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moo free Easter egg

Lucy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:44:06 +0000

nestled in it's box

Open the box and it hits you: that exciting, sugary Easter Egg scent from childhood. I don’t know why chocolate should smell different when formed into an egg shape, but it does. Dark chocolate eggs are of course gorgeous, but altogether more grown up. This is the one for children and those who don’t like high cocoa content chocolate. The moo free egg is sweet and mild and could easily be mistaken for a milk chocolate product.

in the frost and sunshine

It’s a good 100g size and the bunny, butterfly and flower packaging is a nice change from dark eggs which are usually aimed at very mature people…

of course, once opened, it didn't last long in this house

Available from Goodness Direct and larger Waitrose stores. Moo Free Chocolates have full details of all stockists on their website

bread and jam

the sacking of deer abbey

a walk in the woods and ice cream

ice, a pie and Burn’s Night

Lucy — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:06:40 +0000

sage and onion potato pie

vegan haggis from goodness direct and our old Burn’s Night blogpost from 2008 complete with poetry and music!

other Scottish recipes you might like for Burn’s Night:

skirlie (oatmeal stuffing)

cranachan – pudding of oats, (soya) cream, whiskey and raspberries

Balmoral Pie (scroll down through the mains, it has pics) – sausages and baked beans topped with mash

Scotch Broth

Scottish Macaroons

mince and dumplings

the snow queen and a caste system

home educated children steal school bus!

seasonal and busy

gourmet raw brownies and crisps

Lucy — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:49:24 +0000

brownies all in a row

But first to the crisps: completely guilt free, dried raw squares of tastiness. The three flavours are Beetroot, Spicy Thai and Red Pepper and they’re all very good…

beetroot crisps nestled in their bag

…but the absolute winner for us was the red pepper. Reminiscent of pizza, these would be very nice little crackers too. Topped with a small slice of tomato, a basil leaf and maybe half an olive… but before these musings could be made real and captured on camera they were all scoffed by other people.

red pepper crisps

The brownies are satisfyingly sticky, soft and rich, remarkably like a cooked cake but you still feel great after eating them. No sugar rush/up/down thing going on at all.

that's my favourite, the cacao cocobanana one

It’s deliciously coconutty and sweet. And just look at this cacao mint brownie coming towards you:

you want it don't you? well you should, it's good!

Excuse the food porn Other varieties are cacoa cashew which is pleasantly cinnamony, carob hazelnut and carob orange. The carob ones are nice, they got gobbled down fast, but chocolate is always preferred here.

All these delicious, healthy products are raw, organic, vegan and free from wheat and gluten You can read more about them and purchase on Gourmet Raw’s website Use code GR003 for a 10% discount.

Standing with Stones

a flower, nice eats and beach

maths and yew trees

it’s not too late

Lucy — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:14:55 +0000

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 4pm Friday for Christmas Eve delivery.

Ethical Superstore‘s last order dates are Tuesday 20th 12pm for standard delivery and Thursday 22nd for express

The Book People have next day delivery available until the 22nd.

Or you can just say, ‘no, I am not buying anything else,’ and go for a nice walk instead… probably the better option

in the woods

In case we don’t blog before it’s all over, have a happy festive time

maths and school reports

skoool and sooup :)

stones, chickens, nettles

slightly festive thoughts

Lucy — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:04:57 +0000

this is happening outside this morning

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 the Yule page:

rosemary tree in red pot from suttons

We have a really old (21 years) rosemary tree in a pot outside which still gives us lovely flavour and nutrients all year round

our vitamix

Was quite excited to discover our favourite food prep appliance ever, the Vitamix (page on it here with lots of blendy recipes) is now available at both Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com as are Blendtecs

That was a lot of linkage, off for a long walk in the small amount of snow now

Romans

chocolate animals

Innocent Veg Pots

far over the misty mountains cold…

Lucy — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:16:40 +0000

but no dungeons deep or caverns old…

we start with a mince pie

up through the trees

onto the mountain face

Hill in question: Bennachie

mither tap obscured by mist

misty cairn

and yes, a moo free chocolate Santa made it up there… very impressive on his fat little legs *patronises chocolate fondly*

aww bless...

Brodie

coastal pics and pink meadow

a little bit summery

it approaches… chocolate calendar time…

Lucy — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:30:40 +0000

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 Advent chocs:

Already on the sidebar is the moo free one Then we have Montezuma’s dark – big blocks of chocolate in that one, and the most expensive but containing such beautiful shapes is the Ultimate Dark Advent Calendar from hotel chocolat…

Don’t forget the non edible but so much fun Playmobil ones either – Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com both have a good selection of them.

An advent candle pic from ‘days of yore home edding younger children‘ time (original post):

festive scrapbooking

bored, Norse and Google Earth

the sacking of deer abbey

kissing is still in fashion

Lucy — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:42:48 +0000

title proved by gorse flowers

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 still available for 1p from marketplace sellers on Amazon. That will change nearer Christmas.

A new inhabitant of the wood shed, he joins the toads for winter, they will probably not be kissing…

newt

autumn leaves

summer solstice

fox in the snow