Happy New Year 2010!

Happy New Year everyone. Hope you had a great time whatever you were doing- we stayed at home with a bottle of champagne and a Chinese takeaway and watched the fireworks. This is a short post to tell you about my New Year foodie resolutions and to give you a simple comfort food recipe to start the year off and give you a suggestion of something to eat in this continuing cold weather we are having.

To begin lets starts with my New Year foodie resolutions:

1. Try and post on the blog more often (at least once a week)
2. To get more people doing guest posts and guest post on other people’s blogs
3. To be more adventurous in my baking and make more bread (I have joined the Fresh from the oven group to see help with this. I will be blogging my first challenge at the end of the month)
4. To arrange meeting(s) with West Midlands based Food bloggers on UKFBA. (I will be in touch later this week with everyone in the group to arrange first meeting)
5. Meet other foodie bloggers from the UK and hopefully, beyond
6. Go to my first Michelin starred restaurant
7. Make cupcakes (I have been inspired by my friends Caroline and Louise (check out Louise’s website here) to have a go at making cupcakes. I have brought ‘Cupcakes from the Primrose Bakery’ book and intend to start using it as soon as possible)
8. Make more use of the lots of cookbooks that I already own
9. Expand my cooking repertoire
10. Get better at food photography

These are my foodie related new year’s resolutions. What are yours? Can anyone help me with my resolutions?

Cheese and Potato Pie

Here is my simple recipe for cheese and potato pie, which is possibly some of the best comfort food you can get.

Ingredients

• 3 average sized potatoes per person (or 4 if you are greedy like me!)
• Lots of grated cheese (I prefer cheddar- a generous handful per person)
• Big knob of butter (Hairy Biker’s sized big knob of butter)
• Salt and white pepper

Method

1. Peel and chop the potatoes and put into a saucepan of water, bring it to the boil and simmer until the potatoes are cooked. (Usually 10-20mins depending on size of your chopped potatoes)
2. Drain the potatoes and put back in the saucepan and put back on stove and apply gentle heat on your smallest ring to remove excess water from the potatoes for 30 seconds or so.
3. Now remove from stove and add butter, salt and white pepper and mash until desired consistency. You may need to add more of butter, salt and white pepper to get it right, but do the mash until it is how you like it.
4. Stir in some of the grated cheese and place mash into an oven proof bowl, put more grated cheese on top and then grill until the cheese on top is melted and golden. Then serve and enjoy.  You can serve it with sausages, pork chops, chicken, ham and vegetables unless you are classy like me and serve it with baked beans!

I will be back soon but until next time,

Happy Cooking!

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