Good food without sacrifice
Fluffy, light and indulgent-tasting, homemade muffins really area game-changer when you fancy something sweet without going off-track. I’ve included my two favourite variations of flavours here for you: blueberry and lemon curd, and raspberry and white chocolate. Both are delicious and I go back to …
After thoroughly enjoying my tuna and pesto quiche the other day, I thought I would continue along the same vein with another quiche recipe today! Like the other recipe, this was thrown together using the contents of my fridge and today I though a Mexican …
I’m often asked for easy lunch recipes which don’t constitute soup or a salad so today I thought I would share one of my favs. This basis of this quiche recipe is an old favourite in our house and my family have been making it …
This is a dish that I only caught the end of on an episode of Food and Drink with James Martin but it caught my eye as both the OH and I love a stir fry. Having never experimented with an Indian Stir Fry before, …
Salmon is one of my favourite fish and so I’m always on the look out for new ways to do something a bit different with it. I came across a recipe in Olive Magazine this month that I new I had to give a go and …
I have a salad nearly every day for my packed lunch at work and its one of my favourite parts of the day. I love that you can create low point, delicious dressings which totally change the flavour of the regular salad ingredients. This one …
I love Thai food and so when I came across a jar of Tom Yum paste in Tesco I thought I would see what I could put together. Tom yum soup is not usually made with coconut milk, it’s more of a clear broth, but …
After discovering caramel essence while hunting for vanilla essence in the supermarket, I knew it would be an ideal ingredient to add extra flavour to something sweet for minimal calories. Having purchased it, I came home and started experimenting and this was the result: a …
I don’t know many people who enjoy resisting all things muffiny and cakey while they are trying to shift some pounds. This week, I was one of those people, but not wanting to give in I thought instead I would whip up my own not …
I got home the day before payday and went to make tea and found I basically had no food left in the house save for a few bits in the fridge and some tins. The dinner which followed was therefore a creation of whatever I …