Live For Food

This is yet another recipe that uses chicken breasts. I tend to keep this one for holidays or special occasions as its quite high in calories! Ingredients (serves 2): 2 chicken breasts 6 strips of smoked streaky bacon 2 long rectangles of cheese, about half the length of a chicken breast, and about 1 cm [...]

I’ve been having some dishwasher problems recently.  There seems to be something wrong with the pump, and its probably related to some recent drain problems we’ve been having, so I haven’t been able to use it.  I’m really not a fan of washing up and with a small kitchen the dishwasher also ends up acting [...]

Its always helpful to have all the links you need in one place – so here is my handy list of links for all things weight maintenance and weight loss that you may like to refer to from time to time:   Food: calorie counters http://www.calorieking.com/ (American) http://www.calorieking.com.au/foods/ (Australian site – better for UK foods [...]

In the second of this series I’m going to look at the main sources of animal protein: meat, fish and eggs. When you’re counting calories in these groups quite often the items come in ready prepared portions, for example, a steak, a chicken breast, or a fish fillet and it is easy to estimate the [...]

I love the idea of making curry from scratch but most of the time find myself picking up a jar of Patak’s curry paste instead.  So in order to get back to basics I’ve had a go at this recipe for Chicken Bhuna from BBC Good Food.  I have never used fennel seeds before so [...]