Mark's Family Cooking

15/10/2026

I am inspired everyday by the people I follow on instagram. I save recipes to cook and take meal ideas from.

In November 2025 I saved a slow cooked Korean beef stew I saw on Mark - home cooking and bbq

It took me nearly a year to make it, but it was worth the wait. Instead of the diced beef used in Mark's recipe I used a beef and pork mixed mince, added a pepper and a squeeze off lime, and cooked in the trusted Crock-Pot® UK

Sweet, spicy, sour, salty and umami. I had it all.

Great recipe Mark, thanks for the inspo

07/10/2026

29/09/2026

If you're anything like me, deciding what to cook each week is a royal pain.

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They've got 3 new flavours Korean Bulgogi, Vietnamese Lemongrass and Thai chilli & basil (Kra Pao) coming to in October.

Each pack comes with 2 pots (1 pot will serve 2 people) and the full list of ingredients you need to buy and cooking instructions on the box.

I cooked up the Korean Bulgogi with chicken and it was bang on.

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22/09/2026

Feed a cold starve a fever.

We've all got the various stages of a cold. A Chinese fakeawy meal is always going to lift the spirits.

This is one of my favourite recipes to cook from Kath Symes | Easy Asian Recipes

Beef in black bean sauce. Salty, hint of sweet and umami.

20/09/2026

16/09/2026

Easy beef quesadilla.

I saw cook these up, so I gave them a go. I served with some fried rice and simple lettuce and avo

For the quesadilla
Brown off 500g lean beef mince.
Add a sachet of taco seasoning. I used paprika and garlic. Fry until the beef is well coated in the seasoning and fully cooked.
At a large spoonful of mince to a mini tortilla. Add grated cheese and roughly chopped onion.
Fold in half and place in a hot pan. Griddle on both sides to brown and crisp up.

Fried rice
Use day old 1.5 cup of cooked basmati rice.
Fry some chopped red and green pepper in 2 tbsp oil. Add a cup of sweetcorn.
Add some smoked paprika and some all-purpose seasoning. About 1 tbsp of each.
Stir to coat, then add the cooked rice.
Continue to stir and fry the rice until it's heated through and the grains are all separated.

Serve with some chopped lettuce and avo and loads of chilli sauce.

08/09/2026

I cooked this once before, sometime ago, and forgot how tasty this was.

A jerk spiced sweet potato stew, a recipe from the Dirty Vegan Mathew Pritchard

Sweet potato, black beans and spinach with a warming spiced tomato based sauce. I added a few split red lentils because, well, I like red lentils.

Served with basmati rice. A tasty, easy to make vegan meal for a midweek tea.