatever might be living in the fridge at the time. ...
Baby potatoes stuffed with sour cream and finely chopped spring onion.  Ideal for the BBQ and can be made earlier in the day so they'...
Lamb Stew - Marco Pierre White Recipe How do you fancy a lamb stew packed full of lovely lamb and veggies ready and ...
How to Cook Salmon in Foil Slightly sweet, slightly sticky, and delicious; baking salmon in a foil parcel is quick and easy....
Eccles Cakes Recipe Three lovely fresh-tasting teas have recently been added to the PG Tips range. They've teamed up with top ...
Chicken and Chorizo with Feta This tender and juicy pan fried chicken recipe is easy to make, and good to eat. This post ...
I still can't believe how lucky I was to be invited to a Carte D'Or Dessert Masterclass with Jean-Christophe Novelli at his coo...
Pan Fried Chicken Recipe Readers of this blog will know I recently spent the day with Marco Pierre White courtesy of Knorr....
Earlier this week I went to Marco Pierre White's restaurant 'Marco' in London for the Best of British campaign with Knorr. ...
Vegetable Tray Bake - Oven or BBQ This can of course, also be cooked on the BBQ, or you can pop it into the oven as I did yesterday....
Chicken Melt Chicken with a pizza style topping is so easy to do and a great way to use up odd bits of food in the fridge! ...
Spatchcocked (Butterflied) Roast Chicken Recipe Find out how to Spatchcock or butterfly a chicken - it's actually far easie...
I thought for a change I'd make an all vegetable Tagine of nice things. Lovely spices mixed with nicely roasted butternut and auber...
Another of my chicken cooked in a bag recipes! Roasting bags can be found in any good supermarket and are a great way to cook chicken. You...
This leek and carrot soup was so easy to make, as most soups are, but this is really delicious and well worth giving a go. I've had this...