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A Heart Healthy Macaroni Cheese for Valentine’s Day

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Macaroni Cheese is one of those foods that many of us have placed on our mental ‘banned substance’ list because of the stonkingly high saturated fat content from all that cheese and butter and cream. But everybody loves it, including my other half who specifically requested macaroni cheese (and shepherds pie, but we haven’t got round to that one yet). … Read the full post

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Storm in a teacup

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First of all, an apology for the appalling article title ☺

Being from Yorkshire, tea is a subject dear to my heart. I’ve noticed a few bloggers writing recently about a piece of research published in the European Heart Journal which found that adding milk to tea completely removed the beneficial vasodilation effect seen when the same black tea was … Read the full post

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Tomorrow’s chili today

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A few people I know turn their noses up at Quorn because it “doesn’t taste of anything”. To my mind they are missing the point; it is precisely this quality of Quorn that makes it useful. Yes, the plain imitation chicken fillets are decidedly uninspiring (and a little odd) but ignore those and go for the mince or the pieces; … Read the full post

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A bottom of the fridge parsnip lunch

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Today was not a day to go out to buy something for lunch – the weather forecast said “damaging winds gusting 60 to 70mph” and it was not exaggerating. It was so bad that every so often the wind gusts through the roof and makes the hatch from the landing to the loft lift up and drop with a bang … Read the full post

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