Meat and Potato Pie with a Chunky Suet Crust

Meat and Potato Pie is a hearty Northern classic. If you’re cooking a meat and potato pie you’re looking to fill your belly, so we’re going all in here with a big thick suet crust. We need to talk about pie, though. I know that there are some cooks and eaters who are very militant…

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Crusty Cheese Bake – Yorkshire’s Mac ‘n’ Cheese

Love-love-love this Crusty Cheese Bake. Although it’s not all that rustic, it really feels like it epitomises traditional Yorkshire food in a lot of ways to me. This dish takes affordable, homely carbs, smothers them in cheese and gives even the greenest cook the option to improvise with it however they like. Crusty Cheese Bake is, I suppose, Yorkshire’s…

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Autumn Elevenses, A Super Simple Beef and Tomato Pasty

There’s no getting away from it. There are leaves all over the ground and many of them are brown. It’s definitely autumn. And, while it’s getting dark at 6pm and there are millions of cubic metres of drizzle in the air, everybody feels better if we focus on the fact that you can wear a jumper and…

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Dead Ringer for Yorkshire Meatloaf

“It’s an American dish!” So said one of my girlfriend’s family members when she cooked this meatloaf for them a couple of weeks ago. I get where they’re coming from. I tend to think of it as a North American dish, too. It conjures images of American moms from 1960s sitcoms you never watched serving up…

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