We're Jame and Lizzie, husband and wife team, and we're all about the joys of cooking here at Butter Wouldn't Melt - from big joints of meat to vegetarian favourites to sweet bakes and treats fresh from the oven. And if any of it can be thrown onto charcoal and fire for some extra smokey flavour I'll have given it a go. We hope you find in these pages inspiring tips, recipes and ideas to read and share.
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Pastéis de nata: the small vanilla custard tart that has become world renowned as one of Portugal’s most famous treats. Few surprises why. Buttery, flakey, melt-in-the-mouth pastry with beautifully set vanilla and cinnamon custard; by the time you say that, there’ll be none left.
British winters may be long but it feels like George Martin got hold of this one. So cottage pie isn’t yet out of season in our household. It’s easy to see why cottage pie is a British staple. Little beats walking into a toasty kitchen on a cold evening to be greeted by the comforting…
Show me someone who doesn’t like white chocolate and I’ll show you a shameless liar. Super sweet, very hard to cook with and far too easy to burn, you just can’t turn your nose up at a decent bar of the stuff – or better still, a few white chocolate cookies.
Do you ever wander through the shops and see cold smoked food and tend to think it’s a magical process not for the home cook? I’ve had a lot of raised eyebrows when I’ve offered cold smoked food to friends for supper parties and told them it’s all home done. They’ve looked somewhere between alarmed…
About these. They’re quite good…artisan dark chocolate cookies. Crispy edged with pools of decadent chocolate and soft gooey middles.
Any overripe bananas hanging around? Any big plans with them? About to chuck them in the bin? If the answers are yes, no and yes in that order, you need a banana muffin recipe right now. And I happen to have one: you’re welcome.
There is something so homely about leek and potato soup. Thick, creamy and so so warming, it is perfect for those cold, miserable winter days that appear all too often over here in the UK.
