Category Archives: books

red dragon pie

This is a dish we’ve had a lot over the years but never written up. Original credit goes to Sarah Brown’s Vegetarian Kitchen (BBC cookery series). It’s a wonderfully filling and wholesome meal. Topped with mashed potatoes, the base is made of aduki beans (goodness direct link there, which links back to our aduki bean [...]

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it’s not too late

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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summer

creamovita and chocolate buttons - recipe for sponge on this page  colours from the garden – a smoothie to be (added avo, banana, and OJ) check out VegaNation, a new vegan online shop!  Books of the moment: Ecstatic Beings - Shazzie and Kate Magic The Brightest Star in the Sky - Marian Keyes Balletboyz - Michael Nunn and Billy Trevitt Waldon [...]

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snowed in

Digging my way into the woodshed through a 4 foot pile of snow, thoughts of Cold Comfort Farm mingle with a need to watch The Shining Related posts:reading, paintingleaping fences in the woodswinter

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a green book giveaway

We have a beautiful paperback copy of Lynne Rickard’s new book , I Do Not Eat the Colour Green to give away. A lovely title which encourages healthy eating for kids. See our review of it up here To enter just comment on this post and tell us what your favourite green thing is. Interpret the word [...]

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Vegetarian Christmas

An older book, now out of print, but I don’t think anything has come along to best it as a veggie festive title (do comment if you know otherwise!). I got the hardback out of the library something like 18/19 years ago and it impacted me. The gorgeousness of Christmas food, the hints on preparing [...]

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Millennium

I love it when I have a book that I’m enjoying so much I resent all other activities that take me away from it .  Things like housework, cooking, sleeping… ugh… website work, long walks and lovely trips out with friends are still good I did/do/will manipulate any conversation to a discussion about the books in [...]

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Autumn

The equinox occurs at 4.03am tomorrow morning. A time of balance and harvest. Here we have broccoli, kale, leeks, carrots, apples and even finally courgettes in great abundance. The peas and beans are still producing though more slowly and it’s time for brambles in the smoothies. I love how the sunflower heads get bigger and [...]

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sheep, a candle, a cake and the sky

another soul searching Transformation Game was played… it really does embody that Findhorn-esque quality of sharing and discovering deep things openly with others, love it. Wonderful companion to the morning pages of The Artist’s Way. Related posts:Summer Solsticefrogsthe Solstice sun rises

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this morning

setting the above as my desktop (click for bigger image – creative commons so anyone can download) doing: 5 Tibetans listening: Gregorian Chant (CD bought on our visit to Pluscarden Abbey a couple of years ago) reading: The Abundance Book and The Wine of Angels off to pick almost the last of the blackcurrants for a smoothie [...]

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