I absolutely love making my own pasta, rolling it out, cutting it to shape, it’s all rather therapeutic for me. In Spring, I make wild garlic pasta, which is vibrant green with a lovely undertone of garlic flavour to complement any pasta dish. As it’s fresh pasta, it literally takes a few minutes to cook in boiling water. It obviously …
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Roasted Artichoke & Cauliflower Soup
Even though the sun is shining, I’m making soup! And that’s in part because I’m using the last of my allotment Jerusalem artichokes, but also because the UK weather is so unreliable it might be sunny and 20°C today, but tomorrow it could be dark, cold, and possibly even snowing! So I’m doing myself a favour and putting some of …
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Hot Chocolate
What if I said this hot chocolate was good for you in that it contains no added sugar, it has a portion of fruit helping you to achieve 1 of your 5-a-day, contains over 20% of your daily fibre recommendations, and is easily vegan making it perfect for Veganuary? Serves 4 Ingredient Method Per serving*: 212kcal/ 6.8g fat/ 2.2g saturated …
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Festive Croissant
These festive croissants make the most delicious crunching during the festive season, and help to prevent food waste. People have been known to fight over the last one! Makes 4 Ingredients Method
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Turkish Inspired Eggs
Post-exercise, you want to consume carbohydrates and protein to help replenish glycogen stores as well as help repair your muscles. My Turkish Inspired Eggs contain plenty of protein thanks to Yeo Valley 0% Greek Recipe*, as well as carbohydrates from the sourdough bread served with them. I’m also pairing in plenty of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants to help with recovery …
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Udon Carbonara
A super quick meal to make with plenty of umami flavours in addition to also providing you with your daily vitamin K requirements, needed to maintaining strong and healthy bones. Serves 2 Ingredients Method Per serving: 488kcal/ 20g fat/ 5.7g saturated fat/ 43g carbohydrates/ 7.8g fibre/ 29g protein
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Pasta alla Norma con Ricotta Salata
My friend bought me back some lovely Italian gifts, including this handmade orecchiette made by an actual nonna, and a local cheese called ricotta salata which is a salty and sharp cheese. So, I wanted to make something worthy of these ingredients, and my friend suggested pasta alla norma, which is an aubergine and tomato pasta, and something I absolutely …
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Kuri Squash Frittata
Serves 6 as a lighter meal that is still high in protein. Ingredients Method Per serving: 241kcal/ 15g fat/ 4.8g saturated fat/ 7.9g carbohydrates/ 1.6*g fibre/ 18g protein *Analysis completed with peeled butternut squash. Leaving the skin on the squash will help to increase the fibre content of this dish.
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Roasted Squash & Beetroot Wholegrain Cous Cous Salad
Any squash variety will work here, I’ve used Kuri and Crown Prince, but Butternut, Table or Delicia would also work well here. If you can’t find giant wholegrain cous cous you can use standard wholegrain cous cous which only require rehydrating in 110% boiling water. Serves 3 Ingredients Method Per serving: 434kcal/ 24g fat/ 7.7g saturated fat/ 34g carbohydrates/ 9.1g …
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Air Fryer Falafel
I used to work at King’s College London as a postdoctoral researcher and there was this little falafel stall just around the corner which would be mine and my colleagues go to spot when we were treating ourselves to lunch out (or running back to the metabolic research unit!). These falafel are a nod to those which I used to …