Tag Archives: cooking

Vegetarian Christmas

By Lucy | Published November 16, 2010

An older book, now out of print, but I don’t think anything has come along to best it as a veggie festive title (do comment if you know otherwise!). I got the hardback out of the library something like 18/19 years ago and it impacted me. The gorgeousness of Christmas food, the hints on preparing [...]

Posted in books, food | Also tagged festive, memories, vegan, vegetarian, veggies, wildlife 3 Comments

cream of tomato soup and a cheese and onion pasty

By Lucy | Published October 4, 2010

recipe up here made in a very similar manner to the basic pasties on frugal but using Kamut flour in the pastry and filled with chopped red onion, cubed potatoes and cheezly, all cooked in a little soya milk first, also very good Related posts:Narniachocolate animalseasing back in

Posted in food, vegan products | Also tagged soup 9 Comments

cake

By Lucy | Published August 29, 2010

chocolate recipes including chocolate cake. More cake recipes here :D Related posts:paninistrathbegimages from a cycling afternoon

Posted in food | Also tagged cake, sweet, vegan 6 Comments

raised beds

By Lucy | Published August 24, 2010

We have 3 new ones for next season, hopefully one more to come Planning to give over the whole allotment bit at the bottom of the garden to potatoes next year, with the chives, rhubarb and some other bits (maybe leeks? nasturtiums?) for biodiversity. It’s been really noticable this year that the more food we [...]

Posted in food, garden, resources, reuse | Also tagged build, DIY, grow, herbs, Scotland, sweet, veggies 10 Comments

apples

By Lucy | Published August 20, 2010

there will be pie tonight and there was indeed… served with oatly Related posts:chocolate and castlemoo free chocolateskissing is still in fashion

Posted in food, garden, vegan products | Also tagged grow, sweet 2 Comments

broad beans

By Lucy | Published August 14, 2010

I worked very hard painting that furniture so expect to see it in every picture! Shelling the beans was somewhat labour intensive, aching arms for one bowl to put in soup… While shelling I contemplated growing runner beans instead next year… But then I put them in the leek and potato soup a couple of [...]

Posted in food, garden | Also tagged grow, soup 3 Comments

preserving

By Lucy | Published August 5, 2010

What a bumper year it’s been for the currants – were having berried up green smoothies daily, there are lots in freezer which will extend the berry smoothie season and it’s looking to be a very abundant bramble year too. Last year we gathered quite a lot for the freezer as well as smoothie-ing them [...]

Posted in blogroll, food, garden, resources, smoothies, woods | Also tagged grow, trees, vegan 13 Comments

potatoes

By Lucy | Published July 30, 2010

Never before have we had so many of these beautiful apples of the Earth. Pull a stem and reach into the ground for tuber after tuber – the plot is full of them Weather conditions have no doubt contributed to this abundant harvest but I’ve also been a more diligent waterer on dry days. Sunshine finds [...]

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sweet things

By Lucy | Published July 27, 2010

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 [...]

Posted in food, raw, reviews, smoothies, vegan products | Also tagged cake, sweet, vegan, veggies 15 Comments

rhubarb, tweets and elderflowers

By Lucy | Published July 4, 2010

We have a veritable forest of rhubarb so into jam some of it went yesterday! recipe over on frugal where there is also a twitter competition detailed on the front page to win my copy of The Moneyless Man (who is vegan by the way, don’t think I mentioned that before) Gathered some elderflowers in the wood [...]