Live For Food

If you use the traditional small glass hand held lemon squeezer pictured above here is a useful tip. When using the juicer stand it on a small saucer. Otherwise, after your first squeeze, you tip the juice into something and resume squeezing, and a drip of juice always runs off the spout down the outside […]

Today I’ve tried out a fruity pudding.  A lot of the supermarkets have blueberries on offer at the moment so I thought it would be a good one to try. Ingredients: 50g caster sugar 50g soft butter, plus extra for greasing 1 large egg 50g self-raising flour 50g dessicated coconut, plus 2 tsp 50g creme […]

Here in the UK a mini heatwave has descended. If you make lunch to take to work each day your normal sandwich may not seem very inviting in the hot weather. The obvious choice for a summer lunch is salad, but a couple of days of chopping stuff up in the evenings only to eat […]

• Out of sight out of mind – keep unhealthy snacks right at the back of a cupboard • Plan your daily snacks – don’t snack on impulse • If your other family members want snacks – buy ones that they like and you don’t like • Don’t eat from the packet – arrange your […]

Ingredients: 2 tbsp olive oil 8 chicken pieces (a mixture of thighs and legs work well) 6 rashers streaky bacon, chopped 2 onions, sliced 2 rosemary sprigs Two 400g cans plum tomatoes 2 tbsp red or white wine vinegar 1 tbsp sugar 500ml chicken stock Method: 1 Brown the chicken Heat the oil in a […]