Take-to-work vegan pasta salad
A mix of sautéed and fresh veg with pasta made a light, flavourful and filling lunch. What to use 60g dried pasta 3 chestnut mushrooms, quartered a third of a pepper, chopped to bite size […]
Low-carb pasta
Just when you thought the gift-giving season was over… This is made from red lentil flour and water. It has a third of the carbohydrate value of a standard dried pasta, and half the calories. […]
Fried egg veggie bowl
Bowl food. Little piles of healthy things that go together well. The opportunities are endless. This one’s a simple mix of spiced vegetables, nutty brown rice, a splash of salty soy, creamy hummus and a […]
Winter comfort food
This concoction was born the day after a dinner, via the combination of a stale baguette, leftover bruschetta topping and a bag of grated gruyere. It brought the baguette back to life and has become […]
Eggs with spinach, avocado and tomatoes
A friend in work has been doing a fasting diet recently. He’s been instagramming images of the food he’s been making while on the diet and it all looks amazing. He’s inspired me to move […]
Pasta alla Norma
I went to Switzerland for a weekend recently and while I was there my hosts introduced me to a Sicilian pasta called Pasta alla Norma. Who’s Norma, you may ask? The story goes that in […]
Smoked mackerel pate
“I was eating sitting at the table, we’ve finished dinner, we’re now having dessert, and we’re having the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake you’ve ever seen, and President Xi was enjoying it, and I […]
Red pepper and pecorino pasta
So this small red pepper had been sitting on the middle shelf of the fridge for some time, blinking into the light, looking out expectantly every time the door was opened, silently shouting, “roast me!” […]
Sugar free chocolate brownies
I managed to persuade some of my colleagues to join me on Sugar Free February, which is a Cancer Research initiative to encourage people to ditch refined sugar for a month. There are some serious […]
Today’s delivery – you have one missing item: blinis
So you’re all set for an evening of fizz, films and blinis and then you receive THAT text: the Blini Shortage of 2017 (BS2017) has arrived. So I asked myself the question anyone faced with […]
