Oh, yes, I agree. That recipe up there for sausage casserole looks a lot better than the slop that Body Optimise recipe produced. And I reckon, provided I'm sensible with the ghee (ie, just wave the tin over the top) that my tarka dhal recipe is every bit as healthy and low-fat as anything of theirs.
I've been doing a lot of research into what I need to do about my diet (it's essentially about post-stroke recovery and relapse prevention), so I'm going for lots of pulses, reducing saturated fats, lots of soluble fibre (so fruit, leaves, vegetables) and as little refined carbohydrates as poss. It's not a calorie-reducing diet as such, which gives me rather more scope.
But I, like loads on here, tend to start with a recipe and some first-principles stuff and then work from there: I know how to make a roux, and a tomato sauce basis, and many recipes are built on those principles. So I can see a recipe and say "hmm, butternut squash and custard, interesting idea" then use the idea along with the first principles stuff to produce something that works. It's often the recipes that try in some way to deviate from the core principles that are the ones that go wrong, it seems to me...
