General random obsessions and tech stuff
Low Sodium Spicy Turnip and Barley Soup Again, my dietician told me to up my levels of legumes and mentioned pearl barley as something I could eat. Hurrah! I love pearl Barley. Reminds me of the eighties and my mum’s winter broths. This tastes great, is super healthy and contains no added salt. Ingredients:
Feels kinda dumb to put something so simple and Low Sodium up but it was so tasty! The turnip caramelises as does the garlic and as long as you use good quality extra virgin olive oil you just can’t go wrong. Ingredients: Carrot, peeled and cut into large chunks 800 gms Turnip, cut with skin
This is an experiment in a no Salt, Low Sodium Pickle. I will let you know how the mop flops with this one… could be gold .. could be not gold. At Least it looks pretty. Ingredients: 7 cups water 3 cups distilled white vinegar Pickling spice Peppercorns 1 tspn Coriander Leaves 1 tsp Fennel
A great LowSodium chicken stock recipe you can freeze and use at will. Ingredients: 2 kilos vegetable scraps 2 x chicken frames Bay leaves, Garlic powder and Onion powder Chilli powder and chilli flakes 10 – 15 litres of water Method: Collect all your carrot, celery, leek, onion, cabbage and turnip type scraps for a
Holy hell – they have a Cornish Pasty Society in the UK. Whilst this recipe is mainly snaffled from their site (check their guide to “crimping”), I’ve added a few little bits of my own and made it LowSodium. Pastry Ingredients (rough store-bought puff can also be used): 500 g strong bread flour (it
Another totally made up LowSodium recipe that worked out fairly well. Lets add it to the cabinet of curiosities that forms my current diet. Ingredients: – Basic risotto (or any leftover risotto you have lying around). Acouple of days old is ideal. – Filling of your choice. – Panko breadcrumbs (or make your own via
Ingredients: 1 x tin coconut milk 1 x cup of water or home made vegetable stock 1 large onion 500 gms white fish (founder works really well but you could use Basa/ Swordfish/ Salmon or Mackrel if you liked. Mushrooms Broccoli Home Made curry paste 2 x teaspoons crushed garlic 2 x teaspoons of grated
My Bad Pancreas and some big life changes Over the last few months my guts have been really sad. I was badly bloated and retaining fluid like a new chux. My pancreas hurt I could barely walk and felt sick all the time. I couldn’t eat much as it hurt so I lost all my
Turnip Dhal – No Sodium Recipe for folks with sad guts Due to a bucketload of the most beautiful looking Turnips, fresh and Organic from a friends Tasmaninan garden, I was a little lost as to what to do with em. I do love dhal and the ole dietician recommended that I up my fibre
On Phillip Roth’s death, Howard Jacobson spoke about having met his idol. He described the experience as less than good with Roth affecting not to have read his work and providing him with a well cultured cold shoulder. Jacobson learnt upon that meeting that loving the business of the man was a very different proposition
What is this David VS thing? David VS is an ongoing conversation over continents with myself and my venerable compatriot and partner in reading a lot of books, Mrs Claire. It involves us sending one another books across the globe randomly about Daves or Davids. The mysterious parcels feature Dave as the major character, David