The Halloumi Toastie

The Halloumi Toastie

Halloumi is one of my favourite cheeses: I had a bit of a binge on it a few years ago. This involved microwaving a slab and then eating it. Squeaky and delicious. It does have a ridiculously high melting point, so we were dubious about how well it would work as a...
The Garlic Mushroom Toastie

The Garlic Mushroom Toastie

In both the garlic mushroom toastie recipes below mushrooms are sliced and fried with a little oil, a huge dollop of garlic purée (1tsp/4 mushrooms), salt and pepper. If we ever do run out of animals and have to live off bugs and greens, this is where I’m going...
The Pepperoni Toastie

The Pepperoni Toastie

The pepperoni toastie is one of those ones we both thought we already had, but a thorough search of the archives suggests the only outing we’ve ever had with it is inside the Great Balls of Fire, our spicy triple decker toastie. So we figured it deserved a...
The Fig Toastie

The Fig Toastie

The fig toastie is not exactly a classic, but it does always pop up on cheese boards. It goes well with cheese, and after a suggestion from my brother while we were staying there we thought it deserved a try. Plus vegetarian toasties that don’t feel like they...
Cornish Yarg Toastie

Cornish Yarg Toastie

Today we were toasting in the wild, inflicting our New Year’s resolution on my brother and his girlfriend, who were both delightful hosts and willing but helpfully critical guinea pigs, who kindly placed their toastie press at our disposal. We didn’t have...

The Prawn Toastie

Seafood. I guess as today is prawn toastie day we can call it a nautical theme somehow, parcelled up with yesterday’s Anchovy offering. Still, prawns are tasty and delicious, while in my unbiased opinion anchovies are salty little blights on an otherwise...