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Froothie Optimum 9400

Cottage Cheese Crepes - High Protein and Low Fat

Cottage Cheese Crepes

April 7, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

A high protein breakfast recipe ready in under 10 minutes. Yay for Spring! With the clocks springing forward our longer days have returned, which means I can take more food photographs and share more recipes! I have a tendency to create and photograph recipes in real time, meaning that these beautiful low fat and high …

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Sunshine Smoothie - a delicious combination of soya milk, mango, nectarine, carrot and apricot.

Sunshine Smoothie

April 5, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

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 …

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S'mores Granola Clusters

S’mores Granola Clusters

January 16, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

My husband is an ectomorph, bless his 69% merino wool Smartwool socks. This means that it doesn’t matter what or how much he eats he just doesn’t put on weight. Sometimes I stare at him from the other side of the dinner table, nibbling on yet another low calorie salad, glaring at him while he, …

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Quick & Easy Roasted Cherry Tomato Sauce

Quick & Easy Roasted Cherry Tomato Sauce

January 15, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

I’m always looking for speedy supper ideas. As much as I love spending time over the cooker, some nights I really can not be bothered. Those nights tend to be the three nights in the week I’m working in our village co-operative – my ‘getting out of the house’ job where I work a few …

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Coconut & Almond Granola Clusters with Blueberries

Coconut and Almond Granola Clusters with Blueberries

January 9, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

I’m not a boxed dry cereal with milk for breakfast kind of gal. I used to be. When I was a child I loved my Alphabits, Froot Loops and Cornflakes (sprinkled liberally with sugar – ah the things we did in the 80s!), but as an adult… I’m not. I’m not sure when that transition …

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Superfood Plant Protein Energy Bars

Quinoa Protein Energy Bars

January 2, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

Happy New Year! I hope you have had a lovely festive period, and that the New Year was greeted with a bang. Have you made any resolutions? What sort of things did you get up to? Over the last few years we’ve started a new family tradition of bringing in the New Year watching the …

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Raw Chocolate and Clementine Cheesecake with a Chocolate Hazelnut Crust

Raw Chocolate and Clementine Mini Cheesecakes

December 20, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

The idea for these raw chocolate and clementine mini cheesecakes with a chocolate hazelnut crust has been bumping around inside my head for quite some time now, ever since I tried The Rawtarian’s raw cheesecake recipe a few months ago and was really impressed with how light and creamy the cashew based filling was after blending …

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Roasted Pumpkin Soup with Fried Sage and White Truffle Oil

Roasted Pumpkin Soup with Fried Sage and White Truffle Oil

October 25, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

Fried sage and white truffle-infused olive oil transform this soup into something really special. I’m not a big fan of dried sage. There’s something stale and unpalatable about the herb, I feel, so I tend not to cook with it. That was until fresh sage leaves began appearing in my veg box and I discovered …

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Chocolate Hazelnut Layer Cake

Chocolate Hazelnut Layer Cake

October 17, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

aka how to salvage a failed attempt at making chocolate hazelnut spread. I like experimenting in my kitchen, I really do. Sometimes (quite a lot of the time, if I am to be honest!) it doesn’t quite go according to plan. I had a notion to make some homemade chocolate hazelnut spread recently. Ok, if …

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Hummus Recipe

My Simple and Incredibly Creamy Hummus Recipe

October 10, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

Freshly toasted and ground cumin and a touch of cayenne give this hummus recipe a nice kick. There must be at least a hundred different ways to make hummus, and we each tend to have our favourite version. Mine includes plenty of toasted and freshly ground cumin seeds and a generous pinch of cayenne for …

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Hungarian Plum Cake Recipe with Almonds

Hungarian Plum Cake Recipe

October 7, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

This quick and easy Hungarian plum cake is a great way to showcase fresh, seasonal plums. It’s very nutty and delicious, perfect with an afternoon cuppa. Post updated 16 August 2018. “Mum, why it so windy?” It’s that time of year again. The gales have returned causing ferry transport disruptions. It’s getting dark early and …

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Minions Cornsicles

Minions Cornsicles

June 12, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

In collaboration with Green Giant. Challenge #1 – Green Giant Minions Challenge The brand new Minions movie hits cinemas on June 26th and to celebrate, Green Giant is challenging bloggers to create the ultimate Minion-inspired summer snack. Green Giant Sweetcorn is a perfect ingredient for family mealtimes: kids love the delicious, naturally sweet flavour, and …

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Teff Salad with Sprouted Beans, Pea Shoots and Wild Garlic

Teff Salad with Sprouted Beans, Pea Shoots and Wild Garlic {vegan}

June 11, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

My very first excursion foraging for wild garlic! It’s funny how things work out. When I first moved to Shetland in the Spring of 1999, the first book I bought was Shetland’s Wildflowers: A Photographic Guide, by D. Malcolm (1998). This well thumbed guide as been my go-to book when trying to identify local plant …

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Almond Pancakes

Grain-free Almond Pancakes

February 23, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

A grain-free pancake recipe packed with protein! We’re pancake fiends in this house. With three growing children I can stand at the cooker making a batch and they’re devoured within seconds of coming out of the pan. I can barely keep up! Regular readers will know I’m one for trying new things, so when my …

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Chunky Vegetable Soup with Spinach Cashew Pesto

Chunky Vegetable Soup with Spinach-Cashew Pesto

February 2, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

aka: what to do with all those ignored vegetables at the bottom of the fridge! Let’s talk Lego! My husband, bless his cotton socks, doesn’t do a lot of cooking. He can peer into a full refrigerator and not come up with a single idea for dinner. Shelves of vibrant vegetables get ignored in favour …

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Super Green Juice

#Jumpstart15 – Juices, Soups & Smoothies {week 2}

January 21, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

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 …

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Skinny celeriac and apple soup

Skinny Creamy Celeriac & Apple Soup

January 12, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

All the flavour and nearly half the calories! I love a hearty, creamy bowl of soup, me. Especially when the winds are howling outside and you want something warm and comforting. Alas, most creamy soup recipes use a ridiculous amount of double cream – something I just can’t afford to eat right now while I’m trying …

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roast tomato garlic soup

Slow Roasted Tomato & Garlic Soup {vegan}

January 6, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

Packed with the flavour of lycopene rich tomatoes and slow roasted garlic.   Nothing beats the humble tomato. Packed full of lycopene, its antioxidant properties and health benefits are well documented. Plus, a bowl of steaming hot tomato soup is the perfect comfort food, wouldn’t you agree? Especially when accompanied by a gorgeous, oozing, freshly made …

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Banana Nut Protein Smoothie

Banana Nut Protein Smoothie

November 19, 2014 by Elizabeth Atia

A vegan post workout protein smoothie. Dear Reader, I have a confession to make. I’ve become fat. I’d always been one of those skinny people. When I left high school I weighed just over 7 stone. I was very active: swimming, cycling, skateboarding, horseback riding, climbing (and falling out of) trees in the summer, skiiing, …

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Roasted Beetroot and Raw Cacao Nib Cupcakes

Chocolate Beetroot Cupcakes

October 22, 2014 by Elizabeth Atia

Before I started receiving a weekly organic vegetable box the only beetroot I’d ever really tried was the pickled variety from the supermarket. Occasionally I would pick up a pack of boiled, ready to eat, shrink-wrapped beetroot to make the chocolate beetroot cake recipe from the Green & Black’s Chocolate Recipes book (2003). It made a …

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