With a passion for cooking world-wide cuisine, the head chef founded Food Fanatic to give back and share his recipes with the online foodie community.

Sicilian Arancini

Sicilian Arancini Recipe

Makes 8 medium balls / Difficulty – Medium / Prep 45 mins and fried in 5 minutes I first discovered arancini existed whilst watching an episode of the Sicilian detective series Inspector Montelbano, and the episode was called ‘Gli arancini di Montalbano’, obviously arancini featured heavily and I had to know what these little balls…

Food Fanatic New Orleans Gumbo Recipe

New Orleans Style Gumbo Recipe

Serves 4 / Difficulty – Hard / Prep 1 and cooks in 2 1/2 hrs For this recipe to work in the UK you have to make the stewed tomatoes yourself and I swapped gumbo file powder for cornflour and andouille sausage for nduja and kielbasa sausage (nduja has the taste and kielbasa has the…

Bacon and broccoli quiche

Bacon and Broccoli Quiche Recipe

Serves 4-6 / Difficulty – Medium / Prep 30 minutes and 30 minutes cooking time. This is often requested dish, and when I make it for guests I often get asked for the recipe. I enjoy it with a side salad of chopped tomatoes and celery, some salad leaves with a nice salad dressing of…

Roasted lamb shanks

Lamb Shanks with Garlic Roasted Potatoes

Serves 2 / Difficulty – Medium / Prep 10 minutes and 3 hours cooking time. This is rich hearty tasty dish, including the potatoes when softened before roasting then cooked in lard and garlic they are very crispy and creamy tasting potatoes… delicious. Ingredients 2 lamb shanks Olive oil Small glass of white wine Rosemary…

Spaghetti bolognese recipe

Ragu Sauce Recipe

Serves around 8 / Difficulty – Medium / Ready in 3-4 hours A versatile sauce, best served as a bolognese or lasagne. You need to cook this a lot to remove the fresh meat taste and refine the flavour. Ingredients 50g celery 50g onions 50g carrots 1 tablespoon olive oil 250g minced pork 500g beef minced 250g white wine…