Greedy Gourmet

Home owners are very familiar with this concept: something in the house is always broken.

There are some food bloggers and ethical eaters I know who will skin me alive for eating asparagus this time of year.

This soup is definitely different from the rest. A rich, silky, green taste rolls over your tongue and slips into your stomach, satisfying it instantly. The star ingredient is the avocado. This fantastic idea comes from Mexico where avocados come aplenty and are used from starters to desserts, even drinks! Also, usually soups containing avocado [...]

For a change I can’t complain about the British weather. It’s been ultra warm this past week and we’ve been enjoying the sunshine every day in the park and garden. I felt it was time for a change and decided to get all my hair, which almost reached my waist, chopped off today.

What do you serve when there is a special occasion to be celebrated and guests are coming over? A terrine! It never fails to impress and looks more complicated than it really is to prepare. Shhh…don’t tell anyone that, you want to look like a superstar chef!

When I was a typical kid, I was a finicky eater especially when it came to vegetables. As far as I can remember the only veggies I ate were peas, carrots, mushrooms, cauliflower and potatoes. Tiny onion pieces in meat dishes were painstakingly picked out and decorated the side of my plate meal after meal. [...]

This soup is so easy to prepare your family pet can even do it. Well….almost.
It’s been a long time since I tried carrot soup. No hideous event occurred to make me go off it but if I had to choose between carrot and pumpkin, pumpkin wins hands down. While I love carrot juice, the [...]

It was inevitable. Of course the first recipe posted this year will be a healthy one. After scoffing down copious amounts of fatty foods and guzzling booze by the bucket even the most health-conscious individual must be feeling slightly guilty after all the debauchery. If I received a penny from every person who’s going on [...]

Other than mentioning it fleetingly in a couple of posts, I’ve remained mum about my diet and progress. Having tried all the famous crash diets like the Bread & Butter Diet, Russian Air Force Diet and Atkins, Weight Watchers was the only one that worked for me years ago and has again. Since March I’ve [...]