Low-Calorie Celeriac Soup Recipe and More for The Big Broth: As any regular reader of London-Unattached may have noticed I share recipes for a lot of home-made soup. Celeriac Soup is one of my own personal favourites – I love the taste of celery and by using celeriac I can avoid the stringy bits on […]
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 […]
Easy Healthy Eating – 5:2 Lifestyle Diet – Carrot and Celeriac Soup
Low-Calorie Carrot and Celeriac Soup with Coriander: I’ve been something of an irregular follower of the 5:2 diet over the last year. The result is that my weight has gradually crept up and I now feel a need to lose a few kilos again. Around 8kg would be perfect. For 2017, I’ve decided on a […]
Cooking for His Excellency:
Recipes fit for His Excellency – 4 Grosvenor Square – A Cookbook by Danilo Cortellini: English people of a certain age often smile when being offered a Ferrero Rocher sweet and will often quote a line from a cheesy 1993 television advert, “You’re spoiling us Mr Ambassador”. Rather tongue in cheek, we were actually served […]
My 5:2 Diet – Spicy Spinach and Chickpea Soup and More
5:2 Diet Tips – Spicy Spinach and Chickpea Soup – Planning Perfect Fast Day Meals: Despite a five day holiday, I’m trying my best to get back into a routine with the 5:2 diet. Last time round I developed something of a pattern with home-made soup for lunch and dinner of fresh white fish […]
Soup Story – Low Calorie Creamy Leek Soup
Low Calorie Creamy Leek Soup – experimenting with Raw Food: I should be doing the 5:2 Diet. I know I should be – I’ve put on a bit of weight and I’ve discovered that the 5:2 diet is a way that works for me – if I fast (500 calories) one day a week I […]
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 […]