In all honesty there is nothing Italian at all about this salad, but the red, white and green vegetables reminded me of an Insalata Caprese and the colours of the Italian flag, and it looks pretty. [...]
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I know that I promised a healthy January, and potted shrimps, with their oddles of butter, are not the most healthy start to the New Year. However I have 3 excuses; Firstly anyone starting their New Year’s Resolutions in the cold light of day on the first of January is either a masochist or setting [...] [...] It would appear that Fuss Free Flavours has recently become a chocolate baking blog. This is not my long term intention, and normal fuss free service will be resumed soon, but this cake was too good not to blog. It is also fairly fuss free, the recipe both having a forgiving nature and being of [...] [...] I am a huge huge Waitrose fan. I worked out a while ago that they were cheaper for my weekly shop (I compared with Tesco, Sainsburys, Co-op / Somerfield and even the dreaded Iceland). Admittedly I buy all my fruit and vegetables in the market or from my local food co-op, and as I cook [...] [...] I sometimes wonder which I would choose were I ever forced to decide between no more rice or no more potatoes for the rest of my life. It is a topic that comes up from time to time on various foodie discussion boards that I frequent, and I know I would find it a tough [...] [...] I am sure that chocolate crispies are one of the first things that anyone learns to cook, I certainly have a memory as a young child of making them with my mother. She often used whole wheat flakes or a half and half mix with cornflakes. Surely with all that cocoa, sugar, syrup and butter [...] [...] In my last post about my co-op bags I promised a recipe to use all those last bits of salad vegetables lurking at the bottom of the fridge. This is a simple citrus, zingy lentil salad. I love lentils, cheap, quick, tasty, packed with protein and low GI to boot, they are a store cupboard [...] [...] Usually I cook everything from scratch, but in the last few months I have been lucky enough to be invited to attend several tastings for quite astonishingly good ready made products (namely Bertolli Sauces and Tilda Stir Fry Rices) that I am more than happy to keep in the cupboard and use on the occasions [...] [...] A long while ago I received an invitation to go and discover the new range of sauces from Bertolli. My immediate reaction was skeptical but I read further and realised that Gennaro Contaldo, Italian Chef and mentor to Jamie Oliver was involved. Gennaro is a man that knows his food, and I was fairly sure [...] [...] A classic tapenade usually consists of black olives, capers and anchovies mixed in varying proportions. I added some seeds to this pungent mix, to both lighten taste & colour and to add a dose of healthy omega 3 & 6s. My seeds were a mixture of flax (linseed), pumpkin, sunflower and sesame. The seeds diluted [...] [...] |
helen at fuss free flavours dot com 
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