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 | rferrett User Ralph Ferrett, Male, 32, Registered : March 11, 2010, 9:35 am Tracks Played : 16239 |
“Who ate none of the pies
Who ate none of the pies…..”
Fat holiday snap.
Ealier this year I visit the Doctor about (amongst other things, I am a massive hypochondriac) a vague feeling that I was starting to get a little fleshy. I had just seen some holiday snaps form when me and my brother went to see the olds in Portugal and frankly it was hard to pretend that I wasn’t well, frankly, a bloater. I am a vain, vain man who really likes few things
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I had some fresh Tarragon left over from cooking (extremely nice) Haddock Provençal the other day and thus was seeking an appropriate nice use for it that fitted in with my low cholesterol diet.
The following is basically an amalgamation of about three or four different recipes and some suggestions off twitter. Should serve two.
This was awesome!
Ingredients
3 Chicken Breasts
3 Large cloves Garlic
Lemon Juice
Tarragon
1 Onion
Dijon Mustard
Reduced fat Crème Fraiche
Black Pepper
Cherry Tomatoes
Olive Oil
Tagliatelle
In a roasting dish liberally pour some olive
Continue reading Tarragon and Dijon Chicken with Tagliatelle
Been experimenting quite a lot in the kitchen of late due to my low cholesterol diet. If I am entirely honest the results have been decided mixed, but last night we had one in the “win” column and I thought I’d publish it here (as much so I don’t forget how I did it as thinking my readers might be interested!).
So I wanted something spicy, and Sugar Snap Peas were on offer in Morrisons and this is what I came up with.
Ingredients
300g Diced Chicken
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I have not posted an recipes here at Lunchtime Legend since the end of Vegtember. But I recently discovered my Cholesterol levels were a bit high (and I also realised I was becoming a big fat pig!) so have embarked on a low cholesterol diet. Thinking differently about cooking always sparks my muse a little and therefore I am on one at the moment so regular readers might see a few of these.
In my RSS feed James Ramsden’s new post about a Mackerel, Oyster and Wasabi roll (and Jeez
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One of the big reasons for doing Vegtember is to try and consume food in a more sustainable way. There are reasons why eating less meat helps in this. But one of the biggest environmental factors in respect of food is the “food miles”. How far the food has to travel to get to your store, or to your plate.
This is an issue for meat, and for vegetarian products. This is especially pronounced when food stuffs are perishable and need to be refrigerated as they are transported.
One of the best
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It is starting to get cold again, and as always when cold my thoughts turn to soups and stews. I cant help thinking a stew might be pretty disappointing sans meat. But most soups I cook are Vegetarian anyhow, so I thought that soup was most definitely the way to go!
So I decided to go to the grocers and just to see what takes my fancy. They had a number of Butternut Squashes that looked ripe and lovely so I snapped them up. I like soup to be hearty, tasty,
Continue reading Vegtember: Butternut Squash Soup
Since mooting the suggestion of doing Vegtember, and explaining some of the reasons why, many people have spoken to me about meat replacement products. Specifically many people have extolled the virtues of Quorn chicken style pieces (other meat replacement products are available).
I have been told on many fronts that the chicken pieces are a perfectly adequate replacement for normal cheap chicken and great for stir-fries and curries etc, with the added advantage of being healthier, cheaper and easier than using chicken.
I must say I was dubious. Ages ago when cooking
Continue reading Vegtember: Quorn Satay Curry
At lunch today I was perusing t’interweb and I read this article about Chillies in the Grauniad. Having read that there was only ever going to be one thing I could have for dinner tonight and that is Vegetarian Chilli.
Now as one of the challenges I am hoping to do at some point this month, particularly at the urging of this thread on h2g2, I did consider making this with Soya Mince. However I decided in the end to save that for another day (might make a Malaysian Satay curry
Continue reading Vegtember: Three Bean Chilli
It has been quite a frustrating weekend in terms of the Vegtember stuff. I had planned to record a video blog about going to a Farmers market to buy some locally produced goods. But unfortunately the advertised one in Plymouth was not actually taking place (bloody interweb being unreliable). So my big plan was out of the window. If anyone knows where an alternative one is taking place in Devon before the end of the month (and preferably somewhere easy to get to on the train) then do drop me
Continue reading Vegtember: Goats Cheese Ratatouille
Had a late finish at work tonight and some ingredients that needed eating up. I had little idea of what to cook, walking home it struck me…. why not do a Masterchef style “invention test”.
So I got all my ingredients out, set the timer for half an hour and came up with the following. Now I have to be honest, I didn’t stick to the 30 minutes it wasn’t ready and I realised that rather than being on telly in a prestige cooking competition I was alone in my flat
Continue reading Vegtember: Masterchef Invention Test
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