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 […]
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 Food
5-2 Diet Leek and Celeriac Gratin: Supper last night was not quite what I intended! I’ started with great plans to make the gratin and serve half of it with a salad and a quinoa burger. But, then my day seemed to vanish! In the end as is often the case toward the end of […]
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 […]
Leek Caponata
A not very British Leek Caponata Recipe: Caponata is a Sicilian dish usually made with aubergines that involves using a sweet-sour tomato sauce poured over the cooked vegetables and ‘melded’ together as everything cools. It’s a great thing to have in the fridge during the summer because you can serve it cold with salads or […]
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. […]