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Halloumi, avocado and strawberry salad

Inspired by a recent visit to Juliet’s (my favourite Tunbridge Wells café) this salad is the perfect accompaniment to grilled or barbecued meats; tonight it is going to sidle up to a grilled lamb chop from Speaight’s butcher. To me, supper doesn’t get any better than this! However, this salad would also make a deliciousContinue reading “Halloumi, avocado and strawberry salad”

Spicy Mexican Bean and Green Salad

Although this recipe is a little higher in carbs than I normally include  (containing roughly 10g carbs per 100g) a  small portion (c.150g) in an otherwise low carb meal should not threaten ketosis once you are keto-adapted.

Warm Salads: the easy way to ten-a-day

You can’t have missed last week’s headlines announcing that the five a day target needs to double. The New York Times led with ‘You’re going to need a bigger bowl‘. The study found that up to 600g per person per day of vegetables leads to a reduced cancer risk and that 8oog reduced all causeContinue reading “Warm Salads: the easy way to ten-a-day”

Power Lunches: two weeks of healthy ideas

This post is for everyone who works in an office and wants to take their own delicious low carb, gluten-free, dairy-free lunch with them.

Diana Henry’s lamb and black bean chilli

I cooked this recipe twice in January, both times for large groups of people. The recipe doubles very successfully. We’re eating the last of it from the freezer tonight! The second time I added a bit more chilli – but it’s very much a matter of taste.

Power salad of chicken livers and sherry with orange and fresh mint

I’ve cooked this warm salad several times now and it gets rave reviews, it makes a great starter or a light lunch. Even if you think you don’t like liver, chicken livers are mild tasting and full of good fats for brain and liver function.

Low carb Salade Niçoise

One of my favourite salads which works equally well for two people and ten. Most of the ingredients can be prepared in advance and the salad assembled, beautifully, at the last minute. I made it recently, on one of those beautiful summer days we had, for a very important occasion with some of our specialestContinue reading “Low carb Salade Niçoise”