Cold soup, like gazpacho, was never a favourite for me – I didn’t get the whole cold soup concept. In fact, I’m not really a fan of cold food and I especially love my comfort food! But there are times when all you want is a cold soup. This is great as everything in it…
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Lychee Jelly with ZICO Coconut Water
I don’t know if you’ve ever tried them, but in Chinatown you can buy these packets of delicious exotic fruit jellies. The problem with them is that they somehow disappear from my fridge all too quickly and even worse, they’re full of all sorts of nasty stuff. So I decided to make my own using…
Eat Evolve – the new class of ready meals?
If someone says ‘ready meal’, what do you think of? The cardboard-encased, plastic-boxed portions of chemicals and ingredients that resemble food but are devoid of most of its nutritional content and replaced with high levels of salt and sugar and all sorts of preservatives? Yeah, me too. Eat Evolve isn’t anything like that. Oh, Eat…
Jack Link’s Beef Jerky Review
To celebrate the launch of Jack Link’s, the American snack brand, in Tesco Express stores all across the UK, they sent me a squishy envelope full of them. Now, I *think* I’ve tried beef jerky before (it was a while ago) and it wasn’t very nice; imagine eating a bit of your shoe – it…
Blend Me, Shake Me
I never realized how much I’d miss my handblender. Not until it broke. One minute it was busy whirring away, blending up my walnut pesto and the next nothing. Not even a little bzz. As is the general rule with anything electronic that breaks in my house, I left it for a few days in…
Protein Power Smoothie Bowl with Zico Coconut Water
I came up with this little powerhouse of a smoothie when I was taking part in Veganuary. I hate being hungry, especially shortly after I’d had breakfast. So what to do about it? I got experimenting and adding silken tofu to a smoothie was just life-changing. For anyone who balks at the idea of tofu…