Chicken and Leek Quiche recipe and the ultimate Gluten Free Flour. Isn’t it a universal truth that whatever you can’t have is what you immediately crave? My mother was diabetic – and spent her life once diagnosed craving chocolate. My sister in law follows a medically recommended gluten-free diet. And, when she and my brother […]
Potato and Bacon Hotpot with Jarlsberg Cheese and Leeks
Potato and Bacon Hotpot with Leeks – Simple One-Pot Recipe. Do you sometimes forget how much you like an old recipe? Potato and Bacon Hotpot must have been one of the first things I made as a student – pure comfort food, it really comes into its own in the winter months when having something […]
Soup Story – Low Calorie Creamy Leek Soup
Low Calorie Creamy Leek Soup – experimenting with Raw Food: I should be doing the 5:2 Diet. I know I should be – I’ve put on a bit of weight and I’ve discovered that the 5:2 diet is a way that works for me – if I fast (500 calories) one day a week I […]
5:2 Diet Recipe – Cream of Leek Soup #Vegetarian #Vegan
Low Calorie 5:2 Diet Winter Soup made with Cauliflower Cream and Almond Milk: Do you use pinterest? I pin all my recipes and follow some of my friends boards. Jac, who blogs over at Tinned Tomatoes is vegetarian and has a vegan husband and she produces some of the most fantastic vegetarian food. Not so […]
5-2 Diet Soup and Update on Fast Days
An Update of Progress on the 5-2 Diet and a Slimmed Down Leek and Potato Soup! The 5-2 diet is becoming a lifestyle diet for me. It seems to enable me to VERY SLOWLY lose weight without too much pain. OK, for 2 days a week I really do have to eat carefully and not […]
Leek and Celeriac Gratin
5-2 diet leek and celeriac gratin and a full-fat option. Supper last night was not quite what I intended! I’ started with great plans to make a low-calorie leek and celeriac gratin and serve half of it with a salad and a quinoa burger. But, then my day seemed to vanish! In the end, as […]
5:2 Diet Recipes Celery and Spinach Soup
Unplanned 5:2 diet fast and a 5:2 Soup Recipe! OK, yesterday I might just have overdone things a bit – hence the idea that I might need an extra 5:2 diet day (does that make it 4:3?). Lunch was a review meal at Kitchen Italia and Dinner another review meal at Bombay Brasserie. It would […]
Cockaleekie Soup
Cockaleekie Soup This is my Dad’s recipe – I think he was taught how to make it by my great-aunts who were Highlanders (from Skye!). It doesn’t have prunes in it and we’ve always varied it by what happens to be around. The mandatory ingredients (for me) are home-made stock, leeks, pearl barley and chicken. […]