Vegan, wholefood, delicious: easy recipes for healthy comfort food.
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In the midst of freelancing, festive reading, and writing many, many lists, I feel like I’m well overdue a mince pie. At this point, some brandy with fruit might even suffice.
But it’s so very nearly the big day, and that means it’s time to put the finishing touches to the Christmas menu (where’s that brandy?).
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Now that it’s getting dark at 4.30pm, how about a big tray of juicy pasta with all sorts of warming delights? This Pasta with Roasted Peppers & Pumpkin has so many wonderful flavours: smoky peppers, paprika and chillies roasted fresh tomatoes sweet and seasonal pumpkin fragrant sage, cinnamon and garlic Oh – and a creamy,…
Autumn has arrived with a riffling of brown, orange and navy cardigans heaped and hanging on the back of the front door. And with the end of our garden tomatoes, and the yellowing bean vines drooping from the neighbour’s birch, change is afoot. PinterestFacebookTwitteremailPrintYummlyRedditGoogle+
The sun has just dipped down behind our rooftop, and there is a golden patch of light hitting the back of my leg. I can’t work out where it’s coming from and look around me as I listen to Bryan as he tells me how he’s doing. It’s a phone call I’ve been waiting for;…
Hello, hello! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Thanks for sticking around, if you’re still there… I have a deliciously warming, simple, one-pot recipe for barley stew coming up, but before that, it’s cards-on-the-table time. PinterestFacebookTwitteremailPrintYummlyRedditGoogle+
The sky is gun-metal grey, our living tree – Angus – is twinkling multi-colour in the living room, and I have an ever-growing pile of secrets under the bed. Fa la la la la – Christmas is here! The absolute best part of this time of year for me is all of the planning, preparing…
I don’t know about you, but I think I’ve reached that point in the year when it’s time to wind down. I’m tired. It’s cold. And it’s really dark. Not that I’m complaining. I’m tired because I’m busy taking some big steps in my copywriting business, and I’ve just completed NaNoWriMo for the first time. I…
It’s certainly getting festive, isn’t it? With Thanksgiving weekend already in full swing in the States – happy holidays to my American readers! – and Christmas preparations underway all over the UK, my mind has firmly set its path on celebration recipes. So this Vegan Blue Cheese Dip is a little step in the direction of party…
Chilli Cheese Polenta Muffins How do you feel about making some real comfort food? These Chilli Cheese Polenta Muffins are little morsels of savoury deliciousness with a big punch of yum. They’re a coming together of flavours and influences: part-Mexican, part-American. I guess these might come under the banner of ‘corn bread’? Who knows. What I am…
