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Ingredients: 1 fresh mackerel fillet (or smoked mackerel) 2 cloves of garlic 2 stock cubes (I used vegetable ones) 250g passata 2 large tomatoes Oregano Splash of red wine (optional) 1/2 tbsp tomato purée Salt Pepper Olive oil Recipe For the pasta: 1. Heat some oil in a saucepan...

Simplicity is all important when baking in a student home, and scones are perfectly suited to this. Requiring only a few ingredients and not much of your time, scones are a well-loved crowd pleaser, and perfect comfort food for the long winter nights. Makes 10 Ingredients 450g self-raising flour...

Rich, sweet and chocolately, this dessert isn’t for the faint-hearted or those lacking a sweet-tooth. Combining a crunchy biscuit base, white chocolate centre, lashings of milk chocolate topping, and finished off with a generous drizzle of caramel, this tart is the perfect remedy for essay stress.   Ingredients For...

Perfect if you want something unhealthy without being overly sweet- it’s a good balance between sweet and salty and great with a cuppa! Ingredients For the base: 125g double chocolate Maryland cookies 30g mini pretzels (I used star-shaped ones for a more Christmassy feel) 75g melted butter For the...

These buns are certainly a great candidate for a pre-Christmas treat! Sweet and delicious, these won’t disappoint. Makes approximately 15 buns Ingredients for buns 100g butter, softened 100g brown sugar One egg, separated 100g runny honey 200g plain flour Half a tsp of bicarbonate of soda 2 tsps ground...

Until very recently, in all my twenty-one years of life I couldn’t honestly say I’d ever made a proper roast dinner. Many student houses choose to make a roast dinner together, but some students, like me, are daunted by the task of having so many dishes to perfect. So...

A great alternative to mince pies and quick and easy to make! Ingredients 300g sweet shortcrust pastry (desert pastry) – or make your own 1½tsp cinnamon Christmas Preserve jam – I used the one from The Cherry Tree jam and chutney stall at the Christmas market but you could...