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Cheating certainly doensn't mean any reduction in flavour or quality of the finished dish: all it does is free your time up by using a brilliant shop-bought ingredient. What could be simpler?
Serves 2Creole Prawns
As Creole cooking only ever uses green peppers (and the colour’s nice), I’ve included a fresh pepper here. Otherwise, the equivalent amount from a jar of roasted peppers can be used without detracting from the end result.
Serves 4 (with leftovers for Boxing Day)The 'How to Cheat' Christmas Pudding with Rum and Mascarpone Sauce
Would you believe it? All you do is use a jar of quality mincemeat, plus a few extras and you can rustle up a last-minute Christmas pud in no time at all.
Serves 4Pot-roasted Chicken Veronique
Perfect for a lazy summer lunch, this one-pot dish simply bubbles away on the hob for a couple of hours while you find more relaxing things to do with your time, such as putting your feet up and enjoying a glass of chilled wine!
Serves 4Gnocchi with Spinach, Pine Nuts & Dolcelatte
If speed is of the essence, I cannot think of a quicker way to feed four veggies more handsomely.
Serves 2-3, or 4 as a starterCauliflower Cheese & Broccoli Soup
A lovely fresh-tasting soup this. You can choose the cheese here – basically whatever you have: Roquefort, Gorgonzola, Cheddar – but this one’s made with Parmesan simply because it’s always there to hand. Not much cheating, in fact, just a bag of fresh, r
Serves 2 Real Deal Pizzas - Four Seasons
These pizza bases are the real thing, made in the Le Marche region of Italy with long fermentation, then stone-baked with a brushing of passata, but any favourite pizza base will do.
Serves 4-6Roquefort and Leek Tart
Another variation on the theme of almost-instant tarts, this one combining a lovely creaminess with a certain piquancy from the Roquefort. (Perfect for veggies too.)
Serves 2Real Deal Pizzas - American hot
These pizza bases are the real thing, made in the Le Marche region of Italy with long fermentation, then stone-baked with a brushing of passata, but any favourite pizza base will do.
Serves 2 Spanakopita - Greek spinach pasties
These have long been one of the delights of our visits to Greece. Now with the help of our fantastic little rounds of thinly rolled, light-as-air puff pastry we can revisit them in a flash at any time.
Serves 2Portabello mushroom, chorizo & thyme magic tarts
These are so named because they are such a breeze: no making pastry, no rolling out, no lining tins – nothing but the thinnest ready-rolled rounds of melt-in-the-mouth pastry, sitting quietly in the freezer waiting to be summoned for a quick starter or a
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