The Curry Guy

 Moving back away from the sweet stuff (because variety in your diet is important), we head to the earlier courses, sauces, sundries and main meals with The Curry Guy. Moving up a place from our last ranking, Dan Toombs’ blog continues to draw in fans of Brit Indian Restaurant style food made at home. If you have a hankering for a particular meal, quickly find what you need on the recipes index page, which includes street food, barbeque, restaurant favourites, seafood, spice blends, vegetarian curries and much more. The only thing left to do is the cooking (check out Dan’s cookbooks for help with that, too).

6. Jack Monroe

This busy blogger, broadcast journalist, writer and author has been a guardian angel of good food on a budget during the pandemic, sharing accessible ideas for eats and sparking and supporting the drive to get decent school meals out to UK kids during lockdown. Whatever your budget, Jack will have something you can put together that’ll be tasty and nutritious. Give their Vegan Pastitsio (77p) a go, or for school dinner nostalgia, the mincemeat pudding (from 37p). Interested in decorating the table with more than eatables? There are also #JacksHacks for DIY projects to try.

 

7. Lavender and Lovage

While actually travelling to taste food from around the world isn’t quite possible yet, your palette can still take tasty trips with Lavender and Lovage. Blogger Karen is a collector of food ideas from around the globe, focusing on ‘food and travel from home and abroad’. Originally born in South Africa, Karen has travelled extensively and brought back the best stuff for her readers. Learn how to make Traditional Easter Pace Eggs, Old-Fashioned Tea Cake Squares, Welsh Crempog and Wild Garlic, Cheese & Walnut Sourdough, no airplane ticket required.

8. Sandhya’s Kitchen

Here we welcome a new entrant to our Top 10 UK Food Blogs ranking – food photographer, recipe developer, art director and blogger Sandhya. Sandhya’s Kitchen – another blog featuring in our Baking Blogs UK Top 10 – is the place to find easy vegetarian and vegan recipes that are family-friendly, too. Click on the Instant Pot and Airfryer Recipes sections for quick and easy week-night recipes like cauliflower steaks, beetroot chips and potato and pea samosas, and get caught up on creating condiments including chutney, raita and mint sauce to go on the side.

9. Kitchen Sanctuary

Also new to our top ten is Nicky’s online sanctuary for ‘beautiful recipes and food tutorials that are easy to follow,’ Kitchen Sanctuary. All about ‘delicious family friendly food,’ Nicky runs the blog with her husband Chris, sharing recipes for quick dinners, street food, British classics and pasta among many other munchables. Having always loved creating in the kitchen, Nicky started blogging back in 2014 and treats updating the blog as writing in her own cookbook. See how to make the best crispy potatoes, pasta bakes, spicy pork ramen noodle soup and chicken pot pie, just for starters.

10. Don’t Go Bacon My Heart

Worthy of being on any food blog top ten for that name alone, Don’t Go Bacon My Heart also backs it up with quality content and a dedicated following of food fans. Offering ‘next level comfort food,’ Chris was a finalist on the Channel 4/Netflix show Crazy Delicious and is an award-winning food blogger. For ‘no-nonsense’ meal help, check out his recipes by category (Breakfast N Brunch, Date Night Dinners, Delicious Dips, etc.) or by ingredient. There’s even choice with how you cook it all – his baked or fried homemade tostada shells, for example, really do look crazy delicious.