Category Archives: food

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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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always one somewhere Seasonal bits: Frugal Christmas and Vegan Yule have been updated and weeded free of dead links and outdated information.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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Happy Samhain or Halloween

By Lucy | Published October 31, 2011

Looking for a pumpkin soup recipe today? Try the modern housewife blog or our own soup page Squirreling underway: and then there’s been some baking for the freezer: Come on then winter, what you waiting for?!!! Related posts:autumn leavesevening picniccheese

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lovely breakfast

By Lucy | Published October 29, 2011

A toasted onion and poppy seed bagel topped with hummus, chervil, rocket and tomato; a perfect mix of freshness and solidity for a cold morning A month or so ago I pulled out all the shot rocket and chervil from one of the raised beds, leaving behind only the cut and come again lettuces from [...]

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beautiful day

By Lucy | Published October 16, 2011

 lentil soup recipe added to frugal and I found this exciting, £1.49 from Amazon: and the phenomenal apple abundance continues unabated… Related posts:raindropsAberdeen International Youth Festivalrandom pictures

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summer revisted

By Lucy | Published September 30, 2011

Wow the weather, tis sublime This was a frugal tweet but is worth rehashing here – stuff does grow over winter albeit slowly: Planted over wintering onions in among the kale yesterday. Winter lettuce today. Vegan Mofo goes on through October – The Modern Housewife Series Vol 1 will be joining in Weather dictates evening [...]

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Little cakes and much jumping

By Lucy | Published September 27, 2011

little lemon cakes Related posts:stellarium and poppiescreations of a cakely naturekitten war

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21 years

By Lucy | Published September 14, 2011

Wedding anniversary today picking plums and playing with favourite iPod app: If only I hadn’t worn my squirrel socks to do it!! Related posts:stellarium and poppiesmellowamid the snow

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summer

By Lucy | Published August 8, 2011

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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