Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts
I haven’t rolled out my egg-free meringue recipe for quite a while, but having seen a bag of beautiful blackcurrant meringues in the Ottolenghi window display the other day, I thought I’…
It’s courgette season, and this is a fantastic way to make a satisfying lunch out of little other than grated courgettes.
Peaches aren’t very popular with my children – I think it’s maybe something to do with it being a wet juicy fruit.
Someone mentioned the combination of lemon and thyme in a sweet context the other day.
I’ve mentioned before the problems we have in buying ice lollies.
Apparently it’s a bumper year for blackberries in the UK, and if our garden is anything to go by, we’ll have blackberries coming out of our ears in the next few weeks! Having just retur…
Our holiday in the South of France certainly got the taste buds tingling with sunny Mediterranean flavours; think tomatoes, gorgeous ripe fruit, flowers, wild herbs and fat olives.
Like most families, we eat a lot of pasta, so I decided to mix things up a bit with some home-made gnocchi.
I’m over-run with courgettes – kind friends and relatives keep leaving them on the doorstep, so I’m having to be inventive as we’ve made them into ratatouille, courgette sou…
I think it’s the sudden chill in the air that has made us want to turn up the heat in our meals.
There’s not a great deal to say about these other than they’re part brownie, part cookie… they’re chocolate brownie cookies! So they have that soft chocolate texture in cook…
I’ve always had a fondness for little cheesy crackers and when someone bought a pack in to work, it got me thinking about making a dairy-free version.
Millionaires’ shortbread seems to be a staple coffee shop sweet treat, and it’s certainly a tempting one with its crumbly shortbread base, gooey caramel and dark chocolate.
This is nothing more than a naughty, unnecessary indulgence – but hey, why shouldn’t those who avoid dairy, eggs and nuts get to shamelessly indulge from time to time? Or more often tha…
Palmiers (otherwise known as palm trees or pigs ears) are a classic petits fours, perfect served with a cup of coffee.
Since making egg-free fresh pasta works so well, why not tackle stuffed pasta? Over the past year I have searched everywhere for dairy-free filling inspiration; books, magazines and the web, but th…
I’ve mentioned before the difficulty in avoiding sesame, making all store-bought hummus out of bounds.
We had a little tub of rice and butterbean salad from Marks & Spencer for lunch last week, and unlike lots of pre-prepared salad tubs, it was pretty tasty.