Lettuce Soup and more – a collection of Romanian recipes. During lockdown we travel to foreign climes in our imaginations and our kitchens, our palettes traversing borders, opening our minds to new taste experiences. Visuals help too so a cookbook with evocative photographs is a boon. Carpathia: Food From the Heart of Romania is one […]
Diet Celery Soup Recipe
Low-Calorie Celery Soup – 5:2 Diet Celery Soup Recipe I’m still doing the 5-2 diet, despite all apparent appearances to the contrary. Some weeks I find I don’t have 2 days when I can fast, but I try to balance that out on the weeks when I am less busy. And I am slowly […]
Low Calorie Leek and Potato Soup
Diet Leek and Potato Soup Recipe – comfort food from my childhood: Every weekend that I am in London I wander over to the Farmers’ Market at Oval. My first stop is always the same. I go to the first farm stall to buy chicken carcasses – 4 for a pound. I boil them up […]
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 […]
5-2 Diet Cockaleekie Soup
5-2 Diet Cockaleekie Soup for Burns Night or a Fast Day! I’ve been making and eating cockaleekie soup since I was a child. My father’s cockaleekie recipe, involving stock made from the weekend’s roast, pearl barley, potatoes and a lot of leeks was one of the first recipes I published on London-Unattached. But, totally unsuitable […]
Overdone it at Christmas and New Year?
Healthy Soups for the New Year: It’s the 1st of January; I had a lovely Christmas with family and friends and brought in the New Year with some style (luckily not captured on camera!). Like many of us I suspect, I’m now dreading stepping on the scales and facing the damage! One way that I […]
Truffled Cream of Mushroom and Cauliflower Soup
A 5:2 Diet Staple and Cream of Mushroom Soup Recipe: Some time ago I tried making cauliflower cream. The idea is to create something that has all the consistency of cream but none of the fat content or calories. Or at least, FAR fewer calories. Blitzing an entire cauliflower actually makes rather too much for […]
Low Calorie Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato Soup
Diet Soup Recipe – Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato: It is definitely soup season again. Any regular reader may have noticed that I am not the most patient of cooks. While I prefer to cook from scratch, I am quite prepared to take shortcuts. And, although I would always recommend buying your vegetables ‘whole’, sometimes […]
Celeriac and Cucumber Soup – Testing the Froothie
Celeriac and Cucumber – Raw Soup for Health: I tend to avoid smoothies. It’s partly that I like my fruit with ‘bite’ and partly that I have a few food allergies and a few dietary guidelines which are specific to hypothyroidism. One of the guidelines for anyone who is hypothyroid is to avoid uncooked or […]
Another 5:2 Diet Fast Day – Another Soup Recipe
Celeriac and Sweet Potato Soup – a 5:2 Diet recipe: You know, I keep promising I won’t make more 5:2 diet recipe soups. And then, I try to work out what I want to eat on my 5:2 diet fast days – and I keep coming back to soup. Luckily there are an infinite number […]