Tag: salad Recipes Health benefits of carrots & a recipe for Crunchy Asian Slaw This crunchy Asian slaw is a new favourite. Its fresh, zingy and truly delicious. Beautiful colours too! Read More Recipes Spinach, feta and pomegranate salad This salad is so easy to make and yet its super tasty. A great addition to any meal. It's a new favourite in Eating Ideas Towers! Read More Recipes A recipe for Feta, courgette, pea & bean salad This is a delicious recipe which brings together Mediterranean feta with local ingredients, courgettes, broadbeans, peas and mint in a light and tasty salad. I love this salad, it's a new favourite, especially as it contains my home grown peas! Read More Recipes Bucky BBQ bacon and Pasta salad Buckfast wine in salad? Oh yes- thanks to Hollah Preserving's Bucky BBQ sauce. Delicious mixed with yoghurt to make a creamy dressing and added to pasta, smoked bacon, cucumber, red pepper, spring onion and pine nuts! Read More Recipes Why I love chickpeas and a delicious spicy 2 bean salad It has to be said that I am a huge fan of the humble chickpea. I enjoy the taste, texture and versatility of them. Nutrition wise, they are pretty cool too. They are an excellent source of protein, iron, folate and fibre. best of all they are really low fat! I like them in […] Read More Recipes Sunshine, sun burn and a new recipe for feta, pesto and couscous salad The sun is finally shining and within 20 minutes of it’s arrival, I am sporting a rather fetching tartan tan (think random stripes of red if you will!) I am now back firmly in the shade with my factor duffel coat on but still feeling over heated and thinking of all things chilled- salad for […] Read More Recipes Zesty Couscous Salad Couscous has to be one of the most tasteless foods on the face of the earth. Thankfully it has an ornate ability to soak up other flavours which makes it a much more interesting prospect! Couscous originates from North Africa and is a staple in the North African diet. It is is made from durum […] Read More Articles From Mandy's allotment to my salad I visited my new friend Mandy’s allotment (more about that to come soon) and she gave me some radishes. That gave me quite a challenge as to what to do with them. I have always been a bit indifferent about radishes but I have to say that seeing these growing in their little patch and […] Read More Articles This may well be one of the best salads I have bought I am bored of Pret salads so took myself off to Marks and Spencer for a peruse!. I found this superfood salad which I absolutely loved. It cam with rocket, giant couscous and quinoa with roasted beetroot, chickpeas, dried cranberries and a houmus drizzle. Well done M+S- this was a wnner! Read More Articles a nice bit of roast beef I fancied some of these slices of lean roast beed but couldn’t be bothered to cook any vegetables. I made a light mustard dressing with yoghurt and wholegrain and mustard and served with salad Read More Articles catering at meetings can be a bit hit or miss I have a little bit of fear about outside catering at meetings as some people just get it so wrong. I am in Paris so snobbishly expect the ultimate in food- insteas I was met with a platter of unappetising sandwiches made with toothbreaking crusty bread. I was happier to see some little salad pots […] Read More Articles Marinated chicken breast with cottage cheese and salad For lunch I had a lovely fresh and delicious salad with mixed leaves, cucumber, tomatoes and spring onion served with tikka marinated chicken breast and cottage cheese. I thoroughly enjoyed having some salad but had to me very careful to make sure that I only had vegetables from the approved Dukan list! Read More Articles chicken tikka samosa, onion bhajee and salad Last day off work so am using up the leftover uneaten party food before the healthy eating begins in earnest. I heated up some onion bhajees and chicken tikka samosas from Sainsburys and then tried to make it look a bit healthy with some salad Read More Articles Greek salad at the Watergate Bay Hotel in Newquay I ordered Greek Salad at the Watergate Bay Hotel in Newquay, This was an excellent choice. It was loaded with feta, peppers, cucumber and tomatoes.. Thoroughly enjoyable Read More