Tag: diabetes

Sticky Honey, Garlic and Red Onion Sausages

Sticky Honey, Garlic and Red Onion Sausages

It’s finally here, the night before Christmas. The streets are deserted, windows glowing with festive warmth, there’s a winter chill in the air and an impending sense of magic. Tree’s are sparkling and laden below them brightly covered packages ready to be flung open, loved and enjoyed.…

Mini Carrot Cakes With Cashew And Vanilla Frosting

Mini Carrot Cakes With Cashew And Vanilla Frosting

This week we headed down to the beautiful Golden Valley for a relaxing week in front of a log burning fire and surrounded by stunning countryside. We have immersed ourselves in the Hay on Wye Food Festival and travelled to other weekly markets. Every where you look…

Roasted Cod And Chorizo Fish Cakes

Roasted Cod And Chorizo Fish Cakes

If you like flavour packed dishes that are simple to make and friendly on the bank balance too then this is the recipe for you! Packed with omega 3 and a long list of nutritional benefits (listed below) these fish cakes do more than just satisfy…

Mrs P’s Apple Crumble And Custard

Mrs P’s Apple Crumble And Custard

One of the easiest and most wholesome dishes for the approaching winter season is crumble. I have been asked a few times recently how to make the perfect Paleo crumble so from start to finish I thought I would share a very simple apple crumble…

Warming Beetroot, Coconut and Garlic Soup

Warming Beetroot, Coconut and Garlic Soup

It is my dream that one day we will live in the countryside and I will have a vegetable patch where I can grow an abundance of fruits, herbs and vegetables. Living in the city its not quite so easy. We have a lovely little garden, but…

Garlic mushrooms and coconut courgetti

Garlic mushrooms and coconut courgetti

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…

Mrs P’s Overnight Chocolate “No Oats” Porridge

Mrs P’s Overnight Chocolate “No Oats” Porridge

Apparently it’s World Porridge Day today so I thought it would be the perfect time to share this breakfast post. Now, I don’t meet many people who don’t like chocolate- or for that matter wouldn’t choose to eat it at any given time, day or…

Sandwich Loaf

Sandwich Loaf

The weather has well and truly turned in the last week and although I am loving scouring the web for a new winter coat everywhere I go everyone seems to be coughing and spluttering with terrible colds… Me included. I very rarely get a cold but…

Mrs P’s Pistachio and Blackberry cake

Mrs P’s Pistachio and Blackberry cake

There’s nothing I like more than coming home from work, shutting the front door and knowing that it’s just the three of us for the rest of the evening. As much as I love dinner parties and going out to see friends I definitely love…

A warm salad to welcome Autumn

A warm salad to welcome Autumn

I’ve really upped my exercise regime recently. I’m not going to lie, post our wedding in April I have not been working out anywhere near what I was and have noticed a change in my fitness, energy and body shape because of it. So in…

Warm kale, fig and butternut squash salad with a tahini dressing

Warm kale, fig and butternut squash salad with a tahini dressing

It was Monday night, pouring with rain and took me two hours to get home from work. After an hour of sitting on an overcrowded, hot bus I walked home, in a strop. The whole way back, to save myself from cursing TFLs name out loud and…

Mushrooms Stuffed With Brazil Nut Pesto

Mushrooms Stuffed With Brazil Nut Pesto

This weekend we spent an amazing couple of days with visiting family in London; the sun shone, we had picnics in the park, walks by the river, games in the garden and all in all it was very happy. I had a lot of fun making…