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Christmas food gifts, part one - giving

Whether giving or receiving Christmas presents, for me, there's often food involved. Or, even better, there's often food and booze i...

Christmas

Christmas lunch, before Christmas dinner

Every Christmas, I cook pretty much the same thing : smoked tofu and cashew loaf, roast spuds, veggies   and that sort of thing. But what ...

cake

Stollen - a first attempt

I have been meaning to make stollen since forever. I just never have. Anytime I think about it, I break out in cold, stollen-related sweats....

aubergine

A week cooking with India's Vegetarian Cooking

Indian food. It's like culinary kryptonite - I love it, but I really struggle to make it well at home. Time to rectify that, I thought...

bath

Cooking Christmas in Bath

When I find a vegan cookery place I like, I have a tendency to go back. And back, and back. I've been to the Vegetarian Cookery School...

1000 vegan recipes

Learning to love tempeh

Back when it was MoFo (yeah, seems a good long while ago, doesn't it?) I made my first tentative steps into cooking with tempeh . Time...

chanterelle

Experiments with chanterelle vodka

As one of my recent  MoFo experiments, I cooked with girolles - little golden mushrooms also known as chanterelles. When I was having a g...

atsuko's kitchen

Atsuko's sushi

Another November, another spot of learning shojin ryori at Atsuko's Kitchen . (you can tell I wrote this post a while back, right?!) S...

green tomatoes

Fried (and curried) green tomatoes

I went to visit a very good friend of mine recently. I've known her for about 15 years, and she's great. She's always warm, welc...

avocado

Smørrebrød - Danish sandwiches gone vegan

In my recent weekend in Denmark, I kept seeing restaurants and cafes offering Smørrebrød. Smørrebrød is - are? - open faced sandwiches. A...

beans

Vegan in Copenhagen: Morgenstedet restaurant review

Inside the city of Copenhagen, there's another city - the freetown of Christiania. Christiania was first set up over 40 years ago when...

copenhagen

Vegan in Copenhagen: Firefly Garden restaurant review

Firefly is one of Copenhagen's - and possibly one of Denmark's - only totally vegan restaurants. We rocked up there on a Saturd...

burger

Vegan in Copenhagen: Kalaset restaurant review

Here's my second bulletin from Denmark, after a recent trip to the Danish capital. Kalaset is a cosy, friendly, neighbourhood-cafe-ty...

biscuits

Vegan in Copenhagen: Naturbageriet bakery review

At the end of last month, I had the good fortune to end up in Copenhagen for a long weekend. Prepare yourself for a few Danish themed pos...

cake

A tale of two chocolate cakes

Vegan chocolate cakes are like buses - you wait ages for one to come along, then two turn up in quick succession. Oh alright, they're ...

ceps

Porcini pie - a dish with ceps appeal

You know how when you go to a non-veg*n place for dinner, and before you even look for the veg*n option, you know exactly what it's goi...

kensington

Saf Kensington restaurant review

I've been to vegan and raw food restaurant Saf more than once. I used to go to the Shoreditch branch before it closed, where I've h...

breakfast

A week of eating frugally, or can a meat analogue be too realistic?

This is a bit of a delayed post - I meant to write it after we came back from Spain, but I got swept up in all things VeganMoFo. Still, chea...

hummus

Z is for Za'atar

When I was thinking about what to make for Z in my experiment of cooking with new things for Vegan MoFo, there was really only one option...

japanese

Y is for yuzu

Yuzu. The name alone is beautiful, and persuaded me to add it to my pantheon of MoFo experiments. Yuzu is a citrus fruit grows in Japa...

mushrooms

X is for Xampinyons

On alright, in my experiment with cooking the alphabet using new ingredients or unknown dishes, I struggled when it came to x. ...

bread

W is for wheatgerm

Occasionally, when I go to see my boyfriend's parents and the weather's good enough, I get to go down to Secretts . It's a lit...

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