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Homemade Mexican Dry Rub
This is a Mexican style dry rub consisting of a mix of ground spices, paprika, cumin, oregano and garlic, plus some salt & pepper and a little cayenne pepper for heat. It is rubbed on to meat before cooking or mixed into a fajita mix. It takes two minutes to mix and costs under £1…
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BBQ Smoking for Beginners
A guide to smoking meat for people who've got the BBQ grilling basics down and want to move into low and slow. Covers the gear you actually need, how hot smoking differs from cold, time and temperature guidance for common cuts, and the snake method setup that does most of the heavy lifting on a…
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Garlic Pizza Bread
One of the simplest forms of garlic bread available to make and this recipe only calls for a few ingredients. This is a recipe for making garlic pizza bread with cheese using garlic butter and a simple pizza dough. A great side dish for either a BBQ or quite simply being a part of your…
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Can You Freeze Cheese?
Yes, you can freeze cheese, but not all types freeze equally well. Hard and semi-hard cheeses like Cheddar, Parmesan, Gouda, and Red Leicester freeze well and will keep for up to 6 months. Soft cheeses like Brie, Camembert, and cream cheese do not fare nearly as well. This post takes a look at the best…
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Can You Freeze Mashed Potatoes?
Yes, you can freeze mashed potatoes. They freeze surprisingly well and will keep for up to 3 months in the freezer. The trick is making sure your mash contains enough fat (butter and cream) to protect the texture during freezing. This post considers the best way to freeze mash and offers insight into the types…
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Dust Bros Nuts Review
I'm excited to see more in the range available from Dust Bros. The guys behind the amazing BBQ rubs have now released a range of snacks in the form of nuts. This is a review of the new range of nuts from Dust Bros. The review covers Serious Spice and Mega Mexican variety. Why do…
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Can You Freeze Cooked Rice?
Yes, you can freeze cooked rice. It keeps well in the freezer for up to 3 months and is perfectly safe to eat as long as you cool and freeze it quickly after cooking. The important safety bit: Uncooked rice can contain spores of a bacterium called Bacillus cereus. These spores survive the cooking process.…
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How to Freeze Bread
There is nothing quite like the smell of freshly baked bread. But what happens when you have made a beautiful loaf and know you cannot eat it all before it goes stale? The freezer is your friend here, and with a few simple steps, you can enjoy that homemade goodness for up to six months.…
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Greggs Vegan Sausage Roll
Let me show you how to cook a frozen Greggs vegan sausage roll in the air fryer. This process takes only 16 minutes from chilled or around 20 minutes from frozen, saving you time and energy compared to using a full-sized oven. Get a proper Greggs vegan sausage roll on your plate faster than you…
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The Best Sourdough Gifts Under £20: 20 Ideas For UK Bakers
Choosing a present for a sourdough baker can feel intimidating if you don't bake yourself. The terminology is unfamiliar (banneton, lame, couche) and the kit can look more specialised than it actually is. The good news: most of what a baker actually uses day to day costs under £20. I've been baking sourdough since 2020,…
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Cheesy Sourdough Bread
Sometimes it is a nice change to use up some old ingredients. Making room in your cupboard by using up leftovers is frugal. Using them to make sourdough is next level. This is a recipe for a cheese sourdough bread using up some mature blue cheese, basil and based on a regular sourdough loaf. This…
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Charcoal Sourdough
This was a recipe I've wanted to try for a while as I've seen charcoal sourdough in some artisan bakeries. Admittedly it doesn't look the most appetising while it's being made but the end result is really tasty. This is a recipe for charcoal sourdough bread. The recipe will provide you a dark coloured loaf…
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Food blog diaries Q4 2025
I wanted to keep you up to date with my food blog performance so far in 2025. I wrote a similar post in 2024 and had last updated in in March 2025. Between then and now there has been a bit of traction. 2025 - Turbulent times In the March/April time of this year (2025)…
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Lemon & Herb Beer Can Chicken
One of my first recipes I ever cooked on a gas BBQ. This lemon herb seasoned beer can chicken is simple to cook and only takes around an hour. This is a recipe for a BBQ chicken cooked using beer. The skin is seasoned in the Dust Bros BBQ Lemon Herbert rub. This is a…
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Slow Cooked Lamb Stew
I find that lamb tastes best when cooked low and slow. Heading into winter this slow cooked lamb stew recipe will keep you warm and offer a hearty meal to dish up after a long day at work. This is a recipe for a lamb stew cooked in the slow cooker. This recipe uses lamb…
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10 Air fryer recipe ideas
This is the pick of my favourite 10 air fryer recipes. This is a post listing 10 recipes you can make in your air fryer including bread, eggs and sausage rolls.
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BBQ Rotisserie Duck
When it comes to roasting poultry, there is no better way than a rotisserie BBQ version of it. One of my favourites is BBQ duck on the rotisserie so wanted to write up my method of how I cook a duck on the BBQ. This is a recipe and how to guide for roasting a…
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Get Rid of Garlic Smells
If you cook as much as I do, you’ll know the feeling: you’ve just smashed your way through prepping a garlic-heavy dish like a garlic pizza dough balls or a curry, but you have the garlic smell on your hands. This post offers some solutions on how to get rid of garlic smells on your…
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BBQ with Charcoal 101
How to Start a Charcoal BBQ: Beginner’s Guide Cooking on a charcoal BBQ has a certain something to give it the edge over a gas grill. After all, cooking on fire is one of the oldest ways of using thermodynamics to change the state of food. That smoky edge, the ritual of lighting the coals,…
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Egg Pickle Mayonnaise
MEAL PREP FRIENDLY 15 MIN This is a recipe for a BBQ side which is also able to be used on a sandwich. This egg mayonnaise with pickle offers a neat flavour to a plain old regular egg mayo mix. Try this as an option for a BBQ side in at your next cook. This…
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German Sausage & Salad Wrap
A quick lunch snack to use up some German sausage slices including Extrawusrt, Bierwurst & Schinkenwurst. Served in a wrap with a healthy salad. This recipe shows how to use up some left over ingredients to make up a tasty sandwich wrap as a quick lunchtime meal. Ingredients for German Sausage Wraps I was sent…
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Honey & Mustard Air Fryer Gammon
This is a simple recipe to cook a honey and mustard glazed ham in the air fryer. The air fryer gammon is a set and forget recipe to cook a ham in under 90 minutes. This dish typically cooks in under 90 minutes and will serve 4 people using a gammon around 750g to 800g.…
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Sourdough discard lemon herb cracker bites
This is a recipe for Sourdough discard lemon herb cracker bites made from left over sourdough starter mixed with olive oil and Lemon Herbert garlic and herb mix. These herb bites are a great addition to a cheese board. They work well being served with dips and sides such as my nduja tomato recipe along…
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10 Foolproof Bread Recipes Everyone Can Bake
I've collected my favourite easy bread recipes that anyone can make. All you need are a few ingredients and some time. Each of these recipes have comprehensive step by step stages and offer hints to help you succeed in getting a perfect loaf. With the included troubleshooting tips you will soon be making these simple…
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Street Food Stories: Wrap Ninjas Street Food
A part of Dad What Cooks is about following my journey as a food blogger. Being a blogger requires keeping up to date with the food industry and I’m always keen to hear about where other people started with their businesses. I’ve long been interested in both food and supporting local businesses and so learning…
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Great BBQ Rub Off: Dust Bros Rub Review
I was lucky enough to be invited to take part in the smokeandsear.world Great Rub-Off this year which is the ultimate BBQ rub showdown. I was cooking some dishes to do a Dust Bros rub review. They had kindly sent me some rubs to review and also showcase as part of the competition. This is…
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Quick lunches: Pastrami & Mustard Sandwich
A quick lunch tasty treat is this pastrami and mustard sandwich. Easy to make and offering an alternative to a regular beef filling, pastrami is a flavourful meat delight. This is a recipe for a pastrami and mustard sandwich which is good to have as a quick lunch and shows you how to put the…
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Square Sandwich Bread in Pullman Loaf Tin
Get a shop bought style sandwich loaf baked at home. This post will demonstrate how to make a square sandwich bread in a Pullman loaf tin otherwise known as a pain de mie pan to get a perfect white loaf suitable for lunches. This post shows you how to make square sandwich bread using a…
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Reheating pizza leftovers
For those of us who do not like having cold leftover pizza then you need to take a look at these ways to reheat pizza leftovers in the air fryer or in the frying pan. This post is a reheating pizza hack containing instructions on how to reheat left over pizza in the air fryer,…
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Roasted Lamb & Herb Coating
Roasting a joint of meat was something that I found quite daunting when learning to cook and I always felt I would risk burning it and wasting money on expensive ingredients. I've since learnt that it is not something to fear and this roasted lamb with dried rosemary and mint herbs dish is the perfect…
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Supercharge Your Food Blog SEO Strategy with Link Whisper Internal Linking
Internal linking is a critical part of SEO practises and it helps guide web crawlers around your blog pages. If you are looking to take your SEO strategy to the next level the I need you to look at Link Whisper's internal linking tool. This innovative tool is designed to supercharge - as I put…
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My food blog journey so far...
I wanted to keep a track of my food blog adventure with all the details so I thought I'd create this new section of Dad What Cooks to document it. This is the introduction to the food blog journey so far of Dad What Cooks. I cover what I have done up to now in…
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5 Essential Kitchen Items For New Cooks
I was recently asked about what useful items are essential for new cooks to a kitchen and I have a good think about would be my basic kitchen tools list. This post is a collection of the basic essential kitchen items I think would be useful in my kitchen if I was a new cook.…
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Turn your sourdough discard into pizza dough
I seem to end up with a lot of sourdough discard when making bread and always feel a bit wasteful throwing it away. This is an experiment I wanted to try to see if I could make pizza dough using sourdough discard and if it would work. This post goes through the steps of making…
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Egg Mayo & Mustard Sandwich Filling
MEAL PREP FRIENDLY 5 Minutes The simple egg mayonnaise sandwich filling might seem a bit dull and dismal but this recipe takes a basic filler on to the next level. A twist of a couple of new ingredients and you have the epic taste for your lunchtime snack. This recipe explains how to make a…
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Cheese Straws
A staple of the holiday season, my cheese straws recipe (using UK measurements for ease) makes having snacks for visitors a simple process. This is a simple recipe for cheese straws using UK measurements and ingredients. Why are cheese straws a good recipe to make? I find it really convenient when guests pop round during…
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Father's Day Gifts For Dads Who Love To Cook
Father's Day in the UK falls on 21 June 2026, which gives you a few weeks to get something sorted. If your dad spends his weekends rubbing brisket, kneading dough or working through a stack of cookbooks, aftershave or socks is not going to cut it. I've been running Dad What Cooks since 2019, and…
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How to Host a Pizza Party at Home
Cooking three pizzas for the family is one thing. Making enough for a garden full of people is another, and the first time you do it the timing and the numbers can feel like the hard part. They are not, as long as you prepare properly. I hosted a pizza party at my parents' again…
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Tips for Dads: Cooking with your kids in the kitchen
Cooking with your kids in the kitchen will help pass on key life skills through the generations. One of the most rewarding things I found when learning to cook was passing on the things I'd learnt to my daughter. As she was always showing an interest in cooking and baking in the kitchen from a…
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Crispy Air Fryer Spicy Cajun Fries
Go for that five guys Cajun spiced fries flavour with my Crispy Air Fryer Spicy Cajun Fries recipe. These are quick to make in your Ninja Foodi and can be on your plate in 30 minutes. A great alternative to regular chips. In this post I show you how to turn a regular potato into…
