Really easy chocolate sauce
Our new ‘invention’ – really easy chocolate sauce, to jazz up your vanilla ice cream a bit!
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Banana and vanilla chai muffins
These banana and vanilla chai muffins use coconut oil and are very light and fluffy, with a subtle spiced flavour.
Slow cooker beany casserole recipe
This Slow Cooker Beany Casserole Recipe makes a lighter casserole, more suited to summery weather. It’s also fat-free and vegetarian.
Quinoa burgers
These quinoa burgers are delicious and not too difficult to make. They freeze well, too.
Rainy day comfort food: Cauliflower cheese
Probably the best bad-weather comfort food ever is cauliflower cheese and we certainly need comfort food at the moment!
Wheat-free, low-GI muffins
I’ve been experimenting a lot with non-wheat flours*, especially low-GI ones, lately. I love baking. And I love eating cake. And, frankly, I think it should be possible to do these things without any adverse effect on the whole losing weight and getting healthier plan. At first, I thought I …
Salad days
We’ve had some sunny spring weather recently, which has had Chris and I craving salads, rather than the warming casseroles of the autumn and winter months. We can quite happily sit down to a simple meal of salad leaves, cheeses and lovely fresh bread (with some cold meats thrown in …
Three cabbage and chick pea soup
Carol at Make It, Bake It has set up a new monthly In Season Challenge to make something from an in-season ingredient. And I have to say, what a brilliant idea! We started trying to cook more with in-season ingredients a few years ago. This was brought on by a …
Low GI – the vegetarian way
Chris and I are trying to lose weight and get healthier and fitter and, in terms of diet, we’ve found aiming for a low- to medium-GI diet works well for us. We had both lapsed considerably over the summer and are trying to get back on track – both …
Recipe: Minestrone soup
This recipe is generally very popular with children (though it failed on Sunday, probably due to Rosemary and her two friends having far too much fun to sit down and eat food). The magic ingredient is probably the shaped pasta, which we get from our local healthfood shop, Sunshine Health. …
