~ Seasonal fragrance and flavour from my country kitchens in England and France....celebrating local seasonal produce with traditional feasts and festivals, culinary notes, reviews, recipes and musings from home and abroad....whilst preparing family food with flair ~
Recipe: Low-Calorie Moroccan Cod Parcels for the 5:2 Diet and a Healthy Happy Heart As Lavender and Lovage regular readers will know, I love fish! I eat it at least twice a week – it’s easy to cook, tasty and extremely healthy, as well as being low in calories. I have been working with Fish [...]
My Mum’s “Teacup Apricot and Honey Porridge” Recipe for a Cold March Morning Spring has ebbed away in a slither of ice and snow, and my daffodils and tulips are drooping under the weight of heavy white hoarfrost, whilst the garden birds look slightly shell-shocked as they grapple with ongoing nest-building in Arctic conditions – yes, winter [...]
Recipe: Low-Calorie Fish on Friday Mediterranean Wild Haddock Gratin (270 calories) I know I promised you chicken stew and dumplings, in yesterday’s post - Love Food, Hate Waste for Thrifty Thursday: Home-Made Chicken Stock Recipe – but, I had forgotten that is was FRIDAY today! And, as I am a Fish Fanatic and always love to share my [...]
Recipe: Wild Haddock with Smoked Sea Salt Crust and Cherry Tomato Scramble I am always constantly amazed at how many people are scared to cook fish, for me it is the easiest ingredient to cook, and as I have said many times before, it is the original “fast food”. At my cookery school in France where [...]
Rosy Roasted Roots, Random Recipes and Fresh Scottish Herrings in an Oatmeal Crumb Of all the root vegetables that are grown and available in the UK and France, Beetroot has to be one of my favourites; it’s a much maligned vegetable, probably due to being picked in harsh malt vinegar for months on end, but [...]
Fish on Friday: My Guilty Pleasure – Fish Finger Sandwiches for Tea It’s a frivolous Fish on Friday post this week, and why not? I love good food and seasonal ingredients, as my readers all know…..there is nothing I like doing more, than pottering around my kitchen, baking and preserving, or creating new and exciting recipes and [...]
5:2 Diet: Comfort Food that’s Low in Calories! Très Rapide French Tarragon Chicken Using the last of the French tarragon in my garden, I have lightened up a favourite recipe of mine, Très Rapide French Tarragon Chicken, the original buttery high calorie recipe can be found here Très Rapide French Summer Tarragon Chicken for Bastille Day! But, I have [...]
Weekly Meal Plan and a New 5:2 Diet Recipe for Fast Days – Creamy Garlic Mushrooms on Toast – (190 Calories) One of the things I miss when I am on one of my low-calorie days (Fast Day) on the 5:2 diet is something “on toast”…….I am terribly British in my love of anything on [...]
Lavender and Lovage Patchwork Quilt of Recipes & Photos: Including Recipes for 5:2 Diet Fast Days Here I am with my weekly round-up of recipes and photos, in my Lavender and Lovage Patchwork Quilt of Recipes & Photos: Including Recipes for 5:2 Diet Fast Days. It’s been a busy week again, and I have lots to share [...]
Fish on Friday, A Review and Scandinavian Smoked Salmon & Scrambled Egg Breakfast Wraps It’s Friday and that means Fish on Friday, and today my post is an easy, in fact just made and devoured, breakfast wrap; made with some “Square” wraps that were sent to me as part of a small selection of Warburtons product samples. [...]
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