On this page you will find some basic recipes for base sauces, stocks, gravies and spice mixes that are essential for cooking from scratch. If you batch bake and freeze up these base recipes it will make some of the recipes on the other pages much easier.
Spice Mixes
Here are a few of my favourite spice blends. Using these will mean that if you want to whip up some fajitas, some cajun chciken or an italian meal then you don't need buy a packet or ready made 'spice mix' which are usually loaded with preservatives, addititives and colourings. I recommend making some of these spice mixes up and keeping them in a labelled jar so you can grab them easily when you need them. You'll have your favourite meals made in munutes with these kept handy
Base Curry Sauce
I use this base curry sauce in lots of my curry recipes. Freeze it into 500ml portions and it will add depth to any curry that you make. It is just a base - you will need to add other ingredients to it to turn it into the curry to wish to make. You can find curries that I use this for on the recipes pages