A green and lean effort, distinctly savoury low cal tummy filler. Potential healthy boosts from fresh citrus and ginger. Boomboom Smoothie No. 2 Serves 1 <150 calories Up to 4g protein Up to 9g fibre Good for- dieters, sick days and exercise recovery. 1 small green apple 1 stick celery 4 inches cucumber 2tbspn fat […]
Read More Smoothie #2Having just relocated, the Mr and I recently came into possession of a number of house warming gifts including a smoothie maker blender thing. I like a smoothie and I’m not sure that the Mr has ingested a solid meal since we unpacked this gadget so I thought I would share our successes in here. […]
Read More Smoothie #1I read a weird statistic the other day that more chicken wings are eaten on Superbowl Sunday than there are grains of salt in a really big bag of doritos, or something. Somewhere in the billions anyway. That’s a lot of chicken wings, football fans. I am not a football fan, but I could eat […]
Read More Vampire WingsHappy 2016 kids. New year, new you, new yawn. Here’s a quick recipe to satisfy anyone on a new year trip to go vegan or eat more veg or save money or just try something new. It’s easy, thrifty, filling and tasty but sadly not so photogenic! Boomboom Peanut Butter Curry Serves two Vegetable oil […]
Read More Peanut Butter CurryI’ve been meaning to take on a brisket for some time and would like to take a moment to thank Geller’s for being open late on a Friday and enabling me to do so. Early hours at most of the butchers in my town plus an unfriendly policy towards raw meat in the overpopulated office […]
Read More Adventures in Slow Cooking- Brisket with Onion GravyA quick, easy recipe for you and a rare success from my slow cooker, debuted for Booze Booze Booze night at the September meet of the Victoria Inn Cookery Club. It was then titled ‘French Soup’ though I must now confess I used a Kiwi wine. It’s dead easy to do and was well received, by […]
Read More Adventures in Slow Cooking- Easy Onion SoupSalsa: Spanish language term for ‘sauce’, wildly overused in cookery terminology to describe all manner of hot and cold dips, drizzles, sides and accompaniments. see also: hip-wiggle heavy dance discipline dependent on black silk shirts and excessive amounts of hair gel. Like many a child of the 90s my first experience of salsa was of the […]
Read More Salsa SaladAs promised from the last VIFC review, full instructions for the slow cooked stew I cobbled together using commonly heralded ingredients from the era, rather than an actual recipe. Because I couldn’t find one. I must give due respect to the fellow foodies for all piling in for this without so much of a squeam […]
Read More Adventures In Slow Cooking- Medieval Stewed HeartHave I mentioned that as well as our foodie nights the lovely Victoria Inn also hosts Cheese Club once a month? Yes, that’s where select individuals ascend to the private room at the back and eat a load of cheese. And talk about cheese. Then eat a bit more cheese. I couldn’t wait to […]
Read More VIFC- Cooking With DairyJust a quickie but I’ve been meaning to have a bash at the cake recipe widely rumoured to be the favourite of The King himself for some time now. If there was a dude who knew how to eat, well, maybe we’ll get to Henry VIII another time but Elvis certainly did too! Think pound […]
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