Elizabeth's Kitchen Diary
cooking up a storm at the edge of the world
This super easy Caribbean papaya salad recipe comes from the island of St Maarten, and it tastes fantastic with BBQ chicken, shrimp or other grilled meats/seafood. With thanks to P&O Cruises for the opportunity to learn about Caribbean cuisine. I know it’s a bit early in the year to be sharing recipes for summer BBQs, …
Quick and easy to make, and so moist and flavoursome, this burger recipe features Cauldron ready to eat falafels with chickpeas, spices and coriander. Pick up a pack in the chilled aisle of your local supermarket! Post originally published in July 2018, republished for Veganuary January 2019. Vegan burgers can be notoriously difficult to …
This simple summer salad features crisp and vibrant seasonal vegetables, protein-packed quinoa and a delicious lemon vinaigrette dressing made with Italian olive oil. Plus, there’s a fab giveaway to win 3 x 250 ml tins of extra virgin Italian olive oil from Pomora. Our daughter (aged 11 3/4) has all but gone vegetarian (or pescetarian …
Homemade vegan bean burgers are so much nicer than the ones you buy frozen and they are so much fun to make too. Your whole family will love these. Serve them in toasted burger buns with your favourite salad and toppings. Recipe from Living on the Veg, reproduced with permission. I am so excited to …
In collaboration with Breville. I have such a weakness for garlic, especially roasted garlic. I absolutely love the stuff! One of my favourite midweek meals is to roast a tray of chicken thighs and vegetables (beetroot and sweet potato, especially) along with a few whole bulbs of garlic. The whole thing gets drizzled with olive …
In collaboration with Dorset Cereals. I confess I am very late to the whole overnight oats thing, I really am. Porridge is, by all means, my number one favourite thing to have for breakfast, with home made granola or muesli over plain natural yogurt with plenty of fresh fruit a close second. The concept of …
Recipe from Kerstin Rodgers’ cookery book V is for Vegan. I have had this breakfast three times in the last week. True story. Back in January this year I had the pleasure of meeting the wonderfully charming Kerstin Rodgers, the author behind the popular London food and travel blog Ms. Marmite Lover and several cookery …
A Redmond Multicooker recipe – only 225 calories per serving! I love a good curry, me. I’ve been making variations of this particular curry recipe for some time now – it began with using sweet potato and adding handfuls of kale or spinach at the end, but, like many people, I’ve been on a sensible …
Freshly toasted and ground cumin and a touch of cayenne give this hummus recipe a nice kick. There must be at least a hundred different ways to make hummus, and we each tend to have our favourite version. Mine includes plenty of toasted and freshly ground cumin seeds and a generous pinch of cayenne for …
My very first excursion foraging for wild garlic! It’s funny how things work out. When I first moved to Shetland in the Spring of 1999, the first book I bought was Shetland’s Wildflowers: A Photographic Guide, by D. Malcolm (1998). This well thumbed guide as been my go-to book when trying to identify local plant …
Our House of Spice – an authenic Indian masala curry spice blend with a medium spiced tomato and onion sauce. I absolutely love spicy food; not too spicy that you can’t taste the flavours in the dish, but spicy enough to get those taste buds going and warm up the cockles on a cold, windy …
aka: what to do with all those ignored vegetables at the bottom of the fridge! Let’s talk Lego! My husband, bless his cotton socks, doesn’t do a lot of cooking. He can peer into a full refrigerator and not come up with a single idea for dinner. Shelves of vibrant vegetables get ignored in favour …
All the flavour and nearly half the calories! I love a hearty, creamy bowl of soup, me. Especially when the winds are howling outside and you want something warm and comforting. Alas, most creamy soup recipes use a ridiculous amount of double cream – something I just can’t afford to eat right now while I’m trying …
100% plant power! I absolutely love weight lifting. Lifting heavy weights is not something I ever thought would interest me when I was younger, when my active trim self never had to pass a moment’s thought about the food I put into my mouth. I stayed slim naturally. Age, growing three babies, laziness and a …
Packed with the flavour of lycopene rich tomatoes and slow roasted garlic. Nothing beats the humble tomato. Packed full of lycopene, its antioxidant properties and health benefits are well documented. Plus, a bowl of steaming hot tomato soup is the perfect comfort food, wouldn’t you agree? Especially when accompanied by a gorgeous, oozing, freshly made …
A vegan post workout protein smoothie. Dear Reader, I have a confession to make. I’ve become fat. I’d always been one of those skinny people. When I left high school I weighed just over 7 stone. I was very active: swimming, cycling, skateboarding, horseback riding, climbing (and falling out of) trees in the summer, skiiing, …
Remember, remember the 5th of November. I may lament about the scaled down UK Halloween and lack of trick or treaters (we only had two this year – they left with loads of sweeties) compared to my rural Canadian upbringing, but do you know what? Bonfire night totally makes up for it. I hadn’t even …
It took me a very long time to appreciate the awesomeness that is the humble avocado. I wasn’t introduced to the fruit until I was well into my twenties, I am sure, and my first response to it, served on its own, was blergh! I persevered though, and I began my love affair with the avocado …
A vegan, all natural, refined sugar free frozen dessert. My ice cream machine died last year. It was a gruesome, horrible death with a cracked bowl and bright blue coolant oozing all over the contents of my freezer. This was the second time this happened (same model) and I haven’t replaced it yet. I’ve had …
A delicious comfort-food vegan shepherdess pie. There is a definite hint of Autumn in the air. The days are getting cooler and the Shetland landscape is turning from leafy green into shades of burnt umber, russet and gold while the peat hills are covered in glorious flowering purple heather. Colder days require comfort food.
