Author Archives: Lucy

it’s not too late

By Lucy | Published December 19, 2011

to make a Christmas cake or plan your vegan Christmas dinner to buy a vegan cookbook or kids book  – today, Monday 19th is the last day for free shipping with Amazon but there are various other delivery choices all week. to get a t-shirt  from us, the deadline is 20th Dec with express shipping order from hotel chocolat by [...]

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moon during eclipse

By Lucy | Published December 10, 2011

Related posts:snowScottish macaroonsfox in the snow

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winter

By Lucy | Published December 6, 2011

Related posts:verandasomething fell from the sky againEaster Aquhorthies

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slightly festive thoughts

By Lucy | Published December 4, 2011

see that orange glow at the side? Sitting room fire reflected in window Have just added a ‘pick of the vegan Christmas chocolate’ bit to the chocolate room. Here it is: Hotel Chocolat’s Gianduja Bombe, the Moo Free choc Santa and Rudolph The Reindeer from hotel chocolat again… Also added this Pyramid Rosemary Tree to [...]

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heron in the trees

By Lucy | Published November 27, 2011

Related posts:ice and mistband of brothersherbidacious!

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far over the misty mountains cold…

By Lucy | Published November 15, 2011

but no dungeons deep or caverns old… Hill in question: Bennachie and yes, a moo free chocolate Santa made it up there… very impressive on his fat little legs *patronises chocolate fondly* Related posts:garden doingssilver stick and Yule puddingsushi, muffins, court and angels

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toad in the hole

By Lucy | Published November 13, 2011

Turned out lovely, soft and light and delicious. Here’s what I did: Batter made thus: mix 5 tablespoons of self raising flour with 3 tablespoons of gram (chick pea) flour, a pinch of salt and a pinch of bicarb. Beat in enough soya milk to make a creamy pouring batter. This quantity was to cover [...]

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lots of pictures of a digger

By Lucy | Published November 12, 2011

I’m not actually trying to appeal to an entirely new demographic (three year old boys) but I like the contrasts here; well I like the colors, the conflicting realities of the situation are not quite so pleasing. Wind turbines are great but lovely trees being destroyed to make way for them seems an ironic destruction. [...]

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it approaches… chocolate calendar time…

By Lucy | Published November 10, 2011

Yes, the time of year when it’s acceptable to eat a chocolate each day first thing in the morning… I hope those little images align properly in everyone’s browsers, else they won’t make sense The Modern Housewife Series Vol 1 is doing a countdown to Vegan Christmas starting on Nov 18th… but back to those [...]

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kissing is still in fashion

By Lucy | Published November 5, 2011

No matter how cold it gets there’s always one somewhere Seasonal bits: Frugal Christmas and Vegan Yule have been updated and weeded free of dead links and outdated information. Lebkuchen from Lidl now contain butter Drawing attention to Rose Elliot’s Vegetarian Christmas just now (see last years blog review of it) as it is currently [...]

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