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Fast and Easy Greek Dinner Party

For most cuisines it is easy to go to the supermarket, pick up a jar of sauce, and create a vaguely authentic dinner in a flash. Greek recipes are a bit different. Partly, because out culture is not as completely saturated with Greek food as it is with Indian and Chinese. If you want to make a tasty Greek dinner, you are simply going to have to try a bit harder to be a creative and healthy cook.

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Abandon the Bottle

I always have to balance between making home made meals quickly and hating processed food. You have to be wise and balanced, if buying a jar of good quality pasta sauce saves you from going to the chippie then it is probably worth it.

The thing is that people simply don’t know how easy it is to make really great home made salad dressings. Many people will simply buy a bottle and pour it over some lettuce and feel incredibly More

Stay out of the kitchen

Cooking for a big group of people can often be a full-time job, requiring hours in the kitchen and the patience usually reserved for occupational therapy jobs. But it shouldn’t be that way and certainly doesn’t have to be; after all if you’ve invited friends or family round for dinner, they want to spend some time with you too, not make small talk amongst themselves while you sweat in the kitchen.
The key to hosting a successful dinner party, More

Weekday meatballs

I am forever trying to make an economical and healthy dinner that will excite the taste buds of my family midweek. I am also very conscious, like Enigin, of using my personal and global energy wisely. That is how I came up with this very easy method of making a healthy meatball in sauce for a quick mid week supper. They reminded my husband of sweet and sour meatballs, for me I was trying to go for that sort More

Sharing is Caring

I am inspired by the work of Doug Hyde to create meals that are meant to be shared from a communal plate. For some this can be a terribly intimidating experience. In British culture, in particular, servings of food are dished out on a plate per person. Other places, food is often served ’family style’which means bowls are passed around and everybody helps themselves.

Two particular cultures come to mind, however, where the food is set in a large platter More

On the Other Hand

Well, the vegans have come and gone and now I am planning to have Caroline Shotton over for dinner. If you have seen her work, you would be inspired by the cow theme. I don’t feel quite up for a beef dinner, but thought instead to look towards India where the cow is sacred and all dishes made with milk are some what holy.

Hindu vegetarian cuisine is interesting in that eggs are considered non-veg so the meal can be More

What if the Atkins came back

I woke up in a sweat last night, I had a dream where a friend who worked for Enigin PLC was coming to dinner with my vegan friend, their new year resolution for to embrace the atkins diet which shuns all carbohydrates and embraces high fat and protein. What am I going to serve? It is of course the healthy eating challenge of the century, but here are some ideas that I have come up with.

Nut and Mushroom Hummus

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Inspired Trifle

I have been somewhat obsessing about what to serve for afters at my vegan dinner party. I have even worried about clothing as vegans don’t wear silk fabrics. I don’t have time to bake something home made, but there is a limited supply of excellent store bought vegan puddings. I thought a trifle would be the perfect answer, but was put off when I couldn’t find a suitable sponge at the supermarket.

Then it hit me, what about a More

Having a Vegan for Dinner

Maybe I should try to find my friends via email marketing software, I would advertise for somebody who was adaptable, instead of the dedicated health food vegans that I seem to attract. Still, it is great to have friends, and it is great to make all of them feel welcome in your home, the problem is, entertaining on a week night, when you have little time when you come home from work and need to get something quick, delicious More

The Main Vegan Event

What do you do if one of your dinner guests is a vegan and the others are meat and three veg with jewellery designed by ortak? Well, my approach is to create food that resembles the ’shape'of a traditional meal, while omitting all of the animal products.

What often puts people with unadventurous palates off of health food is that they are actually unaccustomed to global cuisine and the spices that it entails. So, if you serve a meat and More