Quick, Easy Low-Calorie Sweet and Sour Chicken for the 5:2 Diet: A little while ago I was sent a sample of Truvia, a natural sweetener that is almost zero calorie. The idea was supposed to be that I could cook with it, but when I checked, I found I’d been sent small sachets, the sort […]
5:2 Diet Frugal Fasting – Turkey Leftovers
5:2 Diet Frugal Fast Days – Spicy Turkey Meatballs These low-calorie spicy turkey meatballs are a result of looking for healthy ways to use turkey leftovers. One of the biggest challenges of the 5:2 diet for me has been how to cope with family Christmas. To some extent, I haven’t tried too hard. An advantage […]
Festive Turkey Meal for Two Made Easy
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 – […]
Chicken Tagine with Preserved Lemons and Olives
Easy Chicken Tagine with Preserved Lemons and Olives: At this time of year, I love spicy food, warming stews and rich, deep flavours. A Tagine is a Moroccan dish that usually involves meat or fish and some kind of fruit. It seems particularly appropriate to make a chicken and preserved lemon tagine with olives – It’s the […]
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 Stir-Fry – Easy Low-Calorie Recipe: I’m happily back doing the 5:2 diet to try and lose a little weight. You’ll find one of my favourite recipes for Chicken Stir-Fry at the bottom of this post – I love it so much I’m happy to eat it whether or not I am dieting. A […]
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 […]