Usually when I have pork chops I fry them and serve with a mustardy pan sauce, which is delicious but hardly the low fat option. I am trying to shed a few pounds at the moment so the dinners have been getting a slimming world style makeover and my butter has definitely stayed in the…
Category: Dinners
Alternative Sunday Roast
I am a woman who can extol the virtues of a tasty roast chicken forever!! However even I fancy a change from a basic bird every now and then, with this in mind may I present to you Indian style roast chicken.
Fajitas, Barbecued or Griddled?
Fajitas are one of those crowd pleasers that are as easy to make for 2 or 8 people and these are pretty healthy. This recipe can easily be doubled, but I have gone for feeding 2 with leftovers as always. This might seem like a long recipe but I promise you can have it on…
Lighter Chicken Parm
The warmer summer weather has finally arrived and with it a desire for lighter dinners. Now I’m not a salad for dinner kinda girl so for me that means taking a favourite and making it a bit lighter and more Summery. For the uninitiated chicken parmigiana is one of those Italian- American hybrids which basically…
Slow cooker Beef Massaman
It was a lazy Sunday kinda day today, the chap and I went for a walk, got rained on and then decided the best course of action was not to bother leaving the house again. I like to break out the slow cooker on days like this, when it’s hot, so you don’t want to have the oven on all day but you still want something satisfying. If you read my previous blog you’ll see that I had a beef massaman earmarked for Monday dining but hey ho I’m adaptable like that so out the slow cooker came.