Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts
I find it really hard to get my children to eat salads – they’re fine with salad vegetables on their own, but combine or dress them and then they’re not keen.
Well we’re just back from a fantastic holiday in the South of France featuring beach fun in the Languedoc and then the incredibly wild and beautiful scenery of the Cévennes and Aveyron.
Puddings/desserts can be quite tricky if you avoid dairy and eggs – most puds you come across are intrinsically full of the ingredients you want to avoid, particularly any ‘wow, I reall…
If you think of the ingredients in a brownie you most certainly think chocolate, sugar and eggs.
If you come to this post searching for homemade egg-free meringue not using a mix, check out this post.
Here’s the second outing for my winning no egg meringue recipe – this time making one large meringue as the base for a Pavlova (for the lovely Somer, you can still have a Pavlova! :-)).
Iced biscuits are cute, pretty and very popular with my children.
This is a fantastic soup: earthy, rooty flavours with the punch of horseradish, and such a vibrant colour – a real autumnal warmer! Beetroot, Parsnip and Horseradish Soup (dairy-free, egg-fre…
Here it is, at last… drumroll please … the Holy Grail of egg-free / vegan baking, a recipe for proper, homemade meringues that look and taste exactly as they should.
Brrr, it’s cold, damp and miserable today – we need a wholesome and warming lunch.
This humble sandwich recipe is so very simple, but the end result is divine.
It may seem strange that I’m writing a review of a very well-known pizza chain – doesn’t pizza rely on cheese? However, we’ve eaten at a LOT of Pizza Express branches as a f…
For D’s birthday I thought I’d make him something homemade among his presents.
I find kale rather challenging, it can seem so ‘green’ and tough and although doubtless packed full of goodness, it is not usually what I really feel like eating.
Brrrr, it’s cold! The temperature has dropped – suddenly it’s frosty, the trees are bare and there’s the hint of Christmas in the air.
I love parsley – it’s so versatile but can often be overlooked by more flamboyant herbs.
Christmas eve is nearly upon us and we need to leave out some goodies for Father Christmas and his reindeer.