Ramblers Roost Cookery

Hawaiian Haystack Casserole: Classic Made Easy & Delicious Many of you will be familiar with Hawaiian Haystacks—a nostalgic, buffet-style dish featuring rice topped with creamy chicken sauce, tinned pineapple, crunchy noodles, and a variety of other ingredien...

Creamy coconut rice. Crisp toppings. A pantry-friendly twist on a potluck classic. Hawaiian Haystack Casserole—comfort with a tropical wink.
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Neel's Daily Ration (French Style Chicken Stew) In Skeleton Crew, we're introduced to the world of At Achrann—a planet strikingly similar to the children’s home world, At Attin. We soon learn that these worlds are part of a group once known as the ...

French-style chicken stew, served over rice and steeped in seasonal comfort.
Creamy, hearty, and generously flavourful. Perfect for a slow evening in.
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Yet Another Damn Casserole: Beef, Rice & Black Beans This recipe originates from a contribution I made to our charity cookbook, "And the Rest is Cookery," inspired by a moment of chaos as a busy mother. Picture this: one evening, while preparing dinner,...

First came Damn Casserole. Now beef takes the lead in Yet Another Damned Casserole—same spirit, new spin, still rooted in maternal mayhem.
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Damn Casserole: Chicken, Rice, and Black Bean Casserole Recipe This is the original “Damn Casserole” from our cookbook, And the Rest is Cookery—a weeknight staple built on chicken, rice, and the kind of flavour that comes from not trying too hard. In April 2024, ...

Chicken, rice, black beans—and the kind of motherhood moment that names a casserole for good. Find out why it’s called Damn Casserole:
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Game Night! No Spread Gingerbread Cookies Dungeons, Dragons & Gingerbread: A Cosy Game Night Treat

🍂📖 No Spread Gingerbread Cookies + DND + Friends = peak autumn 🍂📖
Spicy, sturdy, and perfect for decorating or devouring between dragon-slaying chapters.
Recipe:
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#GingerbreadCookies #CozyReads #BlueSkyKitchen #DeathBeforeDragons #BookishAutumn

Authentic Hawaiian Loco Moco: Origins & Recipe Loco Moco is a beloved Hawaiian dish that combines simple ingredients into a hearty, satisfying meal. It first appeared in 1949 at the Lincoln Grill in Hilo, Hawaii, and quickly became a staple of loc...

A scoop of rice, a juicy burger, rich gravy, and a fried egg—Hawaiian comfort food doesn’t get more iconic than Loco Moco 🍳🍔🌺. Born in Hilo in 1949, it’s hearty, wild in name, and pure aloha on a plate.

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San-shoku bentō 三色弁当 (Three Colour Rice Bowl) I posted this photo of our dinner last week on my personal instagram and facebook and got a lot of requests for this recipe. So, for all those who asked, this post is for you! We are grateful for al...

By request: Shanshoku-don (Three Colour Rice Bowls) 🍚✨
Quick, flexible, and family-friendly. No gatekeeping—just good food you can make with what’s on hand.

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#EasyDinner #WeeknightMeals #RamblersRoostCookery

May the Force Be With Your Taste Buds: Dry Curry (Dorai Karē) Hello, there! - General Obi-Wan Kenobi

🍛✨ Dorai Karē = Japanese dry curry rice with bold spice, umami, and a fried egg on top. Comfort food with Star Wars flair.
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Authentic Pacholas: Mexican Ground Meat Patties If you’ve never heard of pacholas, you’re not alone. These beef patties hail from Jalisco, Mexico, and while they’re not flashy or famous, they’re quietly brilliant. Think: savoury, spiced, and surpri...

Come learn about pacholas, the pan-seared beef patties of Jalisco. Ground by hand, spiced with clove and cinnamon, and cooked on a comal—these are more than street food, they’re memory on a plate.

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Swiss Steak Four Ways: Oven, Hob, Slow Cooker, Instant Pot swiss steak recipe Every country butchers its beef differently, and the names for equivalent cuts vary wildly. What is sold as chuck steak in the United States might be labelled blade steak in Austral...

🥩 Slow & cozy? Quick & easy? Swiss Steak’s got you. 🍅
4 ways to cook it: oven, hob, slow cooker, Instant Pot.
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#SwissSteak #ComfortFood #ChooseYourAdventure

Cowboy Tater-tot Casserole Despite my inability to photograph casseroles I really like them for their simplicity and how quickly they come together after a hard day at work. Casseroles are also very economical.

🤠 Cowboy Tater-Tot Casserole: crispy tots, cheesy beef, pure comfort. Saddle up for dinner!
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#ComfortFood #Casserole #EasyDinner #TaterTots

Easy Tater Tot Pizza Casserole Recipe (UK-Friendly) One of the things I’ve missed most from the US is tater tots. Most Brits would look at you and think, “What the heck is a tater tot?” So, for all you non–North Americans, I’ll explain.

🍕🥔 Tots + pizza = the ultimate comfort casserole! Crispy, cheesy, meaty, and ready in under an hour. Perfect for weeknights or family dinners.

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Excellent! Let us know how you get on!

Homemade Mexican Chorizo: With or Without a Grinder As an American living in Britain, I’m often hit with sudden cravings for the kinds of food I grew up with — things that are completely ordinary back home but oddly impossible to find here. Mexican cho...

🌶️🇲🇽 Mexican chorizo isn’t always easy to find — but you can make it at home. Bold, smoky, and totally customizable. Grinder or not, you’ve got this.

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#HomemadeChorizo #SausageMaking #FromScratch #Foodie

It really does, and is perfect for the autumn slow down.

Gingerbread Courgette Sweet Bread, or Muffins 🍂Autumn is Coming: Gingerbread, Courgettes & Cosy Moments

Courgettes linger in the garden, even as the air turns crisp.
We recommend baking them into gingerbread... dark, spiced, and soft. The kind of loaf that smells like autumn and tastes like comfort.
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#GingerbreadCourgetteBread #AutumnBaking #GardenToTable

A Blackberry Rhubarb Pie for the Season A Blackberry Rhubarb Pie Worth Waiting For!

🍂September arrived with its soft light and cooler breath.
Pie season is back! How about blackberry and rhubarb, sugared and wild? It's baked golden. It smelled like the turning of the season.

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#AutumnPie #BlackberryRhubarb #FoodStyling #CreativeKitchen

Oh yum! That sounds amazing!

Grown Up SpaghettiOs | Anelli with Meatballs Recipe When I was a kid, one of my favourite lunches was SpaghettiOs, small round pasta in a tomato sauce, and if we were lucky, we had them with meatballs. If you grew up in the 1980s, like me, you will re...

Remember those childhood lunches of SpaghettiOs? Well, say hello to the grown-up version: tender anelli pasta rings in rich marinara, studded with bite-sized homemade meatballs. No more cans—just wholesome, saucy bliss. Bring on the nostalgia, but make it fancy.

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#PastaNight

Sicilian Meatloaf Recipe: A Fusion of Tradition & Flavour The origins of Sicilian-American meatloaf can be traced to Italy's polpettone - a dish whose name means "large meatball". Traditionally, polpettone was made with minced meat, breadcrumbs, eggs, and he...

🇮🇹✨ Not your nonna’s meatloaf… or maybe it is.
Born from Sicilian polpettone and farsumagru, this dish is immigrant ingenuity on a plate — rolled, stuffed, sauced, and steeped in tradition.
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Get the full story + recipe below.
#FoodHistory #ItalianAmerican #Meatloaf #RamblersRoostCookery

Homemade Spicy Italian-American Sausage Recipe As an American living in Britain, I often find myself missing certain foods from back home, with Mexican chorizo and spicy Italian sausage among the most missed and longed for. I figured that living c...

🍝 Ever wanted to make your own Italian sausage? Bold, fennel-spiced & full of flavour—this recipe makes it simple. Dive into part 1 of our sausage-making adventure 👉 ramblersroostcookery.com/blog/f/adven...

#SausageMaking #ItalianSausage #Homemade #RamblersRoostCookery #RambleOn

Aunt Essie's Fruit Cobbler Who was Aunt Essie and why do I have her Cobbler recipe? To start with I do not have an Aunt Essie anywhere in my family tree. So, I really have no idea, but it is a recipe that has been used in my fa...

Aunt Essie’s fruit cobbler: tender batter, bubbling fruit, and a legacy of love. Comfort food with a story, freezer-tested and endlessly adaptable. Read the recipe: ramblersroostcookery.com/blog/f/aunt-...
#FruitCobbler #FamilyRecipes #ComfortFood #FoodHistory #SeasonalBaking

Strawberry No Bake Cheesecake for a Summers Day My strawberry patch is still producing so many fruits each and every day! Plus, I picked up some at the grocery store, it must be a good year for the fruit!

Cool, creamy, and crowned with honeyed strawberries—this no-bake cheesecake is summer simplicity.
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#NoBakeCheesecake #StrawberryDessert #BritishBaking #SummerRecipes #DigestiveBiscuits #InclusiveCooking #FoodBlogUK

Classic Angel Food Cake Recipe: Light, Airy & Fat-Free I grew up eating angel food cake a lot. We always used an old long-neck glass 7-Up bottle that my mom would put the angel food cake pan on — upside down, of course. I never really understood why we ha...

Angel food cake: tall, airy, fat-free, and cooled upside down on a 7-Up bottle.
Naturally dairy-free, perfect with berries or lemon curd.
Full recipe + yolk-saving tips:

#AngelFoodCake #DairyFreeDessert #CakeHistory #BakingTips

NYC Style S’mores Chocolate Chip Cookies 🍫 NYC Style S’mores Chocolate Chip Cookies

NYC Style S’mores Chocolate Chip Cookies 🍪🔥✨
No campfire? No problem. These cookies bring the gooey, toasted magic of s’mores straight to your oven— chocolate, marshmallow, and graham crunch in a chewy NYC-style cookie.

Recipe: ramblersroostcookery.com/blog/f/nyc-s...
#SmoresCookies #BakeItBold

Porchetta Rub – An Italian-Inspired Spice Blend

Porchetta Rub: bold, fragrant, and Italian-inspired
Garlic, fennel, herbs, and warmth; perfect for pork, poultry, or roast veg.
Make a batch, gift a jar, flavour everything.
Recipe’s up:
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#PorchettaRub #SpiceBlendMagic #BlueSkyKitchen #ItalianFlavour

Lebanese 7 Spice (Baharat – بهارات) Lebanese 7 Spice (Baharat) is a staple in Lebanese and Middle Eastern cookery. The name baharat simply means "spices" in Arabic, and this Middle Eastern spice blend typically features seven warm, aromatic ingredients tha...

Lebanese 7-Spice (Baharat) brings warmth & depth to any dish — a fragrant blend of cinnamon, cumin, cloves & more. Perfect for kebabs, stews, rice & veggies. Make it fresh & taste the difference!

#LebaneseSpices #Baharat #MiddleEasternCooking #SpiceBlend

Easy Ras El Hanout Recipe – Moroccan Spice Blend Ras El Hanout (رأس الحانوت) is a Moroccan spice blend whose name is often translated as “Head of the Shop” or “Top Shelf,” implying it’s a premium mix made from the finest spices available. I don’t sp...

Ras el hanout, رأس الحانوت, is more than a spice blend—it’s a reflection of North African culinary heritage shaped by trade, improvisation, and deep regional pride. Check out our recipe!
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Za’atar Spice Blend 🌿 Za’atar Spice Blend – Bold Flavour, Middle Eastern Magic ✨

🌿 Bold, tangy, & utterly addictive—meet Za’atar, the Middle Eastern spice blend that transforms flatbreads, dips, veggies & more. Easy to make at home, impossible not to love.

#SpiceBlend #Zaatar #MiddleEasternFlavours #HomeCooking

Vadouvan Style Curry Powder Vadouvan? What is Vadouvan? I am a huge foodie as well as a chef, and I had never heard of it until recently.

New blog post: Vadouvan-style curry powder 🇫🇷
A simpler take on the classic French blend—smoky, oniony, and packed with depth.
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