Simple healthy sesame chicken stir-fry with Yutaka Edamame Noodles: A few samples of a new healthy noodle range from Yutaka, together with a stir-fry cookery book from Ching-He Huang were the inspiration for this recipe. I love stir fry dishes but do tend to rely on a version of stone soup where whatever happens to be […]
Sichuan Chicken from the School of Wok
Sharing my Favourite Sichuan Chicken Recipe from the School of Wok: You may remember I went to the School of Wok for a day of Chinese cookery. I was particularly thrilled with the Sichuan Chicken recipe we made and wanted to share it with London Unattached readers, but not until I’d checked with the School […]
5:2 Diet Tips
5-2 Diet Tips – Eat Well and Cook Less? OK, a guilty little secret about me and the 5-2 fast diet. I enjoy cooking on 5-2 diet fast days. Maybe a masochistic tendency, maybe just wanting to keep busy. But like everyone there are days when I simply don’t have time to make home-made soups. […]
Fast Day Food – 5:2 Diet Asian Chicken Wraps
5:2 Diet Asian Chicken Wraps – Fast Day Meal Plan: Asian chicken wraps in a lettuce leaf are one of the prettiest 5:2 diet recipes I make. For me, one of the challenges of a 5:2 fast day menu is how to eat well without including a large portion of rice, potatoes or similar. Particularly […]
5:2 Diet – Feasting on a Fast Day with Chilli Beef
5:2 Diet Chilli Beef Stir-Fry I’m still doing the 5:2 Diet. I even went out and bought some BRUTAL scales that weigh me accurately (I could lose a couple of kilos by getting on and off the old scales enough times…and that wasn’t through exercise!). And the nasty new scales also show my body fat! […]
Stirfry Tenderstem Broccoli with Chicken
The Versatile StirFry with Tenderstem: This is one of my favourite quick meals. You can make it as light or substantial as you want by varying the amount of rice or noodles in the dish and you can swap and change many of the ingredients – it works very well with beef, pork, prawns, calamari […]