Easy Turkey Dinner for Two – Christmas Made Simple: Christmas lunch is one of those sacrosanct meals that you just need to make special. If you have a big family, in many ways it’s easy – albeit hard work. You buy a big turkey – you prepare everything in advance as much as possible – […]
Essential Cuisine Partridge in Red Wine and Medlar Sauce
Seasonal Cooking – Partridge in Red Wine and Medlar: It’s the game season – one of my favourite times of year for food. I tend to overindulge in game with the justification that it is healthy (naturally organic and lower in fat that farm cultivated meat and poultry) but with a genuine love for the flavours […]
Poached Chicken with Wild Garlic Pesto – a 5:2 Diet Recipe
Poached Chicken with Wild Garlic Pesto – Making Diet Food Tasty The healthiest of food can suddenly turn into something rich and calorific quite easily. Butter and cream based sauces will simply blow the calorie allowance for a 5:2 diet fast day – and frying, even in healthy olive oil, can wreck any attempt at […]
Mediterranean Chicken en Papillote – a 5:2 Diet Recipe
Mediterranean Chicken En Papillote – Chicken Parcels: Cooking en papillote is a great method for anyone trying to eat healthy food or to diet, whether you are following the 5:2 diet like me or not. Essentially, your fish, vegetables or meat are put into a pouch made from foil or parchment with whatever seasoning you […]
Low Calorie Chicken Stir Fry – a 5:2 Diet Recipe
Healthy Chicken Stirfry – Low-Calorie Recipe: I’m happily back doing the 5:2 diet to try and lose a little weight. While I never put back on everything I lost in the last round, I did start (about 3 weeks ago) with 10kg to get back to my target weight of around 60kg (for those using […]
Roast Chicken Supremes with Tarragon
Tarragon Roast Chicken Supremes Recipe Given half a chance I buy my meat from a butcher or from the local farmers’ market rather than from the supermarket. In the case of the butcher, I have rather a good ‘almost local’ butcher a few stops south on the tube. But, that’s a special journey, which only […]
Celebrating My Mother – #ThanksMum.
Mother’s Day Retrospective: This time of year is hard for those of us who have lost their mothers and yet don’t have children of their own. The shops and restaurants are full of things for Mothering Sunday and I get slightly overwhelmed by enquiries about what I will be covering here on London-Unattached. Will there […]
Classic Coq Au Vin Recipe
Coq Au Vin – A Classic Recipe from my Childhood: Now I’m well past my forties, I’ve become a firm believer that fifty is the new twenty. Despite that, I increasingly find myself spotting things that were significantly different when I was growing up. There are certain foods which really seem to have changed in terms […]
Sous-Vide Balsamic Duck Breast – a Thermocook Recipe:
Thermocook Sous-Vide – Balsamic Duck Breast: One of the biggest attractions for me of the Thermomix was having a kitchen utensil that was really multi-functional. I’ve never quite been able to justify spending over a thousand pounds though. So, I was (and still am) really excited to be given the opportunity to review and use […]
Healthy Moroccan Style Sausage Casserole
Low-Calorie Moroccan Style Sausage Casserole with Heck Chicken Sausages: I haven’t given up cooking, though at times it may seem that all I am doing is eating out. I have a store of healthy and tasty recipes that I’ve been working on over the last few months just waiting for Christmas to be over. If […]