Today is drizzly and overcast, a day clearly in need of an injection of sunshine in the form of juicy, colourful tomatoes! We just did a big weekly shop and the store had in these beautiful Kentish orange tomatoes called “Orange Rapture”. You may have noticed that I am a total logophile, in other words, […]
Tag: Vegan
Chocolate berry layered chia mousse
I can’t help but giggle a tiny bit when faced with chia seeds. These days they are a serious super food sold in health food shops the world over, flaunting their numerous health benefits at us as pictures of slim chia-endorsing celebrities flash across the internet. I remember a time though, not so long ago, […]
Golden pea soup
I love the fall. Here in Shetland it’s called “hairst”, and it is most definitely upon us. I love the cozy feeling of being inside in front of the rayburn with a steaming cup of tea and a chunk of fresh bread while outside it’s gray and drizzly. I love the fuzzy knit wear and […]
Strawberry cashew cream milkshake
A couple of weeks ago as the first undeniable portents of autumn began to settle upon us, our local grocery store had in a stock of magnificent late summer strawberries. These days with the use of modern agricultural practices and the relative ease of shipping, strawberries are available even in the dead of winter when […]
Rye, rice and black sesame crackers
I’ve been hearing a lot lately about black sesame seeds. They seem to be cropping up in baking and even ice cream the nation over. I must admit I was completely ignorant of black sesame before sometime around a year ago when I heard about them on a TV show. I was instantly interested so […]
Mole black bean chili
I think that if I had to choose one nationality of food to eat exclusively for the rest of my life I’d probably go with Mexican food. I love it. I love the variety, the spicy flavours, the rice, the beans and veggies, the tortillas. And really, any type of cuisine that allows you to […]
How to make coconut flour and milk
Coconut has been in the healthy food spotlight a lot lately. New science which has been looking into the role that saturated fats play in our diets, and the discovery that the specific type of saturated fat found in coconut (Medium Chain Triglycerides) is actually beneficial to our health, has sent coconut shooting to the […]
Yam chocolate chip cookies
Do you remember that feeling when you were a kid at the end of the weekend when a week of school was looming? That slightly disquieting knowledge of an inevitability and inescapable fate that settles into the pit of your stomach. It always carried through until sometime mid-morning on the Monday when the normalcy of […]
Cauliflower cashew cream soup
If you’re someone who reads about vegetarian or vegan cooking you will no doubt have heard about cashew cream. This is one of those things that I keep coming across in my recipe meanderings and which has always piqued my interest, and yet has invariably fallen onto the “must look into that one of these […]