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Coconut oil is a youth enhancing, beautiful smelling moisturiser, a healthy cooking oil and a hair conditioner...
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Detox Your World: Quick and Lasting Results for a Beautiful Mind, Body and Spirit. A fabulous guide to optimal healthy living.
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A great little guide to Britain's wild foods
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How to Grow Your Own Food: A Week-by-week Guide to Wild Life Friendly Fruit and Vegetable Gardening - actually a very good, humorous read too. Full of practical advice for getting the most food out of your garden.
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These creamy white buttons make the most amazing white hot chocolate! See Cat's recipe on The Modern Housewife blog.
Tag Archives: cake
cake
chocolate recipes including chocolate cake. More cake recipes here :D Related posts:raw mom summitmanga and G8squash and snuggles
sweet things
Have been sent some Alpro goodies to try We do like their soya milk. The only one I didn’t know about was the ‘milk alternative’ suitable from 1 year old. Lots of extra vitamins and iron in it (and surprisingly nice in nocaf!). The chocolate puddings are lush lush lush… Blackcurrant smoothies, there have been a few [...]
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Also tagged cooking, sweet, vegan, veggies
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Spring pics
free veg seeds from the bbc here Related posts:scrabblefree ricemellow
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? Related posts:pumpkin maniacoloursLucy, Lucy quite contrary
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). Basically you boil a small peeled potato, mash it and mix in as much icing sugar as [...]
white chocolate buttons
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…. Related posts:woods, hands, feet, bread and soup…October already and thoughts of chocolatecream of tomato soup and a cheese and onion pasty
a flower, nice eats and beach
Chocolate mint layer cake made by a clever friend who is generally good at making things (recipe now in the comments below) White chocolate mousse with red berries. Melt about 100g of cocoa butter and blend into a block of silken tofu with some icing sugar and vanilla… Just loving all the veg and fruit from [...]
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cake, garden, misty loch
A friend called in with the sole purpose of bringing us cake How lovely is that? from vegan village recipe Been having fab weather – out in the garden loads, what a time of growth and suntans… Related posts:pudcup of tea, anyone?lovely breakfast
cake, Kroner and garden
A celebratory cake for Davie’s return from working in Denmark Made with coconut fat, tastes very nice. Kroner: a stroll round the garden this morning: more of similar ilk below: Related posts:flower of Scotlandsushiwoods, hands, feet, bread and soup…
vegan millionaires shortbread
These and many other gorgeous vegan and wheat free goodies from Lazy Day Foods here in Scotland Some National Trust places had them in their cafes last year – hope they still do Also stocked by Goodness Direct Related posts:baking and mistletoespringLittle cakes and much jumping
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