Thai piquant grapefruit and prawn salad

Spring is almost happening in Britain, so I’ve been inspired to create a healthy and refreshing salad for my next Thai-themed guest post on farmison.com.

I first ate this dish one our first night in Thailand in a restaurant called Ruen Urai. The traditional recipe calls for pomelo, a sweeter and less ascerbic version of grapefruit. However as they’re rather expensive and hard to find in the UK, I’ve substituted it with a super sweet ruby red grapefruit that works just as well. Let me know if you try this recipe out!

Thai spicy ‘Laab Moo’ pork salad

My next Thai themed guest recipe on Farmison is now available. It’s a popular dish from the Isarn region in North East Thailand called ‘Laab Moo’ and is so hot it generally ranges from mouthwatering-ly spicy to ear-ringing-ly searing .

Let me know if you try the recipe out!

Thai spicy ‘somtam’ style slaw

My first guest post for Farmison is now up – visit their blog to read my post introducing my first batch of Thai-inspired recipes, and see the first recipe; my British take on the famous Thai ‘som tam’ salad. Think of it as a healthy coleslaw without the mayo, plus half a dozen liberally applied bird’s eye chillis.

The other five recipes will be going up over the next couple of weeks – stay tuned for more!

Superwoman salad

A rare meat-free blog post coincides with what I call Project 13. Starting today, I will have 13 days to get my bikini body in shape for THAILAND! Can she do it?! Probably not, but I did march purposefully around the supermarket today, stuffing my basket with vegetables and resisting the crisp aisle. A diet high in vegetables and lean protein and low in refined carbohydrates and sugars should at least keep the bloat at bay.

Japanese beef carpaccio with salad leaf tempura

I do love it when a recipe sort of makes itself up as you go along, and you end up with something much more creative than you originally planned. I wanted to use the beef fillet from my Farmison meat box to make a carpaccio salad. I was originally going to use an Italian leaf salad as a base, but ended up spontaneously turning it into tempura and making quite interesting carpaccio rolls.