Recipes

Flageolet beans and cauliflower waste Scanning the shelves for new nutritious options to add to my dogs’ diet has become a habit. Simple, natural ingredients that will offer something different in terms of taste or nutritional profile. Some of the [...]

Essentially, this pairing has a very clean logic to it. It's bit of departure from the veg-veg duo building block, but the thinking behind trying a new type of bean-veg pairing was that celeriac would lighten both the texture and [...]

Fridge foraging and functional food A forage of the fridge to avoid food quietly wilting or wasting away in a corner can sometimes turn up a strange mixture of bits and bobs. But what if we see this ragtag group [...]

As you can see from previous articles, I'm constantly looking for new ideas to ring the changes. Nothing exotic, just good functional ideas. Particularly when it comes to using up broth, things like Sloppy Joes and amaranth bases. Not only [...]

Broccoli, courgette and sweet potato As nutritional science develops in leaps and bounds, it is moving away from the idea of nutrients as separate entities and treating them in isolation. The focus is increasingly on bioavailability, bioaccessibility and bioefficacy. Most [...]

Sloppy Joes Like so many accidental discoveries, these canine Sloppy Joes started with a practical question: what to do with leftover broth. Cooking for my dogs, I automatically accumulate a surprising amount of broth as a by-product, especially of poaching [...]