easy vegan comfort food recipes
What a blustery week! I’ve been almost whisked away by the wind a few times today, and coming home to a steaming bowl of roasted fennel soup and some lovely fresh bread was such a treat. I love experimenting with soup recipes, and one of the best bits is plunging in the hand blender and…
A fancy afternoon tea with a glass of champagne and towering cake stand laden with sweet treats might be something you imagine to be not particularly vegan-friendly, but there’s absolutely no reason why every element shouldn’t be made plant-based, and these fruity vegan scones are a perfect example. Some of the most popular scone recipes…
It has been ‘one of those’ weeks: soggy school runs, long-distance hospital trips, missing football boots, arguments over Lego constructions, disappearing library books…. you know the sort. But there’s nothing more healing and comforting than a steaming bowl of lemony vegan lentil soup, with a base of two ‘superfoods’ – ginger and turmeric. Good for…
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…
