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Green Soup, delicious hot or cold

Aug 18, 2017 |

Green soup This was a bit of an experiment that actually turned out really well the first time.  I was cooking a roast chicken last Sunday and I hate only having one thing in the oven so I was mooching in the fridge to see what I had and there was loads of green stuff! I decided to roast off a small green squash with a couple of green peppers, sprinkled with hot smoked paprika to enhance the smokey flavour, then when cool whizzed with some spring onions, herbs and spinach. The result was...

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Day 90 – the end of the challenge?

Aug 16, 2017 |

Although I don’t think I would have admitted it even to myself three months ago, when I set myself this challenge, I  needed to find something to distract me and give my mind something else to focus on other than the fact that I was in the middle of selling my shares in my family business, in which I had worked for 27 years. I was feeling lost and anxious and needed to occupy my thoughts.  I’d already created this blog  a while ago to encourage me to record my recipes and...

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Day 80

Aug 6, 2017 |

Is it really, only 10 days to go until the end of my challenge? Not long till I can go back to the supermarket? Not likely! The highlight of my week was Terre à Terre in Brighton, I had the most amazing meal there with my niece and sister-in-law, the food and service were stunning. The portions were generous and beautifully presented, but what I loved was that everything we ate was vegan. I haven’t ever eaten a restaurant meal that was totally vegan before and the food at Terre a Terre is a...

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Noodles for lunch today, tomorrow and the next day

Aug 1, 2017 |

I was sitting at my desk in my home office (the spare bedroom) and suddenly I realised was starving.  I'm not sure about you but this happens to me all the time when I'm working on my own; I get distracted by something and before I know it it's several hours later and I've not eaten or drunk a thing.  If I'm in a normal working environment with other things/people around me there are distractions and markers that remind me what time it is: other people going on their lunch, coffee's being...

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Day 73

Jul 30, 2017 |

I started this week off really well, lots of batch cooking for our lunches and loads of pots of overnight oats for our breakfasts.  I knew it was likely to be a busy week for me, I had lots of appointments in the diary which meant if I wasn't organised I'd end up missing meals and the struggling to find something filling, nutritious and, more importantly, from an independent. On Tuesday I was working from home so i walked the dog via the town and visited Walter Smith Butchers, Hindleys for a...

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Vegan Curry Soup

Jul 26, 2017 |

So I asked my husband a couple of weeks ago if he wanted vegan curry soup for lunch and he turned his nose up and said he'd grab a sandwich at work instead.  The soup went into the freezer and when offered a vegetarian curry soup a few weeks later he jumped at it.  He's not alone in his prejudice, take me back less than a year and I would have probably done the same, but after actually cooking a lot of vegan recipes (and not telling him when he eats them!!) I now know that they can be really...

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Vegan Tamarind Curry

Jul 25, 2017 |

I love a vegetarian curry, and this one is no exception, it’s actually a vegan curry so it really is suitable for everyone.  Tamarind is slightly sour, if you haven’t tried it before give it a go, it adds a great depth of flavour.  This makes 6 good size portions, and as with most of my recipes is great for leftovers, or you can even use it as a base for my Vegan Curry Soup. I made this version with my summer veg box, I do like a curry even in summer if its a colder evening and you can change...

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