Clik here to view.
Farfalle in Creamy Mushroom Sauce
This sinfully delicious dish ended up good enough for a whole meal, with some fresh, thick, crusty bread on the side. I used farfelle, the bow shaped pasta, because someone had brought me a box, but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sweet Potato Cake
Here’s a lovely cake to warm you through and through. In the winter months sweet potatoes are in abundance, and very adaptable to all kinds of desserts. Here’s one I tried. I sort of re-jigged the...
View ArticleFood and Art
Just recently I cam across this wonderful site – They Draw and Cook. It’s a delightful collection of recipes that have been drawn or creatively executed. If you love food and art as much as I do,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Crispy Baked Sweet Potato
This recipe is as healthy as you can get. Barely there oil, and no sugars except natural, but a handful of these can satiate all the snack and junk food urges you may have.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drunken Mushrooms on Toast
I'm not a huge fan of mushrooms, but reading alot about them lately, I realized they're something that really should be added to by shopping basket at least once a fortnight. The next challenge was...
View ArticleSmart Snacking
It’s generally agreed these days that eating 3 meals and 2-3 small in-between mini-meals is far better for weight management and health than eating 2-3 large meals and starving in between. It sounds...
View ArticleMore healthy eating
Just recently I blogged about smart snacking, and it seems to me, that even though I think I know it all or have read it all somewhere, sometime, it’s still a new revelation each time, and a new...
View ArticleMaking Fast Food Less Lethal
Most of us lead the kind of fast paced lives that make all the good advice on — sound like pure theory, – good to know but totally not doable. If I don’t eat fast-food, I’ll probably get not food all...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dhansak – A Parsi Favorite
Dhansak is an Indian dish, especially popular among the Parsi Zoroastrian community. The main ingredients are lentils and with vegetables, spices, cumin seeds, ginger, and garlic together with meat and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dhansak Rice
This is a specially cooked rice that that is meant to be served with Dhansak. A Tip. The best measure of rice is 1 fistful for every person eating and then 1 or 2 more to top off.
View ArticleStress-Free Christmas Entertaining.
There’s is no better time than right now. Never truer than when it comes to beginning Christmas preparations. If you can start now, do! Like Santa, make a list and check it twice. Make a guest list....
View ArticleSix New Year Resolutions you absolutely must make
Lots of us are already making our New Year Resolution up in our heads. Some, like the ‘getting fitter’ and ‘dieting’ probably got on the top of the list right at the beginning of the festive season,...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
Just stopping by to say, HAPPY NEW YEAR everybody. Thanks for reading, thanks for the comments, and see you in the New Year. Hope it’s wonderful for you in every way, healthy, happy, peaceful and of...
View ArticleBeautiful Breakfast
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. – Adelle Davis Newspapers and magazines are full of studies in health and nutrition that seem to contradict each other...
View ArticleWhat is a Macrobiotic diet?
When the word was first used by Hippocrates – Father of Western Medicine, he was speaking of people who had found a balance that lead to a long, healthy life; in Latin – those who had “macro” and...
View ArticleMore about Mushrooms
I’m not a huge fan of mushrooms. I don’t mind them, but they’re not my first choice off the shelves. I like it in soup, and of course the delicious (fried of course) butter garlic mushrooms that turn...
View Article
