Tasty Stuff Without the Fuss and a Little Bit of Making
Posted in Food Blogging Events, Pasta, Quick & Easy, Starters & Light Bites, Vegan, World Food on Jun 13th, 2010
Sometimes the most simple dishes can be the most delicious. This simple pasta contains only 4 ingredients which come together to make a delicious whole. It is also fantastic cold, but I think that I would use broccoli in place of the pak choy. ( Whilst writing this up I discovered that pak choy and [...]
Posted in Dips & Dressings, Food Co-op, Towards 5 a Day, Vegan on May 24th, 2010
This simple healthy dip is packed with flavour and is lighter on the calories as I used water rather than oil to thin it; roasting the carrots and onion concentrates the flavour and makes a sweet tasting delicious dip which will count towards your 5 a day, the addition of sesame oil adds a nutty [...]
Posted in Food Co-op, Grains & Rice, Low GI / South Beach, Towards 5 a Day, Vegan on May 15th, 2010
This recipe was a happy accident, I had been planning to make a risotto with my food co-op leek and some spring greens, but I only had half the amount of risotto rice I needed. I often cook a mix of rice with quinoa and buckwheat to serve in place of plain rice, so I [...]
Posted in Food Co-op, Freezable, Soups, Towards 5 a Day, Uncategorized, Vegan on May 11th, 2010
This is my second recipe written for the Food Co-ops and Buying Groups project run by Sustain – also part of the Making Local Food Work programme funded by the Big Lottery. I made this a couple of weeks ago with onions, leeks and potatos from my first “bag” from the co-op. Again I [...]
Posted in Beans & Lentils, Food Blogging Events, Quick & Easy, Uncategorized, Vegan on May 8th, 2010
The host for next friday’s Presto Pasta Night #163 is Chaya The Comfy Cook. I was up half of last Thursday night watching the UK election results. Consequently on Friday I was shattered, but greatly enjoying watching the sleep starved, over caffeinated presenters battle on – at one point one told the nation that the [...]
Posted in Baking, Food Blogging Events, Vegan on May 7th, 2010
I have only recently discovered Blogger Secret Ingredient and have not managed to take part in the last 2 challenges. However I am well prepared for this week which is cashews and is hosted by Aubree Cherie from Living Free. For those not familiar with BSI it was set up by Biz at Biggest Diabetic [...]
Posted in Beans & Lentils, Food Co-op, Low GI / South Beach, Vegan on May 7th, 2010
I continue to be delighted with the vegetables from my local food co-op; not only are they incredibly cheap, but I am enjoying the challenge of coming up with ideas to use up vegetables I would never normally buy. I think I have only ever bought turnips twice in the last 10 years and [...]
Posted in Baking, Breakfast, Chocolate, Puddings, Quick & Easy, Uncategorized, Vegan on Apr 26th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Food Blogging Events, Pasta, Quick & Easy, Towards 5 a Day, Uncategorized, Vegan on Apr 20th, 2010
Ever since Kathryn wrote about her Greens with Tahini I have been craving some greens (as well as being jealous of the greens she has been getting in her veggie box).
On Sunday a friend and I went to Osterley Park and had a picnic, long walk and enjoyed the sun. It really was surprisingly warm [...]
Posted in Baking, Breakfast, Food Blogging Events, Fruit, Uncategorized, Vegan on Apr 18th, 2010
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 [...]