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ice, a pie and Burn’s Night

By Lucy | Published January 21, 2012

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) [...]

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stripey sky and flapjacks

By Lucy | Published January 12, 2012

and the flapjacks Related posts:evening picnicremembrancegreen

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red dragon pie

By Lucy | Published January 9, 2012

This is a dish we’ve had a lot over the years but never written up. Original credit goes to Sarah Brown’s Vegetarian Kitchen (BBC cookery series). It’s a wonderfully filling and wholesome meal. Topped with mashed potatoes, the base is made of aduki beans (goodness direct link there, which links back to our aduki bean [...]

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Glazed Parsnips and Carrots with Pistachio

By Lucy | Published December 27, 2011

Yule Dinner Everyone agreed that this side dish was the best, it’s been added to Vegan Christmas/Yule but is reproduced here too as it’s not just for Christmas but good anytime  recipe: 8 medium parsnips (you can of course use bigger/smaller and adjust quantities) 8 medium carrots a little sunflower oil to rub a couple of [...]

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it’s not too late

By Lucy | Published December 19, 2011

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 [...]

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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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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:Gluten Free Chocolate Cakeflower of Scotlandfrost, a competition and Rain

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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:Lucy, Lucy quite contraryafter a little blog break…Vegetarian Christmas

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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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a little bit summery

By Lucy | Published May 17, 2011

sauce: two tomatoes, 1 apple, 3 cloves of garlic, garden herbs of lovage, sage and mint and then some hulled hemp seeds, all blitzed up Related posts:Brodie to Urquhartstrathbegrhubarb, tweets and elderflowers

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