~ 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 ~
Review: SousVide Supreme Chicken Three Ways! Chicken Cordon Bleu, Lemon Thyme Chicken Kebabs & Chicken with Beans I have been on a bit of retro kick lately and have been rediscovering recipes from the 1970′s – those famous restaurant staples of many a restaurant or bistro, such as steak and chips, prawn cocktail, chef’s salad [...]
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 [...]
Easter Monday Meal Plan: Pace Eggs, Pizza and 5:2 Diet Recipes I hope you have got time to read my meal plan for this week, as I have decided to post a monthly meal plan………got you! Happy April Fool’s Day! A Happy Easter to all my family, friends and readers too. I have had a [...]
5:2 Diet Recipes, Red Noses, Pasta Bake, Fish Pie and a Weekly Meal Plan! My Monday Meal Plan for the week is late, I have been so busy, but I hope it will still inspire and help some of you when planning this week’s meals, as well as those on the 5:2 Diet, as I have two [...]
Weekly Meal Plan: – National Chip Week – Chips, Frites, Pommes Frites and French Fries Recipes! Today’s weekly meal plan is all about the humble potato and more specifically, the CHIP! Yes, as my regular readers will know, I am currently on a diet, the 5:2 diet where I fast for two days, insofar that [...]
Breakfast in Bed with Hearts, Eggs and Crumpets! A Valentine’s Day Preview of Gadgets & Food I am not a huge lover of Valentine’s day in the overtly commercial sense, but the frivolous and coquettish girl in me does love a kitsch gadget or too, so when I was sent an Eggspress heart-shaped boiled egg mould, to review from Mustard [...]
“Chinese New Year” 5:2 Diet Fast Day Recipe: Chinese Chicken Egg Roll Wraps (225 calories) I remember cordite filled humid air, dragons and lions dancing through streets, little red packets filled with money, flowers and firecrackers, hot fried food eaten on the side of the road, red, the rattle of Mah Jong pieces, the “Beggar’s [...]
Meal Planning Monday, 5:2 Diet Fast Days and Pesto Pasta with Parmesan Recipe The Marmalade has been made, for my grand entry into the World’s Original Marmalade Awards, British Farmhouse Breakfast Week is over and January is about to slither out in either an avalanche of snow or a deluge of flooding, and, it is [...]
Luxury Low-Calorie Recipe for Fish on Friday: Smoked Salmon Pitta Pizza for 5:2 Diet Fast Day My “Fish on Friday” post today is a luxury one, a special LOW-CALORIE snack, lunch or light supper recipe with more than a hint of gourmet about it, Smoked Salmon Pitta Pizza. This recipe is a remarkable 194 calories and VERY [...]
The Fast Diet, Meal Planning Monday and Tiger Prawn Curry with Basmati Rice (5:2 Diet) Recipe I am back on my Monday Meal Plans……things all went awry in December and over the Festive period, but I have decided to more disciplined, as much as I can be disciplined, and attempt to plan ahead. My weekly meal plans [...]
Karen S Booth
