Experiments in Living

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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Vegan Month of Food is almost upon us. Throughout October, there will be yummy vegan foodie posts taking over blogland, it will be like a mini-revolution!
If you want to see who else is participating, or would like to have a go yourself, get yourself on over to the Post-Punk Kitchen now!

Vegan MoFo #1- My first [...]

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So, the winter’s back with us for a little while to come up here in 53.48 degrees northern latitude. Never mind, that’s just an excuse to curl up indoors with a good book and a nice bowl of soup.
Warming Tomato, Ginger and Lentil Soup (serves 4)
(For info, my mug is about 225ml)
Fry 1 chopped [...]

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