family life & travels
When you cook with oils, there are so many different ones to choose from. The thing is, there are a few factors to consider when you put an oil on high heat. You want the cooking oil to stay stable when it is heated, so that it doesn’t oxidise. Then it would go off really
There are so many benefits to eating food that is in season, for your health, as well as for your wallet. Another, and rather quite pleasant, side-effect of eating what is in season, is that you get a wider variety of foods in your diet. Those foods can broaden your tastes (good for all of
The month of January can be a good time to think about getting focused on the things that you want to improve upon over the coming year, as well as making goals or resolutions for going forward. This time last year was the first time that I took part in ‘Veganuary,’ a months dedicated to
If you want to reduce your meat intake over the Christmas break and have something a little lighter, then an alternative to sausage-meat stuffing is a vegan alternative. With the only allergens as cashews and celery, it will be suitable for most people and not only that, they are really easy to prepare. “Winter
This Christmas will be my first as a vegetarian. And as we don’t normally have a roast dinner all that often, it has left me wondering what I would have with ‘all the trimmings.’ So I have been looking forward to trying out a few new things for the main dish, instead of the turkey
How has your weekend been? Mine has been a pretty relaxed one if I’m honest which has been really lovely. If you follow this blog regularly you’ll know that my husband and I started a business together last year, and it has been a long and slow road. But it launched this past week, so
With the cooler temperatures here, there is nothing better than some classic comfort food. And for me, comfort food is anything containing carbs, like pasta and rice dishes. The good news with rice dishes is that there is plenty of protein in there too (and my children love rice much more than that love pasta).
It’s amazing how much flavour there is in the not-so-humble organic carrot! And that is all very well with it being British Carrot season, so there are carrot recipes a plenty coming your way. They are tasty and really versatile, being used in both sweet and savoury recipes. This carrot, feta, and red onion tart
I thought that now I have two children at school, that I would have so much more time on my hands. But I seem to be as busy as ever, and that time between 9 and 3 really does fly by! I have been making much more of an effort to take better care of
