Sunday Lunch: Roast Pumpkin Salad with Pancetta, Grana Padano and Pumpkin Seeds I awoke to a heavy white frost today with flocks of iridescent starlings on the lawn…….my trip to the hen-house was accompanied by crunching footsteps as I made my way over sparkling white grass, and I could sense the eyes of hungry blackbirds watching my…
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Spooky Family Food and Baking Recipes for Halloween: Spiders, Owls and Mashed Spuds with a Twist!
Spooky Family Food and Baking Recipes for Halloween: Spiders, Owls and Mashed Spuds with a Twist! Today should be Sepia Saturday, where I share a Be-Ro recipe from one of my many old (and new) Be-Ro cookbooks, but, as Halloween is next week, I have decided to share some seasonal recipes with you……and, I am…
Easy Peasy Fish on Friday Recipe: Family Friendly Fabulous Fish Pie
Easy Peasy Fish on Friday Recipe: Family Friendly Fabulous Fish Pie I have a feeling that this post should have been called Foggy Friday, as for most of this week, we have been shrouded in fog, and trips to the hen-house in the morning have been damp and strangely eerie, with muffled thuds and drips punctuating the…
Mid-Week Meal Plan, 5:2 Diet and Hungarian Savoury Minced Beef Recipe
Mid-Week Meal Plan, 5:2 Diet and Hungarian Savoury Minced Beef Recipe My Monday Meal Plans have been shunted to Mid-Week Meal Plans lately – but in one way, I prefer it, as I usually know what I am having on Monday and Tuesday, but it’s the rest of the week I sometimes have issues with,…
Organic October and Autumn Suppers: Bonfire Chilli with Beef, Chocolate and Pumpkin
Organic October and Autumn Suppers: ~ Bonfire Chilli with Beef, Chocolate and Pumpkin ~ Autumn means…….. crisp mornings, misty mornings, crackling leaves, vibrant berries, Old Man’s Beard in tangled hedgerows, apples on damp grass, the smell of wood smoke, bonfires, woolly scarves, boots, red mittens, duffle coats, log fires, glistening dew covered cobwebs, pumpkins, candles, piles of books on the bedside table, crumpets, casseroles, dumplings, steamed puddings, the last rose of summer, fireworks, hot chocolate, fluffy duvets, tartan rugs, fireside suppers, Arran…
5:2 Diet: Comfort Food that’s Low in Calories! Très Rapide French Tarragon Chicken
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…
Celebrate National Curry Week with my Easy Low-Fat Monkfish Curry Recipe
Celebrate National Curry Week with my Easy Low-Fat Monkfish Curry Recipe Curry, a culinary import from the Indian sub-continent and some parts of Asia, and Britain’s favourite take-away meal! I was raised on curries, my mum and dad are GREAT curry cooks, and a good home-made curry was often on the menu as I was…
Easy Family Recipe: Italian Sausage Pasta Bowl with Grana Padano Cheese (5:2 Diet)
Easy Family Recipe: Italian Sausage Pasta Bowl with Grana Padano Cheese (5:2 Diet) What a busy week I have had, and I promise you that I will be sharing all my news, as well as recipes, over the next few weeks……it will take several weeks to cover all the excitement and activities that I have…
Taxis, Trains and Temptation! 5:2 Diet Fast Day Recipe: Smoky Mexican Stir Fry with Chicken
Taxis, Trains and Temptation! 5:2 Diet Fast Day Recipe: Smoky Mexican Stir Fry with Chicken What have taxis, trains and temptation to do with a delicious low-calorie recipe you may be thinking, and the answer is not much! But, as a title of today’s post, it’s just my way of telling you what I have been up to over the last two…
A Weekly Meal Plan, A Taste of Autumn and Allotment Soup (100 calories) for the 5:2 Diet
A Weekly Meal Plan, A Taste of Autumn and Allotment Soup (100 calories) for the 5:2 Diet It’s that time of year again, with apologies to my Southern Hemisphere followers, but Autumn is JUST a whiff away……just a wood smoke aroma away and maybe even just a crackling fire away………as I definitely noticed an autumnal…
5:2 Diet – Fast Days & Feast Days, Weekly Meal Plan and a LOW CALORIE Breakfast Omelette Recipe
5:2 Diet – Fast Days & Feast Days, Weekly Meal Plan and a LOW CALORIE Breakfast Omelette Recipe My Monday Meal Plan this week has slid to a Tuesday – as you know if you have been reading and following my blog over the last few days, I have been SO busy with a houseful…
Organic September & Seasonal Family Recipes – Chicken Pie, Strawberry French Toast & Soup with Cheese Toasties
Organic September & Seasonal Family Recipes – Chicken Pie, Strawberry French Toast & Soup with Cheese Toasties – When I was approached by Sainsbury’s recently and asked if I would like to participate in the Organic September event, which is being run by the Soil Association, I was delighted to accept the challenge. Organic is always the way to…
A Special 5:2 Diet Recipe for Fast Days: Luxury Steak Burger with Artichokes and Olives
A Special 5:2 Diet Recipe for Fast Days: Luxury Steak Burger with Artichokes and Olives I know what you are thinking, HOW can this LUSH looking burger be DIET food? Well, it is IF you use VERY lean minced beef or even better, minced steak. And, of course, you have to DITCH the bread bun…
5:2 Diet – Fast Days & Feast Days, Monday Meal Plan and a LOW CALORIE Salad Niçoise Recipe
5:2 Diet – Fast Days & Feast Days, Monday Meal Plan LOW CALORIE Salad Niçoise Recipe Welcome to another Monday Meal Plan and a new week…..and, a Bank Holiday for those of you in the UK, late August Bank holiday, the last one before schools start back at the beginning of September, and where has the summer…
Fasting and Feasting with Fish on Friday: Middle Eastern Tahini and Lemon Baked Fish – Perfect for the 5:2 Diet
Fasting and Feasting with Fish on Friday: ~ Middle Eastern Tahini and Lemon Baked Fish ~ Perfect for the 5:2 Diet IT’s a LOW CALORIE Fish on Friday post and this recipe has been made with one of my favourite types of fish, Hake. And, the recipe in question is one of my own recipes, an exclusive restaurant…
