Wild Rice Thai Restaurant, Soho: Starting your own restaurant is never an easy business. However first-time restaurateurs Mike Asavarut and Pan Serirak have just opened two. Both Thai restaurants and both at the same address – offering two alternative takes on classic Thai dishes.The first floor in their central Soho site houses Mamasan – a […]
Thai Square Fulham – Review
A Touch of Thai in Fulham at Thai Square: (invited press review) The Thai Square group of restaurants started in 1996 with the opening of their branch in the Strand. They now have 13 restaurants in all, mostly in London alongside Windsor and St Albans, all combining the same offer of delicious Thai food served […]
The 5-2 Diet and Me
The 5-2 Diet – a Lifestyle Choice? When Michael Mosley’s Horizon TV programme about the 5-2 Diet first aired, some months ago now I watched, fascinated. Many of the diet and nutrition ideas I’d grown up with, like eating three balanced meals a day and never eating less than 1000 calories a day, seemed to […]
A More Mindful Diet with the Mindful Chef
Lemongrass trout with coconut lime rice recipe: As a keen cook who lives by herself, I never really considered recipe boxes. But, as it happens, The Mindful Chef does have recipe boxes for one. I believe they are the only recipe box company that offers boxes for a single person – so, I was able […]
5:2 Diet Recipe – Thai Fishcakes
Thai Fishcakes 5:2 Diet Recipe For Fast Days: Fish is a great base for diet recipes. Nevertheless it’s been a while since I have posted a fish recipe whether for the 5:2 diet or not. I suspect that’s partly because I wrote a lot of 5:2 diet recipes using fish last year and ran out […]
Mango Tree Thai Restaurant in Belgravia
Review: Mango Tree Thai Restaurant – Belgravia: Taking a drinks writer to a restaurant with a superb cocktail bar must be the diametric opposite of taking a pescatarian to an Argentinian restaurant. And so, having taken the Hedonist with me to Zoilo it was only right and proper that I should take Simon from by-invitation […]
Steamed Thai Style Fish for the 5-2 Diet
Steamed Thai Style Cod Recipe for 5-2 Diet: This 5-2 diet recipe for Steamed Fish uses one of the simplest ways to cook healthy food. Steaming fish involves no added fat but allows you to add seasoning in the form of ingredients cooked in the steamer. What a great concept for the 5-2 diet fast […]