Blue Cheese Stuffed Burgers

Take your burgers to a whole new level with these melt in the middle blue cheese burgers! Simple to make, perfect for a bit of comfort in the winter or on the barby in the summer.  This recipe will not disappoint!

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Creamy Tomato & Chicken Rigatoni

This delicious pasta recipe is perfect for a quick and easy meal when you want something that tastes like you put a lot of effort in to it, but doesn’t take all night.

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Prawn, Chilli & Rocket Pasta

If you want something quick for dinner which tastes like you spent hours putting love and attention in to it, then this is the recipe for you.

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Chicken, Chilli and Red Pesto Pasta

I absolutely love pasta.  I could eat it every day, three times a day, if my metabolism allowed me to, however, mine doesn’t allow me to sniff a burger without putting on three pounds so unfortunately that’s out the window.  There is a pasta dish in Zizi’s that I absolutely love, however, being on Slimming World, its probably far too many syns.  So I set about to make my own Slimming World friendly version and I have to say, its delicious! I must warn you, I do like a bit of spice so if you are what I call “A Lemon and Herb” kinda of person you may want to use one red chilli instead of two.

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Bacon, Butternut Squash and Sage Risotto

This is one of my favourite risotto recipes but I have to admit I usually make it with ladles full of butter and cheese making it the ultimate comfort food, however, I have adapted the recipe to make it a little lighter on the hips for all of us trying to loose the extra pounds we piled on over Christmas but it is still bursting with all the flavour.

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Butternut Squash Soup

I absolutely love soup this time of the year, its quick, easy, versatile and jam packed full of goodness which usually means its easy on the hips and this recipe for me is one of my favourites.  Continue reading Butternut Squash Soup

The “Christmas Dinner” Pie

Is your kitchen still overflowing with leftovers from Christmas? Same here.  Every year I struggle to try to change it up with what to do with the mountains of leftover turkey, stuffing and veg hanging around the kitchen.  Usually I try to change things up with a turkey curry or a turkey chilli officially signalling that Christmas is over, however, this year I wasn’t ready to let go quite yet and made this “Christmas Dinner Pie” which was absolutely amazing, quick and easy to make and pretty much everything but the kitchen sink went in to it.

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