Garlic Prawns & Californian Chopped Salad

by katedh March 25, 2014

Garlic Prawns & Californian Chopped Salad

"Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, and so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it." - Charles Dudley Warner (1871) I spend a fair amount of time, particularly during the British winter, daydreaming about how my life would be if I lived in California. Conclusion? It'd be 52 kinds of awesome. I'd go everywhere in my gym kit, carrying my eco-friendly glass water bottle and a ...

by katedh March 21, 2014

Autumn , Dairy Free , Gluten Free , Meat , Weekend , Winter

Nigella’s Soy & Tahini Pork

"The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend” - Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monster) One of the real highlights of this healthier eating lark is that we eat pretty much whatever we want at the weekend. OK, we don't spend (every) Saturday slinging back KFC Zinger Tower burgers, but the weekend is when I tend to indulge my pastry ...

by katedh March 21, 2014

Dairy Free , Gluten Free , Vegan/Vegan Option , Vegetarian

Cinnamon & Vanilla Cashew Milk

"I think everybody's nuts" - Johnny Depp Is milk bad for us? I really quite genuinely have no idea anymore. Pretty much everywhere I look I can find millions of sensational articles telling me that milk is some awful inflammatory, acid-forming, snot-inducing poison. The anti-milk brigade also delights in pointing out that humans (and mainly only those in the West) are the only species who drink milk to adulthood and, to ...

by katedh March 20, 2014

Dairy Free , Fish , Gluten Free , Spring , Summer , Wheat Free , Year-Round

Bream No.2 – The One Without the Eyes

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully" - George W. Bush (2000) I had intended to put both bream suggestions in my first post today - a sort of "Bream Two Ways" as it were - but that got rather long. So here is Bream 2.0 - this time using just the fillets - the easiest and quickest thing in the world to cook and two great vegetable ideas ...

Dairy Free , Fish , Gluten Free , Wheat Free , Year-Round

Bream No.1 – The Balearic Baked One

"It's OK to eat fish 'cause they don't have feelings" - Kurt Cobain (Something in the Way, 1991) I always thought I was pretty cool about eating fish. I didn't much like whelks, anchovies or sardines but I ate most shellfish, lots of smoked haddock (i.e. kedgeree), cod, tuna and tons of sushi. But was I one of those people who could just swing into the fishmonger, ask what was good that ...

by katedh March 18, 2014

Dairy Free , Eat More Veg , Gluten Free , Vegan/Vegan Option , Vegetarian , Wheat Free , Winter

Radicchio & Red Onion with White Bean Purée

"Having one designated meat free day a week is actually a meaningful change that everyone can make, that goes to the heart of several important political, environmental and ethical issues all at once." - Paul McCartney (2009) We have been doing Meat Free Monday for a few months now, albeit with varying degrees of success as I seem to have a blind spot as to the proper classification of chorizo and ...

by katedh March 11, 2014

Eat More Veg , Gluten Free , Salads , Vegetarian , Wheat Free , Winter

Nigel Slater’s Fennel, beetroot & sour cream salad

Jump straight to the recipe → "You don't win friends with salad" - Homer Simpson (1995) I was a very late convert to the merits of a salad. Because, you see, a good salad is not a simple thing. It is something that requires an understanding of flavours, texture and balance. It is a culinary dark art. In her book, The Art of Simple Cooking, Alice Waters (the undisputed Californian queen of ...