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Items like our lemon juicer that I have had for 4 years and still get so much use out of or even my newest obsession of a these glass coffee mugs. I recently switched to glass food storage containers as I try to avoid as much plastic as possible. These reusable food storage bags have really helped me reduce the amount of single use plastic I use. This 5 piece set includes a bread knife, chef knife, slicing knife, utility knife and paring knife for a whole range of tasks.

My hope is that we can build a library of recipes and essential vegan cooking tips and knowledge that will help you to navigate through the minefield of becoming plant-based. I want to keep these posts short and manageable, so today, with our Vegan Essential Recipes No.1 Once you feel confident making these recipes, try my easy vegan risotto recipe, which you can find here! For each of these recipes, I put a bit of oil and salt in the pan and stirring the dry rice to coat before adding the water.

These vegan Mini Egg Cookies are the perfect easy snack or dessert for Easter! There is rich and creamy chocolate goodness in every bite These Easter vegan Mini Egg Cookies take chocolate chip cookies to a whole new level! I decided to make my go to chocolate chip cookie recipe and add vegan mini eggs. You mix the vegan Mini Eggs into the dough as you are forming the cookie dough balls and have little chocolate hidden surprises in each cookie.

The discovery of Condensed Milk must have been greeted with much enthusiasm in those days before heat-treated milk (and fridges) but for this particular recipe, inspired by the Minimalist Baker, I have replaced all of the dairy quotient with almonds and coconut milk. Because this dessert is frozen, it is a perfect make-ahead dessert, just make sure you remove it from the freezer in plenty of time (on a cool day, it will thaw in a flash on warm days!). Try different cookie bases, Digestives are a classic cheesecake base (in the UK, look for supermarket own brand, these are usually vegan), Oreos give a delicious dark chocolate element, whilst Lotus Biscuits are sweet and spicy. To make sure your crumbs are crushed thoroughly, place your biscuits in a ziplock bag, do the bag up nearly all the way, just leaving a tiny gap, and then use your rolling pin to crush them to a crumbly dust.

My goal this spring was to find bump friendly non maternity dress that look good on anyone, pregnant or not! Lately I’ve found so many cute ones (all non-maternity) that I’ll been able to wear comfortably with my growing belly. It has been my goal to buy as little maternity clothes as possible and instead choose items that are bump friendly that I can still wear after pregnancy! Below you will find a range of bump friendly dresses in lots of different styles that will accommodate for your growing bump, whilst being comfortable, airy and lighweight.

The term Comfort Food is rapidly becoming a 21st Century cliché, the last sacred vestige of unmarried 30 or 40 somethings; huge bars of chocolate being consumed by the kilo, offering a quick fix for the temporarily depressed, jilted girlfriends scoffing huge boxes of biscuits without any discernment: pink wafers, synthetic-flavoured compacted sawdust, cheap cupcakes that come in packs of 12, wrapped in silver foil; beleaguered, near-mutinous office workers decimating dried out, wrinkled pieces of meat of origin(s) unknown, kept warm in huge, greasy metal trays on supermarket deli counters, potato wedges no longer edible…proof that reconstituted food can serve a very definite purpose in this age of hyper-food awareness. Before I became vegan, my own particular weakness was for tea and biscuits, which I would eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner, evening snack, mid-afternoon snack, post-hangover snack, whenever. Whilst there is no excuse for this as a snack, there was something almost religious about the dunking of the biscuit into the holy golden liquid, freshly brewed tea, the quick transportation from drinking vessel to mouth and then the all-to-quick savouring as the mushy biscuit dissolves into nothing; as do the day Traditionally to be served with nothing more than freshly grated (vegan) cheese, but if I feel that we need some additional vitamins, I will stir through some broad beans (removed from their little papery skins if not early in the season), a scorched red or yellow pepper chopped into small slices, sautéed courgette, stirred through the Risotto with some fresh peas or asparagus.

10 Ideas for a Great Vegan Easter. Whether or not you celebrate Easter as a religious holiday, it is undoubtedly one of my favourite times of the year for the chocolate eggs, the spring blossoms that start emerging and the sunny flowers like daffodils that remind us that nature is starting to wake up again, as it always does. I thought I would share with you 10 ideas for a having a great vegan Easter that include making your own creme eggs, making hot cross buns and an easter egg hunt! Let me know in the comments how you like to celebrate Easter, or the onset of Spring.

An adventure of life, food and a splash of gin One of the best things about the warmer season has to be making the most of longer days and sunshine in the garden by dining alfresco. To offer a bit of guidance and some expert top tips on how to dine alfresco, Outdoor Living Buyer at Dobbies, Lynsey Abbott, said: “ When warmer weather allows, it’s time to give the oven a break and rediscover the joy of cooking up delicious flame grilled food in yor outdoor space. If you find an identical product from one of Dobbies Garden Centres at a cheaper price in any UK retailer, in-store or online, Dobbies will match it and refund the difference.

A souring and thickening agent unique to Sri Lanka, goroka (kokam) is a fluted orange fruit whose segments are dried, turning black. Spanish mackerel, skin on, cut into 3 cm (1¼ in) pieces 1 piece of Goroka (available from Asian grocers and specialist spice outlets) Place the coconut milk, spices, onion, chillies, garlic and curry leaves in a heavy-based saucepan, bring to the boil and simmer for 10 minutes or until the onions are soft. This Sri Lankan fish curry powder can be used in a range of fish curries and also works well added to a little flour and used to season fish fillets before shallow frying.

It’s thick, creamy, cozy and makes the perfect vegan breakfast! Naturally sweetened it’s packed with flavour and fibre and makes an amazing breakfast, snack, or healthy dessert! I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to realise that you can make WARM chia pudding. I know part of the appeal of a typical chia pudding is that you can make them ahead of time and just grab them out of the fridge in the morning as an easy, grab and go breakfast.