Check out our banging recipes

Below are a few recipes we thought you might like to try yourself. These dishes are simply designed, yet use different and interesting ingredients for you to impress people with your culinary genius!

Be sure to check this page regularly as different recipes will be added. You could even start to collect your favourite ones, maybe we'll bring out the chef in you - enjoy!

Also if there are any recipes from Zest or our times and star column you would like to see please just ask. We will always try to publish them as quickly as possible. My fave recipe
 

• Our recipes from the Tesco's Ladies charity night
• Whitehaven Food festival fish recipes
• Sticky pork
• Coconut and chilli pumpkin soup
• Venison burger and perfect chips
• Zest's famous wok chicken
• Loads of garlic lamb
   
• Spicy zesty skate wings

• Moules mariniere (mussels) as cooked on bbc radio cumbria 21st april 09

• Creamy white onion and mushroom soup with wild garlic pesto
• Sticky toffee pudding

Asparagus with poached eggs  as cooked on BBC Radio Cumbria on 21st May

• Scotch eggs made with Richard Woodall's sausage meat and black pudding
   

Ricky regularly makes guest appearances on UKTV's Market Kitchen.
These are some of the recipes from the show.

• Rabbit in cock robin cider
• Langoustine (scampi) in vermouth cream sauce
• Venison steak sandwich with 'no mayo' mayo with parsnip chips
• Wok chicken
• Mackerel with fennel compote

Check out Ricky's show reel