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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…
On the odd occasion (today being one of them) I come to the end of the week with some left over vegetables that I need to use before placing the next shopping order. Of course, I could add them into the next week of planning, but sometimes it is nice to start a fresh and have…
Pasta, Courgette and Mozzarella is a delicious and easy mid week meal from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, featured in Vegetarian Living Magazine April 2013 (with my little tweaks) Pasta, Courgette and Mozzarella (with added olives and sun dried tomatoes) Ingredients: 500g courgettes 3 tbsp olive oil 350g Penne pasta (I wanted to have enough for left overs the…
There is something comforting about a big bowl of chunky veggie spaghetti bolognese that it needs to come into my life regularly. I don’t know whether it has something to do with it being one of my first ‘specialties’, or that it is so simple to make that makes it that way. Whatever it is,…
