HERE’S a quick one. A few of you have been asking about watercress soup. So I gave it a try yesterday. It wasn’t what I was expecting. I’d been expecting a lovely green, smooth soup, instead I got an orange soup with little green bits! This version is very garlicky…
IF the 80s was about hip and thigh diets and the 90s was all about low fat and the dreaded WW starvation style diets, I believe the future of health and nutrition lies in our acid versus alkali balance. Did you know that certain foods, like sugars, dairy, meat and…
You may or may not know that Princess Kate’s pert bottomed little sister Pip has just published a book all about partying and the organisation thereof. It’s from this book that I discovered Pippa’s Venison and Beetroot Stew (technically I’m pretty sure it’s a casserole since it goes in the…
Essex cold snaps, endless drizzle, an extra hour in bed at the weekend and Epping Forest getting thinner every day add up to one thing: winter is on the horizon! If colder months usually leave you sniffling and flu-ridden, now is the time to take action against viral infections and…
Salt. Elixir of flavour, bursting with trace minerals, nature’s antiseptic (cat owners will know the joy that is bathing pussy’s poorly paw in a saline solution), ancient preserver of food stuffs, foe of snow and water softener. But in modern times, salt has become eeeevillll. The invention of table salt,…
You want to lose fat and get more energy but there’s so much noise out there that you’re almost stunned into inactivity! Where do I start? Social media has made everything EXTREME and polarised. Extreme or new diets have always been good for a headline, that doesn’t mean they work.…
On Monday I wrote about rain. Or rather how to fight the rainy day, wintry blues. As much as I love the summer with all its warm sunshine, there are certain things about the kitchen in autumn that just don’t work for me in 30 degree July heat. One of…
On Thursday evening, after I’d got back from my lovely pre and post natal Pilates classes I realised I needed to rustle up something tasty for our impending Paralympics adventure. I’d wanted to make cashew and apricot oat bars but had neither apricots nor cashew nuts in the house. I…
This is, a preserving pan. It’s not a perfect, heavy bottomed, beautiful preserving pan. But this preserving pan belonged to my Grandma. My dad’s mum. And not long after she passed away, I was given this pan, along with a couple of WI cookery books which are now out of…
I’ve always been a fan of the humble chicken thigh. They’re full of flavour which lends them perfectly to curries and strong flavours; they’re great in the slow cooker; they’re deliciously juicy simply roasted – and to my mind far superior to the humble drumstick which can be a bit…
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