As of today, I have added 76 recipes to my Conversations and Recipes Page on this blog, as listed below. There are many more in my files at home, but so far, I am thrilled to have kept up with the goal of adding one per day whilst travelling. The aim was to write recipes for things we have been trying each day, but there have been so many days when this would have been uninspiring for us all as most often the food was fatty deep-fried anything, or breakfast has been our main meal. I have such a renewed love for our fresh produce and the amazing restaurants we have back in Australia, and look forward to getting back to our family dinners too. The other thing we have realised is the UK seems behind the times when it comes to what is healthy to eat, and we have heard news reports telling us fatty food or even too much meat is bad for us! Our young friends living over here tell us the food is more often than not rather awful, and that it is not a unique experience for us, which was not such good new to hear in some ways, at least for the health of those living here. Their Scottish friends mentioned Scotland has the highest incidence of heart disease in the world, not difficult to believe after our meal of deep-fried everything last Sunday night – haggis, fish, hamburgers, pizza, sausages and chicken snitzel – all battered and deep-fried, served with chips, plus one tiny salad between about 10 of us! I felt physically sick the next day, even though I had hardly eaten any of it, but as they say, it is good to do in Rome as the Romans [or Scottish] do, so we joined in happily. After all, it was only one night! The experience has encouraged me to start writing up all the healthy recipes I have created when I get home, for a specialty health food cook book, things such as my own muesli and my bird seed slice recipes, which are sugar free, gluten-free, and brimming full of all the healthy nuts and seeds. My healthy recipes are not things you just would not want to eat, and are full of flavour and choice, not just tofu and seeds, and I look forward to trying to put them all together. I can’t imagine there would be much of a market here in the UK, but hopefully at home there might be, rather than just for the cake recipes from my business, which although delicious and preservative free, are absolutely full of sugar. Sugar is an ingredient currently in the news worldwide as toxic to us in so many ways, and I have often thought some of my symptoms are worse if I eat a lot of sugar, so was not surprised to read this recent report. I often write about food, and how I believe it is the glue that keeps our friends and loved ones together, and eating healthy food is important to reducing the risk of things such as heart disease. I’m pretty sure the sharing of food and the happiness and love this brings is just as important, and for me, so is my blog as it is my form of therapy, helping to heal my soul and keep me connected.

1. Deep fried lasagne (Day 96 Project 366)
2. Red wine jus
3. Raspberry coulis
4. Jules and Holly’s Scottish black pudding entrée
5. Goats cheese and honeyed fig salad
6. Moroccan lamb
7. Hussar’s cheesecake
8. Rock cakes
9. Sticky chocolate date puddings
10. Hot chocolate sauce
11. Quick mix chocolate cake
12. Kate’s favourite fruit salad
13. Scrambled eggs
14. Penne with spicy sausage and tomato sauce
15. Butter chicken
16. Roasted pumpkin soup
17. Eccles cakes
18. Tomato and capsicum soup
19. Green chicken curry
20. Asparagus and potato soup
21. Fettuccine with chicken and mushrooms in a creamy sauce
22. Scallop salad
23. Chocolate and macadamia nut biscuits
24. Cheats Basil Pesto Pasta
25. Cranberry Jam
26. Baby spinach and cucumber salad
27. Pancakes
28. Anzac biscuits
29. Melting moments (repeated)
30. Osso bucco
31. Salt and pepper squid
32. Aioli
33. Basil and garlic and sauce
34. Kate’s version of Jamie Oliver’s Basil sauce
35. Prawns with mango and avocado timbale
36. Baked mushrooms with pancetta and garlic bread
37. Kate’s spicy Asian sauce
38. Tomato and chilli sauce
39. Salsa Verde
40. Kate’s easy smoked salmon roulades
41. Mums pastry (for sausage rolls)
42. Gluten free carrot, banana and walnut cake
43. Apple cake
44. Strawberries in balsamic
45. Self saucing chocolate coffee pudding
46. Herb crusted fillet of beef
47. Steamed treacle and currant pudding
48. Treacle ice cream
49. Honey crackles
50. Basic scones
51. Lemonade scones
52. Honey soy chicken
53. Coffee Mocha fingers
54. Basic short crust pastry
55. Kate’s Greek Moussaka
56. Baci D’Alassio (Day 45)
57. Lamb Tajine
58. Cantucci Di Prado
59. Hollandaise sauce
60. Blender Hollandaise sauce
61. Melting moments
62. Strawberry and hazelnut gateaux
63. Limoncello
64. Very easy brandy sauce
65. Foaming brandy sauce
66. Hazelnut fingers
67. Nan’s meringues
68. Berry pie
69. Kate’s Laksa
70. Mushroom sauce
71. Thai pumpkin and prawn soup
72. Healthy salad of celery and beans
73. Rocket and pear Salad
74. Maggie Beer’s QUINCE PASTE
75. Roasted pumpkin salad (Day 28, Project 366, 28 January 2012)

I hope you swing by and try some of these recipes, and as always, would love your feedback on my blog or over a cup of tea in my kitchen.