Organic September: My Top Ten Organic Store Cupboard Ingredients & Meal Plans Welcome to week three of my Thrifty and Organic posts, and a HUGE thanks to all of you who attended the #ThriftyOrganic “Twitter Party” that I hosted last week with Organic UK and Foodies 100. This week finds me pondering on what my top…
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Healthy Fish and Chips for Fish on Friday: Baked Hake & Oven Chips Recipe
Healthy Fish and Chips for Fish on Friday: Baked Hake & Oven Chips Recipe It’s Friday and that means Fish On Friday for us! I know I have not posted many fish on Friday posts over the summer, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been eating fish, on the contrary, we have enjoyed all sorts…
Windfalls, September Harvest and Comforting Soups: Curried Leek and Apple Soup Recipe (5:2 Diet)
Windfalls, September Harvest and Comforting Soups: Curried Leek and Apple Soup Recipe (5:2 Diet) There is no doubt that the dieter’s friend is a bowl of soup, and I have managed to complete many a “fast day” with a bowl of comforting soup as one of my meals for the day. Plus, you usually manage…
Fasting on Saturday before Feasting on Sunday: 5:2 Diet Autumn Roast Vegetable & Cheese Salad
Fasting on Saturday before Feasting on Sunday: 5:2 Diet Autumn Roast Vegetable & Cheese Salad Recipe By the time I get to the weekend, I have normally fulfilled my two “fast days” and am looking forward to a weekend filled with wine, roast dinners and special baked treats. However, this week as I have been…
Stotty Cakes & Geordie Ploughman’s Lunches! Cheese Savoury (Sandwich Filling) Recipe
Stotty Cakes & Geordie Ploughman’s Lunches! Cheese Savoury (Sandwich Filling) Recipe I love a good stotty cake, and remember my grandmother making them in her Northumberland cottage when I used to stay with her and my grandfather, when I was little. There has been a revival in traditional North Eastern food lately, with lots of “trends”…
Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner for Organic September: Somerset Pork, Apple Tart and Many More Recipes!
Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner for Organic September: Somerset Pork, Apple Tart and Many More Recipes! Core Ingredients for September: Pork, Apples, Butternut Squash, Leeks, Cabbage and Oats September Menu: Spiced Roast Butternut Squash Soup Irish Soda Bread with Oats Somerset Pork with Apples Creamed Leek and Cabbage Braise Rustic Apple Galette Welcome to a very…
Vintage Ice Cream Parlours, Ice Cream Vans and Shatin Heights Hotel Ice Cream Soda! (5:2 Recipe)
Vintage Ice Cream Parlours, Ice Cream Vans and Shatin Heights Hotel Ice Cream Soda! (5:2 Recipe) I remember a naughty little girl, who in the 60’s wandered down a steep hill from where she lived, crossed a busy road, and presented herself at The Shatin Heights Hotel whereupon she was served an Ice Cream Soda…
Flowers and Fools, Peaches and Pies: Easy Late Summertime Recipes…..
Flowers and Fools, Peaches and Pies: Easy Late Summertime Recipes….. I have been on holiday for the last week, at home in France, but with a childhood friend and her partner – Sarah and Jim. So, I have not been around as much on Twitter, Facebook or even here, but, I HAVE been cooking up…
La Plancha: Chilli Peppered Chicken Steaks & Mediterranean Goat’s Cheese Vegetable Stacks
La Plancha Cooking with VeryCook: Chilli Peppered Chicken Steaks Mediterranean Goat’s Cheese Vegetable Stacks Recipes I have always loved the style outdoor cooking, whether it be outdoors or inside…..so, when I was asked if I would like to be the FIRST British food blogger to work with VeryCook and receive one of their La Plancha…
An Old Flask and Childhood Memories: Cheese, Onion and Potato Pasties Recipe
An Old Flask and Childhood Memories: Cheese, Onion and Potato Pasties Recipe I remember many picnics throughout my life, both as an adult and a child; and, when my parents offered to give me an old Thermos flask recently, for food styling, as soon as I saw which one it was, the memories just came…
Bacon Wrapped Chicken with Goat’s Cheese and Basil served with Mixed Pepper Tomato Salsa
Bacon Wrapped Chicken with Goat’s Cheese and Basil served with Mixed Pepper Tomato Salsa I love creating and developing recipes, so when I was sent a bumper hamper full of ingredients from E-On recently and asked to come up with some tasty, quick and simple recipes, I was pleased to join in. I was sent…
Easy Summer Dining: Bourbon Beef and Pepper Skewers and Accompaniments (Sous Vide)
Easy Summer Dining: Bourbon Beef and Pepper Skewers and Accompaniments (Sous Vide) With the summer still giving is hot and sunny days, with just the odd shower of rain here and there to cool things down, my next Sous Vide Supreme post is all about BEEF, and barbecue cooking, although these skewers can (and were)…
Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner for August: Hamburgers, Peaches and Mediterranean Vegetable Recipes
Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner for August: Hamburgers, Peaches and Mediterranean Vegetable Recipes Core Ingredients for August: Minced Beef, Aubergines, Courgettes, Onions, Peaches and Quinoa August Menu: Hamburgers with Herb Baked Onions Oven-Baked Ratatouille Mediterranean Quinoa Salad with Goat’s Cheese Amaretti Peach Melba Crumble Parcels Welcome to August’s Thrifty and Organic Meal Planner; with the…
Lazy Summer Lunches and Food Hampers: Spanish Tapas Toast with Escalivada Recipe
Lazy Summer Lunches and Food Hampers: Spanish Tapas Toast with Escalivada Recipe How nice it is the receive a hamper of artisan products, and I was delighted to receive just one such box last week when a box of Spanish goodies landed on my doorstep. The box of delights had been sent to me by…
A Mediterranean Meze Lunch with Loire Wines: Food and Wine Pairing
A Mediterranean Meze Lunch with Loire Wines: Food and Wine Pairing Having lived in Cyprus and run a restaurant there for several years, I am well versed in the Mediterranean Meze lunch; at the restaurant I used to co-host and run, we had a fabulous meze menu, of which I prepared and cooked many of…
