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Baked lemon tofu double citrus salad

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This salad recipe uses my new crush, gorgeous Tarocco oranges from Sicily, accompanied with peppery watercress and baked tofu.  When I first started trying to eat more sustainably choosing fruit in Winter was a big shopping headache. After all, there is pretty much no fruit that grows in the UK between November and the first [...]

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A warm winter salad of leaves, stilton, cherries and walnuts

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Everybody knows too much cheese is bad for you and full of calories and saturated fat. Except that really this isn’t true at all – yes cheese is fairly high calorie but it’s also a good source of protein, calcium and above all JOY!  Eating well sometimes involves taking a bit of a step back [...]

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Savoy cabbage, nutmeg and chestnut saute

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This wintery saute has been on regular rotation this autumn, in fact pretty much every week there’s been a good savoy cabbage available.  It’s ready in less than 15 minutes (including prep) and uses only one pan, a chopping board and knife. There’s plenty of plant based matter here and carbohydrate from the chestnuts and [...]

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Roasted vegetables – make them your salad for Winter

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If there’s one thing guaranteed to get me back in the kitchen it’s a brand spanking newly turned Autumn. All those lovely warm, cosy soups, stews and roasts.  And this seasons vegetables are just the best; pumpkins, squash, carrots, parsnips, onions, leeks, beetroot, celeriac. All the real sweeties and perfect for roasting.  People tell themselves [...]

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Absorption-method wholewheat pasta with tomatoes, french beans and feta

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Cooking pasta by the absorption method (risotto style) was all the rage in the food blog world a couple of years back.  A recent revisit has uncovered that it works really well with wholewheat pasta, especially when its combined with the bounties of summer (the sweetest tomatoes, fresh green beans and grassy pea shoots). The [...]

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Chicken with courgette, halloumi and honey

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This is a recipe for chicken thighs that I’ve been carrying in my head for at least 10 years. Hours of searching (online and off) have failed to discover original source – I suspect it was from one of those shiny recipe cards that always find their way into my supermarket trolley.  Juicy chicken thighs [...]

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