Vegetarian Sweet Potato and Bean Burrito
A vegetarian sweet potato and bean burrito recipe packed full of cycling-specific nutrition. This Veloform recipe is perfect for rustling up and taking out on the mountain bike trails to fuel that adventure.
Jewelled Couscous Recipe with Puy Lentils & Pomegranate
This jewelled couscous recipe is a Persian-inspired dish made with spiced couscous, puy lentils, nuts, fruits, herbs and pomegranate arils. In collaboration with Indigo Herbs, suppliers of ethically and sustainably sourced superfoods, whole foods and natural health products.
Tomato & Mozzarella Salad with Himalayan Pink Salt
This simple, yet incredibly flavoursome, tomato and mozzarella salad is flavoured with garlic-infused Himalayan pink salt from The Good Salt Company Ltd. Get the recipe, suitable for gluten-free, low carb and keto diets (and includes a vegan option and Weight Watchers points), and find out why you should be using Himalayan pink crystal salt in …
Very Lazy Slow Cooker Harissa Butternut Stew with Cumin-Spiked Flatbread & Turmeric Yoghurt
This flavoursome vegetarian dish is made with the new Very Lazy slow cooking paste pots for an easy weekend (or busy weekday!) meal. Jazz it up with some quick homemade cumin-spiked flatbreads and turmeric yoghurt for a complete meal. In collaboration with Very Lazy. Slow Cooker Harissa Butternut Stew I do love to cook. …
Easy 6-Ingredient Vegan Beetroot Falafel Burgers
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 …
Vegan Summer Quinoa Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette
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 …
10-Minute Vegan Bean Burgers
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 …
Quick & Easy Loaded Vegetarian Chilli Recipe
A family-friendly chilli recipe packed full of flavour and plant protein. As I was wandering through the supermarket the other day (mostly just trying to get my Fitbit step count up since the inclement weather outside wasn’t amenable to adventuring) I spotted a bag of frozen Quorn mince in the freezer section on offer, for just …
Super Creamy Roasted Garlic Hummus
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 …
Quick & Easy 5-Minute Kohlrabi Coleslaw
Starring the sputnik of the vegetable kingdom. So you’ve got this strange sputnik-type vegetable in your veg box. A kohlrabi, it’s called, you find out after asking the Twittersphere. Ok, that was me. I’d never seen a kohlrabi until one appeared in my veg box a few years ago and I really did snap a …
Quick & Easy Chilli Spaghetti for Two
A lazy weekend or midweek meal recipe idea. Spaghetti, for me, is the ultimate in comfort food. It brings me back to my childhood and the eight zillion plates of spaghetti I grew up on; spaghetti swimming in jarred Ragu sauce. Gosh I loved that stuff. There were no lashings of cheese to serve over …
Kheera Cucumber and Tomato Curry
A recipe, review and giveaway in collaboration with Just Us Box. I first took an interest in cooking around the age of 12 or 13. My mother had been gifted a cookery book for Christmas one year and I found its contents utterly fascinating. The only other cookery book I remember having in my childhood …
Scrambled Tofu on Truffled Sourdough Bruschetta
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 …
Butternut Squash and Chickpea Curry
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 …
Quick & Easy Roasted Cherry Tomato Sauce
I’m always looking for speedy supper ideas. As much as I love spending time over the cooker, some nights I really can not be bothered. Those nights tend to be the three nights in the week I’m working in our village co-operative – my ‘getting out of the house’ job where I work a few …
Banitsa – Bulgarian Cheese Pie
In collaboration with Expedia and their #WorldonaPlate Challenge. It’s funny how our tastes change as we grow up. My childhood diet was quite limited – baked meat and mashed potatoes being the staple, supplemented with seasonal wild fruits harvested ourselves (one wild strawberry for the basket, three for me!). I was very reluctant to try …
Braised Red Cabbage with Star Anise
A Redmond Multicooker recipe. I was never really a fan of cabbage up until a few years ago. I had a fantastic Sunday dinner at Busta House Hotel in Brae, Shetland, and they served an incredibly delicious braised red cabbage on the side. I’ve been hooked ever since, especially since red cabbage often makes an …
My Simple and Incredibly Creamy Hummus Recipe
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 …
Broad Bean & Courgette Soup with Gouda
A delicious creamy green soup showcasing the humble broad bean! The first time I’d ever tried broad beans was in a Moroccan inspired chicken tagine recipe some years ago. The only broad beans I could find at the time were frozen ones – and they were awful; tough, rubbery, inedible. These supermarket brand frozen broad …
Garlic & Kale Pizza
In collaboration with Rennies. The summer growing season is officially in full swing! Poor weather for the first half of this year has meant that many gardens in Shetland have been suffering. Things haven’t been growing as well as they could be and so we’ve only started receiving weekly (instead of fortnightly) vegetable box deliveries. …