Not Just a Man's World

There are all sorts of variations for beef casserole but it’s difficult to find a basic casserole recipe which serves the purpose of cheaply feeding hungry athletes (or a ravenous family) without all the fussy trimmings which turn a basic casserole or stew into something appropriate for a dinner party. Personally I don’t have any [...]

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It’s still the season of barbecues (in between the rain storms we’re having here) but it’s frightening what gets put into beef burgers that you buy from the supermarket.  It seems such a shame when half their ingredients are entirely unnecessary. The recipe below is made with lean beef mince, because that’s what I tend to [...]

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A variation on a pastry-encased Delia Smith recipe this week to complete the collection of five vegetable recipes that were inflicted on my family a few weeks ago.  This was my personal favourite, though only just ahead of the peperonata and carrot roulade, probably because I’ve got a thing for caramelised onions. It was incredibly [...]

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Amazingly, this complex recipe was completely paleo when I found it in my Good Housekeeping book and required no adjustments.  It just goes to show what you can find when you are looking!  The recipe worked well with a few minor tweaks to the instructions where they were slightly lacking in the book – I [...]

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You’ve probably noticed a theme over the last few weeks.  I noticed that the “vegetables” section of the recipe list was a little short of ideas when put alongside my more favoured areas, like “meat”!  As a result I set out to rectify this by hunting through my recipe books for some vegetable dish inspiration.  [...]

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This is another recipe that came from my Good Housekeeping recipe book although this one needed a little bit more tweaking to get it to fit a paleo lifestyle. Frankly, I like my carrots very simply roasted or steamed/boiled, but if you’ve got tired of plain carrots and want something a bit different (or you’re [...]

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A quick and easy recipe this week.  The original came from my Good Housekeeping recipe book but, as with most recipes, there have been a few tweaks and amendments along the way.  They suggested serving it with lemon wedges, but I felt there was plenty of lemon juice already, perhaps because I reduced the quantity [...]

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Ratatouille is a tasty vegetable dish to have on the side of a winter joint of roast meat or with a piece of steak.  I’ve always loved ratatouille but due to Chris’s aversion to aubergine I’ve had to learn to leave aubergines out of the recipe.  Strangely I’ve found that I actually prefer it without [...]

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This was a bit of an experiment.  The mousse doesn’t look too appealing in this photo because I was making it into salmon parcels and rolls (see the bottom of this recipe for directions) and could afford to use cheaper pink salmon which resulted in a greyish colour.  If you are presenting this on its [...]

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I found this recipe in my copy of Delia Smith’s “Complete Illustrated Cookery Course”.  I’ve changed a couple of quantities slightly for the mozzarella and basil, but otherwise the recipe is just as I found it.  Be warned that if you are a non-dairy paleo advocate then this recipe isn’t going to be for you, [...]

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