Mixed Beans Salad

Is it too early to talk about fresh, colourful, summer salads? I hope not, even though this easy salad would not be out of place on a barbeque table or at a picnic. It requires minimal prep and is ready in no time at all. The inspiration for it came from this tin of mixed…

Grain-Free Granola

Hi! Long time no see, blog! 😊 I have scribbled down a lot of recipes in my notebook and I have some catching up to do with sharing them on here. Onto today’s recipe: Grain-Free Granola. I make this at home all the time but I have a tendency to simply throw all the ingredients…

The Leaf-Inspired Salad

It’s May, practically summer so I have made you a salad! This lunch-for-one is inspired by a salad I had at Leaf on Bold Street in Liverpool, a friendly café housed in a gorgeous building which, once upon a time, used to be a tea room, a cinema and more recently a clothes shop. Do…

Sweet Potato and Red Pepper Soup

It is autumn. Days are getting shorter, temperatures are getting lower and I have dug my big winter coat out of my wardrobe. This can only mean one thing… It is soup season! I love being able to prepare a big pot of soup; not only is it warming and comforting, but it also keeps…

Outside of the kitchen…

As well as blogging recipes, I would like to try and diversify my content a little bit and step outside of the kitchen from time to time (but I shan’t call it a photo dump on my blog!) So, for the first time ever, here is the first edition of: What happened outside of Sandra’s…

The Great British Bake-Off 2015: the Technical Challenges

This has been a fun blog to put together! 🙂 People who know me well know that I love my soups and salads, but they also know that I love my cakes, biscuits and puddings! It is often difficult to reconcile being a nutritionist with being a keen baker, who enjoys baking as much as…

Parsnip Soup

It has been a while since I created a brand new recipe. It won’t re-invent the wheel but I am very fond of it. First of all because it is very good, but also because it is the easiest recipe to prepare: 40 minutes from kitchen to table, a short ingredients list and no endless…

Cauliflower Tabbouleh with Coriander Vinaigrette

Tabbouleh is a salad of Eastern origins, often made with bulgur wheat or couscous, tomatoes, parsley, mint and seasoned with olive oil, lemon juice and salt.   It is a very versatile dish and you can switch up the vegetables you are using according to your tastes. Or you can switch up the whole recipe,…

Spiced Red Lentil and Carrot Soup

A subtly spiced, comforting soup which is ideal if you’ve overdone the chocolate this Easter 🙂     Ingredients (serves 3):   2tbsp olive oil 1 onion, finely chopped 2 celery stalks, finely chopped 4 medium carrots, finely chopped 2 garlic cloves, finely minced 1 red chilli, finely chopped 1tsp ground coriander 1tsp ground cumin…

Minestrone Soup (+ bonus recipe: Home-made Tomato Sauce)

                            Minestrone Soup   In honour of Meat-Free Week 2015, this ultra-easy, but full on flavour recipe has been slightly adapted from a recipe in Ellie Krieger’s Small Changes, Big Results.   Ingredients (serves 6):   2tbsp olive oil 1 onion, finely…