Green vegetable pakoras + coriander chutney

Green vegetable pakoras + coriander chutney

This recipe features in the May/June edition of Hampshire Life magazine with wine matches from The knackered Mother’s Wine Club. I love incorporating fresh Hampshire produce into recipes from far flung places. These crispy little flavour bombs are packed full of early summer vegetables and 

Overnight sourdough focaccia

Overnight sourdough focaccia

If you’re new to sourdough baking, focaccia is the perfect loaf to get you started: easy, forgiving, endlessly customisable and – most importantly – ridiculously delicious.

Test Valley trout ceviche

Test Valley trout ceviche

This recipe features as part of the December edition of Hampshire Life magazine with wine matches from The knackered Mother’s Wine Club. My favourite Christmas starters are light, fresh and zingy. They rouse your appetite without filling you up. This recipe takes the iconic ingredients 

More late summer fast diet recipes

More late summer fast diet recipes

The end of the summer seems to have whizzed by – apologies for the lack of recipe posts! We’re still fasting and the recipes had been jotted down and photos taken, but they didn’t quite reach the laptop. If you fancy a few new recipes 

New Forest Show 2013

New Forest Show 2013

I had a great time at the New Forest Show yesterday – brilliant to catch up with the stallholders and the lovely backstage team. Here are the recipes!

Fast Diet recipes – day 14

Fast Diet recipes – day 14

Breakfast: Gooseberry breakfast pots (196 calories) Lunch: Asian omelette rolls (193 calories) Dinner: Konnyaku ‘spaghetti’ with chorizo sauce (151 calories) = 540 calories Due to some bad diary scheduling, this is our third fast day in a row, but it’s not quite as bad as 

Fast Diet recipes – Day 13

Fast Diet recipes – Day 13

Breakfast: Gooseberry breakfast pots (196 calories) Lunch: Butterbean, tomato and caper salad (140 calories) Dinner: Konnyaku noodle pho (198 calories) = 534 calories I have just been introduced to ‘miracle noodles’: fasting suddenly seems a whole lot easier!

Fast Diet recipes – Day 12

Fast Diet recipes – Day 12

Breakfast: Gooseberry breakfast pots (196 calories) Lunch: Butterbean tomato and caper salad (133 calories) Dinner: Szechuan pork in lettuce wraps (182 calories) = 511 calories Since returning from France our eating-out diary has gone a bit crazy. More often than not we’re having to do 

Fast Diet recipes – Day 11

Fast Diet recipes – Day 11

Breakfast: Gooseberry breakfast pots (196 calories) Lunch: Broad bean, pea and parmesan salad (200 calories) Dinner: Szechuan pork in lettuce wraps (182 calories) = 578 calories Fasting on a Friday can make you feel a bit hard-done-by, so it’s all the more important to make 

Fast Diet recipes – day 10

Fast Diet recipes – day 10

Breakfast: Poached eggs with chilli and soy (175 calories) Lunch: Green bean, courgette and samphire salad (177 calories) Dinner: Chicken meatball broth (198 calories) = 550 calories Add 150 g fresh strawberries (50 cal) to make it up to a 600 man calorie day. Due