It’s cold, wet and windy here. Last night I needed comfort food and didn’t want a complex recipe. I love cheesed broccoli so this recipe felt right – five ingredients. Having read the original recipe, I decided to keep my interpretation of the recipe simple. We had a bag of large broccoli florets in the…
I feel the need this year to celebrate Christmas more. I love fruit cakes but members of my family and myself aim to reduce sugar in our diets; hence the Keto cake recipe. You can find the original recipe here. I had to search out dried cranberries and cherries free of added sugar. I chose…
It’s autumn and I felt the need for a spicy chilli con carne minus the beans to reduce the carbs. The whole family loves this recipe as it is rich and can be eaten in many ways. We don’t eat a lot of meat and buy grass-fed meat. As you can see we served it…
This is my all-time favourite soup. Roasting vine tomatoes brings out an aromatic flavour. I highly recommend it because it’s comfort in a mug or a bowl. I love it with the seeds still in but my Ninja processor is high speed and breaks them down. Read about the health benefits of tomatoes here. You…
This is a light and flavoursome Asian main meal salad. I made it because we had half a cabbage, pepper, as well as two carrots left in the bottom of the fridge. It turned out to be a very versatile recipe as I’ve made it since as Vietnamese coleslaw! It could be made with sesame…
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