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Food For Heroes.

This takes a bit of time, but it really is food for heroes.

Before you go to bed, soak and hydrate some dry beans.

In the morning, before you go to work, chop and slowly fry some onions. Then add garlic, chilli and ginger. Then add pimenton, cayenne pepper and turmeric. Stir slowly and enjoy the aroma.

Then add in the beans, as many tomatoes as you can afford and a potato.

Let it all cook for 45 minutes and then remove the tomatoes and potato and some of the liquid to crush and mix into a rich paste.

Then add that to the other ingredients, season to taste and enjoy!

Has to be a full roast with all the trimmings , has all the family running to the table....always do a sherry trifle for afters but there is rarely room left for it !

Classic and home dishes that are ' sage ' but are filling and healthy. Such as spam bol, lasagne, roast dinner X

veggie lasagne or veggie pasta bake is my signature dish

Would have to be a Sunday roast. I think it's the entire family's favourite! With Yorkshire puddings, whatever the meat!

Mostly baking- cake, flapjack, bread and granola.

I love doing scouse or curry. A roast dinner is always a winner (and it rhymes too!)

I love to cook a range of dishes from around the world. My daughter loves toad in the hole and risotto. We really love cooking together and her specialty if hedgehog bread.

The first meal I ever cooked for my husband was lasagne and now it's one of the few meals that the whole family (dh plus 3 kids) all enjoy. But I also love to bake cakes, particularly birthday cakes, and always try meet their requests!

I love cooking a huge lasagna for my family. I do two different types to keep it interesting - a regular vegetarian one and a green vegetarian one. Definitely a favourite in our house!

A warming and nutritious lentil and vegetable stew. Comfort in a bowl!

I am frequently asked to make lasagne, twice cooked cheese soufflés, asparagus quiche, slow cooked lamb shanks in red wine with mash and apparently my roast potatoes are the best. Not such a stealth boast...

Curry - goes down a storm.. every time!

The first meal i ever cooked my now Husband was a steak and ale pie. It totally won him over and he still says it was the best meal of his life (note that i'm fairly sure it wasn't as i was a poor student so doubt the meat was that top quality!)...

Anyway, whenever hubby needs cheering up or if he has been away with work a long time, i always resort to cooking him my Steak and Ale pie. I make the pastry by hand and he loves it. Reminds us of when we first fell in love 11 years ago (!).
:)

I make a big pot of pea soup like my mum used to, using ham stock, dried peas (soaked),onions, carrots and celery. With nice crusty bread, it's one of the few things everyone will eat.

Happy to say that my beef stroganoff made with low-fat crème fraiche instead of sour cream ;) is always a hit with my family. With delicious green beans on the side, and served over bowtie pasta, it's a dish they ask me to make all the time!

I don't eat meat, but I do really enjoy cooking things like beef stews and roasts for my little family because they all really enjoy it, and that gives me a great deal of pleasure.

Cake! Lots and lots of lovely cake!

Traditional roast dinners; fish pie - ours is gluten and dairy free of necessity and is my mother's recipe - smoked haddock, eggs, and a white sauce made with mustard and a good dollop of mayonaisse at the end, no extra topping. Another favourite is a risotto made in our rice cooker - throw everything in with oil for a bit, then add water or stock and leave till done!

for the people I love the most I make homemade lasagne with homemade garlic bread then toffee pavlova for dessert

Risotto. I love cooking it. It's simple filling and you need to take time and patience with it. For me it's a dish made with love. You can't do it quickly.

My go to is butternut squash and caramelised onions. With a pinch of nutmeg and a dollop of Philly cheese stirred in at the end. Served with a spinach and rocket salad. Mmmmm

My answer is also cake from Apple Pies to Birthday Cakes and everything inbetween. My favourite at the moment is Carrot Cake but as DD likes helping we do make a lot of chocolate cakes!

I do believe my baking passion comes from my childhood too, my mom was German - so there was always home made cake

Cake!!! Often late at night! My children have severe allergies to egg and milk, so before every birthday party they go to I make cake, so they don't miss out. Often (because I am juggling work etc) I don't get round to baking it till late at night, but it means so much to my children.

I like to make home made lasagna or macaroni cheese. I also bake cake, cupcakes or muffins.

There's something really satisfying about making a big vat of soup. I used to make a tomato and chick pea soup with little pasta cooked in it. More recently my go to soup recipe was a minestrone - lots of chopping and dicing but very tasty (and uses up the chard and kale from the garden). But now my favourite soup is a mulligatawny either with or without chicken based on a recipe in a Sarah Raven cookbook. I make a huge quantity each time and use the leftovers as Dahl with rice.

We have a breadmaker and I always used to make dough in it and then shape it into rolls .(when the kids were smaller, I'd make hedgehog shapes and snip them after proving with scissors to make the spines). Now I turn the dough out onto a baking sheet and bake it as one large, flat loaf. Looks great and even easier than rolls