Slow cooked Thai green curry with Quorn
There’s not really enough room for another gadget in the kitchen, but that didn’t stop me buying a slow cooker. I’d been looking at them on Amazon and hearing good things from friends so when I saw this one on the shelf in Tesco for £14, I thought I mightContinue Reading
Vegetarian prawn laksa
Still on the hunt for prawn recipes, last week I made this prawn laksa from the BBC Good Food website. I substituted the prawns for Linda McCartney Fish Free King Prawns and used vegetarian stock instead of chicken stock. I’ll have to admit, it was too thin and watery forContinue Reading
Vegetarian prawn cocktail
I’m still thinking up ways of using the Linda McCartney Fish Free Prawns and so last night, as a starter, we made a prawn cocktail (I put the prawns in the microwave for 90 seconds and The Meat Eater did the rest). I used this Classic Prawn Cocktail recipe fromContinue Reading
The Garlic Farm: Garlic jam with red chilli / Olives with garlic and basil
A while back, The Garlic Farm sent me some of their peach and mango chutney to try. I declared it the highest quality chutney I’d ever had. Recently, they sent me some of their garlic jam with red chilli and a jar of their olives with garlic and basil andContinue Reading
Fish free prawn sandwich
Everyone always says that it’s bacon sandwiches they miss when they become vegetarian. I was never a huge bacon fan but what I did love were prawns. I said on a previous post how much I love Linda McCartney’s Fish Free Scampi, and I’m still eating that at least onceContinue Reading
Warburtons Half and Half Rolls
I’m one of those people who, although know that brown bread is healthier, sometimes just wants some good old-fashioned comforting white bread. Warburtons Half and Half Rolls give the best of both worlds. And what’s even better is that they’re ready-sliced so ideal for lazy people like me and theseContinue Reading
Kale and sweet potato soup
I mentioned in a previous post that I invented a Twitter game called #guessthesoup. Today I spiced it up a bit by also posting a photo and I thought today’s soup would be a tough one, but Rachel eventually guessed correctly. Other guesses were: Pea Asparagus Leek Sprouts Cabbage WatercressContinue Reading
Cabbage and leek bake
If you pretend this isn’t smothered in cheese sauce and just focus on the cabbage and leek bit, this is a healthy side dish. Although, as it’s only a side dish, a bit of cheese is hardly going to sabotage any healthy eating thing you’ve got going on at theContinue Reading
Quorn Lamb Strips Stir-Fry
Healthy meal no. 2 wasn’t so healthy as it contained Quorn, a packet stir-fry sauce and spring rolls. Still, it wasn’t chocolate, cheese, crisps or chips, so it was a lot more healthy than a lot of my meals recently. My stir-fry was made with leeks and mushrooms from theContinue Reading
Swede and leek soup
It’s that time of year when I sober up and want something other than cheese, chocolate and crisps in my diet. So, today, I looked in The Boxing Clever Cookbook to see what was seasonal and cycled down to my local farm shop and got myself a big bag ofContinue Reading