While I enjoy cooking it’s usually at the weekend that I’m able to set aside the time to do something a little bit more elaborate or time-consuming. This weekend was no different and I picked up a bit of leg of lamb on Friday evening planing to cook it either Saturday evening or this evening, […]
I’m currently in the market for a pepper mill for the office. I’ll probably get a rather boring, yet functional one. However while browsing I came across this one that I really like. It’s cute and quirky and still does its job: Yes, it’s “The Sergeant” which of course is playing on the imagery of […]
Kale is a wonderfully tasty addition to your cooking arsenal. Unfortunately it can be quite awkward to get, so I haven’t been able to use it in my cooking for the last couple of months. Fortunately I’ve been able to get a supply in the last week both from local corner shop and from Tesco. […]
While cooking this evening I came across a packet of table salt that was in one of the cupboards. It’s odd. I haven’t used it in months. I completely removed salt from my diet back in January and haven’t had any reason to use salt since. Instead of salt I either use nothing or freshly […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
