British Bouillabaisse – a langoustine based fish soup. Bouillabaisse originated in Marseille and by definition is peasant food. Using the fish they could not sell in the market, fishermen would simmer these fish in a herby broth and serve with crusty bread. This recipe is not for that dish. Langoustine can be found in some […]
5:2 Diet Curried Parsnip Soup
Curried Parsnip Soup for the 5:2 Diet. I didn’t plan to write this recipe for curried parsnip soup up on London-Unattached nor was I doing a 5:2 diet fast day when I made it, but when I was busy eating it yesterday for lunch and tweeting (yes I know…it’s sad!) three people asked me how […]
Low Calorie Celeriac Soup – with Wicked Blue Cheese Croutons
Low-Calorie Celeriac Soup Recipe. 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 normal celery you are supposed to […]
Diet Celery Soup Recipe
Low-Calorie Celery Soup – 5:2 Diet Celery Soup Recipe I’m still doing the 5-2 diet, despite all apparent appearances to the contrary. Some weeks I find I don’t have 2 days when I can fast, but I try to balance that out on the weeks when I am less busy. And I am slowly […]
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 […]
Pasta and Bean Soup Recipe – Fit for his Excellency
Pasta and Bean Soup from 4 Grosvenor Square – A Cookbook by Danilo Cortellini. The background to this Pasta and Bean soup comes from a reception held to celebrate Danilo Cortellini’s new recipe book, 4 Grosvenor Square. English people of a certain age often smile when being offered a Ferrero Rocher sweet and will often […]
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 […]