Campervan Recipes: Banana & Peaches Pan-fry (also great for Christmas)…

There are two fruits that go to an extra dimension of deliciousness when you pan-fry them: peaches and bananas. They not only go super-soft and luscious, they also stop being shy about how sweet they are and blatantly show-off in that department. Now, add in a favourite Christmas spice and you have a perfect winter dessert for when you are fed-up with Christmas pudding…  Continue reading “Campervan Recipes: Banana & Peaches Pan-fry (also great for Christmas)…”

Turmeric milk

I love Turmeric milk (sometimes called Golden Milk) and it really is medicine as well as a lovely drink. Turmeric is amazing for fighting inflammation in the body which underlies many of today’s chronic diseases so you are also keeping yourself healthy as well as having a yummy drink…

Winter Recipes: Roast Root-Veg Pizza (Non-gluten)

Do you love pizza? I do but I am gluten intolerant so can’t eat a wheaty pizza base and I find a lot of the free-from ones you can buy are a bit like eating cardboard. BUT, I have found an amazing pizza base that is very easy and you make it up yourself. Glyn, who is a pizza addict. says that it is better than most of the ‘normal’ pizzas he has had. As it’s winter I have given this one a comfort-food feel with some roast root veg…

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Campervan Recipes: Recipe Finder to Help You with Your Ready Steady Cooking

So, you are out in your campervan (or tent) and you’ve got a few, odd ingredients hanging around but don’t know what to do with them? Well now you can go to a website that lets you find a matching recipe by typing in your ingredients and it will go and find one that you can cook with them. It’s called Build-a-Meal…

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Campervan Recipes: Saturday Night, 'Strictly' and a Sponny Risotto!

Yes, Glyn and I are two of the many people addicted to ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ on a Saturday night and I like to cook us a nice supper to eat while we cosy-in and watch it. This week I didn’t have anything special to cook so I decided to throw together a Sponny Risotto, which is a recipe that works really well when you are camping too…

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Campervan Health: Natural Remedies – Onion Antibiotic

Autumn is a time when many of us come down with colds, coughs and flu  (at least here in the UK) as the weather becomes colder, damper and the days get shorter which hits our bodies quite hard. Of course, it is also possible to get colds any time of the year – even when you are out in the campervan in the summer – and it is useful to know a few natural food-based remedies that you can use if you can’t get to the pharmacy straight away. This one, the onion antibiotic, is an old remedy and was taught to me by my grandmother…

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