How to make winter comfort food, without red meat, white potatoes, pasta etc etc blah? Answer – quorn or turkey mince, tomatoes, sweet potatoes. (Interestingly, to me, quorn has as many calories per 100g as 5% […]
101 uses for crumpet rings Part III – fish cakes. I’m still on the detox and these are perfect for that using just fish and sweet potato. I tried to keep the fish/potato ratio 50:50 as […]
Cleanse day one: so far so good, however, I have been feeling the effects of yesterday’s excursion so tomorrow will be more telling. This is a cleanse-friendly mix of eggs, fish, tomatoes and spinach. I have a […]
I saw Hemsley and Hemsley make a ragu recently to which they add mixed spice and also some grated carrot at the end. I tried that this time and it was good – lightened and […]
I tried to make basil pesto for the first time a couple of months ago. The kindest thing anyone could have said about that version was that it was green. This time, however, I hit the […]
I’m having a bit of a courgette renaissance, if there is such a thing. And if there isn’t, there should be. In particular using it with pasta. This one is light, creamy, crunchy. What to […]
Another 10-minute and inexpensive pasta to add to the collection. I wanted to do something veggie and spring-like today. I’ve never ‘cooked’ lettuce before, and this isn’t really cooked, just added to the end product, […]
We recently got together with some friends at Shaun’s, which is situated in a very pretty part of London overlooking the Thames. I’m not quite sure how I talked him into letting me do all […]
I’ve done this a couple of times now. I can’t for the life of me get it to LOOK very attractive, but it does taste very attractive. This is definitely one for the 20% category because […]
Shaun’s eyes watered when I told him his prawns were going into the blender, but it had to be done. There were only a few left over – not enough to make them the focus […]
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