Killer Salad Recipes

This salad uses fresh sardines, I bought mine whole. I should have asked the fishmonger to prepare them for me, but I felt brave and decided to remove the heads and gut them myself. It wasn’t the most pleasant thing I have ever done but I got stuck in and did an ok [...]

Spinach isn’t just for Popeye! Spinach is very low in cholesterol, low in Saturated Fat and it is a great source of dietary fiber. Not to mention the ingredients when combined provide flavors that are amazing!

1 bag fresh spinach

¼ lb bacon (raw kind that needs cooking in a frying pan)

½ Red Spanish onion

¼ cup [...]

It’s quite common nowadays to infuse a bottle of vergine olive oil with some nice herbs and spices, to speed up the process of coughing up a nice salad dressing. But whereas having flavoured oil on the shelf is a bit of a luxury nowadays, thousands of years ago it was more like necessity. Especially [...]

If you don’t have a fancy knife like the one I often use for tomatoes, then thinly slicing a hard-boiled egg might prove to be a PITA.
In that case, wet your knife regularly. Just dip it into a glass of water or hold under a running tap. It makes all the difference when aiming for [...]

Or so they say at Thanet Earth this week, where workers are putting the finishing touches to England’s largest complex of hydroponic greenhouses. The greenhouses will cover an area as large as 10 football pitches, if you’re a sporting fan. For the animal lovers among us that’s 6 London Zoos.

Melons are very much in season today. Maybe they are not grown locally where you live, but it’s hard to avoid them in the supermarkets and at local greengrocers at the moment. Let’s start with an easy one to get into this melon thing.

“I had a ploughman’s lunch the other day; he wasn’t very pleased about it” Tommy Cooper
A Ploughman’s Lunch is an icon of English cuisine. You could randomly pick any English pub to have lunch in, and chances are you will find a Ploughman’s Lunch on the menu. On a warm summer afternoon a [...]

This is the perfect sunday lazy brunch, a tasty salad using asparagus spears, crispy bacon, poached egg and pea shoots. The delicate flavour of the pea shoots compliments the asparagus perfectly, and you really can’t beat bacon and egg on any day of the week.