Tilly Embling shows us how to make another fantastic recipe

There’s more to mince than Shepherd’s Pie. Adam Fearn offers his recipe for easy-to-make Scandinavian meatballs

Josephine Harrington offers her easy-to-make (and quick) recipe for Chorizo and Harissa couscous

Josephine Harrington guides us through the stages of cooking a Leek and Black Pudding Tart

Feeling a bit fragile after a long week of partying? Anna Lawson-Walker offers a quick, easy and cheap recipe

Tilly Embling offers her recipe for fajitas

Claire Cottis shows us how to mix a delicious seasonal cocktail

Geography student Jose Harrington inspires cooking from around the world with this authentic African dish

As probably one of the easiest sweet treats to make, rocky road bars are my fail-safe party showstopper. The basic recipe is to grab everything unhealthy, smash it all to bits, cover it with gooey melted chocolate and refrigerate.

Claire Cottis gives insight on how to create the Gin and Earl Grey Fizz, a truly British (…and easy to mix!) cocktail

Josephine Harrington whips up sticky marinated chicken drumsticks. The longer they’re left to soak up the sweet and sour goodness the better!

This recipe comes from my godmother Mary, who is a phenomenal cook. Going to her house is amazing – she measures her cookbooks by the yard (and apparently they’ve all been left to me in her will!), and she’s a brilliant source of cooking tips and interesting new flavour combinations. But it’s the basics that […]

My shelves are bursting with recipe books, all shapes, sizes, and types.  Their pages often unspoiled, and they fall open in a couple of places covered in sauce and potato on the very few recipes I’ve returned to or even cooked at all.  The problem with recipe books is that there are rarely more than […]

Who doesn’t like this classic cake? This fail-safe recipe works for the beginner or the Mary Berry’s among us. The cake should be moist with a sharp tang. Easy to make but even easier to eat! Ingredients   200g butter 200g golden caster sugar 3 eggs 50g plain flour (sieved) 125g ground almonds  2 lemons […]

With winter fast approaching, a pounding headache, and the first chesty coughs ringing in lecture halls; what better way to warm up than with this wholesome and affordable one pot wonder.   You will need:   A healthy slug of vegetable oil (olive oil will do) 600g pork shoulder, cut into serving pieces (Sainsbury’s basics […]

Food shopping on the curry mile can feel a bit like you’ve been transported back to your gap year; rows of mysterious fruits and vegetables stacked up on the street, a bollywood soundtrack and questionable food-hygiene standards, or at least it does until the famous Manchester drizzle starts to dampen the dragon fruit. It’s easy […]

Joanne Procter brings the delights from the Orient into her Manchester kitchen this week with homemade Baklava

Lucy McLean and Alexandra Williams have come up with some tasty ways to use up pumpkin leftovers

Raise your spirits with these ghastly and gruesome cocktails