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The 5-2 Challenge. Lessons I Have Learned. Stock Up the Pantry. Minimal Cooking. Avoid Cappuccinos.
Time for a 5-2 challenge update. My preferred fast days? Fridays and Mondays. Perfect bookends for my weekend feast days. Giving me a clear three day run from Tuesday to Thursday mid week where I don’t have to think about … Continue reading
Posted in Poultry, Salads, Seafood, What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2 Diet, Alternate Day Fasting, Beans, Chicken, Coleslaw, Fasting Diet, Food, Tuna, Tuna and Cannellini Salad
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Vale Nono. A Long Life. Well Lived.
This morning our grand father and great grandfather slipped away peacefully in his sleep. A gracious, handsome and always humble gentleman. Closing his eyes on a long and happy 101 year journey. Next week our family will be gathering to … Continue reading
Posted in Musings & Inspiration
Tagged Family, Grandparents, Loss, Poetry, Relationships, Vale
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Child’s Play. Easter Eggs Filled With Raspberry Marshmallow and Dusted with Sherbet.
Another day. Another take on store-bought Easter eggs. These gorgeous chocolate eggs caught my eye at the supermarket. So pretty. Perfect to be decapitated using my new-found serrated knife skills and filled with something special. A couple of Friday nights … Continue reading
Posted in Chocolate, Confectionery, Sweet Treats, What I Love to Cook
Tagged Chocolate, Easter, Easter Eggs, Food, Gelatine, Marshmallow, Raspberries, Sherbet
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Pleasing the Teenagers. Oven Baked Beef Curry Puffs With Sweet Chilli Dipping Sauce.
Our weekends are always busy during term time. With sport, sport and more sport. Which means my teenagers are always ravenously hungry and on the constant lookout for something to eat. Curry puffs hit the mark perfectly. A welcome, more … Continue reading
Posted in Beef, Small Bites, To Serve with Drinks
Tagged Beef, Chilli, Coriander, Curry, Curry Puff, Food, Potato, Puff pasty, Sour Cream, Sweet Chilli Dipping Sauce
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The 5-2 Challenge. Figuring Out What To Eat On Five Hundred Calories A Day.
Having watched the BBC documentary Eat, Fast and Live Longer I resolved that one day I would give the 5-2 eating plan a go. After all it didn’t sound too onerous. Five feast days offset by only two fast days … Continue reading
Posted in Eggs, Soup, What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2, 5-2 Diet, Crab, Eggs, Fasting Diet, Food, Intermittent Fasting, Miso, Omelette, Soup, Tofu
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Sunday Night Dinner. Paella With Chicken and Chorizo.
We eat paella often in our house. Sometimes with seafood. At other times without. Always with chorizo. It’s a wonderfully communal dish to cook and eat. Spicy. Full of flavour. Easy to prepare. I must confess this weekend I ran … Continue reading
Eat, Fast and Live Longer. What’s It All About? Intermittent Fasting and the 5-2 Diet Plan.
Since October last year there appears to be a groundswell of growing support for the 5-2 eating plan. Perhaps it’s just a case of heightened awareness on my part but over the last couple of weeks,in particular, media coverage seems … Continue reading
Posted in Musings & Inspiration
Tagged 5-2, 5-2 Diet, Diet, Eat Fast and Live Longer, Eating Plan, Fasting Diet, Food, Intermittent Fasting
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The Simple Things. A Slice of Old-Fashioned Butter Cake and a Cup of Tea.
Sometimes the best things in life are the simple things. One of my favourite guilty pleasures? A slice of old-fashioned butter cake and a cup of tea. To my mind butter cake has a straightforward, no-nonsense personality. Often overlooked in favour of … Continue reading
Posted in Baked, Sweet Treats, What I Love to Cook
Tagged Back to Basics, Baking, Buttecake, Butter, Cake, Recipe, Vanilla
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Eating Seasonally. Seared Snapper with Provençal Sauce.
Late season harvest tomatoes are at their peak at this time of year. Cheap and plentiful. Sweet. Juicy. Full of flavour. I picked up punnets of perfectly ripe cherry tomatoes at the market this morning. I love to eat seasonally … Continue reading
Decadently Delicious and Dairy Free. Potato and Leek Soup With Croutons and Chives
Potato and leek. A classic soup combination. This particular version is thick and creamy. Decadently delicious. Seemingly sinful but completely dairy free. Always a bonus in my books. Particularly as the weather gets cooler and we indulge in a little … Continue reading
Posted in Soup, Vegetables, Vegetarian, What I Love to Cook
Tagged Autumn, Chives, Croutons, Food, Leek, Potato, Soup, Vegetarian
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