Kieran made this tomato and basil soup with meatballs for lunch yesterday – it’s delicious and nothing like the tinned tomato soup I remember having (and hating) as a kid. The recipe (with a few omissions – honey!) is taken from the Gourmet Nutrition cookbook by Precision Nutrition. It takes about 15 mins prep time […]
This is a great way to make aubergines taste good. Perfect served as a vegetarian course with melted creamy goat’s cheese or as a side dish to lamb. Ingredients: [list type=”arrow2″] 2 Aubergines 1 chopped red pepper olive oil cracked black pepper 1 finely diced onion 2 crushed cloves of garlic 400g tin of chopped […]
My pocket-friendly pea and ham soup is a super-soup in more ways than one. Not only does it have all the benefits of being made from a bone stock base, it is a beautiful green colour that would rival the Owl and the Pussycat’s boat… and it costs pence to make. Ingredients: [list type=”arrow2″] 1 […]
My Spanish Spiced Sweet Potato & Butternut Squash Soup is silky rich, spicy and warming – just delicious and guaranteed to cheer up the dullest of days… Ingredients: [list type=”arrow2″] 1/2 butternut squash, peeled and chopped into chunks 1 sweet potato, chopped into chunks (not peeled) 1 onion, sliced Beef stock Beef dripping (or coconut […]
At the weekend I fancied something sweet but have been sworn off chocolate for various reasons and the trouble with cakes is they mostly contain eggs – which I can’t eat. I remembered that I had a gingerbread family cutter set so decided to make gingerbread men – unfortunately most recipes contain eggs – who’d […]
I’m always on the look out for new snack ideas and stumbled across this recipe for Rosemary Toasted Almonds whilst thumbing through my Leon: Naturally Fast Food cookbook. Having experimented with a small batch this afternoon I can wholeheartedly recommend them, amazing how some rosemary, olive oil, sea salt and 15 minutes can transform the […]
It seems that I’ve become a tennis widow. Every Sunday (weather permitting) Mr Igwe takes himself off out to play tennis for a few hours so I thought I’d take advantage of this unusual free range access to the kitchen (it’s only big enough for one and he occupies it at regular and frequent intervals) […]
I’m often asked for ‘recipe’ ideas but the truth is I’m not much of a recipe cook, more of an assembler of ingredients. Having said that I very much want to eat food that is quick, easy and tasty – the holy grail of food prep! So here are six salad staples that I regularly […]
