If it isn’t already completely obvious, I’m not the best advert for healthy eating. Occasionally though, when I’m struggling to zip up the jeans, I give myself a good talking to and try to behave myself. Within reason.
Crunchy Chocolate Granola
Category: Nuts
Thai Beef Salad
This is one of those recipes that I make fairly regularly but it has only recently dawned on me that I never published it here. This and my fajita recipe, which I make at least once a month and also need to share here.
Spring Vegetable Pasta Salad
This post starts with an apology. My site was down today due a few behind the scene changes. Thanks to the wonderful folk at Blacknight it is up and running again. However, my last two posts for this and my Chocolate Truffle Cake and all the comments etc. disappeared. So I have recovered them and am […]
Blood Orange and Grapefruit Salad
I just love the abundance of citrus fruits at this time of year. They are like sunshine in the bleak winter months. Blood oranges are one of my favourite fruits and this is the perfect time to get them. I am always looking for new ways to use them and came up with this Blood […]
Cherry Chocolate and Almond Biscotti
Biscotti. They’re those overpriced, tooth-cracking biscuits you get in large chain coffee shops, right? Well that’s what I thought. Until I tasted a homemade version.
Broccoli and Feta Salad
There is a famous recipe for Broccoli and Feta Salad in the Avoca Cafe Cookbook by Hugo Arnold. I have made it several times and it is really good, but as per usual I cannot leave well enough alone and have to add other bits and bobs to it.
Grilled Peach Cherry and Goats’ Cheese Salad
I have been gorging on cherries quite a bit lately. Rather than just eating them straight from the bag I have been trying to use them in more imaginative ways. Grilled peaches are one of life’s greatest treats. So this Grilled Peach, Cherry and Goats’ Cheese Salad was born! It is utterly delicious, perfect while […]
Dukkah
In Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem, he describes Dukkah as “An Egyptian aromatic seed and nut mix”. It is this and so much more. I was first introduced to it a couple of years ago in Kai restaurant in Galway. There was served as a coating to lamb and I was not too sure how much nuts could […]