Our second year student Ursula Watkins returns with another great family-friendly recipe you can try! Lockdown may be easing with some of us lucky enough to be able to send some of our children back to school. My eldest a year six went back on Tuesday and came home buzzing as he got to see his... Continue Reading →
Prizewinning Recipe!
We've been posting lockdown recipes here on the blog over the past few weeks, because staying nourished during this stressful time is important. Plus cooking is fun and can be stress-relieving! We've had some great recipes here already from students and staff, but today we have a special treat - a prizewinning recipe from our... Continue Reading →
Lockdown fried chicken – its finger-licking good…
This recipe is pretty easy and pretty healthy but also quite delicious! If you are missing your KFC or Nandos this might be a good way to pretend we're all out of lockdown. For this you will need: A large frying pan, a meat tenderiser or rolling pin, some cling film, a spatula/cooking turner, and... Continue Reading →
Lockdown fruit crumble: heavenly comfort food!
I don’t do many puddings but one I can make is a crumble. The great thing about a crumble is you can use whatever fruit is available, and mix it up to suit your taste (or the contents of your fridge or fruit bowl). Apples (eating or cooking ones), plums, pears, gooseberries, and rhubarb –... Continue Reading →
Lockdown Recipes: Stir Fry Saviour
This is the latest in our series of stress-busting, low cost recipes - perfect for the lockdown, but hopefully also for students on a budget in halls when normal life eventually resumes... Today we have one of our own students contributing. Hi I'm Emma. I'm a third year history student at the University of Northampton,... Continue Reading →
Lockdown Recipes: Cornbread
I have noticed that during lockdown here in the UK, a lot of people finding it difficult to get hold of bread, or even the ingredients for making bread - yeast seems to be in particularly short supply. There are some wonderful ways of harvesting wild yeast, but if you aren't confident enough to try... Continue Reading →
Recipes: Spicy Chickpeas
This one is adapted from a BBC Good Food recipe. In general it has hot chilli notes to it but for families with young children you can tone down the levels of fire as I have done here. It works really well as a hearty vegetarian dish because the chickpeas and cauliflower give it a... Continue Reading →
Recipes: Tuna Pasta
Following on from Drew's soup here are a few of my store-cupboard favourites, beginning with Tuna Pasta. No pictures because I'm not cooking this tonight (actually I'm writing this while cooking something else). I was given this recipe by a mate of mine from southern Italy in halls at university as an undergraduate. I was... Continue Reading →
Comfort food always helps in a crisis, so here’s a very cheap recipe to keep you going.
Hello everyone. As we struggle with the uncertainty and disruption to normal life that the Coronavirus pandemic has brought I thought it might be nice to share some basic ways to cope with isolation and a reduction in social interactions. I am staying at home as much as possible but have stocked up (sensibly, not... Continue Reading →