How am I doing with my not binning food challenge? I don’t think I am doing too badly. I have to admit to having to put a chunk of pumpkin in the compost as I didn’t get around to making soup quickly enough. Oooops. And I didn’t quite finish up a small carton of cream…
Leftovers for lunch
First day of giving up binning food with the Love Food Hate Waste Lent challenge saw me checking the kitchen to see what things may wind up in the bin. It resulted in me making a weird but surprisingly nice lunch of leftovers. There were 2 small wraps looking a bit lonely in the fridge…
Bananas that need saving from the bin
We all do it. End up with a couple of bananas that are just too ripe to be enjoyable. And in the spirit of giving up binning food I thought I would share a recipe that it quick, tasty and not too indulgent. Banana bread that is definitely more bread than cake. So easy to…
A couple of food challenges for Lent
When I was a child, every Lent we used to give something up. I remember giving up chocolate or sweets, grown ups would come visit my mum and dad and would often bring us some sweets and I would put them in a jar so that come Easter I would have this little treasure chest….
Migraines and diet
I learnt some new things today about diet and migraine. I have known for a long time that certain foods are triggers for migraine – I think many of us know that cheese; alcohol, particularly red and fortified wines; mono sodium glutamate, cured meats that are rich in nitrites and chocolate have all been cited…
Vietnam Part 2 – Fresh Spring Rolls
Did the last post whet your appetite for more Spring Rolls? Have you come back for more? You won’t be disappointed – I certainly wasn’t disappointed with my first encounter with fresh spring rolls. The nearest thing I have had is duck pancakes at a Chinese restaurant. Full of fresh crunchy, raw lettuce, cucumber, carrots, bean…
The Cooking Club 2017 – Vietnam Part 1
Last year, you may remember the Maisons-Laffitte cooking club. An international group of ladies getting together to share favourite recipes by cooking and eating lunch together. Well, it is time for the cooking club of 2017 to begin. And what a start. We started with Vinh in Vietnam (we wished we could actually have flown…
Ageing – It is all a matter of Taste
The five tastes – sweet, bitter, salty, sour and umami. These combined with the myriad of volatile chemicals that waft up our nasal passages is what gives flavour to our food. As children we remember those foods that we hated – blue cheese, olives, mustard, chilli for example. ‘You will like them when you are…
Back to Twitter and Sugar at the same time…
…I have a bee in my bonnet on this whole Twitter/Social Media thing. Sorry to bore you all with it. My Twitter feed was full of People Against Sugar Tax. I kept them in my feed for reasons of seeing what the other view is. I was talking about how social media does more to…
Detox – the truth
The truth is, your body is very good at detox. The body has the liver and the kidneys tirelessly working to ‘clean’ the blood, maintain pH and all sorts of clever stuff. Between them they are extremely good at ridding our body of things we don’t need, things that are harmful and waste products of…
Lynn Burns RNutr 
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