Experiments in Living

I never buy sandwiches “out” for the simple fact that there are no vegan versions! The vegetarian ones are a cheese fest, and besides, I’m far too tight to be spending my hard-earned cash on a factory produced piece of gack. It doesn’t help that one of my best friends at university had a summer [...]

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This is a yummy chocolate cake which I made this weekend for my housewarming party.
Sift together 100g plain white flour, 75g wholemeal plain flour, 50g cocoa powder, 1tsp baking powder, 1tsp bicarbonate of soda, pinch salt.
In a separate bowl, mix together 375ml soy milk, 125ml rapeseed oil, 2tsp vanilla extract, 200g sugar.
Combine the wet ingredients [...]

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This one’s for Half Pint Pixie. Happy now are we?
Ingredients:
1 white onion, sliced
1 tin of chick peas
2 large handfuls of spinach (or kale if you prefer)
1 butternut squash
100ml water
2 teaspoons chat masala powder
1 tablespoon oil (any veg oil that has a mild flavour will do)
Method:
Slice the onion so that you have long strips. [...]

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A classic favourite of mine. The recipe just kind of evolved, so I couldn’t tell you exactly how to do it as each time it’s slightly different. This should produce something like, feel free to adapt!
Ingredients:
500g mixed mushrooms, sliced
200g risotto (arborio) rice
500ml water
1 tablespoon olive oil
50g pine nuts
1 vegetable stock cube
1 stick celery
1 medium white [...]

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Perfect for Halloween!
These are the proper kind of “roll out” biccies that I love. I froze half the dough for another day, so what you see there is half of what this recipe actually makes. I was so happy my mum had kept those cute cutters of the cat, moon and stars from when I [...]

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