Tasty Stuff Without the Fuss and a Little Bit of Making
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 13th, 2009
This is one of my favourite cake recipes, made entirely from non-perishable store cupboard ingredients. The recipe is very forgiving so you can vary quantities and really is a genuine bung it all in the food processor and whizz then bake recipe.
Although delicious fresh from the oven the cake keeps well and actually improves [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 19th, 2009
I have childhood memories of my mother making a dried fruit compote, which I used to take great childish delight in calling Fruit Compost. Despite my childhood name for it, it is not at all compost like and is delicious for a pudding served with cream or Greek yoghurt or for breakfast with my “perfect” [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 19th, 2009
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 Uncategorized on Jan 7th, 2009
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 27th, 2008
One of my food resolutions for 2009 will be to eat more raw food, I have been reading around raw foods and the reported health benefits seem almost too good to be true; whilst I am not intending to eat solely raw incorporating more raw foods into my diet surely cannot be a bad [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 27th, 2008
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 6th, 2008
Winter is upon us; it seemed as it rained all day yesterday and I am ashamed to admit that I did not actually leave the flat as it was so grey and damp. Instant comfort food was necessary to combat the bad weather blues. I had recently been reading about making microwave cakes [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 6th, 2008
October is Vegan Month of Food. Organised by Isa Moskowitz & Terry Romero creators of the Post Punk Kitchen and authors of three awesome vegan cookbooks – Vegonomicon, Vegan with a Vengeance and Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. The aim of Vegan MOFO is to blog as much as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 3rd, 2008
Mrs W wrote about fried oatmeal the other day, which she described as a breakfast for people that do not like porridge; I was intrigued and puzzled. I do like porridge – sometime – and I like to have a good variety of breakfasts, which are low GI and filling and give me at [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 27th, 2008
Blogsphere is full of posts about smoothies at the moment, I have also recently starting having a smoothie most mornings for my breakfast which I am really enjoying. My favourite smoothies currently all have prunes in them, which thicken, and add flavour as well as colour.
I have wanted to make a prune breakfast muffin for [...]