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Quick and Easy Garlic Mushroom Linguine

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Quick and Easy Garlic Mushroom Linguine- a quick, vegetarian pasta dish using a selection of different mushrooms, perfect for quick weeknight meals. Jump to recipe So here we are with another Meat free Monday recipe- Garlic Mushroom Linguine. If you're looking for vegetarian recipe inspiration, pasta is always a good place to start. Creamy, garlicky pasta is an even better place to start! I'm quite a fan of mushrooms. They are so quick and easy to cook and there are so many tasty types to try- Button, Chestnut, Porcini, Shitake, Oyster, Portabello, even woodland varieties. The best thing about mushrooms for me though is how perfectly they are complemented by garlic. They just belong together! This recipe for Garlic Mushroom Linguine ticks so many boxes for me. It's quick and there's very little prep and absolutely no fancy cooking skills, so it's super easy as well. I prefer to make it with a few different varieties of mushroom for more flavour and texture, but if...

Vegan Chickpea Burgers

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Vegan Chickpea Burgers- a vegan chickpea burger recipe with plenty of spices, perfect for a summer dinner. If you had told me a few months ago that I would be making chickpea burgers and putting them on the blog, I would have laughed! But here I am, sharing an easy recipe for chickpea burgers with you now. In my effort to eat one vegetarian meal a week (Meat-Free Monday) I have been looking at ideas for protein-packed, filling meals. Chickpea burgers fit that bill perfectly. We weren't entirely sure whether we would love them, but they were absolutely delicious and we were definitely full afterwards. Once again, my Meat F ree Monday recipe is not just vegetarian, it's accidentally vegan too! The key thing to get right with chickpea burgers, is flavour. Don't get me wrong, I love chickpeas. I'd happily drown myself in a vat of houmous any day, but where they really work is when they are complemented by the right flavours. For these Vegan Chickpea Burgers, I use a combina...

Slow Cooker Vegan Chilli

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Slow Cooker Vegan Chilli- a vegan, gluten free slow cooker chilli with chickpeas, kidney beans, peppers and more. Healthy and full of flavour. Syn free on Slimming World and under 300 calories. Jump to recipe We are still in New Year's Resolutions territory, as it's early January, and our household has decided to reduce our meat consumption a little and see if we can make Meat Free Mondays work for us. I'm happy to eat vegetarian food; there are lots of delicious options and once a week seems achievable, especially as I will need to come up with some new recipes. My first Meat Free Monday vegetarian recipe is Slow Cooker Vegan Chilli. Mondays are often very full on, so quite a few of these recipes might end up being slow cooker ones! This Vegan Chilli is almost identical to a traditional chilli but with chickpeas to replace the beef mince and smoked paprika to really give it a smokey flavour. It's packed full of kidney beans, red pepper, onion and butternut squash, alo...

Eight Syn-Free Slimming World Friendly Meals for Winter

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8 Syn Free Slimming World Recipes- winter comfort food recipes that are either syn free or can be adapted to be syn free. Each recipe is also under 400 calories. We're several steps into the new year now, the kids are back at school, and inevitably a lot of us are thinking about how to get back on track with a healthy diet. New year, new you and all that. The trouble that I have with this, is simple. It's winter and it's dark and it's cold! I want to eat warming, filling, comforting food. Luckily, there are loads of amazingly creative, healthy recipes out there which are exactly that. No need to be eating sad-looking out-of-season lettuce leaves- there's plenty of yummy to go around. I have rounded up eight delicious, filling dinner recipes from fellow food bloggers that are perfect for anyone looking to balance out the Christmas indulgence with some healthy meals. All the meals in this healthy recipe round-up are syn-free on Slimming World, if that's the method...

Most Popular Recipes of 2017

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Happy New Year! Hope 2017 has treated you well.   I have been rootling through my blog statistics for the year, to see what 2017's top ten most popular recipes are. Much like last year, slow cooker recipes feature heavily. Read on to see which recipes made the list, along with some 2017 blog stats. 1. Slow Cooker Leek and Potato Soup Also last year's most popular recipe, it's easy to make and very comforting in winter. My slow cooker leek and potato soup recipe is also the most-visited recipe on the blog ever. 2. Slow Cooker Beef Bourguignon This one was also very popular in 2016, but has maintained its popularity consistently over this year. Another winter warmer for your collection. 3. Mini Cheese and Onion Quiches This was a new recipe for 2017 and was popular right from the start. Perfect for buffets and parties, they are little parcels of cheesy deliciousness. 4. Slow Cooker Spanish Chicken This was one of my first recipes and is a bit of a personal favourite. As a bon...

Chicken and Sweetcorn Pasta Bake

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Chicken and Sweetcorn Pasta Bake- a filling, comforting, cheesy pasta bake with chicken and sweetcorn. Jump to recipe Well, well, well! It's snowing here, and not just an ickle bit of snow dusting the pavement. It's a full on deluge (well, by British standards anyway) of 12+ cms! It's seems timely then (and almost like I planned it) that I am posting a lovely, warm, comforting pasta bake recipe today. A good pasta bake is just the thing on a cold winter's day. It's n easy, child-friendly meal that's pretty low cost and it can be made in bulk- all persuasive arguments for having several yummy pasta bake recipes up your sleeve. These are two that I really love at the moment: Bolognese Bake (my favourite!) Macaroni Cheese with Bacon This recipe for chicken and sweetcorn pasta bake is essentially a chicken twist on tuna pasta bake. P asta, chicken and sweetcorn smothered in c heesy, creamy sauce. It's great for using up leftover roast chicken. If you don't...

Puff Pastry Mince Pies with Whipped Cream

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Prepare yourselves for the wonder that is puff pastry mince pies with whipped cream. They are something special and I am really excited to share the recipe with you. It's so simple- anyone can make them! It's now officially mince pie season. I know they've been in the shops since late September, but for me, all things Christmas really begin on December 1st. There's such an array of mince pies these days, that trying to choose which ones to buy can be a bit of a challenge. I thought that my husband, top mince pie-lover that he is, had tried every different type available. Then m y mother-in-law bought him a kind of mince pie that I have never seen before- puff pastry mince pies with whipped cream inside. They were an absolute revelation and we spent the next couple of weeks trying to find them again! (Morrisons in case you don't fancy making them yourself). Home-made mince pies will always top anything you can buy and until I made these puff pastry ones filled with ...