I am totally loving this juice right now. I’m making loads of it and storing it in the fridge, it keeps well for a couple of days due to the addition of the lemon. I’ve called it good morning green juice as the combination of the lemon and ginger give it a certain ‘zing’ ideal for waking up your taste buds first thing in the morning. However, I drink this juice anytime of the day!
I must be honest but I’m not the biggest fan of hot chocolate, and now you’re probably wondering why on earth am I posting a hot chocolate recipe?! However, every so often I really fancy a hot chocolate on a cold evening so I was experimenting the other evening with flavours and came up with this little beauty.
There is something so comforting about a baked potato, you can pretty much top them with anything and you get a great filling meal. This recipe works well with either sweet or white potatoes, I just happen to prefer sweet potatoes.
Right now it is perfect soup weather in the UK (in my opinion). I love a bowl of soup to warm me up especially after I’ve been for a long walk with the dog and I always find soup filling too which helps keep me going all afternoon.
I received a spiraliser for a Christmas gift a couple of years ago and it is one of my favourite kitchen gadgets. It’s a great way for incorporating vegetables into your dish and I often have a spiralised courgette, sweet potato or carrots instead of pasta, noodles or rice.
A very belated Happy New Year to you all. I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas and New Year and 2015 is good to you all.
I had a fairly quiet Christmas and New Year, I caught up with friends and family which is always nice. Unfortunately though my dog has been unwell so she has been occupying a lot of my time, the vet is still unsure of what is wrong with her but she is to have more tests done this week. It’s amazing how much a pet becomes part of the family and my dog is such a great companion, plus she doesn’t answer back when I talk to her…bonus!
This is such an easy recipe to do and perfect if you need to do any last-minute gifts for Christmas, after all who doesn’t love a gift of chocolate?!
There are a number ways you can flavour the bark from dried fruit, nuts, candy canes, stem ginger, marshmallows etc. The choice is entirely up to you. The trick to a good chocolate bark is to use really good quality dairy free dark chocolate. If you can tolerate dairy then you can use milk chocolate to replace the dark chocolate.
What should have been an easy recipe to try turned out to be the most challenging for me! Either the oven was too hot or the root vegetables were too thick or too thin. After many practice runs I finally nailed the recipe and to be honest it was worth all the trying.
You can use any root vegetables you have to hand. I’ve tried carrot, parsnip, beetroot, sweet potato and celeriac and they are all good. In the recipe below I’ve listed carrot and parsnip but by using the timings and temperature given, any root vegetable will work.
Well winter seems to have arrived. Myself and the dog were slipping on the black ice this morning on our walk…not very elegantly! I do love winter mornings where the sun is out, the skies are blue but the air is lovely and chilly; not so in love with the ice though!
When I started this blog I would never have thought that I would be posting a recipe for shellfish. I have never made a single fish or shellfish dish, which may sound odd coming from someone who loves food and cooking. I’ve tried on a number of occasions different fish and shellfish but every time, it just didn’t taste right and some of it was too ‘fishy’ tasting for my liking.
Four Candles Kitchen 