Recipe 5: Simple Salsa

(LighterLife Route to Management – Week3, Day2)
I found myself in need of something interesting to go with my fish yesterday, and voila! This little salsa was born out of ‘nothing’ in my fridge. I covered my salmon fillet with it as you can see here, but equally it could serve more than 1 as a [...]

Recipe 4: Thai prawn salad

(LighterLife Route to Management – Week1, Day6)
This is a very simple Gordon Ramsey Summer Thai Prawn Salad (from a Times Online article) adapted to LighterLife Route to Management. Yes yes, I have a thing about Thai food… To be honest, one reason is that some Thai recipes just lend themselves to my Route to Management [...]

Recipe 3: Cole slaw

(LighterLife Route to Management – Week1, Day3)
A Jamie Oliver cole slaw adapted for LighterLife Route to Management. I saw him whisk this type of thing together on the fly on telly one night – must have been an episode of Jamie at Home. Doesn’t really get properly interesting until week 5!! I know it’s cabbage [...]

Recipe 2: Spicy Thai fishcakes

Another recipe suitable for LighterLife Route to Management…
SPICY THAI FISHCAKES

Week1
The dow:
400 g white fish fillets, i.e. cod, haddock
1/2 tsp red chili powder
1 bulb lemongrass
1 tbs coriander
1 tbs Thai fish sauce
juice of 1 lime
1/2 tsp table salt
The dip:
1/4 tsp red chili powder
1 tsp fresh ginger
2 tsp sweetener
3 tbs light soy sauce
The steps:
1. Remove [...]

Recipe 1: Thai crispy salad

I’m working through some recipes I want to be using during Route to Management, sorting the ingredients out by what I’ll be allowed to have each week.
THAI CRISPY SALAD

Week 1:
The salad:
100g red cabbage
100g white cabbage
1 celery stalk
bunch of fresh coriander

The dressing:
juice of 1 lime
0.5 tsp grated zest of lime
1 tsp Thai fish [...]