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Finding flavour with The Spice Pioneer Power Pods

Anyone else have a cupboard full of out of date spices that you bought for a recipe and then never used again? Yep, me. I do. I have no real knowledge of what flavours work together… time to bring in the experts! The Spice Pioneer has developed a range of power pods, carefully crafted flavours […]

Winter veg soup

Just spotted this winter veg soup post from before Christmas still lurking in my drafts folder! Winter is a great time for snuggling up with a warm bowl of soup. There is something cosy and hearty about it! Ingredients: half an onion or leek 100g parsnip 100g carrot 100g swede 250g potato 1 stock cube […]

Chickpea lentil dhal

Curry time again! I have had a bag of lentils in the cupboard and wanted to finish them up so tried something completely new: a dhal! I love chickpeas so added them too – have you tried my chickpea and spinach curry? –  then I had the bonus of aquafaba to bake with (cake recipe […]

‘I can stick a mushroom on it’ and other vegan misery

Christmas lunch. Comfort food, stodgy, warming. Not this year. Last week I had my Christmas meal with one set of colleagues in a local pub. This has been booked since October. We had let them know of my vegan and gluten free requirements. They were supposed to phone me. On the morning of the meal […]

Chickpea and spinach curry with crispy tofu slices

Once again I’d shopped without a weekly meal plan so had no idea what to make with spinach abnd also had tofu that was going out of date soon! I fancied making something with aquafaba again so created this yummy curry to use a tin of chickpeas too. This recipes serves 2 with a big […]