Stir-fried pork with long beans and Chinese chives
Still exploring old-favourite cookery books; this one, Mahdur Jaffrey’s Far Eastern Cookery, I bought soon after I got married over 30 years ago and was my introduction to this style of […]
Monthly Archives: February 2015
The #gluten-free bandwagon: unless you are #coeliac, caveat emptor!
Another great article from the Guardian’s Emine Saner. I have always been sceptical about all the gluten-free marketing and people claiming to be ‘allergic’ to gluten (coeliacs excepted)…and it seems […]
The truth about what’s in your food – be very afraid!
As you know I am very against any sort of processed or packaged food – and it seems that I am right. This extract from Joanna Blythman’s new book will […]
A more measured response to the ‘bad luck factor’ debate in cancer
My friend the Doc has alerted me to the continuing controversy over the furore caused by the rather unscientific claims by the statisticians who rocked the cancer boat with their […]
Scrummy salt & pepper squid with pak choi
This was a welcome home meal I prepared for my dear husband after he had been away for two weeks. I love squid and it is very inexpensive; here’s how […]
Pineapple and basil granita
Fooled you there! As you know I don’t have a sweet tooth, and try not to eat sugar at all, unless it’s completely natural. The dilemma when having people to […]
Roasted butternut and red onion with tahini and zatar
I had a dinner party for a chilli-allergic friend, so cooked up an Ottolenghi feast from Jerusalem. Unashamed thanks for the recipes Yotam! This is super-easy and delicious. I used […]
Half of people in Britain born after 1960 will get cancer, study shows
This latest research underscores the befits of eating healthily and taking exercise…especially for the young ones! Lucky there is a blue print on healthylivingwithcancer.co…better get reading!
#Bereavement and the suppression of #immunity
I was visiting a dear friend who has just been diagnosed with leukaemia and was chatting to him about why some people get cancer and some don’t. I expounded my […]
Herby saffron chicken and fennel salad
Sometimes people don’t want to eat spicy eastern food, especially if they live here in Singapore. So I wrack my brains for something a bit different, and turn to Ottolenghi. […]
healthy living with cancer 