Broccoli, Pea, Cardamon and Thyme Soup.

This soup is just as simple to make as it sounds. There is a lot of flavours kicking around and to be honest a good lick of heat, but it has a freshness too. It does involve a lot of ingredients, but the heading highlights the flavour as it tastes. This dish started it’s life…

Tortilla- Spinach and potato

This is a simple dish once you decide what to call it! I have been cooking these for years as a good use up option at home. they are cheapish (cost of eggs grumble), can be eaten hot or cold, packed with protein, one of your 5 a day, enough carbs to keep you full…

Curried puy lentils, carrot and butternut squash salad in a coriander, lime, and chilli dressing.

Let’s be clear on a few things when it comes to this recipe: It is vegan, it has bags of flavour, buckets of protein, 2 portions of your five a day and enough carbs to really fully satisfy. The dressing only gives you about 1/4 of your recommended fat for the day. So, I am…

Feta, roasted pepper, beetroot, spinach, basil, and pistachio starter.

This recipe is for four people and is fully keto and vegetarian. So, I was asked to do a low carb, vegetarian starter. I wanted to do a simple, no cooking, cold starter. Well, here we go! You are going to need a set of presentation rings, lakeland do nice ones. I had seen a…

Couscous salads-

With, either: Apples, pomegranate, feta, mint and coriander served with a Dijon drizzle. Or with butternut squash, charred onions, fresh oregano, and a fresh lemon sauce. Both took less than 15 minutes. Both are vegetarian and one is fully vegan. I used a gluten free couscous from Sainsburys, which tastes just as good as the…

Wild mushrooms with pasta in a cream sauce. Serves 2

I like this recipe as it’s quick, easy and very indulgent. I saw some totally stunning mushrooms in a farm shop, so I just had to buy them and make this. I added simple pan-fried chicken to the finished dish to satisfy my meat loving wife. We are blessed in my part of the world…

Cauli and Tofu in a Tempura batter, coated with terriaki sauce.- serves 2

If I can just put a little context on this recipe. Firstly I am a meat eater, who tries and eats plant based as much as possible. My work place is dominated by meat eaters, who have an extremely well developed nutrition bent, so I am always on the look out for meals that really…

Beetroot and Goats Cheese salad with Dijon sauce.

Sometimes simple really is beautiful.  I purposely keep the ingredients list small, to allow each flavour to shine without having to fight the others. I probably spent more time trying to figure out the best way to plate it! I eventually went with combined on a slate, but I have included pictures of the other…

Slightly spicy jackfruit kebab with apple slaw.- Vegan-

– Some of the blogs write themselves, others seems to go around and around in circles with a lot of small details needing to be throw in,to both make sense, and for the recipe to be easy to follow. This proved to be one of the latter! This dish came about when I realised I…

Pimento cheese

A while ago one of my friends mentioned a dish from America called Pimento cheese. The actual cheese dish is a great staple to a vegetarian diet, used as a dip with veg sticks or as a sandwich filling. It also makes great grilled cheese. In it’s simplest form it is, chedder cheese,mayo and pimento…