Cardamom and honey Turkish coffee

I love cardamom and I love coffee, so this is heaven. This is a coffee for the afternoon and it deserves a slice of cake. Real Turkish coffee is boiled in a little contraption called an ibrik, and the coffee is...

Posted: 10.02.20 0 Comments

Favourite Potato Recipes

Potatoes are just about my favourite thing to eat. They have been a comfort and solace for me through good times and bad. Whether it’s my Irish heritage, my unashamed love of stodge or simply because they are such a...

Posted: 27.01.20 2 Comments

Seven Vegan- friendly Suppers for January

Monday: All green miso soup with perfect brown rice I vary the grains I eat as much as I do the vegetables. In my kitchen, I have a bottom shelf with a colourful line up of jars: red quinoa, black rice, yellow...

Posted: 01.01.20 2 Comments

7 Day Reset

A few times a year I do a reset to help me connect with what I am eating again, to tune back in with my body and to fall back in love with food again.  My journey into eating and cooking with plants at the centre...

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A Christmas Gift Guide

This year, I've pulled together a few things that I'll be giving for Christmas. All of them are things I love, and none of these mentions have been sponsored, they are all things I use, eat and love. TO...

Posted: 05.12.19 1 Comments

What to Feed a Vegetarian at Christmas

My 50 Page Christmas Guide: Recipes, Wreaths + What to Do with Leftovers Three years ago, I wrote a blog with my Top Ten Christmas Recipes, and it is still the most popular article on my website by a country...

Posted: 02.12.19 0 Comments

Top Ten Vegetarian Christmas Recipes Part III

Christmas always creeps up on me. I’m never quite sure how, because talk of where we will spend it starts as soon as the summer ends. Christmas dinner has become less conventional in recent years; we are a family of...

Posted: 01.12.19 1 Comments

The Very Best Baked Potatoes

Baked potatoes are up there with my favourite foods; I love floury potatoes with sweet slow-cooked leeks, mixed with grated cheddar, wholegrain mustard, a little creme fraiche and lemon zest. And sweet potatoes spiked...

Posted: 29.10.19 7 Comments

Five Flavourful Soups

(COVER IMAGE: NOT-CHICKEN SOUP) As the colder months finally starts to kick in, I start to crave comfort. The warmth of an evening by the fire, a hot chai after a long walk on the Hackney Downs, a new pair of woolly...

Posted: 14.10.19 2 Comments

Purple Pickled Cabbage Soup

Vibrant and delicious. Serves 6 500g red cabbage, finely shredded 2 tbsp red wine vinegar Butter or olive oil, for frying 1 large red onion, peeled and finely chopped 3 sticks of celery, finely chopped 2 apples...

Posted: 07.10.19 1 Comments