Home Made Spicy Lamb Burger for National Burger Day: Burgers are one of the easiest things to make yourself. And, home-made burgers taste SO much better than the pre-made ones you can buy in the shops, perhaps because you can season them to your own taste or perhaps because you can use excellent quality meat […]
Turkey Pirate Ships for the #TurkeyTractorChallenge
Turkey THREE ways – turning a Turkey Meatball into a Pirate Ship. Mea Culpa – I was in far too much of a hurry when I went shopping to create my Mozzarella Turkey Meatballs. The result was that, although I bought red tractor turkey and onions and used Hillfarm rapeseed oil, I managed to skip the […]
Steak Recipe – Tagliata Balsamico
A Simple Recipe for Steak – Italian Style Tagliata Balsamico: One of the things I miss about living on the borders of Kennington and Walworth is a good local butcher. Of course I could order a delivery, but I don’t always plan far enough in advance to buy my meat and fresh vegetables that way […]
Blogger cooking challenge – Spicy Roast Lamb
Roast Lamb with Spiced Chickpea: I was challenged to re-create a dish created by Davide de Croci, chef for Millennium’s Bailey’s Hotel using British lamb. His version is shown below. The recipe can be found here. Be careful about the oven temperature – don’t read this as celsius or your pieces of lamb will end […]
Tilda Brazilian Supper Club and a Druv Baker Special
Simple Meat Balls and a Brazilian Feast: Leaving writing up about the wonderful feast at the Tilda Brazilian Supperclub hosted by Luiz Hara with Druv Baker (of Masterchef fame)and Rosana McPhee has meant that my review would be a vague series of commendations. For that reason, I’m not going to try and pretend that I remember all […]
Simple 5:2 Diet Tomato Sauce -with Non-Diet Sausages;)
A Simple 5:2 Diet Friendly Recipe for Tomato Sauce – Served with Sausages and Polenta: Do you find that your 5:2 diet cookery spills over into the dishes you make for non-fast days? I know I am far more conscious of the ratio of oils and fats, protein and carbohydrate than I was and that […]
Life in Leftovers – 5:2 Diet Recipe for Spicy Venison Rissoles
Leftover Venison – Spicy Rissoles – a 5:2 Diet Recipe: There is a curious life-cycle to leftover Christmas food that seems to work in pretty much the same way no matter which animal and vegetables you eat on Christmas Day. On the big day you feast happily on a heaped, steaming plate of food. Someone will […]
Rogan Josh from Revival Bootcamp – 5:2 Diet Curry Recipe
Rogan Josh Low Cal Curry – Bootcamp Favourite Recipe 5:2 Diet Fast Days: One of the biggest surprises for me on the Revival bootcamp was just how good the food tasted. Of course that could have been all the fresh air and exercise, but it might also have had something to do with eating freshly […]
Simple Spicy 5:2 Diet Pork Stir-Fry Recipe
A Simple Spicy Pork Stir-Fry Recipe for the 5:2 Diet – Countdown to Bootcamp: While I may sometimes lose focus on the 5:2 diet, it has, for me been one of the most successful ways of eating because for the most part it lets me get on with my normal life. I’m very slowly losing […]
Classic Ways with Beef – Mum’s Beef Stroganoff
Beef Stroganoff – My Mother’s Classic Dinner Party Dish: My mother was a woman of great character. Cookery was not something that she ever wanted on her personal CV but when my father became the GP in a small seaside town, she was thrown into ‘Entertaining’. It was expected that the doctor had a formal […]