Elizabeth's Kitchen Diary
cooking up a storm at the edge of the world
In collaboration with Breville and the #BlendActiveDiary Challenge. Regular readers will know that I like to keep active. I’m a keen cyclist (weather permitting) and I like to spend time outdoors trekking, exploring the local hills and coastline. I also like to daydream of far off adventures. In fact, first thing this morning I finished …
In collaboration with Gracewell Healthcare. Smoothies are a great way to get quite a few of your five a day into you in a delicious and nutritious way. I’ve been making smoothies for my family for years, and now that I own an Optimum 9400 high speed blender it means I can be a bit …
In collaboration with Pure Chimp #Supertea: 100% natural goodness. We all know how good raw vegetables are for our health. Sometimes, though, it can be difficult to get all the goodness of these raw vegetables into our bodies without eating piles and piles of salad. This is where a masticating slow juicer comes into its own. …
A refreshing blend of kohlrabi, cucumber, celery and apple. Ah, the humble kohlrabi – the sputnik of the vegetable world – what do we do with you? I have to confess that when this bizarre vegetable first made an appearance in my vegetable box I had to take to Twitter to identify it. I had …
Summery, refreshing and slightly shilpet. My children absolutely love lemons. Serve some lemon wedges at mealtime with some salmon or with pancakes and you’ll find my younger two children sucking the juice out of the wedges with positive glee. They’ll nibble away at every bit of the fruit so that there is only a bare …
Jumpstarting 2015 with a healthier diet. Jumpstart 2015 is a healthy eating and drinking challenge a group of us UK food bloggers are participating in for the month of January, and perhaps for a little longer too. In this challenge we are aiming to increase our daily consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables by eating …
Jumpstarting 2015 with a healthier diet. That’s the first week of #Jumpstart15 complete. For those new to this healthy challenge here’s the low-down: A group of us food bloggers, organized by the lovely Scottish vegetarian blogger Jacqueline over at Tinned Tomatoes, got chatting about how we could put our juicers and blenders to the best use …
For those who don’t wish to celebrate with alcohol. A new year means new beginnings. Personally, I want to start 2015 as healthy as I possibly can; to begin it as I mean to go on. I have a lot of damage to undo because of the over indulgences of 2014, so I’ve gone teetotal …
