My menu for today: BREAKFAST Creamy oat and quinoa porridge Made with organic oats and quinoa, organic dried apple, raw agave syrup and organic soya milk. LUNCH Pear and cardamom cake with soy vanilla custard (naughty, I know!). SNACK Half a bowl of red lentil and vegetable soup. DINNER More red lentil and vegetable soup, this time made…
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ONE-WEEK VEGAN ADVENTURE: day 4
My menu for today: BREAKFAST Creamy oat and quinoa porridge Made with organic oats and quinoa, organic dried apple, raw agave syrup and organic soya milk. MORNING SNACK Slice of organic buckwheat and rice bread toast, spread with organic creamy peanut butter. LUNCH Leftover red lentil and vegetable soup (yet again, preparing large portions of impossible-to-get-tired-of delicious food pays dividends). AFTERNOON SNACK Renee…
ONE-WEEK VEGAN ADVENTURE: day 3
My menu for today: BREAKFAST Creamy oat and quinoa porridge Made with organic oats and quinoa, chopped organic dried apricots, raw agave syrup and organic rice milk. LUNCH Leftover veggie chilli (yep, there was still more!) served with a handful of organic corn chips, some steamed rice and chunky organic tomato salsa. SNACK Slice of organic buckwheat and rice bread toast, spread…
ONE-WEEK VEGAN ADVENTURE: day 2
As this is the first entirely vegan day of my adventure, I will detail my daily menu here: BREAKFAST Creamy oat and quinoa porridge Made organic oats and quinoa, chopped organic dried apricots, raw agave syrup and organic rice milk. LUNCH Leftover veggie chilli (ah, the beauty of making large batches of food!) with a mixed green salad…
ONE-WEEK VEGAN ADVENTURE: day 1
As you will no doubt see below, there is no “challenge” for me about going vegan thus far, hence my use of the word “adventure” instead. My goals during this week are to experiment with vegan cooking, try exciting vegan products and, long-term, to cut back on animal products and eat even more consciously than…
OPRAH'S ONE-WEEK VEGAN CHALLENGE (AKA My Vegan Adventure)
Ah, yes… the inevitable thrills and spills of a glamorous day at home on maternity leave (ie, sporting a side ponytail, wearing tracksuit pants and breast feeding the baby on the couch whilst watching an Oprah re-run on the telly). This episode of Oprah, The One-Week Vegan Challenge, piqued my curiosity enough so that I…
RUSTIC COCONUT CHOCOLATE BARS (AKA ‘I never need to buy a Bounty bar again!’ part 2)
I did it! Yes, no less than two days after dreaming up a reconstructed Bounty bar using my coconut macaroon recipe, it has materialised in my kitchen (shame on me!). The results are nothing to be sniffed at. Moist, fluffy, coconutty and chocolately, they are less sticky-sweet than the factory produced, plastic-wrapped original that inspired…
COCONUT MACAROONS WITH RASPBERRY DARK CHOCOLATE (AKA 'I never need to buy a Bounty bar again!', part 1)
A spontaneous weekend afternoon tea with friends calls for an easy, quick and impressively yummy homemade treat. A friend had recently given me a lovely block of 70% cocoa fair-trade chocolate infused with raspberry. I decided to take a chance on a recipe I’d seen a long time ago for kockostoppar (Swedish for coconut macaroons)….
TORTA DELLA NONNA (AKA a slice of sunshine)
My second blog entry and recipe number one contains, among other ingredients, marzipan. It’s appropriate given my blog title, no? Surprisingly perhaps, I am not a huge marzipan fan, but it has really grown on me since I moved to Europe and I definitely appreciate its almond-y goodness in certain sweet treats. This is one…