So Paulie and I are being good Monday to Friday with our healthy lunches. To be honest most of the ingredients are store cupboard and can be used again for different recipes. Preserved lemons, capers, gherkins and tinned fish are a must have for us as they add so much flavour and replace seasoning. I…
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3 Cheese Fondue with Crusty Bread Recipe
I love cheese! It is ok in proportion and as a treat, like in this case. Cheese fondue tastes so good and I thought if I was going to have cheese I might as well go for it and make sure it is good quality and worth the calories! I read a lot of articles…
Healthy Chicken, Giant Cous Cous and Almond Salad with a Honey and Mustard Dressing Recipe
We love our salads but also like to try different things. After an indulgent Easter and my birthday straight after it is time to get back to some healthy eating. In this recipe Paulie used the giant couscous and for the crunch element he used some almonds we had left in the cupboard. It’s great…
Leftover Chicken, Avocado, Rocket and Sundried Tomato Salad
So we still had some leftover chicken that I didn’t want to waste. We always buy avocado but it takes a couple of days for it to be the right texture for me and this one was left from a twin pack. In 5 minutes I constructed this salad of left over chicken, handful of…
Carrot, Cumin and Butternut Squash Soup Recipe
Me and Paulie had a day out planned at Howlets zoo and I always think the food in the canteens isn’t particulary nice. So what could be more comforting than a mug of soup! As we wandered around the lions, monkeys and elephants we had a pit stop at a picnic bench and warmed ourselves…
Warming Roasted Carrot, Ginger and Thyme Soup
When we buy a bag carrots for a stew or casserole, we always end up with a few leftover. Paulie also wanted to test a food tip which is freezing ginger (I took a thumb sized piece off and put it back in the freezer), and I had recently bought the most amazing Thyme plant….
Lunch at the Middle House Mayfield Review
Me and Paulie are now creating a shortlist of the best pubs in our area. This week was The Middle House in Mayfield. I had been here on a work Christmas lunch and Paulie has been with his friends, so we decided to try it together. It is funny when we look at a menu,…
Store Cupboard American Style Pastrami Salad
So Paulie is in London today so I have to fend for myself this lunchtime, luckily I have picked up tips from the lunches he makes. This took me 5 minutes to prepare. We had some left over pastrami and salad leaves and the rest is store cupboard ingredients. I would recommend everyone keeps jars…
Spauly’s Spiced Potted Crab Recipe
So as you would know from our previous post of Paulie and I’s date day by the seaside we bought a crab. I usually find the recipes but Paulie was inspired by a recipe he found which had chilli and fennel seeds included, a combination we love. So we loosly based our version on this…
