Quinoa Bread
If you’re on a New Year health kick and are missing your bread then I can definitely recommend a delicious quinoa loaf. If you haven’t made…
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Smoky Roast Chicken with Sweet Potato Wedges
You can’t beat roast chicken for ease, simplicity, and in my opinion, wholesomeness. It’s my fail safe meal after I’ve been burning the candle…
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Fish Fingers
These are always a hit with kids – even with the kids’ friends (always a risk with something slightly out of the ordinary). Although…
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Quinoa Burgers with Tahini Sauce
This is a lovely, easy to make, burger recipe. You can prep it the night or the morning before, and they will take you just…
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Anniversary Vietnamese Chicken
I made this for our anniversary a few weeks ago (not just because I had forgotten and needed to pull something special out of…
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Warm Winter Soup
If you’ve over-indulged over the festive period (or even if you haven’t), this is a great, but simple dish for replenishing some nutrients back…
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Lemon Pistachio Cupcakes
If there’s a sugar free food heaven (because obviously if it’s any decent type of heaven, it’s sugar filled!!), I think this could be it…
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Turkey and Cashew Curry
Just in case you wanted something a bit different than the traditional Christmas turkey, this is a beautiful and wonderfully simple turkey curry. If…
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The Chocolatiest Chocolate Cake Ever!
Keep moving, nothing to see here……!!! This cake should come with a serious health (and addiction) warning!!! Yes it IS gluten and dairy free…
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Ginger Beef Kebabs
Are you rushing around like a crazy lady (or gent) madly trying to get your Christmas shopping done and organise a million things at…
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Apple and Ginger Cake
Ok so it depends if you like your cakes to look good as to whether you’ll like this one, as it doesn’t hold together…
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Slow Roast Lamb Shank
Madeleine does it again!! This meaty dish is so full of fresh flavour. It’s so easy to make, you can prepare it ahead and…
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Gluten and Sugar Free Christmas Pudding
Christmas pudding – what can I say? You can’t have Christmas without it. I had a dream (nay, nightmare) last night that it was…
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Slow Cooked Barbecue (Pulled) Pork
If you’re entertaining, this is a great show stopper that you can marinate the night before, pop in the oven in the morning and…
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Celeriac and Parsnip Soup with Seed Mix
As I write this post the wind is blowing a gale outside, the leaves are all but gone from the trees and the rain…
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Mince Pies
Well you can’t have Christmas without mince pies can you? So, imagine my delight when I found this healthier version last year. Happy, happy,…
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Italian Beef Stew
This is an ideal dish for me – really quick to throw together; a nice slow long cook that you can forget about while…
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Lentil Bake
Are you embracing a meat-free day??? If so, this is a great one to add to your options. Its surprisingly tasty, perfectly nutritious and…
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Courgette Base Pizza
These are a delicious alternative to the cauliflower based pizza and are really easy peasy to make. They also pass the taste test of…
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Kale bread
Note to myself to make bread more often – my mouth is watering writing up this recipe!! Do you know that shop bought gluten…
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Hunter’s Chicken
This casserole is hearty, healthy, wholesome, warming and comforting – a perfect winter meal.
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Pumpkin Pie
HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all the Americans out there!! Over here in the UK we don’t need to be American to enjoy some pumpkin pie!! Hopefully…
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Mini Carrot and Orange Muffins
These little muffins are bursting with flavours. Enjoy them as a pudding or on their own as a snack and remember you’re helping your…
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Bacon and Lentil Soup
Bacon is my guilty pleasure!! We all know that processed meat has a bit of a bad rep but eaten very occasionally it won’t…
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Quick Cajun Chicken
These super tasty chicken breasts could not be easier and quicker to make. You can prepare them ahead if you wish or simply throw…
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Gluten and Sugar Free Christmas Cake
I know, I know it’s only November, but it’s never too early to start thinking about your Christmas cake!! At least if you get…
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Turkey Burgers
These are quick, easy, tasty and healthy. What more could you ask for?? I dished mine up with some simple red cabbage coleslaw and…
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Apple Honey Loaf
This is a nice loaf for satisfying hungry kids or to serve if you have guests. It is quite a solid and dry-ish loaf…
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Lamb and Aubergine Moussaka
Oh what joy it brings me when I’m not in the mood for cooking and I find a lovely big portion of this in the back…
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Clean Raspberry and Coconut Truffles
These are a lovely little ‘clean treat’. So quick and easy to make and perfect for those times when you need a little sweet…
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Stupid Easy Chicken Curry
This cheeky little curry is quick, tasty and healthy. Just what you need for a cold autumn day!
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Beetroot Falafel
Finishing off the last of my little run of veggie dishes with a bang!! These little babies are so delicious they were snaffled up…
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Butternut Squash and Spinach Tagine
I’m always a sucker for fruit in a savoury dish and you really don’t miss the meat in this delicious squash tagine – its…
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Simple Stuffed Peppers
These simple stuffed peppers are great as a side to main meal, a perfect partner to salad for lunch or just a great little snack…
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Pinto Bean Chilli
So, I’m sure we’ve all heard the news this week that processed meat (and possibly unprocessed red meat) causes bowel cancer? Well as much as…
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Rice Crispie Squares
Do your kids like those awful sticky, sugary rice crispie squares? Well I don’t blame them, they are pretty tasty but boy are they bad…
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Fanny’s Rough ‘n Ready Chocolate
It’s rough and ready because it really is a throw everything together in flash home-made chocolate and it really doesn’t need to look pretty…
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Crispy Roast Duck
Duck is underused don’t you think? I’m not sure why, it’s tasty, it’s easy to cook and it actually no more expensive than chicken…
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Simple Baked Apple Dessert
This little pudding is so quick and simple, it’s ridiculous. Even the most unadventurous of cooks can master this one and make it look…
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Key Lime Pie
Just because we’re descending into darkness here in the UK doesn’t mean the rest of the world is and some of you might be…
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Chia Porridge Any Way
If you’re looking for an alternative to oats for breakfast, Chia porridge is a super way to go. It’s as easy as porridge to…
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Cherry Crumble
Who can’t live without crumble?? I don’t really tend to cook an after dinner pudding but on a Sunday I make a bit of…
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Leave-in-the-oven Lamb Shanks
As the days are getting colder and the nights are drawing in I love to start turning to casseroles and leave-in-the-oven slow cook dishes….
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Baked Aubergine and Tomato Soup
Having just spent the weekend nursing myself better with this delicious, nutrient packed soup I had to get it posted for anyone else fighting…
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Parsnip Chips
I’m posting this straight after a steak recipe as they go so well together, but actually they are a great side to many dishes. Our…
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Steak with Mustard Leek Sauce
Granted it’s a bit of an indulgence when feeding a family of 5, but steak is so quick and easy to make and it’s always…
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Carrot Cake
Ok so I’m going for an ever so slightly naughty sweet treat here but you know I just think, you gotta have carrot cake…
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Roast Beetroot and Carrot
Well we are pretty proud of our first year as organic veggie farmers (ok, so we have a small ‘patch’) – we actually managed to wield some…
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ABC Coleslaw
Easy as 1-2-3…… I know, corrrrrnnyy!! But seriously, you couldn’t get an easier side dish and if you’ve never tried this combo you must…
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Indian Pot Roast Chicken
Mix a few spices, slice a few spuds, throw it all in a pot and let the oven do it’s magic…… This is not…
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