happy eggs
Earlier this week I was lucky enough to be given some eggs from some happy chickens! I wanted to make something where they stood out rather than use them for baking. I decided on tuna niçoise. I like...
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I had some tuna leftover from the niçoise salad and made a delicious bruschetta for our lunch yesterday. I haven’t been eating much mayonnaise lately – probably since I returned from Ballymaloe . This...
View ArticleMeat Free Monday – summer, week 01
Today is the first monday of summer – in the Meat Free Monday cookbook! I thought I would try and do better this week, since last week I only managed to make the dinner main course. I could have made...
View Articlelate lunch
This was a late lunch in two ways. Firstly, it was the meat free monday lunch and I was eating it today (friday) and secondly, I was eating my lunch at 3.30pm! Better late than never because if I...
View ArticleMeat Free Monday – summer, week 05
Did you think I’d forgotten? Absolutely not – it’s just that sometimes life gets a bit busy and there doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day to do what needs to be done. I did have meat free monday...
View ArticleMeat Free Monday – summer, week 12
Tonight we had Potato and Gruyère Focaccia (Nick Malgieri) and Warm Halloumi, Apple and Radish Salad followed by Pavlova with Raspberries. The focaccia was really good although I think there may be an...
View ArticleMeat Free Monday – autumn, week 02
Today I’m switching the Meat Free Monday lunch and dinner around and, whilst there is panna cotta on the menu for dessert, you won’t be seeing it here. For me, Monday starts off really well with a...
View ArticleMeat Free Monday – autumn, week 03
I hesitate to say it, because I always seem to be doing things slightly differently, but this week I am going to deviate from the Meat Free Monday cookbook completely. Just for this week, I promise! At...
View Articleone for the girls, one for the boys
However much we’d like to think girls and boys are equal, we’re not. Sadly, we’re not even allowed to eat as much on our 5:2 days! The boys get an extra 100 calories! Not fair, methinks. So, for a...
View ArticleHappy 2016
fresh and tasty The second day of the new year already! I really did mean to post this yesterday but didn’t quite get around to it. No I wasn’t partying, nor did I have a hangover. This year I was...
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