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We all have those days on our meal plan where we need something tasty that doesn’t take all night to cook and with a little help from my friend, the rice shaped pasta, Orzo, I created this easy and tasty one pot meal. Quick and easy two-pot vegan orzo. The only reason it is two-pot…
If you grew up in the UK, you are more than likely to have had cheese and Branston Pickle sandwiches at some time or another. It was while I was eating a cheese and bean toastie (another throwback) that I came up with the idea of a cheese and pickle quiche using the one and only…
You may have noticed that I love my pressure cooker! It has saved me so much money and time since buying it, and I have even considered doing a tally this year of how much I have saved by not buying tins of ready cooked beans. Oh could go on and on about how much…
I have spent years trying to learn how to cook perfect rice and have had successes along the way which become failures when you a) get a new cooker b) change your pans c) the wind changes direction! (OK, so not really the last one! Bit if you’ve been trying to get it right for…
In an attempt to copy Pret a Manger’s new soup menu, I created a Curried Cauliflower and Sweet Potato soup recipe. I had roasted cauliflower soup when I visited Dublin’s Food Cooperative earlier this year and absolutely fell in love with it. Not only was it a superb soup, it came with fresh bread piled…
I love this time of year with all the gorgeous Autumnal colours and my Butternut Squash, Turmeric and Coconut soup doesn’t disappoint. Not only is it totally autumnal in colour, it is seasonal and packed with goodness from the veg and the medicinal Turmeric. As you’ll see, even my napkins have gone all rusty coloured…
There are some days when there are some veg left in the basket despite my best efforts, so having something like this vegan chunky lentil and vegetable stoup recipe is the perfect way to concoct them into something delicious and filling. You might very well be wondering what ‘stoup’ is and I wouldn’t blame you…
I love making banana bread, in fact I love making and eating this vegan banana bread! Bananas seem to be one of those unloved fruits that can end up going black at the bottom of the fruit bowl and everyone refusing to eat them because they’re all squshy and weird. I, on the other hand, really enjoy a…
There’s nothing like a delicious bowl of pasta to settle you down for the evening, especially when it is a bowl of creamy chilli, tomato and aubergine pasta! When we were staying with my parents recently and I was cooking the meals I had a sudden realisation about how many dishes we have with chilli…
I have been looking through my cookery books lately (on a mission to declutter and make life simpler) and I have noticed that so many recipes have ham in them. It seems like some of Jamie Oliver’s books, there is ham in absolutely every recipe, even the puddings! (OK, I’m joking about that one! LOL!)…
