spinach and feta
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Homegrown Spinach and Feta in a Wok

There’s nothing better than growing, harvesting and then eating your own vegetables. I’ve been doing it with reasonable success for many years. The challenge is ensuring you plant what will thrive in your garden environment – and even within a fairly close radius, this can change. Because the soil in my current garden is really…

instant curries
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Quick and Easy Instant Curries

Two Instant Curries Suitable for a GL Diet While the word “curry” is a hugely oversimplified term for what is in fact an ancient Indian cuisine, I use it here because these recipes are quick, easy and certainly don’t follow the true tradition of genuine Indian food. But both are delicious and suitable for the popular GL…

The Real Meal Revolution
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The Real Meal Revolution Lamb and Mushroom Blanquette

Recipe Review: Not only for “Banters” Fascinated by the incredible following Professor Tim Noakes, Sally-Ann Creed, Jonno Proudfoot and David Grier have had with their “Banting” diet and The Real Meal Revolution, I bought a copy of the book and have been trying out some of the recipes – mostly in my various Sola pans. …

Sola wok
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Cashew Chicken in a Sola Wok

The First Wok-Cooked Meal in My Sola Challenge Though I’ve never been to Thailand, I am totally sold on Thai cooking. I’ve always enjoyed eating Thai food, but the challenge of cooking it only goes back about five years when a friend returned from a holiday in Thailand and shared her experiences gained in a…

Sola cookware
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The Sola Cookware Challenge

Woks and Pans for Easy Cooking It all began when I posted an ad in our local Buy & Sell Somerset West Facebook group late last year (2014) stating that I was looking for a secondhand stainless steel wok. I had been going through a lots-of-Thai-food-cooking phase and my woks (two very basic, so-called, non-stick things)…

Green coconuts
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Demystifying Coconut Milk and Cream

Coconut milk, a popular ingredient in Thai food, has gained popularity recently largely because it is a high fat, low carbohydrate food – in keeping with several diet programmes that are currently hugely popular. But canned coconut milk – and coconut cream – often contains sugar, and almost always stabilisers and preservatives. The good news is…

Sweet and Sour Pork
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Thai-Style Sweet and Sour Pork

Quite different to popular Chinese-style sweet and sour pork, this Thai take on sweet and sour is a quick and easy stir fry that will have people coming back for second helpings. Although the ingredients call for fresh pineapple, you can sweeten the dish with tinned fruit, or by increasing the quantity of sugar called for. You…