Recipes – vegan

Slow roasted tomatoes in olive oil

September 29, 2007

I have an admission to make.  For a large part of my life, I didn’t eat tomatoes.  I picked them out of sandwiches, I ordered salads without them, I arranged them on the side of my plate in a line of evil, red half-moons.  I remember having debates with friends at university on why exactly [...]

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Nasturtium leaf salad

July 15, 2007

Astonishingly, it seems that the teeniest little bit of summer has finally arrived in the UK!  I mean, we have had two weekends in a row of reasonable weather (well, not raining, that is…) and I have finally had a chance to spend some time in my sadly neglected garden.  I must say that despite [...]

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Baby pak choi and Peppadew stir-fry

June 21, 2007

I am one of those rare women who does not go all gooey at the mention of the word chocolate.  It’s not that I dislike it, it’s just that I’m more of a savoury girl and I simply can’t see how chocolate is going to make it all better.  But don’t let that make you [...]

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Pomegranate, pear, fennel and aragula salad

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I have to admit that I am something of a salad slacker.  Not to say that I don’t love salads – on the contrary, I do!  But the problem is that by the time I have finished faffing around with the main course, I am not in the mood for deaming up an exotic salad, [...]

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Chakalaka by the Thames – scenes from a braai Part III

October 5, 2006

Well, you’ve heard about the stuffed pork fillets on Friday night.  You’ve heard about the lamb sosaties on Saturday night.  Time now to conclude this series of weekend braais (barbecues) with Sunday’s contribution. As I may have mentioned in the past, my other half Nick rowed competitively for many years.  In fact, I don’t think [...]

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Food for a heatwave III – Broccoli and toasted seed salad

September 12, 2006

And so, just like that, we are back in a mini-heatwave!  After the weatherman’s dire predictions that summer was over, we were all expecting a slow slide into winter.  But it seems that the sun had other ideas.  After a rather changeable Saturday, Sunday dawned absolutely PERFECT – just as well because we had Johanna [...]

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