Author name: Chris Ridder

Chicken Balti: A Great Curry

It is believed that the chicken balti as we know it in the UK has it’s origins in Birmingham where it enjoyed rapid growth in popularity during the 1980s. The word “balti” is actually the name of the cooking pot and serving dish rather than an actual recipe, but anyway, let’s not get carried away with the technicalities. Below is one of my favourite chicken breast recipes – a fantastic chicken balti curry.

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Chicken Breast Casserole Recipe

I love chicken breast recipes, not because I particularly like chicken breast meat, but because it’s the foundation for so many fantastic recipes that really it’s only limited by your imagination. Here for example, take some chicken breast meat, potatoes, butternut squash and vegetables, mix it all up, put it in a casserole dish and within an hour you have yourself a fantastic, healthy meal for all the family!

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Eating Soup Can Help You Lose Weight

Most people who have tried to diet will tell you that losing weight is a tough business. The main reason people find it so hard to resist that extra slice of pizza of chocolate cake is because hundreds of thousands of years ago our brains were evolving in a time when food was scarce – our brains evolved to tell us that we needed to eat high calorie food as often as we could. However, the problem now is that we obviously do not live in a world where high calorie food is scarce. In fact, we live in a world where high calorie food is hugely abundant and easily available, and our brains have evolved to tell us to eat as much as possible (because it doesn’t know that the next meal is just around the corner!)

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