Category Archives: vegan products

reflections and windows

By Lucy | Published March 9, 2010

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…

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polytunnels and taps

By Lucy | Published March 6, 2010

Weve had a few spring-like days now, causing me to dig over some ground for the little polytunnel and clean and set up the coldframe to let the ground warm up for salad seeds. Browsing Suttons trying to decide what to plant this year – will have more room with extra raised beds… this really [...]

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walnut cake and sheep

By Lucy | Published February 28, 2010

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?

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toast, Valentine cookies and a cheesecake

By Lucy | Published February 14, 2010

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 [...]

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Scottish macaroons

By Lucy | Published January 24, 2010

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 [...]

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a casserole and a cookbook

By Lucy | Published January 12, 2010

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 [...]

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bloggage, food and snow

By Lucy | Published January 6, 2010

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 [...]

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snow and trees

By Lucy | Published December 23, 2009

A stroll round the garden yesterday:

Wonderful things that help us through the Scottish winter: hot water bottles filled from the big kettle on the wood stove each night, so cosy for the feet and full spectrum light bulbs, good for the mood in the dark times

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white chocolate buttons

By Lucy | Published December 4, 2009

ooh ooh ooh Humdinger are now doing these, available from health food shops and supermarkets and Goodness Direct here They are really delicious on cakes along with their darker counterparts….

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ice and woodland Advent

By Lucy | Published December 2, 2009

Been very cold here!
Here’s a cool and free advent calendar for kids from The Woodland Trust with different outdoor activities for each day
We watched RV: Runaway Vacation with Robin Williams – a great film with a home ed family in it, all really enjoyed it.
and I just have to…

Fruit & Nut Dark Chocolate [...]

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