Archive for Vegetables
Butternut Squash
Here’s one of my favorite vegetables Butternut Squash to cook with, it’s more of a maintenance vegetable and if you are on a strict fat loss phase you’ll need to eat it sparingly. It’s got around 8g carbs per 100g Get the Flash Player to see this content. var params = { ‘allowfullscreen’: ‘true’, ‘allowscriptaccess’: [...]
Butternut squash and sweet spices
Made a recipe from my new Yotam Ottolenghi book. It was a bit diddly getting the seeds out of the cardomoms it said 2 tbs but I had a lot of spice mixture left over. I reckon about 10-20 cardamoms would be enough and 1/2 a teaspoon of allspice and sprinkle that over the butternut [...]
Brussel Sprouts with caramelised garlic and lemon peel
Brussels sprouts with caramelised garlic and lemon peel recipe | Yotam Ottolenghi | Life and style | The Guardian i’m loving Brussel sprouts at the moment and this is definately the way to cook them cut in half and pan fried. Ottolenghi takes it to another level by dressing them wiht caramelised garlic, cook garlic [...]
Mushroom Foraging with the River Cottage
Mushrooms are a really important component of many recipes that I use for Fat Loss Cookery, they are composed of nearly all water and don’t have many carbs associated with them and perhaps more importantly I think they are really yummy. . I’ve watched and enjoyed a few River Cottage TV programs with Hugh Fearnly [...]
Brussels sprouts recipes and fat loss- They are back in season
Brussels are back, well they’ve never been away I suppose you can always get your hands on them these days There was a really big display in my local Waitrose today. Brussels or ‘mini cabbages’as we used to call them when we were kids are a great vegetable to eat if you are on a [...]
Spicy Cabbage
Spicy Cabbage This is an excellent substitute for rice if you are having a Curry, or as a side dish with any main meal. You can use the real spices if you wish or just add some curry paste it’s up to you here’s how I do it. Get my spices ready 1. Cumin ,bay [...]
Roasted Cauliflower and Broccoli
This is another favorite vegetable side dish. . 1. Grind up some coriander and cumin seeds a couple of teaspoons of each. I used to use a pestel and mortar but now use my coffee grinder more often . 2. Roughly chop a few cloves of garlic . 3.Grind with some slat and olive oil [...]
Califlower Soup
. This is adapted from a Delia Smith recipe, I’ve ditched the butter replaced with some coconut oil and just eliminated the potatoes you won’t really miss them. If you’re tight on ingredients you could even make this without either of the celery, leek or onion. What you need medium, good-sized cauliflower (about 1lb 4 [...]
Broccoli Soup
Ingredients 1 tbsp olive oil 1 garlic clove, peeled and chopped 250ml/8¾fl oz chicken or vegetable stock (more if necessary) 200g/7oz broccoli (chop it up stalks as well) salt and freshly ground black pepper ( optional blue cheese and toasted walnuts) Method Heat the oil in a saucepan and sauté the garlic for 1-2 minutes. [...]
beetroot and walnut hummous
I like a lot of Hugh Fearnley Whiitingstalls recipes. I’m going on a mushroom foraging day at the River Cottage on the 28 th October. When you make this miss out the bread you don’t really need it and it is extra carbs. I had a dollop on the side of my plate with a [...]
