What Dad Cooked

What Dad Cooked is a collection of our dad’s recipes, thoughts, tips and cooking hacks that simply need to be shared with all you foodies!

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Seasonal Favourites

Some delicious seasonal summer family recipes to choose from the What Dad Cooked repertoire.

Leo's Favourite

Creamy, Buttery Asparagus Risotto

‘Risotto is my favourite dish, ever.’

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Asparagus and Morecambe Bay Potted Shrimp

Asparagus and shellfish have an affinity with one another – prawns and crab are known as being particularly good partners…

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Artichoke Pesto with Orecchiette

This vegetarian artichoke pesto-style sauce is perfect with oreccihette pasta shapes. It works a treat.

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Hake in Green Sauce

This is a staple of the Basque region of Spain. It seems in every way a bit foreign or difficult. But it’s basically fish in a parsley flavoured sauce. It’s a good recipe to learn as you can swap around the ingredients endlessly to suit your taste and budget.

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Latest recipes

Check out Dad's latest homecooked dishes and recipes below. Or click recipes in the menu to browse through 6+ years of Dad's homecooking recipes for families.

Cassoulet de Toulouse à la Pappa

A perfect winter warmer – Cassoulet!

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The Laughing Cow Lightest Loaded Quesadilla

Try Dad’s loaded low-fat salsa quesadillas with The Laughing Cow Lightest x8 cheese.

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Melanzane Parmigiana with Dolmio 7 Vegetables Sun Ripened Tomato & Basil Pasta Sauce

An excellent way to turn a popular Italian slow food standard into an easy and quicker family classic.

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Pumpkin Pie

My best pumpkin pie yet!

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Asaparagus

A seasonal favourite ingredient of Dad's, so much so he made a 30 recipe series about the green spears! Try these recipes whilst asparagus can still be found locally.

Parma Ham and Asparagus

A great flavour combination and presented here as a main meal salad or antipasto.

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Dad’s Japanese style Asparagus Tempura Soba

This is a classic Japanese way with soba and tempura. Strickly speaking the asparagus tempura is kaki-age, made like a tempura fritter rather than individual spears coated in tempura. But such academic details seem trivial when it comes to tempura – any tempura is amazing – especially asparagus!

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Asparagus Vignarola Pappardelle

This recipe uses a vignarola recipe but combines with pasta. A very good combination…

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Asparagus, Plaice and Maltaise Mousse Canapes

This is a spin on Escoffier’s white asparagus with sauce maltaise. The two are often served as an accompaniment for a white fish such as turbot. Here the fish is plaice rolled around asparagus and a maltaise mousse and served as a canapé.

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Dad's Food Journal

Dad loves to write about food. Whether it's discovering a new road local to London or Surrey, where the treasures of foodie stores and independent shops delight—or Dad's macro observations in the world of food. Dad's articles (and foodie stories to his recipes) are a funny and knowledgable journey through the lense of how pops views the world.

Rosehip Syrup Recipe From Foraged Wild Dog Rose Hips

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What Dad Cooked is a collection of our dad’s recipes, thoughts, tips and cooking hacks that simply need to be shared with all you foodies!

Creamy, Buttery Asparagus Risotto

Asparagus and Morecambe Bay Potted Shrimp

Artichoke Pesto with Orecchiette

Hake in Green Sauce

Cassoulet de Toulouse à la Pappa

The Laughing Cow Lightest Loaded Quesadilla

Melanzane Parmigiana with Dolmio 7 Vegetables Sun Ripened Tomato & Basil Pasta Sauce

Pumpkin Pie

Parma Ham and Asparagus

Dad’s Japanese style Asparagus Tempura Soba

Asparagus Vignarola Pappardelle

Asparagus, Plaice and Maltaise Mousse Canapes

Our First Supper Club!

Making Cheese in a Bottle

A Night At The KERB

How to Cook Like Claude Bosi

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