Ahhh, it’s the final recipe from the Tessie O’Shea Slimming Cookbook! In January 2019, I pledged to make one recipe a month from Tessie’s book and what with one thing and another, it has taken me until now to do all 12, but it’s been loads of fun. Her recipes are generally a little bit...
It’s the penultimate Tessie O’Shea recipe from the slimming cookbook! I pledged to try one a month from this excellent tome way back in January 2019 and I’ve almost done it. It’s taken me ages to get around to making this because I didn’t want to buy a huge vat of ice cream that would...
Have you sorted out your social support bubble yet? I saw mine last Saturday and it was a RIOT. Mr R’s sister and her husband came over and we had a boozy picnic. OK, it was an indoor picnic because the weather wasn’t great, but we had lots of picnic fodder. Ever since I...
Tessie does it again! On paper, her recipe looks odd, and in the saucepan, it looks even odder… But these were delicious! What an interesting and flavoursome way of cooking yer sprouts! At first, I wasn’t sure whether I had understood the recipe correctly. Put the cream cheese in the water with the sprouts and...
Tessie loved a burger! There are lots of recipes for them in her brilliant Slimming Cookbook and by rights I should have gone for the Hammy Hamburger as Hammy was one of my nicknames at school. This was partly because my surname is Hammerton but also because of a kids TV show that had a...
I have a lot of cooked chicken in my freezer. This is mostly because I absolutely LOVE the chicken they serve at Mr R’s local equivalent of the bar in Cheers, The Cork and Bottle in Hampstead. They serve 1/2 a chicken for Sunday lunch and it is divine but huge. Hence, slabs of it...
Corinna and Cathy are GOOD SPORTS when they come round to my house for dinner. They probably know that something weird is going to be served up. Gourmet food Tessie’s fishcake was not. Fishcake singular you note, even though it serves four. Basically, you make a big old mixture of whatever tinned fish you have...
I hate to waste food as much as the next hippie, but in the case of Tessie’s soup I had to make an exception. Her way of pimping up a can of condensed soup is slightly bonkers but at its heart, sensible. Add some garlic salt, chicken stock cubes, salt and pepper and voila! Pimped...
Tessie loves language. By which I mean she likes to play around with it. Her recipe titles often include shortened words. For example, in the Butt-Chive Cheese Shrimp recipe, Butt is short for butter. Gar-mar Mayonnaise is mayonnaise pimped up with marjoram and garlic powder. Her Horse Rad-Mayon Dressing is mayonnaise spiked with horseradish. Cu...
What makes these DIET Scotch Eggs is anyone’s guess but I can tell you this, they were DELICIOUS! Why I have never made a scotch egg before I do not know. They would definitely be in my list of top 5 foodstuffs. I love them. This recipe is from the fabulous Tessie O’Shea’s Slimming Cookbook...
It’s not a very appetising recipe title is it? At the beginning of this year, I pledged to make one thing a month from the Tessie O’Shea Slimming Cookbook and I am a bit behind, so expect TWO slightly weird dishes from Tessie’s 1970s kitchen this month. Chapter 3 of Tessie’s book is entitled Dressings...
Yep, you read that right! Butt-chive! It’s time for February’s Tessie O’Shea recipe. It’s from chapter 2 of her brilliant Slimming Cookbook in the Hors D’Oeuvre and Snacks section Naturally I chose it because of the recipe title. Tessie likes to shorten words so butt is short for butter, just in case you were tittering...
Some foodie chums over on Twitter issued a cooking challenge at the end of last year. Select a mad cookbook and make stuff from it throughout 2019. My choice is the Tessie O’Shea’s Slimming Cookbook. There are several reasons behind my selection… 1 – I need to slim down a bit after the excesses of...
It was a special night at the Palace of Solitude tonight – I had two lovely dinner guests. Two of my very favourite people and what is more, two people who live within spitting distance of my flat. How lovely to have such friends on my doorstep who can come round for din dins on...
