I’ve got a confession to make. None of the soup I’ve had on the two days I’ve had soup for lunch for Vegan Monday over the last four weeks has been vegan. This means I have only successfully completed one out of four Vegan Mondays (and that was only becauseContinue Reading
Just look at the colour of this soup – a gorgeous aubergine colour. It pleases my inner goth, that’s for sure. It doesn’t actually have any aubergine in it though – it’s primary ingredient is red cabbage, along with a tin of cannellini beans. Seasonal, quick, easy and gothic –Continue Reading
My life over the last few weeks, while not exactly jet set, has certainly been a bit train set with me up and down the country from Kent to Salisbury and London and Dorking and Ipswich and so I haven’t been in the kitchen much making healthy meals. Whether I’veContinue Reading
I’ve called this Quorn Singapore noodles, but it was a mix of Quorn mince and Sainsbury’s meatfree mince I had in the freezer I needed to use up. Not that it mattered. This was delicious, quick and easy. Quorn Singapore noodles (serves 4) Taken from The Quorn Kitchen 350g QuornContinue Reading
I had a few dilemmas with this. Were black-eyed beans the same as black-eyed peas, as that’s all I could find in the supermarket? After a bit of a Google, I decided they were. Then, the recipe called for 350g of dried peas/beans. Fine, I weighed out 350g of beansContinue Reading
There’s something not quite right about preparing dinner at 11am but there’s a reason slow cookers are called slow. This meant I was chopping onions and mushrooms in the morning before going to university, so dinner would be sort of ready when I got back. All I had to doContinue Reading
I always think stuffing vegetables sounds like it’s going to be fiddly and time-consuming. It’s not though, at least not the way I do it which mostly involves bunging the stuffing on top of whatever it is I’m stuffing. Like this aubergine stuffed with mushrooms, for example. Dead easy. MushroomContinue Reading
I tried to grow garlic once by bunging a bulb in a pot and leaving it to see what happened. Funnily enough, nothing happened except it went a bit manky. So when I heard about The Great British Garlic Challenge, I thought I’d have a go at growing garlicContinue Reading
I’ve been eating a lot of food out of packets recently, so tonight I decided to have something healthy. There’s a farm shop local to me that sells seasonal vegetables, so I scooted down there to see what they had and made a super-healthy dish that probably contained at leastContinue Reading
Oh blimey, it’s courgette season again. This means weeks of courgette soup and stuffed courgettes. Just as well I like courgettes then, eh? I found this recipe in Rose Elliot’s New Complete Vegetarian and what I liked most about it is that I already had all of the ingredients (orContinue Reading