Live For Food

I saw fresh lychees in the supermarket this week for the first time in a while, and remembered how nice they are, if a little on the odd side. I had a phase where I bought all the various unusual types of fruit and gave them a go, and lychees are probably one of the […]

The Sharon fruit is my current favourite unusual fruit. It is a variety of the persimmon, and you will hear both names used.  The Sharon fruit is native to Israel, grown on the Sharon plains, but other varieties of persimmon come from Japan and the US.  They are a bright orange fruit with a dark […]

As most of us know, “5 a day” refers to the well publicized government campaign that we should all eat 5 portions of fruit and vegetables every day as part of a healthy diet. The intention behind this campaign was to simply get us all eating more fresh produce. A portion of fruit is one […]

I’ve been experimenting with low sugar jelly at the moment (“jello” to my friends over the pond!). It makes a great low calorie pudding. It’s nice on its own, and it’s nicer still with fruit set into it. Make sure you don’t try to put kiwi, pineapple or papaya into a jelly though, as there […]

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 […]