Tasty Low-Calorie 5:2 Diet Recipe: Garlic, Herb and Parmesan Crusted Chicken Schnitzels This recipe for low-calorie Garlic, Herb and Parmesan Crusted Chicken Schnitzels is as old as the hills, and I have been making these forever, but, then the last time I was cooking these fillets, I thought they really cannot be that high in…
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Award Winning Marmalade: Lemon and Lime Marmalade
This recipe for Lemon and Lime marmalade is a firm family favourite. It has a tangy and pronounced lime flavour and would be especially good with some extra added booze! I’ve provided full step by step photos and instructions so there is no excuse not to whip up a few jars. Disclaimer: I was sent…
5:2 Diet Winter Meal Plan Ideas: Low-Calorie Turkey & Kale Scotch Broth Recipe
5:2 Diet Winter Meal Plan Ideas: Low-Calorie Turkey & Kale Scotch Broth Recipe Hello to my first 5:2 Meal Plan and Recipes post of the New Year! I would like to tell you about my lows and highs on the diet first, and tell you JUST how much weight I have lost, and not just…
A Countdown to Christmas Recipe: Sugar Frosted Orange & Brandy Mince Pies
A Countdown to Christmas Recipe: Sugar Frosted Orange & Brandy Mince Pies Nestled in the pantry amongst all my other tins and trays are two very special pie tins, or patty tins as they are sometimes known; belonging to me now, they were my grandmother’s and I treasure them more than anything else in my…
A Countdown to Christmas Recipe: Frazzled Kale and Frisee salad with Pomegranate, Persimmon and Walnuts
A Countdown to Christmas Recipe: Frazzled Kale and Frisee salad with Pomegranate, Persimmon and Walnuts Welcome to recipe two in my mini festive recipe series, A Countdown to Christmas! Today’s recipe is a lovely salad, full of Christmas cheer and packed with all that is wonderful this season…….walnuts, persimmons, pomegranates and delicious curly kale – it looks…
A Countdown to Christmas Recipe: Christmas Sausage, Sage and Bacon Stuffing Loaf
A Countdown to Christmas Recipe: Christmas Sausage, Sage and Bacon Stuffing Loaf It is officially the week before Christmas week now, and I am on a countdown to the big day, so I have decided to share a few seasonal recipes with you over the next nine days, most of them “essentials” such as stuffing…
Christmas Eve Comfort Food – Christmas Carollers’ Casserole: Elizabethan Spiced Beef Stew
Christmas Eve Comfort Food – Christmas Carollers’ Casserole: Elizabethan Spiced Beef Stew Christmas Eve is often a very busy time, with last-minute present wrapping, and even buying in some cases, plus all the preparations for the big day with mounds of potatoes to peel, sprouts to trim and “pigs in blankets” to make. For us,…
Festive Fun and Frivolity! Tea Cup After Eight Chocolate Mint Mousse
Festive Fun and Frivolity! Tea Cup After Eight Chocolate Mint Mousse Who doesn’t love chocolate, and especially chocolate puds and desserts! So, when I was approached by After Eight Mints, the Rolls Royce of the chocolate after dinner mint world, I was pleased to accept their challenge to design and create a recipe using their…
Beat the Winter Blues: Pumpkin, Walnut & Poppy Seed Muffins with Cheddar Cheese
Beat the Winter Blues: Pumpkin, Walnut & Poppy Seed Muffins with Cheddar Cheese One of the things I love most about autumn and winter is the wonderful choice of seasonal vegetables that are on offer; brassicas and cabbages of all sizes and hues – with red being a particular favourite of mine. Potatoes, parsnips, kale…
Paleo 5:2 Diet Recipe for Pepper Steak with Pan-fried Onions, Tomatoes and Spinach
Paleo 5:2 Diet Recipe for Pepper Steak with Pan-fried Onions, Tomatoes and Spinach Although I enjoy my meat-free days and we do eat a lot of fish too, both of us (my husband in particular) hanker after a big juicy, red steak now and then, and so when I received a sample hamper from the…
Meal Planning Monday and Cheesy Stuffed Supper Spuds (Baked Jacket Potatoes) Recipe
Meal Planning Monday and Cheesy Stuffed Supper Spuds (Baked Jacket Potatoes) Recipe Today’s recipe comes with a meal plan, of sorts, as I need to get organised this week with so much on my agenda; there will be still be 2 “fast” days to fit in for the 5:2 diet. Malcolm and I are doing…
Stir Up Sunday: Quick and Easy Microwave Mincemeat Christmas Pudding Recipe
Stir Up Sunday: Quick and Easy Microwave Mincemeat Christmas Pudding Recipe Today is Stir Up Sunday, which means that Christmas is only a whisker away now, well exactly 4 weeks to be exact. I have shared many traditions and customs for this special day it the culinary calendar, which you can read here Stir Up Sunday, Traditions and my Traditional Victorian…
Duvet Apples & Frosty Mornings! Festive Baked Apples with Mincemeat and Honey
Duvet Apples & Frosty Mornings! Festive Baked Apples with Mincemeat and Honey Walks to the hen-house crackle with frosted leaves and frozen grass now and a cheeky little wind plays havoc with my dressing gown, as I am never dressed when I make the mad dash to the end of the garden at “silly o’clock”…
High Tea with Ham and Eggs and Marmalade Glazed Ham/Gammon Recipe
High Tea with Ham and Eggs and Marmalade Glazed Ham/Gammon Recipe Although it is almost winter and our wonderful, blazing autumn fades with every scarlet and russet leaf that drops, my chickens are still laying well and every day finds me walking back to the house with a small basket of eggs……some still warm with black, white…
Lest we Forget: Remembrance Sunday and The Wartime Kitchen Recipes
Lest we Forget: Remembrance Sunday and The Wartime Kitchen Recipes Today is a reflective day for me, a day to remember all those who have died in both World Wars as well as other and continuing conflicts, both home and abroad. It IS a sad and sombre day, but it is a day to recognise just how…
