Recipes

Weve all been there, rushing around in the morning with barely enough time to gulp down a cup of tea or coffee before having to leave the house. On average we only spend about 3 minutes and 15 seconds on a weekday breakfast, according to statistics in the Daily Mail. Cereal bars are often a good way to ensure we get any breakfast at all, but unfortunately most cereal bars contain far too much sugar and fat. Read about the survey carried out by Which?, the consumer watchdog, back in 2012 that shows that cereal bars do not deserve the...

Apple and Oat Protein Smoothie 158 cal | Very Easy |Serves 4 (small) I followed the Hairy Bikers recipe for the smoothie and added in my favourite protein powder. I did a little experiment to see if it would keep in the fridge as the recipe does say serve at once, however the worst thing about protein smoothies is making them when you are tired and groggy in the mornings. Heres how it turned out. Ingredients Apples oats honey lemon natural fat free yogurt semi skimmed milk cinnamon lemon juice Your favourite protein powder Method Chop the apples and place...

Date nights are not a regular thing anymore. Let me clarify, out of the house date nights. However, on our anniversary, no matter how much we travel or what our schedule is like, we get a sitter for the kids and go out. Well, thats where this recipe came from. On our 15 year anniversary, we went to this cute, but elegant fine dining restraunt. Amazing food! We of course, got more than we could eat because we could not choose what to get. I love shrimp, so the chef recommended his new (not on the menu yet) BOOM BOOM...

I had planned to do another dish with the ingredients but as time started to disappear, I decided upon the quickest and easiest of any of my dishes. Most of the sauce ingredients I had in my cupboard, so no extra expense but some other bits were what I had in the fridge. Preparation: 5 minutes Cooking: 15 minutes Ingredients 2 cups Frozen mix vegetables 4 mushrooms sliced 1 large onion sliced Ground garlic 3 peppers (red, onion, green) chopped into smallish cubes 1 pack of straight-to-wok noodles 2 tbsp Sesame seeds 2 tbsp sesame seed oil 2 tbsp soy...

Ive been using this banana bread recipe for a while now, so Im not sure where it came from. Might have been adapted from simplyrecipes.com. I like its easy method and the fact that it always comes out tasting great. My daughter loves to help me out with this because it can be prepared in 1 bowl without a mixer. Ingredients 2 ripe bananas 1/3 cup melted butter 1 tsp baking soda cup brown sugar or honey 2 medium eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 cups plain/all-purpose flour Banana bread, easy to slice with a bread knife Method Preheat oven...