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Yay, a blogging event meeting up with two of my favourite local bloggers Jenny from Ramblings of a Jaffa Cat and Dawn from Dear Mummy Blog. We were invited to attend the opening of the brand new Cosy Club in Basingstoke! The atmosphere was amazing and I particularly liked the dress code for the staff […]

My hopes to go crazy with cooking and baking once the kids went back to school kind of didn’t work out. But I will start off with the things I DID manage to make. I remember celery soup from my childhood (from a tin) and had a hankering for it plus Chris and I both […]

I’m still in soup mode (did you try my potato and leek one?). Chris and I had both bought some celery which got me thinking of celery soup from a can that I’d enjoyed years ago. Time to get creative… Serves 2-3 depending on appetite! 500g celery 1 onion 1 large potato 1 stock cube […]

Aquafaba is the liquid from a can of chickpeas. It doesn’t look attractive (a bit like wee if I’m honest!) but I have successfully used it as a replacement for egg to make vegan meringue and mousse. This time I used it to make this spectacular cake! Ingredients 120ml approx aquafaba (the liquid from 1 […]

What with our holiday and the school holidays, the heatwaves and visiting family, cooking and recipe experiments have not been high on my agenda this month. Take a look at my Scottish vegan experience! One of my fab finds on holiday was gluten free macaroni in Tesco. I quickly shoved 2 packets in the trolley […]