Broccoli, Pea, Cardamon and Thyme Soup.

This soup is just as simple to make as it sounds. There is a lot of flavours kicking around and to be honest a good lick of heat, but it has a freshness too. It does involve a lot of ingredients, but the heading highlights the flavour as it tastes. This dish started it’s life…

Curried puy lentils, carrot and butternut squash salad in a coriander, lime, and chilli dressing.

Let’s be clear on a few things when it comes to this recipe: It is vegan, it has bags of flavour, buckets of protein, 2 portions of your five a day and enough carbs to really fully satisfy. The dressing only gives you about 1/4 of your recommended fat for the day. So, I am…

Couscous salads-

With, either: Apples, pomegranate, feta, mint and coriander served with a Dijon drizzle. Or with butternut squash, charred onions, fresh oregano, and a fresh lemon sauce. Both took less than 15 minutes. Both are vegetarian and one is fully vegan. I used a gluten free couscous from Sainsburys, which tastes just as good as the…

Puttensca sauce, Vegan and gluten free.

I am not going to bore you with what the name Puttenesca is supposed to mean, every chef in every country will smugly inform you of the meaning of the “whore’s sauce”, but to be honest who cares? It is a beautifully balanced light, but flavoursome sauce, and is very quick and easy to make.…

Lentil, Black eye bean and Mushroom patty, with a spinach and coconut cream sauce (vegan)

This dish has been a year or so in the making and I still feel it could be improved. It started off as a change up of falafel (I didn’t have any chickpeas!) I liked the texture but the flavours were way out, I had gone very Asian and the mushrooms had got very lost…

Slightly spicy jackfruit kebab with apple slaw.- Vegan-

– Some of the blogs write themselves, others seems to go around and around in circles with a lot of small details needing to be throw in,to both make sense, and for the recipe to be easy to follow. This proved to be one of the latter! This dish came about when I realised I…

Spicy chickpea, potato and fresh tomato salad.

I cannot take ALL the credit for this dish as I cook it for work. I loved it, but I always thought that this meal could be given some more oopft. So a few tucks and tweaks and this is a cracking summer salad.The basic dish I stole it from was a side dish and…

Vegan sausage, cannellini bean, butternut squash and sweet potato stew.

This recipe came about as a bit of a giggle. One of my dearest friends and I, share a love of Richmond sausages. A skinless type, which most people consider to be of poor quality. So when I saw there was a meat free option to this brand, I had to buy it, just so…

Hunter red lentil curry- My take on a Dhaal.

please forgive the photo, as I only took one on my phone and ate the spare portion! Dhal (which translates directly to spilt) most often refers to split yellow peas, but any of the pulses will work. Dhaal can be spelt Daal, dail, dhal, dahl. I am assuming this is down to where in Indian…

Asian Pickled Veg.

This side dish is free of refined sugar, gluten and is of course vegan. Even the best of us find bits and bobs in the veg tray that need using up, and it is pretty simple to give them another few weeks of shelf life by pickling them. There is really no best veg to…