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This delicious creamy soup is simple to make and really flavoursome – you can enjoy if you’re vegan or not & wouldn’t guess it’s dairy free! It tastes so much better than tinned soup & doesn’t take much longer to make yourself from scratch with fresh ingredients. Ingredients 90g Vegan butter/ margarine 2 medium onions,Continue reading “Creamy Mushroom Soup (Vegan & dairy free)”

A very easy recipe indeed which makes a yummy snack (Vegan & Dairy – Free) The perfect quarantine recipe that needs very few ingredients. If you’ve got some porridge & syrup in the cupboard you’re sorted! Ingredients 250g porridge oats 125g vegan butter/ margarine 125g light brown sugar (or any sugar) 3 tbsp golden syrupContinue reading “Flapjacks”

This recipe for Creamy, crunchy, tangy coleslaw you’d never guess it’s dairy free! It’s easy to make and a perfect side dish for a barbecue; we had one yesterday as the weather was nice & luckily we have a garden. Yes vegan’s can enjoy a bbq – there are a good range of Vegan burgersContinue reading “Creamy Homemade Coleslaw (vegan)”

These simple yet delicious Easter nests are quick & easy to make! Childs play!! I learnt to make them when I was in primary school. They’re a classic favourite any time of year! Easter is just another excuse to make a chocolate treat. Also fab if you don’t have a lot of ingredients to handContinue reading “Easter Nests – Chocolate Cornflake or Rice Krispy Cakes”

This soup is so easy to make with very few ingredients it’s a simple but hearty recipe – so fresh & tasty a bowl of comfort!! INGREDIENTS 4 Leeks 1 onion 3 potatoes 1 litre Vegetable Stock (I used 2 stock cubes) 150 ml plant milk 1/2 carton of alpro Soy Cream (vegan) or anyContinue reading “Creamy Leek & Potato Soup (surprisingly dairy free &amvegan 😋)”

I have happy memories of making Rock Cakes with my grandad Salway when I was a child. It was one of the first things I learnt to bake. They are so easy to make & simply delicious. Rock cakes were promoted during the Second World War by the ministry of food as they needed lessContinue reading “Rock Cakes…”

I’ve always found Broccoli to be a Boring b*****d of a vegetable, usually end up sighing and sticking it in the steamer or boiling it and over cooking so it’s too soft. This recipe and style of cooking just jazzes it up and is really delicious yet healthy. I’ve never tried roasting it before andContinue reading “Simple Roasted Broccoli Tray Bake”

This is such an easy recipe to make and it only needs 4 ingredients!! Funnily enough this was popular during World War 2 due to rationing & limited ingredients. A thing we can relate to a bit more now due to the corona virus with lockdown measures & social isolation – limited shopping trips &Continue reading “Apple Crumble (Quarantine Crumble)”

The humble cauliflower a bland seeming vegetable; can be made exciting & flavoursome. When my boys were young vegetable hating toddlers I used to sneak cauliflower into my mashed potato & they were non the wiser!! My go-to recipe for cauliflower was always cauliflower cheese but now with a vegan in the family who doesn’tContinue reading “Cauliflower Hot Wings Recipe”

A challenging Mother’s Day today for many who sadly can’t see their mum today, due to the corona virus & social isolating & quarantine. Or in my case my mum lives overseas. I guess 1 Mother’s Day without your mum is worth it if it means you still get to give her a big hugContinue reading “Simple vanilla sponge with strawberries 🍓 for Mother’s Day (vegan)”