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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Christmas Day menu
December 13th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Diet, Recipes
For some reason this didn’t go live last Tuesday when it was supposed to and this is my first visit to the blog since then, so I’ve just re-posted. 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 [...]
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Paleo recipes: Cockles in Coconut Milk (Macunim ao Coco)
November 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · Diet, Recipes
It’s always a pleasure when I’m hunting online for a recipe and find one that is already Paleo. When I picked up some pre-cooked, shelled cockles at the supermarket that were reduced in price my starting point was a search on Google as I hadn’t cooked them before (my thinking, when picking them up, was [...]
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Paleo recipes: savoury mince
November 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Diet, Recipes
I mentioned last week that Chris was making savoury mince to create a sort of cottage pie when our oven was broken. Rather than turning his potatoes into jacket potatoes he chose to mash them but didn’t feel that curry went well with mash. I know I’ve done a cottage pie recipe before, but this [...]
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Paleo recipes: beef curry updated
November 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Diet, Recipes
Nearly two years ago I put up a recipe for beef curry. Six days a week Chris and I have a mince meal. While our oven was broken Chris played with making a savoury mince that would go well with mashed potato, turning it into a sort of cottage pie. However, we usually gravitate towards [...]
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Paleo recipes: chicken and broccoli soup
November 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Diet, Recipes
This is an unusual soup flavour and I have to confess that it has purely been created to meet a cutting diet need. I decided that for extremely low calorie deficit weeks lots of mini meals didn’t work for me (the meal ends up so small that I just feel unsatisfied) and a daily fast [...]
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Paleo recipes: stock with a pressure cooker
October 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Diet, Recipes
I was given a pressure cooker for my birthday near the start of this year. The pressure cooker was a vital part of my future life plan. I intend doing a lot more stock/soup type meals once I stop because it’s an obvious way to really get money’s worth out of our joints of meat, [...]
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Perfect crackling
October 18th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Diet, Recipes
This isn’t the usual recipe post but I’ve had queries from a few people asking how I get my crackling to crackle every time so I thought I would dedicate a recipe slot to it. After all, there’s nothing better than a chunky piece of crackling to complete your roast dinner. I’ve been cooking regular [...]
Paleo recipes: moussaka
October 11th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Diet, Recipes
This was another recipe for the Aubergine Files. Unfortunately the last two recipes haven’t gone down well with Chris because I haven’t managed to get rid of the salt-flavour from the aubergine, no matter how thoroughly I’ve rinsed it afterwards in cold water. So the recipe below gave me slightly salty moussaka. It’s not the [...]
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