easy vegan comfort food recipes
A cheese scone is one of life’s simple pleasures. With a bowl of soup, or just a cup of tea, there’s something about them that seems greater than the sum of their parts – for a mixture of flour, fat, cheese and milk they are incredibly more-ish, (especially whilst still warm from the oven). And…
In collaboration with Birds Eye Ah Korma, the curry for people who don’t really like curry. The one that isn’t too spicy. The bland one. Well perhaps that’s the case in British curry houses, but the original korma was an expensive banquet dish, rich with cream, strewn with nuts and fruit, and deeply scented with…
When I first embarked on Veganuary five years ago, I just assumed that my beloved cauliflower cheese and creamy pasta bakes would be totally off the menu. And it took me quite a while to realise that they definitely weren’t! It is really simple to make a creamy béchamel (basic white sauce) from dairy-free milk…
This is a VERY easy recipe. So easy I’m not really sure it should be called a recipe at all, perhaps a ‘how-to tutorial’ would be a better word. Sausage rolls are important in life, (vegan sausage rolls in particular) – 1 year olds and 91 year olds will tuck in to them with equal…
One of the things I love about vegan food is how intensely colourful even the most cosy, comfort-food meals can be. Take these smoky vegan enchiladas – if they were made with the traditional meat filling they would be, well, brown and beige. But look at the photo below of these ingredients – a rainbow…
In collaboration with Explore Cuisine I could happily eat pasta every day of the week… but sadly, I don’t. It is fairly well documented these days that eating more protein and fewer carbohydrates is better for our health, and for vegans in particular, packing meals with protein is an important but sometimes tricky thing to…
How does the end of term end up being SO busy? Every year it takes me by surprise. I imagine that we’ll all be winding down for summer, chilling in the garden and making the most of the sunshine, and instead we’re tearing round end of term presentations and parties, late-night baking for just-remembered cake…
