We have been eating lots of salads and fresh fish meals this week; quick and simple dishes that are packed with flavour and goodness.  As you know one of my favourite vegetables is the courgette (zucchini), often maligned and forgotten, it’s a versatile and tasty vegetable…

Since we got back from our mini break life’s been crazy busy. I can’t believe it’s Easter this weekend! Where has that come from? And more to the point, where is this year going!? For the last three years we’ve been away over Easter so…

One of my favourite kitchen utensils has to be my spiralizer (UK / US). For those of you who don’t know what a spiralizer is it’s basically an inexpensive (about £30) plastic stand that you manually feed your vegetable (or fruit) of choice through to create…

I love cooking and baking and so long as I have no prior plans I tend to spend most of my evenings in  the kitchen preparing, baking or making. However sometimes I get home and all I want is something that takes no time at…

Looking back to my diet before low-carb I am not surprised that I was 2 stone overweight and struggling to have any control over my diabetes. One of our favourite meals to make after a day at work was a spaghetti bolognese. A packet of…

I’ve wanted to try out the courgetti craze that seems to have taken many kitchens and the web by storm for a while. So I went on to Amazon last week and bought myself a Spiralite spiralizer.   In terms of value for money, this is one of the…