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Overnight Oats With A Dash Of Wellness Ranting

7th August 2016 By Urvashi Roe

I have been observing the wellness dialogue from afar. It’s really interesting to see how many instagram streams there are in this area.  Vibrant, plant based food. Mainly vegan or vegetarian. It all looks delicious. It’s always pretty but it’s never enough is it? This is my biggest annoyance about ‘wellness’ foods. The portion sizes in all these […]

Filed Under: Breakfast Tagged With: overnight oats, porridge

Carb Loading, French Toast and Lynchee, Raspberry, Rose Ice Cream

8th April 2016 By Urvashi Roe

It’s nearly time for the London Marathon.  My training has gone well in the main.  I had a bit of a lapse this week as I’ve not been feeling well.  Truth be told I’m struggling a little on the food side.  I hit my fundraising target within a few months of signing up, my training […]

Filed Under: Breakfast, Products Tagged With: carb loading, food, haagen dazs, Ice cream, london marathon

A Persimmon Smoothie Bowl To Kick Off My Marathon Training

14th January 2016 By Urvashi Roe

Firstly Happy New Year to you all.  Did you have a good one? We celebrated in the Florida Keys. Islamorada to be precise. Ringing New Year in on a hammock at midnight GMT.  The Americans thought we were rather mad shouting Happy New Year and singing Auld Lang Syne at 7pm EST. But quite frankly […]

Filed Under: Breakfast Tagged With: breakfast, fruit, london marathon, nutrition, persimmon, smoothie

Sunshine Smoothies

6th August 2015 By Urvashi Roe

Zespri-SunGold-Smoothie

I think the sun is staying out now.  It’s been a bit hit and miss in London.  It always is as the school holidays start but I’m watching it go down over the rooftops as we speak knowing it’s going to be another glorious day tomorrow. This is a good thing for my diet. A […]

Filed Under: Breakfast, Drinks, Products Tagged With: kiwifruit, smoothie

Sunday Spotlight: Making Granola in the Tefal Actifry

22nd February 2015 By Urvashi Roe

I’m not normally a gadget person in the kitchen.  Sure I like to save time like everyone else but rather than some whizzy gizmo for peeling garlic for example, I prefer to get stuck in and peel it with my fingers.  Having said that I do use a few machines to help get big jobs […]

Filed Under: Breakfast, Products Tagged With: breakfast, food, Granola, recipes, tefal actifry

The Easiest Seeded Pancakes Ever

17th February 2015 By Urvashi Roe

Pancakes. They have become a Sunday ritual.  It’s a weekend so porridge or cereal aren’t special enough.  Somehow the Sunday breakfast deserves more attention.  Deserves more time.  But the warm bed, Sunday papers and my stack of new cookery books are calling and they deserve equal amounts of attention too after a long week.  So the […]

Filed Under: Breakfast Tagged With: cooking, food, pancake, recipes, shrove tuesday, spelt

Spinach, Cheddar and Cumin Loaf

11th January 2015 By Urvashi Roe

January is a time to be virtuous after the excesses of Christmas.  I’m drawn to vibrant, ‘green’ food to cheer myself up from the dreary drizzle outside.  Thankfully my baby spinach has survived the weather in my garden.  The leaves may be a little smaller and the bugs may have nibbled here and there but […]

Filed Under: Breakfast Tagged With: baking, bread, Lurpak, spinach

A Little Bit Of Sunshine On The Allotment

28th October 2014 By Urvashi Roe

I was reading a post on sunflowers for every occasion over at The Garden Deli which inspired me to go and seek out the different kinds of sunflowers around our allotments. I didn’t have to look far.  These stunners have given us a little bit of sunshine every time I go to the water butt. […]

Filed Under: Breakfast, Sweet Tagged With: Allotment, cooking, flapjack, food, sunflower

The Perfect Homegrown Patra

20th September 2014 By Urvashi Roe

Patra is one of my all time favourite Gujarati dishes.  My Baa (maternal grandmother) used to make them for breakfast when I was little using fresh colocasia leaves and her own spice mix.  I was too little to really appreciate her or her patra which makes me so incredibly sad.  However, I wasn’t so little that […]

Filed Under: Breakfast, Recipes, Side Dishes, Snacks Tagged With: curry, food, Gujarati, indian food, recipes

Recipes for Avocado Addicts

12th September 2014 By Urvashi Roe

Is there something you add to your shopping basket every week? For me it’s avocados.  I chose a few ripe ones and a few to leave on the windowsill to ripen over the course of the coming week.  I know they are ready when the little stalk at the base pops off easily.  They are […]

Filed Under: Breakfast, Light Bites Tagged With: avocado, lunch, Salad

Saturday Spotlight : Stoats Porridge

30th August 2014 By Urvashi Roe

It’s getting decidedly chilly in North London.  Oh yes it starts off all sunny and warm through the window but as soon as I open that kitchen door in the morning it’s a little bit nippy.  Porridge is what that signals.  Porridge. There are a myriad of different types of grains or cereals you can use […]

Filed Under: Breakfast, Products Tagged With: baking, breakfast, cooking, food, healthy eating, porridge, recipes, stoats porridge oats

Granola – A Virtuous Start To 2014

1st January 2014 By Urvashi Roe

I always have a clear out of shelves and cupboards on New Year’s Day.  It’s a therapeutic ritual before I go back to work to see what I can use up, batch cook and freeze for the busy weeks ahead. Packets of dried fruits and nuts are always hanging around and I usually bake them […]

Filed Under: Breakfast Tagged With: baking, breakfast, Coconut oil, Dried fruit, Granola

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