Day Four – Chinese
We eat Chinese food quite a bit here but we’d never had mock duck with pancakes before, mainly because I’d never remembered to buy the pancakes. My Mother came to the rescue when I failed again to buy...
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Sorry for the disappearing in the middle of posting about the International Food Week, ran out of blogging steam with all the cooking and then back to school rush etc etc etc. It’s always easier to...
View ArticleDay Six – Caribbean
I’ve had the Caribbean Vegan book for a while now but this was the first time I’ve actually used it and we were pretty pleased with the results. I made the Island Burgers with Spicy Baked Sweet Potato...
View ArticleDay Seven – Italian
I went with the quite old but still really great Pasta for All Seasons for our Italian meal. I had bought a box of cannelloni a few weeks back as I’d not had it in ages so I looked for a recipe that...
View ArticleBake and Destroy
Let’s pretend it’s not been almost a year since I last posted and jump right in ‘eh? I recently got my copy of Bake and Destroy. I don’t read the blog and assumed from the title that it would be a...
View ArticleBread and Butter Pickles
I’ve been making jam for years and have made the occasional chutney along the way. However, I’m not really a jam or chutney eater so I always end up with a ton of jars and try to fob them off on my...
View ArticleSpaghetti Cake
We’re still going from Bake and Destroy and will be for another couple of days yet as there are still lots of things we’re excited to try. We like pasta here and we’d not had it for a while due to...
View ArticleA Bit More Baking and Destroying
So, the next dish that Jim picked from the book was a pizza as we have pizza night every other Friday night when the boys are with me for the weekend. Oddly for a boy who says he doesn’t like green...
View ArticleTesting Testing 1, 2, 3
While I’ve been away from blogging we’ve done some cookbook testing. The first one was Vegan Food Gifts by Joni Marie Newman, then we did Wholegrain Vegan Baking by Celine Steen and Tami Noyes and...
View ArticleMove Along Now
I’ve decided to consolidate my blogs into my main blog finally waking up. From now of if I post about food it will be over there rather than here, I just don’t have the time to maintain more than one...
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