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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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swan lake

By Lucy | Published February 6, 2010

There were swans on the loch yesterday

Had a lovely day with friends morphing into a very balletic afternoon which was great fun. It’s been wonderful rediscovering ballet being for enjoyment, rather than an eternal striving (not to mention starving) for perfection. Looked out the old class music etc. I have but it’s all on cassettes [...]

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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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Happy 2010!!!

By Lucy | Published January 1, 2010

Let it be a good one for all of us! Starting the year as we mean to go on… with yet more soup

recipe

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tomato and rice soup

By Lucy | Published December 29, 2009

recipe here on frugal - snow and ice continuing, rarely known it so cold!

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ice cream bombe

By Lucy | Published December 25, 2009

Was lovely, lovely pud – recipe up on Yule, pictorial instructions below

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freeze until needed!

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little logs

By Lucy | Published December 20, 2009

recipe here. Go very well with A Muppet Christmas Carol, lots of snow outside and a roaring fire :D

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Christmas 2008

By Lucy | Published December 26, 2008

Had lovely time with family

menu added by request  
starter: honeydew and cantaloupe melons with pomegranate. main: chestnut and red wine pate encroute – a Rose Elliot recipe from Vegan Feasts; fennel and carrot in white sauce (mustard, tahini, stock cube in mix); roast potatoes; sprouts; sage, rosemary and onion stuffing; redwood offcut sausages with their [...]

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Gorgeous Graduation

By Lucy | Published December 8, 2008

Hopped off the train in Glasgow and trotted along to Stereo where I failed to take photos of much of the food and it was all so wonderful! The spicy potato soup is below but we also had a mezze platter, big breakfast, haggis fritters, chilli nachos, ice cream and sticky toffee pudding:

Over at Cat’s:

Fabulous food and [...]

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