I’m really beginning to like spinach and having a couple of bags of frozen spinach in the freezer is fantastic, especially when I haven’t had a chance to do any real shopping, like this week. There’s a lot of different pasta sauces that you can make without using meat or fish and this one is [...]
Archive | recipes RSS feed for this section
Pitta Stuffed With Cheese & Tomato
My sister finally answered the question that had been driving me mad for the last couple of weeks. How on earth can you slice pitta bread open without losing your mind? The answer is incredibly simple – just pop them in the toaster (or microwave) for a few seconds first. Once they’ve been heated up [...]
Pita With Chicken
The recipes provided by Tesco Diets are pretty good and varied, but I’ve ended up reworking quite a few of them. Either because I didn’t quite have all the ingredients (finding ricotta in Tesco proved impossible, though SuperQuinn did have it) or I needed to finish off an open pack of something. Bearing in mind [...]
Scrambled Eggs Without Butter
On weekdays I stick to simple and easy breakfasts ie. the most complicated equipment needed being a kettle and the toaster. At the weekend, however, I’m not in a hurry and I don’t have to get up until I feel like it. So making scrambled egg for breakfast is a good option. I’ve always associated [...]
Wholewheat Pasta With Light Cream Cheese In Tomato Sauce
Tonight’s dinner was meant to be a pasta sauce with ricotta, but I couldn’t find any in the supermarket when I laid in this week’s healthy provisions. I’ve been cooking pasta (and eating it) for as long as I can remember, so tweaking a pasta based recipe isn’t that much of a challenge. I also [...]
Pasta Salad
This evening’s meal was a pasta salad. I love pasta so since I was missing a couple of the ingredients I made a few tweaks to the recipe and the result was excellent (if I do say so myself!) Pasta Salad Print Recipe type: Main Prep time: 10 mins Cook time: 10 mins Total time: [...]
Apple Muesli
As part of my diet plan there are a few very simple recipes I’m expected to follow. The apple muesli that I had this morning was incredibly tasty, though taking it out of the fridge a few minutes in advance of eating it wouldn’t hurt – it was really cold on my teeth! The recipe [...]
Recent Comments