Besan Purae (Chickpea pancakes)

Besan purae are a great breakfast, brunch or afternoon snack with tea. You can serve them with ketchup as I have here (my favourite) or you any pickle or sauce of your preference. You will need a nice non stick pan to fry these, they are so quick to prepare and so yummy, you might [...]

Who do you think you are?

When I explored what made me tick and decided to ignore what everyone and his dog thought about me, I started to realise what I really did and didn't like.  It is so simple and changed everything for me!I stopped... spending so much time beating myself up for being a bad mother, wife etc... assuming other women find this easy, so why [...]

By |2019-01-31T11:59:44+00:00February 22nd, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Green beans and Quorn chunks

This meal was cooked in a phone call (a short on for me!), less than 20mins from prep to completion. I normally cook fine green beans with potatoes (the traditional way) it is very yummy this way and would recommend you trying it.  However, as I had run out of potatoes so I substituted Quorn chunks you [...]

Plantain subji

I love to eat green plantain just chopped deep fried, or sauté and salted.  They are similar to potato but still has a very yummy uniqueness. You can buy them in most foreign food shops, i bought them from an Afghanistany shop in Cambridge. Ingredients for serving 4 3 large green plantain, peeled and chopped into 1" chunks. 3tbsp Light olive oil or [...]

The diet that never fails!

Are you on or have you tried:-The Cambridge or Slimfast diet?The Atkins diet?Starvation diets...or variations of the above, the lists are endless...And did you find the weight goes and then it just piles back on as soon as you come off the extreme regime?Do you wonder how on earth other people stay a reasonable size and weight [...]

By |2019-01-31T11:59:45+00:00February 1st, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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