Tasty Stuff Without the Fuss and a Little Bit of Making
Posted in Breakfast, Fruit, Quick & Easy, Towards 5 a Day, Uncategorized, Vegan on Jan 31st, 2010
Thanks to the awesome Sheri at Green and Crunchy I have a new favourite breakfast, it is quick to throw together and utterly delicious.
Posted in Breakfast, Low GI / South Beach, Quick & Easy, Vegan on Jan 24th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Baking, Quick & Easy on Nov 9th, 2009
I am have always been one to jump late onto any bandwagon and this is no exception. 3 years ago a recipe for the no knead bread (adapted from Jim Lahey, Sullivan Street Bakery) appeared and it took the food blog world by storm with seemingly everyone making it, blogging about it and even stealing [...]
Posted in Quick & Easy, Salad, Towards 5 a Day, Uncategorized on Oct 29th, 2009
I have a slight love / hate relationship with autumn, it is sad to see the end of summer, but I love the change of the season, the change in the air and the turning of the leaves, but the weather is unprerdictable and I never know what to wear and am usually too hot, [...]
Posted in Quick & Easy, Salad, Towards 5 a Day, Uncategorized, Vegan on Aug 26th, 2009
I have been feeling very uninspired and unexcited about food recently but I was delighted to be given some homegrown tomatos, which were perfectly ripe and bursting with flavour. I quickly made this three tomato salad with a tomato dressing for my lunch, which I thoroughly enjoyed and which I think may have reawakened my interest in [...]
Posted in Quick & Easy, Uncategorized, Vegan on Jul 3rd, 2009
New potatoes are lovely and best enjoyed plain with butter, pepper and salt – simple is best and I think that doing anything else with them is a waste. However once they are past their first flush of youth there are many ways of cooking them. Here I boiled and then roasted the potatoes with [...]
Posted in Daring Cooks, Food Blogging Events, Low GI / South Beach, Quick & Easy, Vegan on Jun 4th, 2009
The Daring Bakers have expanded to encompass Daring Cooking too! For the inaugural challenge the founders of the Daring Bakers; Lis and Yvonne, chose Ricotta Gnocci from Judy Rogers’s the Zuni Cafe Cookbook.
Usually gnocchi is made from potato so a ricotta based gnocchi provided the classic Daring twist and challenge.
I choose to go vegan for [...]
Posted in Baking, Quick & Easy, Vegan on May 22nd, 2009
For some time I have wanted to create a non ginger, syrup based alternative to my Easy Peasy Ginger Cake, that was quick reliable and fool proof. And baked entirely from the store cupboard, which meant no eggs & no milk. I do have quite a good handle on eggless cakes, most of the time [...]
Posted in Baking, Fruit, Puddings, Quick & Easy, Vegan on May 19th, 2009
Last autumn I discovered that it was possible to make an “instant” steamed pudding in the microwave which cooked in a matter of minutes. It is a perfect short cut; especially if your kitchen does not have an extractor fan to get rid of the clouds of steam, and 3 or 4 minutes of microwave [...]
Posted in Beans & Lentils, Lower GI / South Beach, Quick & Easy, Towards 5 a Day, Uncategorized, Vegan on May 9th, 2009
I spent all day at the Decanter New World Fine Wine Fair and I was desperate for something simple and speedy to soak up the alcohol when I got home, I had half a butternut squash in the fridge and beans, peas, corn and tortillas in the freezer. From start to plate these took about [...]