Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner: Persian Lamb, Aromatic Cauliflower & Chocolate Truffle Cake Recipes March Core Ingredients: Lemons; Cauliflower; Leeks; Eggs; Chocolate and Lamb MARCH MENU: Persian Roast Lamb with Aromatic Rice Spiced Cauliflower Spicy Shepherd’s Pie with Cheesy Leek Topping Chocolate Truffle Cake with Crystallised Violets Welcome to my second Thrifty and Organic Meal Planner post!…
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5:2 Diet 215 Calorie Kebabs! Cajun Chicken Kebab and Spiced Yoghurt Dip Recipe
5:2 Diet 225 Calorie Kebabs! Cajun Chicken Kebab and Spiced Yoghurt Dip Recipe I am rather proud of this low-calorie recipe! I often hanker after tasty “fast food” types of food when I am on a diet, and although I have never really found a decent chicken kebab outside of Cyprus (or Turkey and Greece)…
The Weekend Pudding Club: Chocolate Paradise Bread and Butter Pudding Recipe
The Weekend Pudding Club: Chocolate Paradise Bread and Butter Pudding Recipe It’s Pudding time! February continues to be cold, snowy and almost Baltic, the sun shines bright and the days are crisp and clear, but by the late afternoon the temperature has plummeted to below zero and I can be found sitting in front of the fire contemplating bowls of soup. I have sensed…
A Vegetable Jewel in the Crown: Fenland Celery and Fenland Celery Soup Recipe
A Vegetable Jewel in the Crown: Fenland Celery and Fenland Celery Soup Recipe Celery, a simple vegetable, but with the unfortunate reputation of being served (stuck in a water-glass) as an accompaniment to those 70’s cheese board protagonists, Edam and Danish Blue, with cream crackers and a glass if Mateus Rose. But, celery can be…
A Spring Fling Recipe for the 5:2 Diet! Low-Calorie Minted Pea & Vegetable Frittata – 200 calories
A Spring Fling Recipe for the 5:2 Diet! Low-Calorie Minted Pea & Vegetable Frittata – 200 calories I really feel as if spring is just around the corner – yes, we have been warned of more cold weather to come, but, the sun has been shining lately even if mornings and evenings have been frosty…
Recipe: Make Award Winning Marmalade – Marmalade Workshop with Vivien Lloyd
Recipe: Make Award Winning Marmalade Marmalade Workshop with Vivien Lloyd Just over a week ago I was invited to attend a seasonal preserves workshop with two other food writers and bloggers, Sue and Charlotte; it was an exciting opportunity to make award-winning marmalade with Vivien Lloyd, in her lovely country farmhouse just outside Bath. I have attended one…
Recipe: Pancakes for Everyday! My Marmalade Pancakes for Pancake Day +1
Recipe: Pancakes for Everyday! My Marmalade Pancakes for Pancake Day +1 I know, I am a day late, but I was travelling all day yesterday and did not have time to rustle up a batch of pancakes whilst sitting on the train! However, if you still have some eggs and milk in your pantry that…
Kung Hei Fat Choy! Easy Chicken Chow Mein Recipe
Kung Hei Fat Choy! Easy Chicken Chow Mein Recipe Chinese Symbol for Happy Chinese New Year (恭禧發財) Happy Chinese New Year! How to say Happy Chinese New Year in Chinese? The most common Chinese ways of saying Happy New Year are Gong Xi Fa Cai (Mandarin) and Gong Hey Fat Choy (Cantonese). Even though the…
Love Food, Hate Waste for Thrifty Thursday: Home-Made Chicken Stock Recipe
Love Food, Hate Waste for Thrifty Thursday: Home-Made Chicken Stock Recipe I HATE waste! I was brought up in a very thrifty household where fabulous meals were cooked, but, any leftovers were always made into another tasty and wholesome meal. So, it is an anathema to me that so much food is wasted in the UK…
Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner: Honey Roast Chicken, Hand Pies and Bread & Butter Pudding Recipes
Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner: Honey Roast Chicken, Hand Pies and Bread & Butter Pudding Recipes February Core Ingredients: Rhubarb; Carrots; Potatoes; Swede; Chicken and Honey It gives me great pleasure to announce to all of my readers that I will be working in partnership with Organic UK for the next eight months. I will be creating thrifty…
Memories of Hong Kong and Chinese New Year: Chinese Chicken Egg Roll Wraps Recipe
“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…
Getting Ready for Chinese New Year: Steamed Asian Fish Parcels Recipe for 5:2 Diet Fast Day
Getting Ready for Chinese New Year: Steamed Asian Fish Parcels Recipe for 5:2 Diet Fast Day There is a VERY good reason why so many low-calorie recipes tend to be Asian inspired, as when you are on a diet what you still need and crave is FLAVOUR, and the addition of spices and herbs, as…
Three Fruit Marmalade Recipe
In 2013 I decided that I was going to take the orange by the rind, (as opposed to the bull by the horns) and enter my marmalade into that year’s Marmalade Awards, or to give it the correct title, The World’s Original Marmalade Awards. I was bold and brave, not worrying about the awards I…
Scheherazade and Tea Time Treats: Cardamom Rose Cake with Orange Drizzle Recipe
Scheherazade and Tea Time Treats: Cardamom Rose Cake with Orange Drizzle Recipe There is something of Scheherazade and her tales from a Thousand and One Arabian Nights in my latest cake recipe, Cardamom Rose Cake with Orange Drizzle Recipe. Cardamom is a spice with an aroma that immediately transports me to the Middle East, probably on a magic…
Snow, Bread and Boule! An Easy Artisan Weekly Make and Bake Rustic Bread Recipe
Snow, Bread and Boule! An Easy Artisan Weekly Make and Bake Rustic Bread Recipe The snow arrived in soft fluttering flakes and settled as fast as an uninvited guest at the tea-table! The light was bright and the snow-bound garden had that eerie muffled silence that the snow always brings with it. The Aga and fire were lit,…
