The Mediterranean diet is touted to be one of the healthiest diets in the world, so why not add Zizzi to the list of restaurants on your New Years’ Resolution eating plan. From 1st January – 28th February 2009, Zizzi’s is offering a three-course ‘menu della salute’ for £9.95, or a single course option at £6.95 for mains and £4.95 for starters. The healthy, hearty menu choices include Spaghetti Pomodoro, Risotto Funghi and Insalata Classica. The emphasis is on flavour and taste balance to show that nutritious food doesn’t have to be a culinary lull for diners who want to enjoy eating out.
Tossed shares the science of getting into shape
Have you put on a few too many extra pounds over the holiday season? Are you feeling the need to shape-up and detox after the turkey and trimmings and too much Christmas fudge? Tossed has generously shared their super-charged scientific methods for taking the weight off, cleaning up your system, and rebuilding your muscles. If you follow their plan, you should be back into your slim jeans in time for Valentine’s Day dinner.
Join the Resolution Revolution with the help of Tossed
This year, stick with your New Years’ Resolutions with the help of “Tossed”, the next generation of healthy eating venues around London. Tossed has devised three, 20-day Resolution plans which are fun and easy to follow. You can make choices from their on-line menu to go with the “Resolution Revolution” plan of your choice. Tossed counts the calories and nutritional content so you don’t have to, ditches mayo, and uses low GI carbs. But you won’t notice the sacrifices you’re making, because salads are packed with superfoods and protein.
Hooky’s seasonal beer calendar for 2009
Every season comes with its own favourite dishes. Stews and hearty soups seem to taste best in fall and winter, while the summer season often brings cravings for fruit and vegetable salads. With sensitivity to how seasonal changes create subtle differences in what drinkers want in a beer, Hooky is offering eleven beer varieties to make changes in weather something to look forward to.
Healthy Sprouts make it easier to eat
The recommended 5-a-day advice for eating fruits and vegetables can be a challenging target for most families. Recent figures suggest that the average consumption in England is less than three portions a day, with even lower levels among children and people on low incomes. Sprouting seeds, beans and leaves are among the most nutritious and delicious ways to increase daily vegetable intake and the new ready to eat “And Sow On” range of Alfalfa and Mixed Beans varieties has taken the hard work out of a better eating plan.
The best oil for roasting potatoes
We all love a golden, crunchy roast potato and never more so than on Christmas Day. Whether it’s a turkey, pork, goose or beef dinner the one thing we all agree on is that it’s not right without a roast tater or two. But how do you make them perfect? Check in any recipe book, or ask your mum, and you’ll get all kinds of varying opinion on cooking times, type of spud and what kind of fat to use. At this time of year it seemed vital that we nail this dilemma quickly so we decided to get a top chef to cook up a pile of spuds to try and work out once and for all how best to get a right roast result.
Grow yourself a gold mine
London’s new food market, Food Inc. at Whiteleys W2, has taken delivery of a precious batch of Italian Truffle Trees from Emilia-Romagna. The young hazelnut plants have been inoculated with truffle spores and are guaranteed by the University of Perugia as being capable of producing truffles.
Petersham Nurseries restaurant
Not many restaurants are housed in a greenhouse, but then not many restaurants are like Petersham Nurseries. Originally the teahouse to the charmingly ramshackle garden centre located just a few steps away from the Thames, it has grown under Skye Gyngell’s inspirational cooking to become a real dining destination. Although the desire for alliteration obscures the fact that, to be accurate, it is only open at lunchtimes except on very special occasions.
Have a farmhouse breakfast on the farm
Members of Farm Stay UK, the biggest farm accommodation organisation in the UK, are preparing to crack hundreds of eggs and fry thousands of rashers for Farmhouse Breakfast Week which takes place from 25th – 31st January 2009.
Don’t get caught rootless
According to bellybytes.com, frost improves the taste of parsnips and some other root vegetables because the cold weather turns a lot of the starch into sugar. So why not sign up for a fortnightly delivery of vegetables when some of your favorite roots are at their best? Starting in January Riverford Organic Vegetables, will offer a “roots and greens’ box, aimed at thrifty cooks, to help families eat well through the credit crunch.