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 [...] [...] People know that I enjoy cooking and that I generally like to eat healthily, and well and often. Some are also aware of my trying to stick to a vegan diet “for at least 80% of the time as it makes me feel healthier and it is better for the planet”*. As a result I [...] [...] Regular readers will know that I am a huge fan of smoked and tinned fish “gloops” of varying types. This simple lunch was made with half a tin of white beans, that were in the freezer, a piece of smoked mackerel and some horseradish sauce. Served on some homemade bread, also from the freezer, it [...] [...] A while ago I was sent a bag of Total Greek Yogurt to try, and one of the dishes I made was some coronation chicken made with leftovers from the previous nights roast. When buying my chicken I was amazed that my small local Sainsbury’s had two breeds of free range chicken for sale, I [...] [...] According to the date of the photo I made this several months ago, in March to be exact. I know it was utterly delicious, so the photo was thus placed in the “To be blogged at a later date when I have time” file. Usually, unless I blog within 2 days of making [...] [...] Have I mentioned before that I really really really love dips? Looking back at my dippy posts it seems that I usually serve them with crudities, but sometimes a bit of non veggie crunch and crispiness is required. Instead of from a packet and laden with fat and all manner of nasties, these [...] [...] This summer I have been getting an iceberg lettuce every week in my co-op box and frankly I am a little bored of them. Nothing conjures up an image of an 1970′s salad more than an iceberg. Add some pale watery tomatoes, celery and chunks of cucumber and a good dollop of [...] [...] This is the pudding that I came up with for the recent foodbloggers’ Masterchef cookoff with Miele. When planning a menu it is perfectly normal and reasonable to come up with a pudding first and then plan a main course to go with it? I wanted a very summery pudding using my homemade elderflower cordial; [...] [...] Along with lots of other bloggers I was recently sent a coolbag crammed full with Total Greek yogurt, which I have greatly been enjoying using and cooking with. It is still baking hot in London and I really do not want to spend hours slaving over a hot stove so I have been spending the [...] [...] You know the occasions when you have asked people for supper, then you get home 5 minutes before they are due to arrive and nothing is prepared? I think that a bowl of dip is the perfect casual starter. Easy to throw together from store cupboard staples and the contents of my co-op veg box, [...] [...] London is hot hot hot and humid to boot. I am positively enjoying my supermarket trips at the moment as I linger and closely examine every object in the frozen section. And what better for these hot summer mornings than ice cream for breakfast? This is totally healthy, unprocessed, raw and vegan and tastes fantastic. [...] [...] |
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