I had every intention of bringing you a salad recipe today but one eye on the sky, a dripping window pane, a cold outlook and I changed my mind (or had it changed for me). We’re enduring a June monsoon this week in the UK and so I want warming comfort food. Apologies to those[Read More]
Red bariatric recipes
Early Spring 2019 Bariatric Cookery Newsletter Out Now!
There’s always huge excitement here when a new newsletter goes out to all our subscribers – and this one is no exception. Indeed it’s a bit of a favourite. Why? Well because it reinforces what I often try to get across at support groups, on forums, on the website, in my books and more[Read More]
3 ‘Wise’ Christmas Tipples
On the run up to Christmas and the holidays you will be tempted by a good many offers of drinks and cocktails – some saintly, some demon-like and some in between. We’re no party poopers and recognise that you might like one or two but would caution some restraint (see the previous surgeon’s blog[Read More]
Pork & Bean Winter Casserole
I love a stew, casserole or slow-cooked dish that is meltingly tender and full of flavour, especially in the winter months (although I have been known to knock-up a casserole on a summer’s day when the mood takes me and the salad fayre starts to pale in interest). This is a pork one paired with[Read More]
Pumpkin Spice Latte for WLS Post-Op Sipping
Now that the ghosts and ghoulies have gone to bed, and the mercury has dropped here like a lead balloon, here’s a lovely way to use up some of the inevitable discarded pumpkin from Hallow’een, in a soothing and restorative way – as a pumpkin and coffee latte drink, delicately flavoured for warming comfort. [Read More]