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French Boulangere Potatoes

French Boulangère Potatoes – a frugal classic

healthy chicken pho soup

Healthy Chicken Pho Recipe

Spicy tomato and lentil soup

Spicy Tomato and Lentil Soup

French Boulangère Potatoes – a frugal classic

January 14, 2021

French Boulangere Potatoes

This is a dish for people who love potatoes.  And a game-changer if you think that you don’t.  Relative to Dauphinoise potatoes, its decadent, rich cousin, a dish of French Boulangère Potatoes can be frugal and even respectably low in calories.  But boulangère potatoes are most certainly not lacking flavour. French boulangère potatoes are made…

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Filed Under: Sides Tagged With: French, onion, potato, vegetarian

Healthy Chicken Pho Recipe

January 13, 2021

healthy chicken pho soup

Today I’m sharing my healthy chicken pho soup recipe. I’m always inspired by trying new food when I travel. It’s my favourite way to discover more about where I’m visiting and a great way to get involved in conversations with locals. And then of course I have to try and recreate the dishes I’ve loved…

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Filed Under: Mains Tagged With: chicken, soup, Vietnamese

Spicy Tomato and Lentil Soup

January 7, 2021

Spicy tomato and lentil soup

This soup recipe is one that I love for its simplicity.  Spicy tomato and lentil soup can be made with ingredients that you probably already have in your fridge and storecupboard.  It’s warming, hearty and, depending on the stock you use, can be a vegan or vegetarian dish.  It’s an incredibly forgiving recipe too.  If…

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Filed Under: Sides, Starters Tagged With: carrot, celery, lentils, onion, paprika, tomato, vegan, vegetarian

Tomato and chilli sauce for pasta

January 4, 2021

Tomato and chilli pasta sauce

It’s always great to have a raft of favourite recipes that are simple to cook and make use of mainly store cupboard ingredients. Which is why I love this zingy tomato and chilli sauce for pasta. It has just four ingredients and takes minutes to make and it’s great for vegetarians and meat eaters alike….

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Filed Under: Mains Tagged With: chilli, pancetta, pasta, pasta sauce, tomato

Game Soup Recipe – a real winter warmer

December 28, 2020

Game Soup Recipe

What do you eat for Christmas lunch?  When I’m cooking for two, I generally make a game dish – Partridge, Venison or Pheasant are favourites of mine.  This year I was lucky enough to win a game hamper from the Scottish game company Woodmill. We enjoyed a stunning chestnut stuffed roast pheasant for Christmas and…

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Filed Under: Sides, Starters Tagged With: carrot, celery, game, leek, soup

Creamy mushroom, spinach and sage pasta sauce

December 14, 2020

I always enjoy creating pasta sauce. It’s an easy way to use up all my leftover veg and herbs and a really quick dinner to make. I have made my own pasta on occasion but am so impressed by the range of stuffed pastas all our supermarkets are producing. And somtimes I just don’t have…

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Filed Under: Mains Tagged With: cream, pasta, sage, spinach, vegetarian

Blue Cheese Rarebit with Pickled Walnuts and Spinach

December 8, 2020

Blue Cheese Rarebit 2

What to do when you’ve got all those annoying scraps of cheese leftovers lurking in the bottom of your fridge?  In my case, I make rarebit – sometimes a classic Welsh rarebit with hard cheese and sometimes a variation, like this blue cheese rarebit, where you can use anything from 50-100% blue cheese to make…

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Filed Under: Starters Tagged With: cheese, pickled walnut, spinach, vegetarian

Pea, broad bean and asparagus frittata

December 2, 2020

I love a frittata. They are a great way to use up whatever I can find in my fridge. I also like delving through my freezer for frozen vegetables and today I discovered bags of peas and broad beans which is where this idea for a pea, broad bean and asparagus frittata originated. I also…

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Filed Under: Mains Tagged With: beans, eggs, frittata, homemade, parmesan, peas, vegetarian

Malva pudding: a traditional South African dessert

November 24, 2020

malva pudding serving

I’m not much of a pudding eater…kind of prefer to save my calorific intake for savoury treats. But I am a huge fan of this traditional South African dessert called Malva pudding. It’s a pretty youthful pudding, allegedly served for the first time at the restaurant at Boschendal, near Stellenbosch in the late 1970s. I’ve…

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Filed Under: Afters Tagged With: homemade, south african

Salad Soup – Frugal Fix for leftover salad leaves

November 21, 2020

Salad Soup Portrait

In summer I manage to grow most of my own salad leaves.  I pick what I need and never have leftovers (or if I do, the snails are just very grateful).  But, with no greenhouse, once autumn kicks in, I’m forced into buying salads from the supermarket – bags of rocket and mixed salad, little…

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Filed Under: Starters Tagged With: low-calorie, salad, soup, vegan, vegetarian

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