Posted in - Healthy Recipes & Lunch / Dinner & Seafood on May 8th 2020
Happy VE Day!
In the grocer in Sturminster Newton yesterday I found fresh turmeric. Only that morning my mother was saying she wanted to eat it to help various ailments. So as luck would have it ….
Serves 6
Ingredients
1 aubergine with 1 clove finely slice garlic, olive oil and salt
glug of plain oil (olive, rapeseed …
Posted in - Bake & gluten free & Healthy Recipes on May 4th 2020
colourful salad gluten free cheesy muffins melon salad
Adding colour to a lockdown lunch.
Ingredients
Salad
Watermelon
Cucumber
Feta Cheese (barrel aged has a lovely subtle flavour)
Black olives
Dressing
1 tsp mustard
1 clove garlic, crushed
60mls white balsamic or white wine vinegar
120mls rapeseed oil or virgin olive oil
Cheesy Muffins
180g cream cheese
125g cheddar cheese
80g unsalted butter, melted
2 eggs
160g oats
80g almond flour (or blended ground almonds)
2 tsp gluten free baking powder
1/2 …
Posted in - Bake & Healthy Recipes & Peacetime & Tea Time on April 6th 2020
gluten free bread
I have been making this bread for about a year. Today I ran out of Sorghum flour and replaced it with Millet flour. The result is amazing! It is so light and so delicious. The ingredients make 2 loaves. I added cheese to the second loaf and it was eaten up in one sitting. If …
Posted in - Bake & gluten free & Healthy Recipes on October 16th 2019
gluten free gluten free crumpet bread
I really miss crumpets and I also miss marmite. Marmite is not gluten free! Who’d’ve thought? Anyway, this photograph shows the bread toasted with salt and pepper, … and you can of course add whatever you want. I prefer this toasted; with honey or jam is good too. Today however I am in a salty …
Posted in - Bake & Breakfast & gluten free & Healthy Recipes on October 11th 2019
gluten free gluten free banana muffins
As I write this I am sitting at my desk and looking out of the window at the rain as it pours and the roses struggle to hold on to their petals. So it is a perfect day to bake muffins and write about them before the dogs and I brace the elements (and I …
Posted in - gluten free & Healthy Recipes & Salads & Seafood on September 25th 2019
gluten free salads sushi wasabi
This is not the first time I have posted sushi on this blog. So it is the same recipe but a reminder. I served it with two salads because the children wouldn’t eat the fennel salad so a cucumber concoction accompanied us too. We compared Waitrose bought sushi with homemade. I noticed a difference in …
Posted in - Healthy Recipes & Lunch / Dinner & Vegetarian on September 21st 2019
I hate to admit that I let our veg garden overflow this year, and not in a good way. It is a bit of a jungle now and within it I found about 10 cucumbers, all a good size. So what better thing to do with them than make soup… it is cool, soothing and …
Posted in - Bake & Breakfast & Healthy Recipes on September 13th 2019
These bran muffins have no bran in them. Bran used in bran muffins is wheat bran and not gluten free. My love of bran muffins comes from visiting my Canadian grandparents in their house in Florida during Easter holidays (very lucky me). Granny would drive me to the local shop just so I could buy …
Posted in - Healthy Recipes & Lunch / Dinner & Poultry on October 3rd 2016
Asian chicken hot pot easy Sunday chicken Melt in your mouth chicken recipe Thai chicken
My aim was to have roast chicken, then with brown rice leftover, I thought an Asian influence may be a good idea. It is very tasty and an alternative for a Sunday lunch as there is very little effort involved and just as much enjoyment, or more perhaps as there is little washing up (my …
Posted in - Healthy Recipes & Seafood on September 21st 2016
pate smoked mackerel pate; easy children recipe
The children chose, and they prepared. I sat at the kitchen table with a cup of tea, directing! This is such a simple recipe that perhaps it does not even need to be here, but then we all like simple recipes, and sometimes the obvious needs stating, – it does for me anyway.
Ingredients
280g cream cheese
4 …