Just to make life easier….here are all of my Pigeon Cottage Kitchen #TheFridayRecipe posts in one simple recipe index. Just click on the links and you’ll be taken to the full recipe pages. Many of these recipes were published before my #Eattobeatdiabetes low-carb recipe series. So, to adapt the obviously high carb ones you can make the cakes and desserts with Stevia sugar substitute, use Konjac rice or noodles to substitute the wheat-based ones or serve with shredded cabbage or courgetti noodles instead, substitute potato mash with cauliflower, celeriac or root veg mash.
#Eattobeatdiabetes articles
- Eat to beat diabetes! | Healthy eating 2020
- Eat to beat diabetes | Getting started
- Eat to beat diabetes | Reading and understanding food labels
- Eat to beat diabetes | Breakfast tips
- Eat to beat diabetes | Useful references
Special menu selections
- Iberian tapas feast
- The Greek edit
- The Pigeon Cottage Kitchen BBQ Edit
- Burns Night Supper Menu
- Coronation morning or afternoon tea
- Curry night!
- Classic Christmas dinner – Roast goose with all the trimmings
- My top tips for the perfect cheeseboard
Beef
- Bloody Mary brisket
- Slowly roasted brisket with potatoes and shallots
- Slow-cooked brisket with red wine gravy
- Beef rendang with cucumber, onion and lime relish
- Goan-style beef curry
- Oriental beef short ribs
- Braised beef short ribs
- Beef or pork ribs with BBQ sauce
- Stunning steak and kidney pudding
- Mel’s Diner chilli con carne with cumin cornbread
- Steak and mushroom pie
- Balsamic and red wine beef stew
- Beef stroganoff
- Beef cheek ragout
- Meatloaf with ‘money in the bank’ tomato sauce
- Marvellous meatballs with ‘money in the bank’ tomato sauce
- Steak and green vegetable stir fry
- Tavas – Cypriot braised beef with potatoes, tomato and oregano
- Macaroni bolognese au gratin
- Chilli beef with a cornbread crust
- Ossobuco alla Milanese
- Thor’s hammer beef shank braised in red wine
Venison
- Venison steak or duck breast with ‘Dibs Rumman sauce
- Red wine braised shoulder of venison
- Roasted haunch of venison
- Suffolk venison pie
- Suffolk venison chilli with black beans
- Braised venison sausages in red wine
- Venison stifado
Chicken and Turkey
- Chicken pilaf with pistachios and coriander
- Crispy chicken marinato
- Dijon chicken with pancetta
- Chicken Velasquez
- Turkey gratin with almonds
- Oven-roasted pomegranate molasses chicken
- Chicken with fresh bay and roasted garlic sauce
- Coq au vin blanc
- Baked chicken in harissa sauce
- Meera’s Mum’s chicken curry
- Far eastern chicken curry
- Spicy citrus yoghurt and chicken curry
- Whole roasted curried chicken
- Chennai chicken curry
- Chicken with spicy peanut curry sauce
- The perfect roast chicken
- Feta stuffed roast chicken with orzo
- Traybake roast chicken on a bed of chorizo and chickpeas
- Chicken with fennel and tarragon
- Chicken with porcini and chestnut mushrooms
- Chicken kedgeree
- Chicken and chorizo in cider
- Chicken pot pie
- Chicken escalope with smoked paprika and white wine sauce
- Spicy, hot chicken flatbread
Lamb
- Memorable moussaka
- Lamb shanks in white wine with fennel
- Lamb stew with aubergines and mint
- Lamb Zagora (with sausages or lamb neck fillet)
- Suffolk hotpot
- Lamb raan masaledar
- Spicy lamb and pepper stew with aubergine mash
- BBQ butterflied leg of lamb with yoghurt and tahini sauce
- Roasted lamb shoulder with roasted vegetables
- Lamb Madras hotpot
- Spiced Turkish lamb stew with Savoy cabbage
- Slowly roasted spiced lamb with roast potatoes
- Lamb and chickpea keema
- Minced lamb curry with potatoes
- Lamb and spinach curry with black beans
- Spicy shepherds pie
- Harissa roasted chickpea & vegetable traybake with pulled lamb
- Spiced lamb or beef curry with spinach
- Spiced pulled shoulder of lamb
- BBQ lamb chops with 4 easy marinades
Pork
- Pork chop traybake
- BBQ belly pork slices
- Pork shoulder steaks cooked in milk with lemon, sage and fennel
- Spanish tapas meatballs in sherry sauce
- Pork vindahlo
- Aromatic pork with ginger and soy
- Paté de Campagne
- Middle Eastern BBQ pork
- Braised wild boar sausages with tomatoes and paprika
- Roast belly of pork on a bed of Spanish delights
- The famous Chinese pork
- Chestnut sage and sausagemeat stuffing
- Chorizo and butterbean stew
- Braised chorizo sausages and vegetables in harissa sauce
- Braised sausages with orzo and peppers
- Butternut squash and puy lentil traybake with chorizo
- Pork and black bean stir-fry with fresh egg noodles
- Pancetta wrapped, fast roast pork tenderloin
- Perfect pulled pork
- Garlic roasted belly pork with Florentine lentils
- Mr Hubbard’s marinated party sausages
- Chorizo and Judion bean stew
- Marrow stuffed with sausage meat and sage
- Mrs Martin’s pancetta frittata
- Spiced pork fillet skewers
- ‘Friday pie’ with new potatoes, ham and cheese
- Paprika pork with red peppers and caraway
- Belly pork with egg fried rice
- Spicy Spanish eggs with chorizo
- Bold butter bean stew with chorizo, olives and thyme
- Spanish pork with chorizo, olives and potatoes
- Liver and bacon
- Toad in the hole with onion gravy
- Keralan pork curry with fresh pineapple chutney
- Pork souvlaki with roasted vegetables
Goat
Seafood
- Prawn curry with tamarind, coconut and spinach
- Jumbo prawn curry with tomatoes
- Spicy prawns with courgettes
- Haddock and prawn gratin
- Baked cod on a braise of potatoes, garlic and tomatoes
- Baked cod with spicy tomato sauce
- Pondicherry curried cod
- Roast hake on a bed of new potatoes, tomatoes with chermoula
- Grilled cod with savoy cabbage and bacon
- Cod in fresh parsley sauce
- Salmon with tomato and fennel seed sauce
- Hot smoked salmon on a bed of pasta with spinach
- Lowestoft fish pie
- Cromer crab linguine
- Moorish fish stew
- Lobster salad with chive dressing
- Moules marinière à la creme
- Sri Lankan moules
- Mussel pilaf with dill
- Smoked mackerel pâté
- Anchovy and onion tart
- Smoked haddock kedgeree
- Konjac rice kedgeree with smoked mackerel
- Florentine cauliflower fritters with smoked mackerel
- Seafood cocktail verrine
- Potted haddie
- Arroz verde with clams and prawns
- Tuna croquettes
- Smoked haddock and leek macaroni cheese
Pasta
- Sausage meat pasta sauce with fennel and spinach
- Pasta al pepperoni
- Tuna linguine
- Linguine with white onion and anchovy sauce
- Linguine with Pecorino and black pepper (a caccio e pepe)
- Linguine with black garlic cream and basil sauce
- Linguine with sour cream and basil sauce
- Pasta with duck sauce
- Creamy pea and ham pasta
- Mrs Martin’s carbonara
- Sicilian pasta with cauliflower and tomato cream sauce
- Mafalda Corta pasta with parsley pesto and pepper sauce
- Meatball carbonara
- Easy chorizo and Bloody Mary pasta sauce
- Roasted butternut squash with orzo and feta
- Cumin spiced lentils with pasta and caramelised onions
- Pasta with basil, mushrooms and chicken
- Orzo with mushrooms
- Rigatoni all’amatriciana (bacon, tomato, chilli)
- Penne alla vodka
- Pasta shells with broccoli and anchovy sauce
- Pasta alla Caprese
- Pasta with smoked sriracha sauce
- Malfada corta with mushrooms and bacon
- Spicy cauliflower, bacon macaroni cheese gratin
- Rigatoni pasta bake
- Lasagne, Pigeon Cottage style
- Pasta with chorizo and pepper sauce
- Pasta alla’Arrabbiata
- Pasta alla siracusana
- Pasta with prawns, feta and mint
- Malloreddus pasta with ham, cream and parsley sauce
- Linguine with a quick tomato, feta and basil sauce
Rice
- Courgette and Emmental bake with rosemary baked lamb
- Red rice with feta
- Chorizo paella with spinach and roasted peppers
- Creamy cauliflower risotto with crisp anchovy crumb
- Chicken risotto with mushrooms and bacon
- Porcini and smoked bacon risotto
- Exotic mushroom arrosto risotto
- Pea and ham risotto
- Roasted garlic risotto with fillet steak
- Fragrant yellow rice with cashew nuts
- Turkish pilaf
- Perfect basmati rice every time
Pulses
- Black dal
- Masala dal
- Hot and sour carrot and chickpea salad
- Cannellini bean, celery and red onion salad
- Bold butter bean stew with chorizo, olives and thyme
- Chickpea tapas with peppers, eggs and chorizo
- Queen Bold Butterbean dip
Vegetables
- Asparagus with lemony yoghurt dressing
- Easter bunny carrots!
- Spicy roasted cauliflower
- Versatile and creamy cauliflower mash
- Cauliflower cheese and bacon filo pie
- Spicy cauliflower, bacon macaroni cheese gratin
- Yummy hummus
- Beetroot hummus
- Spicy butternut squash hummus
- Beetroot Tarte Tatin
- Tomato Tarte Tatin
- Roasted butternut squash pilaf with feta
- Butternut squash and puy lentil traybake
- Hassleback squash
- Aubergine curry
- Levantine vegetarian moussaka
- Roasted beetroot amore
- Fresh cranberry sauce with port
- Roasted garlic paste
- Mexican salsa verde
- Gratin dauphinois
- Cauliflower and leek cheese with chorizo gratin
- Pommes coq d’Or
- Paprika roast new potatoes
- Patatas bravas
- Spiced chunky ‘oven chips’
- Poor man’s potatoes traybake
- Sage roasted carrots and beets
- Roast marrow with feta cheese and mint
- Parsnip and chestnut purée
- Braised shallots with pancetta and chestnuts
- Braised red cabbage
- Sage, onion and lemon stuffing
- Tomato and basil summer pudding
- BBQ spring onions with pancetta wraps
- Roasted butternut squash with tomato roasted onions
- Courgettes with olive salsa
- ‘Money in the bank’ tomato sauce
- Padron peppers tapas – 3 ways!
- Glyda’s Greek-style green beans
- Spicy cauliflower mejaderah
- Bengali roasted vegetable medley
- Eat to beat diabetes | Celeriac gratin with Stilton
- Gruyère, bacon and turnip gratin
- Baked stuffed cabbage leaves
- Vegan cauliflower, green beans and lentils in a spiced coconut sauce
- Stuffed portobello mushrooms
- Oven-roasted ratatouille
- Sri Lankan Hash
- Roasted root vegetable curry
- Garlic and paprika roasted potatoes
- Mashed potato squash
Salads
- Don’t underestimate me green salad!
- Cauliflower and herb salad
- Roast cauliflower salad with feta
- Eat to beat diabetes | Well-woman salad
- Celeriac remoulade
- Celeriac salad with orange and mint
- Tomato salad with sherry vinegar dressing
- Tomato salad with olive salsa
- Pigeon Cottage potato salad
- Swedish potato salad
- Fresh orange and black olive salad/relish
- Stuffed and roasted red peppers
- Kisir (bulghur wheat and harissa salad)
- Salade Saint Severin (green salad with a Roquefort dressing)
- Rich tomato pearled spelt salad
- Grilled aubergine and courgette salad with tahini sauce
- Fresh summer slaw
- Red cabbage slaw with French mustard dressing
- Root slaw with cranberries and dill
- Fennel, orange and white cabbage slaw
- Coleslaw with smoked sriracha dressing
- Fennel and feta salad
- Moroccan green pepper salad
- Tabbouleh deluxe
- Tabbouleh, Pigeon Cottage-style
- Asparagus and cucumber salad
- Barn Drift cucumber salad with feta and dill
- Warm artichoke and tomato salad
- Hot and sour carrot and chickpea salad
- Tyrosalata – whipped Greek feta dip with dukkah
- Cannellini bean, celery and red onion salad
- Burrata with tomatoes and pestade
- Catchcumber salad
- Orzo summer salad
- Orzo Greek salad
- Roasted red pepper, tomato, basil and pasta salad
- Panzanella
- Freekeh with caramelised onions
- Smoky tomato freekeh
- Pea, bean and cucumber salad
- Caesar salad with chicken and bacon
- Shaved fennel, cucumber and celery salad
- BBQ grilled leeks and courgettes vinaigrette
- Melon, mint, prosciutto and mozzarella sharing salad
- Tangy bulgur wheat salad
- Bruschetta al pomodoro – tomato toast
Soup
- Soup, glorious soup!
- Broccoli and Stilton Soup
- Cauliflower soup with blue cheese
- Spiced roast cauliflower soup
- Pea and roasted garlic soup
- Cream of asparagus soup
- Chilled tomato and cucumber soup (gazpacho)
- Roasted tomato soup
- Roasted golden veg soup
- Beetroot soup with cumin
- Black bean soup with salsa
- Yellow split pea soup with spinach and feta
- Chestnut and chorizo soup
- Chilled pea gazpacho
- Roast chicken and vegetable soup
- Rich onion soup
- Cream of leek and potato soup
- Vegetable soup with Parmesan stock
- Beetroot soup
- Mulligatawny soup
Breakfast and Snack Recipes
- Homemade golden granola
- Superfood Muesli
- Building site toasties
- Pizza Sobrasada de Mallorca
- Welsh rarebit
- Cheeky cheese on toast!
- Spicy scrambled eggs on sourdough (Akoori)
Baking
- Birthday chocolate bundt cake
- Mum and Dad fruit cake
- Afternoon tea scones
- Peanut butter cookies
- Edward’s chocolate Cola birthday cake
- Chocolate cake with chocolate ganache
- Pistachio topped banana loaf cake
- Apple and ginger hot cross buns
- Mother’s Day crumble cake
- Lebkuchen cookies
- Soured cream and fruit conserve crumble cake
- Nectarine, caramel and whipped cream layer cake
- Almond and Pistachio Cantuccini
- Pine nut and almond tart with boozy sultanas
- Valentine’s Day passionfruit sweetheart cake
- English carrot cake
- Very sticky ginger cake
- Parmesan shortbreads
- Pigeon Cottage party sausage rolls
- Apricot and chocolate almond cake
- Lemon syrup loaf cake
- Date and orange cake
- Celebration cake
- Val’s fruit cake
- Blueberry cake with vanilla frosting
- Quince and apple cake
- Plum frangipane cake
- Brownies with cranberries
- Feta and herb pie
- First birthday cake
- Cranberry and cherry cake
- Cinnamon and apple cake
- Coffee date and walnut muffins
- Chocolate chip and marmalade muffins
- Jemma’s Mother’s Day vanilla frosting cupcakes
- Wild garlic and Parmesan scones
- Traditional Yorkshire pudding
- Dutch apple cake
- Hummingbird cake
Desserts
- Chocolate espresso sorbet
- Roasted plum sorbet
- Wimbledon gin and tonic sorbet
- Cucumber, white wine and mint sorbet
- Malaga raisin ice cream with Pedro Ximenez
- Real rice pudding
- Passion fruit crème brulée
- Chocolate crème brulée surprise
- Chocolate orange mousse with orange sorbet
- Mango and passionfruit fool
- Stone fruit yoghurt sundae
- Swiss-style cherry clafoutis
- Citrus custard creams
- Passionfruit sweetheart cake
- Chocolate and mandarin torte
- Tarte Belle Helene
- Apple and almond dessert cake
- Apricot and almond crumble
- Apple Charlotte
- Super-simple apple tart
- Apple and mincemeat tart
- Almond apple crumble
- Mmmmm chocolate macarons
- Chocolate mousse cake with mandarin marmalade
- Ginger and chocolate mini-cheesecakes
- Baked hazelnut and caramel cheesecake
- Kahluamisu
- Cherry clafoutis
- Cherry pithiviers
- Plum and almond galette
- Chocolate pavlova with raspberries
- Parisian peaches
- Sticky toffee pudding
- Jubilee chocolate trifle
- Individual Luxardo Maraschino trifles
- Cranachan
- Rhubarb and custard panna cotta
- Panettone custard pudding
- Peach and apricot filo pie with frangipane
- Festive chestnut parfait with Kalhua sauce
- Burnt Basque cheesecake
- Hazelnut dacquoise
Preserves
- Autumn gold piccalilli
- Red plum lime and coriander chutney
- Sloe vodka
- What to do with the quince harvest
- Christmas-ready liqueurs from the hedgerow!
- Medlar fruit cheese
- Make your own harissa
Christmas
- Merry Christmas 2025!
- Roast goose with all the trimmings
- Pigeon Cottage Xmas party cold table – all the recipes
- Sweet and savoury party treats and canapes
- Christmas dinner without the drama – stress-free cookery preparation tips
- Christmas-ready liqueurs from the hedgerow!
- Thoughtful ideas for a foodie advent calendar
- My top tips for the perfect festive cheeseboard
Food chatter articles
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- JD’s #tipoftheweek Pigeon Cottage Kitchen – favourite mail order and online food sites
- JD’s #tipoftheweek EatYour Books – got so many cookery books you can’t find your favourite recipes easily? This recipe database could be the answer to your prayers.
- Four easy ways to find more food and drink inspiration!
- 8 pieces of kitchen equipment I can’t live without!
#Mylifein10cookbooks series
- My life in 10 cookbooks: Day 1/10 The St Michael All Colour Cookery Book
- My life in 10 cookbooks: Day 2/10 Pasta Italian Style
- My life in 10 cookbooks: Day 3/10 Madhur Jaffrey’s Indian Cookery
- My life in 10 cookbooks: Day 4/10 Floyd on France
- My life in 10 cookbooks: Day 5/10 Moro The Cookbook
- My life in 10 cookbooks: Day 6/10 The Naked Chef
- My life in 10 cookbooks: Day 7/10 Rick Steins Food Heroes
- My life in 10 cookbooks: Day 8/10 Delia Smith’s Complete Cookery Course
- My life in 10 cookbooks: Day 9/10 How to be a Domestic Goddess
- My life in 10 cookbooks: Day 10/10 The River Cottage Meat Book
