Vegan Roasted Garlic Cashew Aioli plus 6 flavour variations!
I never liked mayo. It was viscous and oddly sweet, unnecessary tasteless fat when there were plenty of other perfectly good red and yellow condiments in the centre of the table. I grew up thinking...
View ArticleVegan Chocolate Magic Shell & Halloween Green Goo Magic Shell
Seriously? How cool is magic shell? It starts all liquid-y then BAM it’s frozen and shatter-y the minute it hits anything frozen. The stuff from the grocery store has all sorts of crap in it of...
View ArticleVegan Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream & Halloween Ice Cream Bars
Pumpkin makes me think of autumn, simple as that. Overflowing bins of carving pumpkins just crying out to become jack-o-lanterns. Costumes and candy and festive parties and crazy decorations. The...
View ArticlePumpkin & Coconut Cake Bites – Vegan and Sugar Free
If you’re going to bother roasting pumpkin you may as well cut up a few kilos. It only takes a few extra minutes for the cutting, doesn’t require any longer in the oven, and means you can make a...
View ArticleTahini & Raspberry Power Breakfast Shake – a PB&J twist
After taking September off from the Secret Recipe Club while we ate our way across the US, I’m back with a bang and excited to explore all the lovely creations that appear each month. My SRC...
View ArticleChargrilled Broad Beans
I’m kind of stuck right now. Pulled this way and that, feeling as if very few things are actually moving in a forward direction while others zoom right past. I haven’t been posting much lately as I...
View ArticleStrawberry, Cucumber & Coconut Water Slushy
A dose of refreshment on a hot day, a dose of sunshine on a rainy day — this frosty drink is as appropriate post-yoga as it is post-beach. Another thing I’ve decided to do as part of my sticking with...
View ArticleBaked Ricotta Cheesecake with Fig & Strawberry Compote
This story begins and ends with me eating cake for breakfast so, if you get worried along the way, be safe in the knowledge that everything will be ok. On cheesecake and fat If you are going to eat...
View ArticleClean Living by Luke Hines & Scott Gooding – plus Zucchini Pasta with Poached...
“Darling, can you please get the basil?” Scotty quips with a twinkle in his eye. Luke pretends he doesn’t hear the request, continuing to banter with the captive audience and add to his growing army...
View ArticleFig and Black Olive Tapenade
A friend tweeted me a week or so ago asking if I had a recipe for Fig and Olive Tapenade. I didn’t, but to say it peaked my interest would be an understatement. She was looking for a recipe as, thanks...
View ArticleSkinny Fat-Elvis Truffles & SABH December Theme Announcement!
Roughly a year or so ago I shared a pic of this lovely little treat, but it was only this morning I got around to making it again and taking decent pics. Why now? Well I’m hosting Sweet Adventures...
View ArticlePerfect Peach Pie
Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. – Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 I’m particularly particular about...
View ArticleTriple Ginger, Fig & Macadamia Cookies & a Free Cookie e-book!
The scent of cookies fresh from the oven is simply intoxicating. It stops people in their tracks as their eyes glaze over and their speech trails off. “Oh, are you baking cookies?” is uttered with an...
View ArticleSalted Caramel Truffles – Raw, vegan and impossibly good.
I had no idea when I chose ‘Heavenly Holiday Truffles’ as the theme of the December Sweet Adventures Blog Hop that I would become obsessed with turning EVERY FLAVOUR EVER into a truffle. Seriously. A...
View ArticleGingerbread Biscotti – Coconut Caramel Gingerbread Biscotti to be exact
The coconut caramel wasn’t burnt, per say, but it was well past the colour it needed to be to make light tan kaya jam, and it had to be light tan. So into a jar it went and into the refrigerator to be...
View ArticleRaw Ginger Chocolate Truffles
What to say, what to say, on this the last day of a very long yet very short, and slightly tumultuous, year… There will be no 2014 trend predictions or big wrap up posts today. No tomes or photo...
View ArticleVegetarian Fajita Soup
I don’t make New Years resolutions. I never really have. However this year, after an interesting 2013, I’ve found myself thinking more than usual about what I want to achieve in 2014. The list is long...
View ArticlePan Con Tomate – Tomato Bread
Sometimes simple is best. Take for example basil – chopped with a few walnuts and whisked into a perfect pesto. Or peaches – sliced and slightly spiced and baked into a pie. Or tomatoes – pureed into...
View ArticleMushroom & Quinoa Vegan Meatballs with a Rustic Pasta Sauce – and where would...
There aren’t many things better than a big pot of meatballs and sauce to feed a crowd. Prepared in advance and called on as needed they are at once terribly simply and extraordinarily versatile....
View ArticleBBQ Spice Rub
Remember how I said I was going to work my way through drafts and archives? This is one of those, draft started Feb 2013, recipe longer ago than that. I’ve subsequently run out of this rub and now...
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