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Screwing up with a Spiralizer

If you’ve even got a passing interest in food you’ll have heard of Spiralizing! I’ve been dancing around this new trend for a while now and even invested in my own contraption a few months ago. It has sat dusty

Another Stab at Chicken Risotto… this time I’m done!

I love risotto – who doesn’t? But how on earth can anyone actually make it, at home, themselves, without going to a restaurant or getting it out of a packet? It just does NOT COMPUTE. Anyway – I have a

Dried not Fried Bread

How do you make fried bread? Or even how do you fry bread? I thought it would be simple just add a slice of your finest white to a frying pan of hot oil. Doesn’t the name kind of give

Davina’s Sugar Free Chicken Sinks

Regular readers will know I like to dip in and out of various eating plans with varying degrees of success quite often – basically if there is a bandwagon rolling by I will almost certainly jump on it(Remember Gwyneth Paltrow’s

Creme Brûlée Hooray!

Regular readers will know how much I love a cooking ‘kit’, those packets that give you all you need to create a specific dish. I know better cooks than me will obviously sniff at such things but hey – I’m

Baked Beans Baked

So this has happened. Apparently you CAN’T cook baked beans in an oven. The clue is NOT in the name, they DO NOT like being baked. They are already baked beans. So folks please do not bake your beans, or

Eggs do not a Stir Fry make

I have a problem with boring food, I always try to jhush it up a bit (well how do YOU spell that word?) which often leads to my downfall. Take this recent stir fry that went on in my kitchen.

Dark Side of the Pizza

Hello and Happy New Year, if it’s not too late to wish anyone that? Sadly Christmas has been and gone since I last posted here. But guess what? I cooked dinner on the big day and no one died. But

Witches Hats on Trial for Halloween

I love Halloween, I love it! I probably love it more than the rest of the family sadly but they usually humour me. I’ll happily take on anything related to the season and so was happy to be sent these

I’m Toast!

Yeah, I’ve still got it. Look: Sorry for radio silence recently, we have a new little puppy called Robert who is taking up lotsof my time. But look at the sweetness: And I am writing lots for Metro about lots