Meatballs & Spaghetti

It was meatballs for dinner last night.

Very nice (if I do say so myself).

Didn't have a recipe of my own to follow so went to Goot to Know, a site I use a lot and found this recipe - Herby Meatballs.

The recipe was easy to follow and the result was really tasty.

Checkout more of their recipes here.

It's Sunday... & yes it's pasta again...

Sunday night again, busy all day and just wanted something quick and there is very little in the house as the weekly shop is on a Monday.

So, it's pasta again.

Tuna, chick peas & olives this time, cooked following the same recipe as before.

One tip, make sure everything (tuna & olives particularly) is drained pretty well as this could come pretty watery otherwise.

Anyway - It came out pretty good, a nice filling meal before getting a good nights sleep to prepare the family for a busy week ahead...

Dairy and Wheat free - I feel great.

I've been wheat and dairy free now for 5-6 days.

The plan was that it might help my sinuses, it hasn't.

But it may have had an unexpected side effect - I feel great.

I'm not 100% sure I can attribute this to the change in diet, but for ages I've been really tired etc, I thought I was just working too hard, burning the candle at both ends.

But I'm still burning the candle and I feel full of beans, quite literally.

I'd like to hear if anyone else has experience anything similar.

Some diet sites I like:

Eat Well
www.weightlossresources.co.uk
goodtoknow diets

A friends new website

Hello All

Just a quick post today just to help a friend that has launched a new website with a little link to his site: Telephone Answering Services.

That's it...

I'm dairy and wheat free!!!

And it's hard going...

It's not the dairy that's the problem, although not eating cheese is a little tough, it's the wheat.

Until you try to cut it out you just don't realise how many foods are wheat based or contain wheat. You need to plan what you are going to eat at least a day ahead to make sure you have enough food/ingredients.

I forgot to take a packed lunch to work on Monday and I had to spend £9 to buy a lunch and some snacks that didn't contain wheat....

That said, tuna, bean & olive salad that I bought was very, very nice.

I must say, I'm enjoying the new diet, it just isn't terribly convenient...

Here's one of the few wheat & dairy free recipe sites I could find: Hub UK

(I'm doing it to see if it helps my sinuses by the way :))

Quick and easy pizza recipe

We had a vote the other day and everyone was for Pizza.

Always a good option as there are usually all the ingredients we need around the house.

I love home made pizza, it just has so much more flavour than the things you buy in the shops.

The pizza used mattessons sausage and loosely followed this pizza recipe without using the ready made base and sauce.

Truely the ultimate fish cake...

It was fish cakes last night.

Used this great recipe from the BBC Good Food website.

Ultimate fish cake recipe

It's a very easy recipe to follow and, this may be an odd thing to say, the fish cakes weren't too fishy?!?

A nice subtle taste, beautiful.