

Homemade Pesto for the cheese and pesto swirls
I made these cheese and pesto swirls sometime ago and they were an instant hit. I have recently won a jar of Belazu Smokey Semi dried tomatoes on a give away on Belazu website and that was the perfect excuse to make these again. Recipe for the swirls is on bbcgoodfood website, there is a link here. This time I made my pesto as well, here is the recipe for it. I used half of the pesto for the buns amd the rest will go into salads or pasta. Ingredients 60 gr basil leaves picke


Beef Borek with garlic yogurt and burned chilli butter
Couple of weeks before I made these beauties I saw a photo of ‘Kefta briouate’ that Andrew Smith from GBBO made, here is a link to those beauties. Instantly they reminded of a chicken filo kebap I used to order at a local restaurant when I was living in Istanbul more than a decade ago. A week later when I saw Yosma's Hus Vedat on BBC Saturday Kitchen making borek with filo pastry, I thought I should finally make this long forgotten dish. I slightly changed the original and ma