Chocolate Courgette Cake (with fabulous dairy free chocolate frosting)

I made this on a whim the other week, and then we packed up and went camping for a couple of weeks and I thought I wouldn’t get to blog it… But then I saw yet another facebook plea for some mid August courgette inspiration and I thought I should share the recipe. I found this recipe on…

Magic Custard Cake

Happy Easter! I am by no means religious, but Easter is one of my favourite times of the year.  Whatever form your spring festival takes, there is growth and new life happening all around.  And what better symbol of all this fertility than the egg.  The garden is in a state of disarray, jobs just started…

Figgy Flapjack

This recipe evolved out of a need to have a nut free snack bar for my daughters’ lunch boxes.  Both schools they attend have a nut free policy to protect those children with allergies, which for us can be quite limiting.  Being vegetarian and dairy free we often rely on nut products for protein, good…

Irresistible Chickpeas

Snacking chickpeas… All the goodness of these legumes, in a tasty, salty, spicy, savoury snack… as addictive as popcorn or potato crisps, with tonnes of protein and any flavouring you can think of.   These are super duper easy but they do take a wee bit of time in the oven.  Once ready, they will…

Raw Banana ‘Cheese’ Cake

I get the raw thing. I feel great when I eat raw food.  I encourage my kids to eat as many raw snacks as possible, raw fruit and veg, nuts and seeds, coleslaw and salads, they are all as unrefined and unprocessed as possible and bursting with fresh nutrition.  But I like cooking.  I enjoy…

Thai Spiced Squash Soup

  This gorgeous beast arrived on my doorstep last week.  It’s a beautiful crown prince squash and it’s nearly 2.5kg!  The crown prince squash, if you can find them, are just as sweet and much more dense than the well known butternut squash.  They are often larger and no more expensive, so you get more…

Seasonal Spiced Pilaf

This dish was born out of needing to find a new way to use the sprouts in my vegbox.  The cauliflower goes brilliantly with the spices too and this is an interesting variation on the usual new year curries.  This is a quick meal which relies on a well stocked kitchen cupboard and a few fresh veg.  I gathered…

Beautiful Banana Bread

I discovered four of these lurking in my fruit bowl today.  I used one in a quick banana and oat-milkshake for the children and then there were three.  These three to be precise.  So I thought it was about time for banana bread!  It’s often time for banana bread in our house, not only because…

Miracle Cough Syrup

It’s that time of year again, extra jumpers and hot water bottle, vests and wooly tights.  The colder weather often comes with its fair share of coughs and colds. My daughters know that it is the good food on their plates that will keep them strong and help them stave off any nasty bugs they…

Smashing Pumpkins

Since deciding to blog about my adventures with food, I’ve joined a whole host of food and recipe groups, mainly veggie, vegan and wholefoody, on Facebook.  Over the recent months, not a day goes by without another ‘pumpkin spice’ recipe popping up on my newsfeed.  Pumpkin spice tart, pumpkin spice loaf, pumpkin spice latte, pumpkin…

Pop Coco-Corn

Popcorn! Our favourite daytime snack.   Super simple to make, dead cheap, and dare I say, pretty healthy too. This stuff has been keeping the hunger pangs at bay during the half term hols. I pop our corn kernels in a large pan with coconut oil.  The oil remains stable at high temperatures and does…

Easy Vegan ‘Korma’.

Korma is in inverted commas because this was my invention, based on a lot of previous recipes, but simplified, and made animal free (I think originally out of panic when I realised I didn’t have certain ingredients in stock half way through cooking, but it’s much better that way)  I have no real idea what…