I got some mixed fresh fish from the supermarket because it was reduced – one of those packs of chunks of haddock, smoked haddock (or mackerel?) and salmon designed to be used to fish pies. After much hunting about I decided that the ingredients in my cupboards would enable me to do the recipe below [...]
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After a few weeks of studies about sedentary women, the impact resistance training can have on their weight and how good new trainees are at adhering to their training programmes, I have decided to move the topic sideways. The main reason I took up weight training several years ago was because I wanted to be [...]
This was an astounding find. I discovered a recipe for pork cooked in milk and was very sceptical, but since I had a can of coconut milk left in the fridge I thought I would give it a try as a change from our usual roast or pot roast joint. All can say about it [...]
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This sauce has a sharp tang from the vinegar but I found that it didn’t put me off too much. I used 50ml of vinegar, which I have reduced to 30ml in the recipe below. The original recipe I found had rose petal vinegar that is probably lighter, but white wine vinegar is what I [...]
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This is an incredibly simple vegetable replacement to pasta that is particularly helpful when you are eating something with a lot of sauce – in particular a creamy sauce. Most people who follow a Paleo diet will have already come across these, but I wanted to include them here for the sake of completeness. My [...]
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There’s lots of pork cooking going on at the moment because pork is surprisingly cheap in the supermarket. Hopefully everyone who reads this blog also enjoys pork! This is a recipe that I tried for myself and was so pleased with it that I cooked it up again a week later for Chris’s birthday dinner. [...]
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This was another recipe put together with the ingredients in my store cupboard. I tried it a couple of times changing the ingredients a little each time – the variant below is the best combination of flavours I found. The flavours are quite delicate and this needs serving up with delicate flavoured vegetables, such as [...]
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Early in the year I needed to cook up something to eat with a very limited store cupboard. I had made a trip to the supermarket just after New Year, on our way back from the walking trip, but it was late on the Bank Holiday Monday and they had almost nothing left on the [...]
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Happy New Year and welcome back to Not Just a Man’s World! I hope all my reader’s have had a break over the Festive period and are feeling enthused for a fresh start on 2012, just as I am. 2011 was a tough year for me. I knew that I would be giving up my [...]
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During the last three Tuesdays before Christmas I’m writing a bit about overall catering for the Christmas period based on my experience of hosting the family last year. After writing at length about catering for Christmas Eve and (in even more detail) Christmas Day, this is the last article. It’s going to look at how [...]
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