The August challenge, and my first, from Fresh From the Oven was to make a whole wheat walnut bread. Like the Daring Bakers, Fresh From the Oven has a new challenge, hosted by one of its members, every month. For July our host was Sarah from Simply Cooked who chose her recipe from The Neighborhood [...]
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London is hot hot hot and humid to boot. I am positively enjoying my supermarket trips at the moment as I linger and closely examine every object in the frozen section. And what better for these hot summer mornings than ice cream for breakfast? This is totally healthy, unprocessed, raw and vegan and tastes fantastic. [...]
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Posted in Breakfast, Food Blogging Events on Jun 27th, 2010
Many thanks to everyone that took part in the inaugural Breakfast Club, theme Asian! Sarah and I have had a great time reading all the fantastic entries and have lots of ideas to make our breakfasts more interesting. One of the things that I love about food blogging events is discovering lots of new blogs [...]
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I have not seen my friend Sue for seemingly eons, so I texted her yesterday and asked her over for brunch. She is having a work crisis but said she would love to pop by for an hour. As she is a self confessed chocoholic I designed these muffins just for her.
These follow my usual [...]
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Madhuram of Egg Less Cooking is challenging us to “Bake anything egg less using one or more of the whole grain forms of quinoa (whole quinoa, whole grain quinoa flour, quinoa flakes, quinoa cereal, etc).“ As I have a) not taken part in a foodblogging event for ages and b) bake almost everything without eggs [...]
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Thanks to the awesome Sheri at Green and Crunchy I have a new favourite breakfast, it is quick to throw together and utterly delicious.
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I wanted the title of this post to be just Perfect Porridge, but porridge is one of those dishes that elicits a huge variety of opinions as to what is right; porridge afficinados will debate the type of oats, cooking pot, cooking liquid and stirring implement. Every year the Golden Spurtle runs a porridge cookoff [...]
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Posted in Baking, Breakfast, Vegan on Dec 19th, 2009
We have a tradition of having muffins for breakfast on weekend mornings. Based on my basic muffin recipe these are easy to whip up first thing in the morning. Using a mixture of spelt and wheat flour makes the muffins more cake like (if you do not have spelt flour use all plain flour), the [...]
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Posted in Baking, Breakfast, Vegan on Nov 1st, 2009
We have a tradition of having muffins for breakfast at weekends which has been neglected for some months and I was missing my muffins; so I resolved to make some this morning. It is now November and a murky, wet, grey morning so a warming, spiced muffin was required and there was a lonely sweet [...]
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