Courgette Ratatouille with Summer Savoury: This ratatouille recipe is really an early summer dish – when the first vine tomatoes are really ripe and there are young, fresh courgettes available. Very simple to make, it keeps well in the fridge for three or four days, works cold with a salad or warmed up to serve […]
Delish Fish Hits the Jackpot – Smoked Fish Trio
Smoked plaice goujons with cheat aioli: When my friend and fish supplier, John at DelishFish told me his colleagues at the Amity Fish Company had just won an award for their trio of smoked fish in the Grampian Food Forum Awards, I wasn’t particularly suprised. Though I’d actually only tried one of the three 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 […]
Back to the 5:2 Diet – Spicy Prawn Wraps
Dieting, Moving House and Spicy Prawn Wraps: I’m moving. Or rather I hope I’m moving. Life is just a little chaotic at the moment and to add to the chaos, I thought I’d be sorted out by now so I agreed to go on a couple of rather amazing press trips. So, my normal […]
5:2 Diet Recipe – Thai Fishcakes
Thai Fishcakes 5:2 Diet Recipe For Fast Days: Fish is a great base for diet recipes. Nevertheless it’s been a while since I have posted a fish recipe whether for the 5:2 diet or not. I suspect that’s partly because I wrote a lot of 5:2 diet recipes using fish last year and ran out […]
A 5:2 Diet Recipe To Fill You Up – Spinach and Lentil Soup
Healthy, Filling 5:2 Diet Recipe – Spinach and Lentil Soup: Yes I know I keep making soup for the 5:2 diet. Particularly in winter I find that a generous bowl of home made low calorie soup is one of the best ways to manage a 5:2 diet fast day. And, I’ve learnt a new trick […]
Smoked Cheese Christmas Parcels
Seasonal Snacks with Smoked Cheese: Most of the time I cook straightforward family meals. But, Christmas is coming and I decided it would be great to have some ‘nibbles’ – things I could leave out for Santa -0r (more probably) enjoy myself with a glass of wine or a beer. So, trying to be creative, […]
Beetroot and Goats Cheese Salad with Honeyed Walnuts
Goats Cheese and Beetroot Salad with Honeyed Walnuts There are a thousand and one variations on this for Goats Cheese and Beetroot Salad around. My version was made to use the cooked beetroot in mild vinegar that LoveBeetroot sent me this week. We’ve been having something of an Indian Summer and after wandering around the […]