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I mentioned last week my energy levels had slumped, so I googled to see which foods were good for energy. Among those mentioned were: Sweet potatoes Sweet potatoes contain Vitamin D and, as we all know, at this time of year when summer’s coming to an end and there’s aContinue Reading

Slow cooked vegetarian mushroom risotto

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I can’t make risotto. I know how to make it, I’m just missing some kind of key risotto-making gene which means whenever I try to make risotto, no matter how much time I take slowly pouring in the stock and patiently stirring for three weeks (or however long it is;Continue Reading

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It occurred to me recently that I’ve been making a lot of one-pot meals, for example curries and pasta. Don’t get me wrong, I love curries and pasta but a) they don’t photograph well (at least not when I take a photo of them, anyway) so I end up notContinue Reading

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I usually haven’t recovered from the weekend enough to be bothered to cook from scratch on a Monday, but because I had a rare booze-free, exercise-packed, fresh-air filled weekend, my energy levels were up and so I decided I wanted to cook something healthy. After deciding I wanted tonight’s dinnerContinue Reading

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Unfortunately, this didn’t go down too well with The Meat Eater. I loved it – I especially loved the pastry because – round of applause, please – I made it all by myself. I don’t think I’ve ever made pastry before; I might have made some at school I suppose,Continue Reading

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I love these kinds of meals. The kind where you use up what you’ve got in the fridge. So simple, so cheap but, most importantly, so delicious. Leek, mushroom and goat’s cheese tart (serves 4) ½ block puff pastry, rolled into a rectangle ½ a large leek, sliced 3 mushrooms, sliced 65gContinue Reading

Root Vegetable Pie

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The perfect pie for winter – robust and warming seasonal veg, topped with a puff pastry lid. This recipe is loosely based on one in Veggienomics by Nicola Graimes but I didn’t have any celeriac or carrots (I think *someone* forgot to buy carrots, because I’m sure I put them on theContinue Reading

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So many US recipes specify tempeh, but it’s not easy to find over here. However, the other week when I was buying some vital wheat gluten, I saw some jars of it, so thought I’d get some while I was there. It looked a strange substance, floating in a jarContinue Reading

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The Quorn Kitchen cookbook said the preparation time would be 10 minutes, with the cooking time being 50 minutes. I’ve always thought the preparation time meant the time spent getting the ingredients together, chopping vegetables and getting it ready before it goes in the oven. Oh no, not in thisContinue Reading