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Archive for April 2019

Vegan chocolate mousse (using aquafaba)

Have you heard of aquafaba? It is the water from a can of chickpeas or other white bean. Not the first thing that springs to mind when thinking of making a dessert! However, it really does work well as an egg replacer in a mousse, making a light and aerated pudding. Here is my first […]

#GlobalBlogging 106

Happy Monday everyone and welcome to Global Blogging! Wherever you are in the world, come and join me and Heather at Shank You Very Much! You can link up any 2 posts then please comment on both host posts and the one in front of yours. Please encourage your friends to join us by sharing […]

Free From Festival, Oxford

Last weekend I attended the Free From Festival, held in the magnificent Oxford Town Hall. I wish I had discovered this festival years ago! My wheat allergy began in 2001 and it was tough. I was a student and on the day of my diagnosis I’d eaten toast, pasta and pizza. My cupboards were full […]

#Project365 week 14

Day 90: Mother’s Day gifts and cards from my cuties. I’m particularly pleased with the DIY wrapping paper 🙂 Day 91: we walk past this tree every day on the school run and over the weekend it has burst into blossom! So pretty in pink! Day 92: Zach is enthusiastic but not very capable when […]

The Oxford Mystery, by Faith Martin

Hot on the heels of her last solved murder and job, Jenny Starling is now employed at an Oxford college for the summer to cater for the conferences scheduled to take place. But death follows her here too and the head of the taxidemist society is found murdered. There are plenty of suspects but all […]