In my ideal world, I'd adhere to the maxim of owning nothing that I know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
However, in my kitchen, I have a stash of cookbooks from which I have only cooked a handful of the recipes t…
Last week I paid my second visit ever to Mildreds. My first visit was with a friend and was marked by an expertly balanced Asian broth dish, a vegan cheesecake marred by unmasked whiff of too much inexpertly handled raw tofu an…
This isn't the first time I've been to Inamo. In fact, it's the third. So what's different about this time? This is the first visit I've made where I've had to pay with my own cash. In my day job, I oc…
Meat substitutes: friend to the meatless or expensive tastebud-annoyer? Discuss.
Most vegans and veggies will probably have tried any number of them and have a couple of boxes knocking around in the freezer.
To my mind, mea…
I'm on a bit of a cooking class tip at the moment - after posting about Atsuko's Kitchen a couple of post ago, this time I'm blogging about the Vegetarian Cookery School in Bath . I'd been meaning to go the VC…
I'm guessing that every vegan worth their salt - and for that matter, anyone with functioning tastebuds and a couple of quid burning a hole in their pocket - knows about the existence of Ms Cupcake. Ms Cupcake's shop is a…
If I could only eat one type of food for the rest of my life, I think it would be Japanese. Whenever talk turned to eating in Central America and what we couldn't wait to nosebag once we got back, it was always Japanese for m…
For the last few months, I've been in Central America, making my way down from the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico to Panama City. From the Mayan monument to the Caribbean beaches, from the chicken buses to the rainforests, I l…
Lime tofu with coconut rice and broccoli Serves 3 to 4 For the marinade 4 dessertspoons soy sauce 2 dessertspoons mirin two cloves of garlic, finely grated chunk of ginger finely grated juice of half a lime And the other stuff...…
I had hoped to come back from a recent few days in the Italian city of Venice and be able to tap my nose knowingly and nonchalantly reel off a few local restaurants and trattorias where vegans can get themselves some hearty Med…
Vegan rum truffles I realise there's a fundamental problem with this recipe - it's based on leftover cake, which means there's an assumption that you'd have a cake and then think 'well, I don't fancy the r…
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