Elizabeth's Kitchen Diary
fuelling that adventure
Your favourite pasta sauce brand, Dolmio, recently launched a new Dolmio 7 vegetables pasta sauce range. This sauce is your shortcut to flavour helping you create a quick tasty meal that has authentic Mediterranean flavours. Plus, there’s 2 of your 5-a-day in every serving! This recipe post, ready in under 15 minutes, has been written …
Transform leftover roast lamb into a crispy lamb salad with coriander vinaigrette with this super easy recipe perfect for Mother’s Day. This recipe, which is ready in under 15 minutes, has been created in collaboration with Try Lamb.
This BBQ kebabs recipe is super easy to whip up for any last minute BBQs you might be hosting this summer. Cubes of squeaky Halloumi cheese marinaded in chilli, parsley, cumin and coriander are threaded onto skewers with red onion, green pepper and sizzling SPAM® Chopped Pork and Ham. This recipe has been made in …
This easy tagliatelle recipe with cherry tomatoes, artichokes, feta and rocket takes only ten minutes to make, making for a perfect Friday night dinner for one. This recipe was first published in January 2012 and was republished with new photos and a printable recipe in 2019. Friday Night Dinner for One This recipe is one …
This simple, yet incredibly flavoursome, tomato and mozzarella salad is flavoured with garlic-infused Himalayan pink salt from The Good Salt Company Ltd. Get the recipe, suitable for gluten-free, low carb and keto diets (and includes a vegan option and Weight Watchers points), and find out why you should be using Himalayan pink crystal salt in …
This simple recipe for tomato and basil pasta sauce uses storecupboard ingredients, including basil-infused Italian olive oil, and is ready in under 10 minutes! Serve with your favourite pasta and toppings, and enter our giveaway to win 3 x 250 ml tins of flavoured extra virgin olive oil from Pomora! A bowl of hot pasta …
Packed full of protein and delicious flavour, this quick and easy post-workout protein shake is made with Onken 0% Fat Strawberry yogurt. In collaboration with Onken. Protein shakes are a regular part of my diet. My morning routine consists of getting up (sometimes way too early!) and two cups of milky coffee while catching up on …
Homemade vegan bean burgers are so much nicer than the ones you buy frozen and they are so much fun to make too. Your whole family will love these. Serve them in toasted burger buns with your favourite salad and toppings. Recipe from Living on the Veg, reproduced with permission. I am so excited to …
A simple, yet elegant, one pan luxury breakfast recipe that is ready in under 15 minutes – perfect for Christmas morning! In collaboration with Grana Padano & Prosciutto di San Daniele. Edited with new pins, November 2018. Christmas morning breakfasts in our house tend to be quite small, simple meals. Given that I’m going to …
A British Egg Week recipe in collaboration with British Lion Eggs. Nothing beats a lazy Sunday morning pottering about the kitchen in your pj’s, except perhaps a lazy Sunday morning with a luxury hotel-style breakfast to nibble on, especially one that takes less than 20 minutes to make! This week is British Egg Week, and …
In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. This recipe was originally supposed to be a marinade for a lamb leg steak BBQ. I purchased all the ingredients and waited for the Shetland weather to give us a good barbecue day in August, and it never did happen. Typical British weather! So, I ended up with some …
In collaboration with Nutri-Brex 5 Ways Gluten-Free Granola. Here we are on day three of the Nutri-Brex five ways challenge! In case you missed it, on day one I shared a gorgeous recipe for a mango and coconut breakfast parfait (post overnight oats), while on day two I featured some high protein gluten free crepes …
In collaboration with Nutri-Brex 5 Ways Gluten-Free Granola. When it comes to fitness, I like to get my daily workouts done first thing in the morning before I have breakfast. That’s when I’m feeling bright, fresh and energetic and I can put my all into my routine. The thing is with a morning workout is …
A #LoveLambWeek recipe in collaboration with Tasty, Easy, Lamb How is it September already?! Where has the time gone? This summer seems to have flown by, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this, no? The first week of September sees the third year of #LoveLambWeek, a week created to unite all …
Starring the sputnik of the vegetable kingdom. So you’ve got this strange sputnik-type vegetable in your veg box. A kohlrabi, it’s called, you find out after asking the Twittersphere. Ok, that was me. I’d never seen a kohlrabi until one appeared in my veg box a few years ago and I really did snap a …
In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. I do love cooking, but there are busy days when, after dealing with work, family, housework and exercising, I just can’t face spending ages standing in front of the cooker preparing a meal. This recipe and variations of it are my go-to recipe for such occasions. The ultimate comfort …
In collaboration with Vita Coco. Coconut oil is a fairly new addition to my kitchen pantry, and if I am to be honest, there’s now a little tub of it in the medicine chest in our bathroom too! It’s such a versatile ingredient with a whole host of health benefits. It’s packed full of healthy …
A lazy weekend or midweek meal recipe idea. Spaghetti, for me, is the ultimate in comfort food. It brings me back to my childhood and the eight zillion plates of spaghetti I grew up on; spaghetti swimming in jarred Ragu sauce. Gosh I loved that stuff. There were no lashings of cheese to serve over …
