A quick and easy dish from Food for Fitness by Anita Bean. I served it with Quorn Salmon Style Dill Crispbakes, from their new fish-free range, which I’ll blog about tomorrow. Vegetable paella (serves 4 as a main dish, 6 as a side dish) 2 tbsp olive oil 1 onion,Continue Reading

Well done to Jamie for winning the limerick competition. I chose Jamie’s entry for a) the effort he put in; b) the lines He once threw a quiche (just missing his niece); and c) for using the word ‘agrarian’, that I had to go and look up in the dictionary.Continue Reading

While I was out running yesterday, I had the urge to make moussaka. I don’t know why, as I usually find it a bit of a faff and I’m not especially fond of faff. I said to The Meat Eater that I was going to make moussaka and he askedContinue Reading

Tonight’s dinner was practically free, made with ingredients from the greenhouse and garden: courgettes, potatoes and peas. Roasted courgette stuffed with cheese and tomato (serves 2) 2 courgettes, sliced lengthways 4 cherry tomatoes, halved 20g cheese, grated Olive oil Salt and black pepper Score a criss-cross pattern into the courgettesContinue Reading

As courgettes are in season at the moment, I’ve been having courgette soup for lunch every day for the past two weeks made with yellow courgettes from the greenhouse, and green courgettes from Riverford. This week, the soup has been made from our home grown yellow ones. I’d never evenContinue Reading

    THIS PUB HAS NOW CLOSED DOWN   It became something of a tradition last year to pop into the Good Intent in Aldington Frith and have a pint in their beautiful beer garden on the way back from cycling to the beach. Although they have an area setContinue Reading

I’ve got a voucher worth £3.49 that can be exchanged for an Innocent Veg Pot of your choice in any supermarket. All you have to do to win is post a limerick below and I’ll send the voucher to the composer of my favourite one. To start you off, here’sContinue Reading