Lauras Tuscan Cooking

Have you ever noticed that when you buy a sandwich from a sandwich shop, it always tastes a hundred times better than if you had made it yourself? Why is this? Or if you get a curry from the curry house, same thing. Even if you purchase the same ingredients, watch the woman in the [...]

When many people think of Caribbean food the automatically think about jerk chicken and curry goat with pea and rice and although this is a favourite for so many people this is mainly enjoyed by the people wanting to taste a bit of the Caribbean flavour. Traditional Caribbean food consists of so much more than [...]

I often have this argument with many people that eating smaller portions is just as good as dieting. The thing is most things are good for you in responsible quantities including fats and so it is when we over indulge or eat to be much that the problems start such as obesity & diabetes. My [...]

Like so many of us we all like a full English breakfast whether this include your egg fried or scrambled and the majority of the time when abroad on a holiday or business trip we always like to eat something that we know, For the Italians their traditional breakfast or as they call it the [...]

Channel 4 had a programme called Cook Yourself Thin and you can go online to www.channel4.com and look up and print off the recipes to cook at home and i must say the ingredients and instructions to cook the recipes are sooo easy even the non cooks out there will not struggle. You can make [...]

I went to a Market in Chelford Cheshire yesterday and i saw a lot of people gathering around a large van and when i got near i saw that it was a specialist butcher van selling meet which there were cutting and weighing in front of you. I ended up spending £40 and managed to [...]

Jamie Oliver has brought out a new book called “Jamie Does – Spain, Italy, Sweden, France, Morocco, Greece” as a spin off from his TV programme on channel 4 which i watched and if you go online you can buy the book signed by Jamie Oliver himself. Some of the recipes from the book are: [...]

i have been cooking a lot for my friends at the moment and cannot afford to cook extravagant meals for them so i have been going to Sainsburys and making the “feed your family for a fiver” meals as displayed on cards in the entrance or online at www.sainsburys.co.uk. I made them Thai Peanut Chicken [...]

I have been making lots of meals using the recipes off the Philadelphia website as they can be made using all low fat ingredients and it makes the meal a bit more interesting. The different recipes they have online are: Tangy Mango Cheesecake Vanilla & Lavender Philly Brulee Cray Fish, Clam & Haddock Fish Pie [...]