Potato salad is a classic but the dish has grown since we first met it. Making a great one is all about mixing the textures - the smooth with the crunch. The smooth comes in the form of avocados, the crunch is the celery. Toss in some cashews and bacon and you have a great flavour combination. This is not a low Fodmap recipe. Bacon, Avocado & Potato Salad Print Author: Suzanne Perazzini Ingredients Potatoes Avocados Bacon Onions - chopped Lemon juice ½ cup white wine ¼ cup of cider vinegar Salt & pepper Paprika ¼ tsp Mustard Powder Parsley Coriander celery - chopped Cashew nuts - chopped Method Cut up the potatoes and boil them. Fry the bacon until crisp and then drain on paper towels. Cook the onions in the same pan until clear and add the wine, vinegar, salt, pepper, mustard and a little paprika to taste. Heat until warm. Toss into the drained potatoes with the bacon and mix together. Cut up the avocados and dress with the lemon … [Read more...] about Bacon, Avocado & Potato Salad – this is a keeper
Chicken Cheesesteaks – the man-sized sandwich
I enjoy looking around other cooking blogs when I have the time and I have my favourites. Many, many blogs concentrate on sweet food and baking. As you know, my blog is about healthy, balanced, quick dinners but I do enjoy looking at the cupcakes from heaven and the luscious cheesecakes but I don't cook them unless I have people over for dinner. Adriano and Dario are not that interested in sweet food and I only have to look at a cake to put on a kilo so that's just as well. Some of them combine the two types of food, and one of them is Confections of a Foodie Bride. You will have seen her recipes on here before and this is another. Adriano said it reminded him of a subway sandwich and he wasn't far wrong. This recipe is not low Fodmap. Chicken Cheesesteaks Print Author: Suzanne Perazzini Ingredients Chicken breasts - sliced thinly Olive oil Worcestershire Salt & pepper Onion sliced 1 green pepper - thinly sliced 1 red pepper - thinly sliced Slices of cheese … [Read more...] about Chicken Cheesesteaks – the man-sized sandwich
The Hunger Games – true to the book
I saw The Hunger Games last weekend at the movies but have been digesting it since then before posting about it. Not because I have anything revelational to say but because I enjoyed it too much to disect it straightaway. Suzanne Collins is one of the producers so I guess it was always going to be faithful to the book. Obviously they couldn't keep in every character and every little nuance but, on the whole, they got the story in there. We don't get to know the other tributes as well, of course, and that would have been a little confusing for those who hadn't read the book, I imagine. At first, Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss seemed a little too well fed for the half starving character in the book, but that was easy to put aside as the movie progressed. The only character who didn't seem very true to the book, physically at least, was Peeta. In the book, he is tall and burly, strong as an ox, but Josh Hutcherson was simply too weedy to be convincing and that changed the dynamic between … [Read more...] about The Hunger Games – true to the book
Chicken Avocado Wraps
This morning I forgot about choosing a recipe and giving a shopping list to Adriano. I can blame it on a heap of things but it's probably more simple than excuses. I just plain forgot. I do this four mornings a week and this morning I didn't. Anyway, I received a very brief email from Adriano half way through the day. It said, "Food?" I panicked and said chicken wraps. I listed chicken, tomatoes, salad and avocado for him to buy. That's what he bought. No wraps. We argued on the way home in the car as to who was the more stupid - me for not including it on the list or him for not realising that wraps were a fundamental ingredient in chicken wraps. Neither of us convinced the other. We stopped at a supermarket and bought the wraps. Here is the super-simple recipe. This recipe is not low Fodmap. Chicken Avocado Wraps Print Author: Suzanne Perazzini Ingredients Chicken breasts Tomatoes - sliced Lettuce - broken up Avocado - sliced Garlic mayonnaise Method Cut the … [Read more...] about Chicken Avocado Wraps
Lemon Chicken & Spinach Risotto
Risotto is a classic Italian meal but you are required to pay quite a lot of attention to it while it cooks. You can't just throw in all the liquid and stick on the lid. That will create a sloppy mess with half left stuck to the bottom of the pot - the dish washer will not thank you. You have to fry the onions and garlic, toast the rice and then add the liquid a ladleful at a time, waiting until it has all been absorbed before adding the next. I'm not at all sure about the science behind this but I do know it works so don't cut corners. This recipe is not low Fodmap. Lemon Chicken & Spinach Risotto Print Author: Suzanne Perazzini Ingredients Chicken breasts - cut up into small pieces A bag of frozen freeflow spinach - about 350g 1 onion - chopped up 2 cloves of garlic - minced 420g can of condensed creamy chicken soup 2 lemons - grated rind and juice 2 cups arborio rice 4 cups of water or chicken stock Method Heat a little oil in a large pot and fry … [Read more...] about Lemon Chicken & Spinach Risotto
Warm Pasta Salad – for when you are too tired to cook
Some nights, after a day at work and my half hour on the exercycle, I feel like nothing more than to sit down at my computer and go through my emails, then check out all my favourite blogs but instead I have to cook dinner. Knowing that I will photograph it and then blog about it, does help but sometimes I want dinner to be instantaneous. Well this dinner is next to instantaneous. The pasta cooks by itself and the veges get popped into the microwave, a bit of cutting up and the meal is done. This is not a low Fodmap recipe. Warm Pasta Salad Print Author: Suzanne Perazzini Ingredients Penne pasta Coriander - chopped Juice of 1 lemon Olive oil Salt & pepper 200g feta cheese 100g salami 500g frozen mixed vegetables - diced Method Cook the pasta and drain. Microwave or boil the frozen vegetables. Chop up the salami, coriander and feta. Mix it all together and dress with olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper. 3.2.2807 … [Read more...] about Warm Pasta Salad – for when you are too tired to cook
