Helen Best-Shaw

Vegetables with orange flesh like the butternut squash contain beta-carotene, which the body needs to make vitamin A. Vitamin A is essential for healthy skin and mucus membranes, a healthy immune system, and good eye health and vision – For this recipe, we are going to make a classic soffritto mix and then add the ready roasted butternut squash and good quality stock or bouillon and whizz it all up to make make a delicious soup. all you need is a butternut squash, onion, carrot and celery, spices, olive oil and stock. Serve your roasted butternut squash soup garnished with the cubes of roasted squash you set to one side at step four.

Roasting butternut squash is a great way to add depth of flavour, whatever the recipe. This step by step tutorial shows you how to easily choose, prepare, roast and serve butternut squash in several different ways. Roasting butternut squash is a great way to add depth of flavour, whatever the recipe. the prepared butternut squash, olive oil, spices, salt and pepper – into a roasting dish, and mix them well with your hands.

As every Italian knows, the secret to a silky smooth pasta sauce is to add some of the starchy pasta cooking water. The starch in the water creates an emulsion with the fat or oil in the pasta sauce, so for best results take the water out of the pan at the end of the pasta cooking time. – Add about a third of a cup of the pasta water to the cream cheese sauce. If you want to make this cream cheese pasta recipe ahead, then slightly undercook the pasta and add a glug of water or milk when reheating.

This mini egg ice cream is a delicious Easter treat: soft and scoopable straight from the freezer, with a light fluffy moussy texture. Soft fluffy chocolate ice cream with crushed mini eggs folded through then topped with more mini eggs. It is important to separate each egg before you add the white to the bowl with the other whites so crack each into a small bowl first, one at a time, checking for any stray bits of shell. The air in the cream and egg white is what gives the ice cream its lovely mousse-like fluffy texture and removes the need to churn it, so try not to knock it out.