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…
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Recipe: Wild Haddock with Smoked Sea Salt Crust and Cherry Tomato Scramble
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…
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…
5:2 Diet Fasting and Feasting! Lemon Chicken with Cannellini Beans and Rosemary Recipe
5:2 Diet Fasting and Feasting! Lemon Chicken with Cannellini Beans and Rosemary Recipe Feasting and fasting, that’s what the 5:2 Diet is mostly about, and one of the reasons I have stuck to it for so long; let’s just put this into context, when I say feasting, I don’t mean a table laden with banquet…
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…
Down Memory Lane with my Old Fashioned Milk Loaf Recipe
Down Memory Lane with my Old Fashioned Milk Loaf Recipe Do you remember those old-fashioned bakers, those ones where you could buy a loaf of bread and they used to pop it in a white paper bag and do that magic twisting thing to seal it – like sweet shops used to do as well. They…
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…
Rosy Roasted Roots, Random Recipes and Fresh Scottish Herrings in an Oatmeal Crumb
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…
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,…
The Fast Diet, Meal Planning Monday and Tiger Prawn Curry with Basmati Rice (5:2 Diet) Recipe
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…
Five-A-Day Family Supper Recipe: “Sunday Lunch” Chicken, Sausage and Vegetable Hotpot
Five-A-Day Family Supper Recipe: “Sunday Lunch” Chicken, Sausage and Vegetable Hotpot Ahhhh…..Slow Sunday! A day of comparative rest, unless you are cooking a “full on” family Sunday roast that is; a day to turn over in bed for another few minutes or half an hour, a day of “no bills” through the letter box. A…
Winter Snack Recipe: Ploughman’s Rarebit – Cheese and Chutney on Toast with Pickles
Winter Snack Recipe: Ploughman’s Rarebit – Cheese and Chutney on Toast with Pickles My mum’s pickled onions are the best in the world! Well, unless your mum’s are the best, as I am sure they are; but, if I am going to eat commercial pickles, than I expect the same quality as my mum’s – crisp, perfectly spiced…
Charles Dickens and London Particular: Ham and Pea Soup Recipe
Charles Dickens and London Particular: Ham and Pea Soup Recipe It has been foggy lately, the New Year opened with thick, swirling fog – the sort where drips of moisture are amplified by the close pressing presence of this most depressing of weather phenomena. Rain I can cope with, now and then that is, snow is initially magical before it becomes sludge or…
5:2 Diet Meal Plan for Fast Days: Low-Calorie Haddock Goujons with Garlic Panko Crumb (Recipe)
5:2 Diet Meal Plan for Fast Days: Low-Calorie Haddock Goujons with Garlic Panko Crumb (Recipe) The first full week in the New Year after all of the festivities brings me back to earth with a heavy bump, and it ‘s back onto my 5:2 diet plan with a vengeance. I have managed to fit in the…
Twelfth Night, Epiphany and Delicious Bread! King Cake: Rosca de Reyes (Recipe)
Twelfth Night, Epiphany and Delicious Bread! King Cake: Rosca de Reyes (Recipe) Regular Lavender and Lovage readers may remember that I entered a baking contest recently here: La Rosca de Reyes (King Cake) ~ For a Spanish Inspired Christmas & New Year, sadly I didn’t win, you can’t win them all, but I did come in as…
