by Al la Carte | Monday, 16 November, 2015 | Recipes
This is such an easy dish to make and only takes 5 minutes to prepare and about 10 minutes to cook, because of this it’s a perfect snack to make when you have friends round. Ingredients For the guacamole 2 ripe avocados Small handful of fresh...
by Al la Carte | Monday, 9 November, 2015 | Recipes
This recipe is from Craig at Edible Leeds that he cooked on the foraging weekend. No wild mushrooms in mine (not quite got the skill level yet to pick my own mushrooms). Other than that I’ve only made one small amendment from his recipe, I used creme fresh...
by Al la Carte | Monday, 2 November, 2015 | Trips
A couple of years ago I went on a half day foraging course and although I really enjoyed it, I pretty much forgot everything I learnt. As is the case with many things if you don’t use it, you lose it. The only thing I really foraged for in the last couple of...
by Al la Carte | Monday, 26 October, 2015 | Recipes
Bulgar wheat is a high fibre and low fat whole grain that has been cracked and then parboiled. It’s a great substitute for couscous, quinoa and even rice, but tabbouleh is what it’s known best for and this is my version using avocado. Ingredients 200g...
by Al la Carte | Monday, 19 October, 2015 | Diet, Recipes
This week and probably for the next few I’m on a bit of a health/diet kick, the pleasure of writing a food blog and enjoying good food for some reason is starting to make my clothes shrink. I know a baked or jacket potato with tuna is pretty healthy but...