Recipes - Page 14 of 51 - The Secret Supper Society

A frying pan filled with a red tomato-based stew topped with chopped spring onions sits on a wooden table, alongside a bowl of white rice, a salad, and empty plates with cutlery.

Étouffée

Étouffee literally means to stifle or smother. A popular dish in both creole and cajun Louisianna cooking. Usually made with prawns under a blanket of sauce and served with rice. Make it as spicy as you like. To the keep…

A baked dish of golden-brown lasagne with melted cheese and herbs sits in a white rectangular baking dish on a wooden table.

Butternut Squash Lasagna

Main Course

If you don’t like butternut squash or want to try a different version, this works well with beetroot.

A baked pasta dish with spiral pasta, tomato sauce, dollops of green pesto, and several slices of melted white cheese on top, served in a white rectangular baking dish with a large serving spoon.

Goats cheese & vegetable Tray Bake

British inspired recipes · Main Course

This recipe is often never the same because I tend to use whatever is is the fridge and needs using up. Although this recipe is for 4, it could feed 6 with a side salad

Grilled fish fillets garnished with chopped herbs, served with a wedge of lemon and a small side of fresh salad leaves on a white plate.

Greek Style Sardines

Greek inspired recipes · Starter

Sardines are the taste of summer. Serve these at room temperature with lots of bread to mop the oil.

A metal pan with cooked minced meat and chopped spring onions sits on a wooden table, surrounded by lettuce leaves, a bowl of rice, cutlery, and small dishes with various toppings.

Thai Style Beef Mince

Asian inspired recipes · Main Course

Created this recipe to form part of a “stack” dish I made for the family one night. They loved it! Try making the stack recipe or have it with noodles or rice

A lettuce leaf filled with white rice, minced meat, chopped spring onions, pecans, and assorted vegetables, served as a wrap.

Thai Style Beef & Rice Stack

Main Course

This recipe is more a bringing together of other recipes found here on my site but it was such a success when I made it for the family I had to share it! I made mine as a main course…

A round serving of beet jelly topped with a dollop of herbed cream sits on a plate, surrounded by small diced beetroot and sprinkled with fresh chives.

Jellied Beetroot Consommé

Starter

Intense beetroot flavour in this show stopping starter. Perfect impressive dish to serve at a dinner party and as it’s so light it could be one of two starter dishes if you really want to show off! If you don’t…

A halved red pepper filled with mashed potato and sliced sausage, garnished with fresh herbs and parsley, served on a dark plate with leafy greens underneath.

Red Peppers Stuffed with Fennel & Merguez Sausage

Starter

Full of North African flavours, if you want to make this vegetarian simply leave out the sausage. Merguez is a lamb sausage heavily spiced with cumin and chilli. Can be ordered on line from Farmison. To prepare ahead, stuff the…

A golden, round puff pastry case filled with a creamy, mushroom and herb sauce, served on a white plate.

Vol au Vent

Starter

Fill with whatever you like. In the restaurant I fill with Salmon & Mustard, for vegetarians, Mushroom Stroganoff works well or with chicken and leek, whatever you decide to use, these retro pastries are always popular.

Coconut bavarois with tropical fruit salad

Dessert

A bavarois is a custard with added cream and set with gelatine. These are the perfect dessert to accompany an Asian menu using kaffir lime leaves to infuse in the syrup and everything can be prepared in advance. The syrup…