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- Vegan Easter page updated for 2010 - http://www.veganfamily.co.uk/easter.html 1 week ago
- it's snowing heavily again... what a white winter this has been!! 2 weeks ago
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- rain, rain, rain, now snow all gone... there's ballet, swans, fast food nation and pasties on the blog :) http://www.blog.veganfamily.co.uk 1 month ago
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Category Archives: food
reflections and windows
The bridge did get finished:
Now this may appear to be a blurry photo gone wrong – well, it is - but it is also a picture of trees reflected in chocolate so worthy of inclusion
It is a montezuma’s very dark bar…
Also posted in beach, only pics, vegan products, woods
Tagged cooking, soup, sweet, trees, walk
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walnut cake and sheep
Vegan Easter has been updated
Walnut cake with a tablespoon of Nocaf added to the mix. It is not coffeeish as had intended but is very nice:
1st of March tomorrow, so will it get more springlike?
toast, Valentine cookies and a cheesecake
We do still favour green smoothies for breakfast but on a cold winter’s day sometimes only decadently topped toast will do
Valentine cookies: made this basic dough and did half plain (some topped with coconut), a quarter of it with a little finely chopped fresh ginger and the other quarter with unwaxed lemon rind, beautiful flavours!
Tried [...]
cheap
a frugal recipe again, basic pasties :)
and bargains to be had – the book people are offering 10% off all orders until midnight tomorrow (Wed. 3rd Feb) – just enter WIN10 at checkout for offer.
Scottish macaroons
If you’re looking for a Scottish dish to make for Burns night other than haggis*, these are very good – nothing like the English item of the same name and containing the somewhat surprising ingredient of potato (undetectable, is lovely fondant) – the recipe is still up on Cat’s old blog with pics of them properly covered in coconut, of [...]
blog, Illich and broth
Have finally got the blog how I want it – a terrible tale of databases, installations of wordpress and corrupted (by me) css files ensued but I’ve now uploaded the archives (see drop down on sidebar) and cleaned up dead links too
Reading a book lent by my mum. She found it while scouring her shelves during the [...]
Also posted in blogroll, books, home educational bits, links, reviews
Tagged big bad, education, reading, soup
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a casserole and a cookbook
We will have been married 20 years this year… which causes me to reflect how far weve come, how much the world has changed in that time and to note the two items above. They were given to us as a wedding present by friends who I used to babysit for and here they are still [...]
Also posted in books, friends, garden, odd, reviews, vegan products
Tagged cooking, friendship, herbs, memories, reading, time, vegan, vegetarian
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bloggage, food and snow
First off the Home Baked blog is having a monthly baking challenge – read about it here and see January’s theme here. I’m the guest judge this month – v exciting
Then we have a new blog on the sidebar – Vegan Kid - lots of gorgeous looking food there too…
Then, thanks to the Skint [...]
Happy 2010!!!
Let it be a good one for all of us! Starting the year as we mean to go on… with yet more soup
recipe
Tagged cooking, soup, vegan
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tomato and rice soup
recipe here on frugal - snow and ice continuing, rarely known it so cold!
Tagged cooking, snow, soup, vegan
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amazing language, wonderful poems
a beautiful ballet book.


