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Caribbean Papaya Salad #fruitsalad #papaya #Caribbean

Easy Caribbean Papaya Salad Recipe

February 1, 2019 by Elizabeth

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, …

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6-Ingredient Vegan Beetroot Falafel Burgers

Easy 6-Ingredient Vegan Beetroot Falafel Burgers

January 2, 2019 by Elizabeth

  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 …

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Vegan Summer Quinoa Salad Recipe with Lemon Vinaigrette

Vegan Summer Quinoa Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette

July 25, 2018 by Elizabeth

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 …

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10 Minute Vegan Bean Burger Recipe from Living on the Veg

10-Minute Vegan Bean Burgers

June 3, 2018 by Elizabeth

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 …

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Creamy Roasted Garlic Hummus dipping bread

Super Creamy Roasted Garlic Hummus

February 10, 2018 by Elizabeth

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 …

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Dorset Cereals Bircher Museli with Raspberries, Blackcurrants and Coconut

Raspberry, Blackcurrant & Coconut Bircher Muesli

August 14, 2016 by Elizabeth

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 …

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Scrambled Tofu on Truffled Sourdough Bruschetta

Scrambled Tofu on Truffled Sourdough Bruschetta

April 13, 2016 by Elizabeth

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 …

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Butternut Squash & Chickpea Curry

Butternut Squash and Chickpea Curry

February 5, 2016 by Elizabeth

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 …

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Hummus Recipe

My Simple and Incredibly Creamy Hummus Recipe

October 10, 2015 by Elizabeth

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 …

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Teff Salad with Sprouted Beans, Pea Shoots and Wild Garlic

Teff Salad with Sprouted Beans, Pea Shoots and Wild Garlic {vegan}

June 11, 2015 by Elizabeth

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 …

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Butternut Squash & Chickpea Masala Curry

Our House of Spice – Butternut Squash & Chickpea Masala Curry {Recipe & Review}

February 20, 2015 by Elizabeth

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 …

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Chunky Vegetable Soup with Spinach Cashew Pesto

Chunky Vegetable Soup with Spinach-Cashew Pesto

February 2, 2015 by Elizabeth

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 …

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Skinny celeriac and apple soup

Skinny Creamy Celeriac & Apple Soup

January 12, 2015 by Elizabeth

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 …

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vegan post workout protein bars

Chocolate Covered Peanut Protein Bars {vegan}

January 8, 2015 by Elizabeth

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 …

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roast tomato garlic soup

Slow Roasted Tomato & Garlic Soup {vegan}

January 6, 2015 by Elizabeth

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 …

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Banana Nut Protein Smoothie

Banana Nut Protein Smoothie

November 19, 2014 by Elizabeth

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, …

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Curried Neep and Carrot Soup

Curried Neep & Carrot Soup

November 5, 2014 by Elizabeth

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 …

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Chunky Guacamole

Chunky Guacamole

October 15, 2014 by Elizabeth

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 …

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Strawberry Vanilla Bean Coconut Ice

Strawberry Vanilla Bean Coconut Ice Cream

September 27, 2014 by Elizabeth

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 …

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Vegan Shepherdess Pie with a Creamy Cauliflower Mash

August 28, 2014 by Elizabeth

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.

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