Bruschetta is one of the most appealing things on the Italian menu, but the white bread makes it a little unhealthy.  Our reader Nicola gave us a suggestion for a healthy bruschetta, and also shared a great recipe for baked couscous, another nutritious choice. Bruschetta 6 vine tomatoes, chopped Dressing: 1 clove garlic crushed 4 [...]

Have you ever tried black rice?  It’s available in most Asian shops but it’s something I rarely see on menus.  I first had it in a delicious salad,  in an amazing vegetarian restaurant in New York (it was years ago and I have tragically forgotten its name) and have been cooking it at home ever [...]

Mmmmmm falafel.  There are few things tastier than those little deep-fried balls of crunchiness, and the flavours of the salads and sauces that they come with are pretty special as well.  Our reader Becky has helpfully given us a recipe for falafel that avoids deep-frying, and makes it a healthier choice.  It’s also an easy [...]

I’ve been trawling through the very excellent BBC Good Food website in order to learn some new healthy dishes and avoid dying of boredom while eating healthily.  I found many lovely recipes including a great one for Sicilian Fish Stew. I tried it out, made a few tweaks, used a generous hand with the lemon [...]

We put the call out for interesting but healthy recipes last week and a few of our commenters came back with some real gems.  Lovely long time reader and commenter Nanazolie shared this delicious veggie lasagne recipe with us.  It’s hard to imagine a lasagne being healthy, but if you use wholemeal pasta and go [...]

We’re all about the healthy eating here at the moment (except for the occasional lapses when we will be stuffing jellies into our faces, obviously).  I am keen to expand my repertoire of healthy dishes this Spring, and have been poking around in both my store cupboard and my favourite food websites for new inspiration. [...]

‘…food was all around me, and now my belly shows.’  This Christmas was a particularly epic one on the food front for Peter and me, and now it’s time to look into smartening up our act and shrinkening down our Christmas bellies. I’m not going to follow any particular diet as counting calories makes me [...]

My God, I’m already so sick of meat; Christmas might be gruelling. Here’s a simply, tasty, indulgent recipe for when you tire of the turkey, ham, and spiced beef. This is a basic crumble which will work well cooked in a large dish, but will work even better cooked in individual portions. It uses a [...]

Some of the yummyness available at tomrrow’s Cake Sale for Barnardos include chocolate brownies, Catherine Leyden’s tea brack, apple tarts, raspberry shortcake bars, and – an update with thanks to Nanazolie – lemon cake, nut and chocolate slices, and gingerbread, plus so much more. As it’s Halloween, it’s a weekend where you can exist entirely on [...]

Halloween is about death, fun and cake. This weekend, Cheapeats – also known as Jean and I – are holding a cake sale in The Grand Social to raise money for children’s charity Barnardos. We’d love, love, love you to bake something for the sale and bring it along. Resident ireland am cook Catherine Leyden [...]