Category Breakfast

Breakfast smoothie

Serves 2  Use banana with other soft fruit plus honey for a little sweetness. Ingredients: Method:  Put all the ingredients in a blender and whizz for 1 min until smooth.  Pour the banana oat smoothie into two glasses to serve.

Overnight oats

Ingredients: Method:  Soak the oats overnight. Heat through gently in the morning – there is no need to boil. Divide the porridge between 2 bowls and sprinkle with chia seeds and strawberries or sliced bananas and blueberries or greek yoghurt.

Porridge

Serves: 2 The perfect porridge , made with traditional oats, can be cooked in approximately 5 minutes. This is the time it takes to release the starch from the oats, which develops the creaminess. Ingredients: Method:  Place the porridge oats…

Gluten free bread

Ingredients: Method:  Preheat the oven to 180 ◦  C.  Cover your baking tray with some baking parchment.  Sift the flour, bread soda and baking powder into a bowl. Add in the salt and milled linseed. Mix together.  In a jug…

Oat bread

Ingredients: Method:  Preheat the oven to 170 ◦ C/340◦F/Gas 3. Grease a 2 Ibs loaf tin. Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl, pour into the tin and bake for 1 hour.

Omelette

Ingredients: Method:  Beat the eggs, water/milk, salt and pepper in a bowl. Heat a small non-stick frying pan for a minute or so, then add a knob of butter and let it melt. Don’t allow the butter to brown or it will…

Poached eggs

Ingredients: Method:  Put the water into a sauce pan, add the salt, pepper and vinegar. Bring to the boil. Break the eggs into the boiling salted water. Simmer gently until the eggs are set (this takes about 2 – 3 minutes).…

Scrambled eggs

Ingredients: Method: Lightly whisk 2 large eggs, 50mls full cream milk and a pinch of salt together until the mixture has just one consistency.  Heat a small non-stick frying pan for a minute or so, then add a knob of butter and let it…