Off the shelf

Sainsbury’s £10 pound Valentine’s Day meal for 2 We are generally not keen on ready made meals, preferring to cook ourselves. But for last Valentines day, we went mad and tried the Sainsbury’s Special £10 meal deal. For our £10 we got: Spinach and Ricotta Cannelloni with cherry tomatoes Potato Dauphinoise with Gruyere and Garlic …

Salad days are here again!

Warm winter salad Eating healthily out here in the North Sea is not particularly inspiring! Give them their due, they do try – but the selection is limited. Munching my way through the ‘same old’ lettuce, tomato, onion and peppers, I could not help remembering the wonderfully tasty and ‘different’ salads that Karen has come …

Soy burgers

Homemade Soy Burgers We visited a friend a while ago for a braai (barbeque), and he produced the most wondeful vegetarian burgers! “Where did you buy these?” we asked. ” I made them” said Paul. We were most impressed as they were very tasty, and I have to say, a lot better than the usual …

Tofu and Stir Frys

Spicy Eggplant and Tofu Stir-fry We were visiting a friend of Karen’s the other day, and guess what? – Discussing healthy eating! The usual comment – that it is difficult to know how to eat healthily, particularly when you come home from work and need to knock up a meal. So yes – you resort …

More Low Carb

Vegetarian patties Well – Karen has numerous low carb vegetarian cookbooks it would appear. Spent some time browsing them and found a lovely recipe for vegetarian burgers or patties. I replaced the ordinary green beans with edamami beans, to improve the protein content. The original recipe came from the book ‘CARB Conscious vegetarian’, which has …

Scrambled Tofu

Scrambled Tofu with salad Back home in Cape Town now, and back to eating healthily again. Karen, my vegetarian wife, loves buying cook books, and yesterday came home with one called ‘Yummidy’ – Not only meatless, but low carb as well. We have been trying to follow a low carb diet for a while now, …

What do you do with Tofu?

Tofu chocolate pudding That’s the question that popped up at a friend’s birthday breakfast this morning. A whole group of us were sitting round one table enjoying the meal – either the scrambled egg and bacon, or the ‘healthy option’ of fruit, muesli and yoghurt. Both were very good indeed, and there was much comment …