One of my favourite food blogs is Nicole's Pinch My Salt, which I love because the author is not so much a foodie, but simply someone who loves food (there is a big difference) - rather like Yours Truly! 

A few months back there was a delicious post about low carb breakfast muffins, which had been inspired by Kalyn's Kitchen (another fab foodblog). It caught my eye because (a) my parents had just returned from Dublin with a gift of silicone baking cups and (b) I was researching low-carb breakfasts so of course I had to give them a twirl!

The combination of spinach and bacon is one of my FAVES...I've got a real thing for green stuff in my food. When I'm in Lazy Comfort Zone and cracking open a tin of Heinz Spaghetti (shock, horror) I always chuck in a handful of peas just for the visual effect of little green plops. I think it makes me feel healthy, like I'm practically eating a salad. Green stuff mentally camouflages other less-than-righteous ingredients!

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If there's one thing the Dolphin and I disagree on, it's the status of leftovers. The Dolphin considers it swill for the animals, whereas I will wake up in the morning with leftovers on my mind. I'll lie in bed thinking about the remnants of last night's dinner slumbering in the fridge, and how the flavours would have mellowed and matured overnight. I'll think about how the sauces would have combined with the rice or pasta, almost turning into a whole new dish. I'll think about what I can add to it to jazz it up, until I literally can't stand it anymore and have to get up to eat it! The Dolphin has wandered down many a morning to catch me eating leftover curry, or stirring congealed gravy into uneaten mash and frying the concoction into squidgy potato cakes. It totally grosses him out.

Gosh, I am sorry for not adding any recipes in awhile - I've been chocka developing other exciting new services for Mother!  And after all that hard work, I'm really in the mood for a bit of comfort food!Comfort food has it origins in childhood, and is different for everyone. Many of my friends consider Maggi Mee the ultimate in comfort food but for me, Bangers & Mash will always hold a special place in my heart. First of all, Mash is ony of my favourite food groups - I suspect a small part of me has never evolved past babyfood. But sausages evoke memories of my childhood growing up in London. My earliest memory (I can't place a time) is starving in a caff in London, watching sausages revolving around one of those sausage broilers, glistening in their casings with the ends a crispy golden brown. In those days, we didn't have the fancy gourmet sausages we're so lucky to have now - they were just plain old pork and gristle but oh, so delicious. The snap as your teeth breaks through the elastic casing and sink into the softly textured sage-spiced sausage meat. So very gratifying.