Being someone who lives and breathes recipes and food, I'm often asked what my favourite type of food is to cook. Funnily enough, it's not the easiest question for me to answer as it completely depends on the season, time of day and of course, my mood.
If it's a mid-week meal during Summer, I love nothing better than experimenting with salads, and at the moment it's the ones that contain lentils that have me drooling.
A lazy weekend on a cooler day, I can guarantee you that my oven will be on and something yummy and soothing will be inside bubbling away.
However, there seems to be a few common links that bring most of the food that I love to cook together:
1. Simplicity
2. Fresh, organic produce
3. A tilt towards French flavours
Case in point below.....
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I know it's the beginning of a new year and I know I'm meant to feel all refreshed and motivated with my goals set for 2014, but to be completely honest, I'm stuck. My legs are heavy and my mind is foggy.
Thankfully, there is a light at the end of the tunnel after all the changes and happenings that are currently going on in my world so I know I just need to keep ploughing on, but this morning I was thinking that it's really not an enjoyable way to live life. To just plough through.
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Would you believe that once upon a time I was a vegetarian. I actually forget this little fact about myself as I'm now such a lover of meat. Smoother a perfectly grilled piece of steak in bernaise sauce and I'm your friend for life.
However for many years I would turn my nose up to any and all meat.
These days, I tend to eat red meat maybe 2 times a week, however chicken is steadily getting a more regular apearance in my diet. Always concerned about dry, tasteless chicken, I'm constantly on the lookout for new recipes. Quick, simple and tasty new recipes actually, and here's one I think you might like...I did!
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