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Frozen Banana and Almond Wakeup Shake
Milkshakes for breakfast. Not quite what you might expect from food to glow. Kale shakes, like my kale berry smoothie perhaps. But not a milkshake. And most certainly not one for breakfast. I have...
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Grilled Lettuce – on its own, and in a salad with potatoes, cornichon and...
Can you believe I am asking you to grill lettuce? Isn’t that the one vegetable that we can just leave the heck alone? I know it sounds bonkers, but it really is quite something. As different to raw...
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Chocolate-Almond Butter Bites – a healthier candy
Those checkout aisles at the grocery store can be a nightmare. Not only do we have to negotiate tempting pocket-money magazines with eye-catching headlines (“Is Pippa MIddleton Engaged?”; “25 Worst...
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Greens and Grain Salad with Sorrel and Sunflower Seed Pesto
Is it a bit chilly where you are? Have you pulled on a sweater yet? Here in Scotland the cautious flirtation with Autumn has ceased: we are now in a committed relationship. In truth, it has only...
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“Creamy” Zucchini, Walnut and Thyme Soup
Let’s face it: size does matter. Okay. I should clarify: size matters if you are a zucchini. Those summer squashes (zucchini/courgettes) that throughout the lazy summer months were tender and...
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Spicy Seaweed (or Kale!) Popcorn + A Happy Life Lesson
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, lived a girl. She was an ordinary girl. Not a wallflower, but not a high-flyer either. She was loved by her family, got on well(-ish) at school, had the...
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Roasted Pumpkin Hummus with Cauliflower and Walnut Crumble {gf/df}
Botanically identical to tender-skinned summer squashes, winter squashes are my unsung hero of autumn-winter eating. Not only do they keep well – you can forget about them for over a month and they...
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Tea-smoked Tofu Gado-Gado (Indonesian Peanut Sauce Vegetable Salad)
Yes, I have looked at the calendar. Yes I do realise that it is November. I even suspect that some of you will have had to plough your driveway to get to work, or at least switch from shorts to long...
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So-Easy Beetroot Soup with Wasabi and Lime + Spicy, Fruity Pickled Beetroot
After the excesses of last week’s ingredient-fest that is gado-gado, we are down to earth. Quite literally. You can’t more down to earth than beetroot, can you? Beetroot – or beets as they are...
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Chocolate Frosting with a Whole Food Twist
It is not very often that I go a bit crazy with my own cooking. Like most cooks and food bloggers I will make stuff, serve it, write about it, but gosh don’t I get embarrassed when people like it. Do...
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Southern Cornbread Dressing (Stuffing) – gluten-free and vegan
Any Southerner looking at the title would be puzzled. You see, ‘vegan’ and ‘southern’ are rarely seen in the same sentence. Not unless one is speaking of raw ingredients – say, a tomato salad. And even...
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Preserved Lemons – an easy, no-cook edible gift idea
Do you want/need extra brownie points this Christmas? Have you forgotten anyone on your list and are scratching your head for ideas? Even if you aren’t in the doghouse for something or other, and you...
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Freekeh and Greens Soup
I hope you don’t mind this simple little soup popping into your inbox or feed. I realise that other food bloggers are posting elaborate year-end round ups of their best recipes, and laying out plans...
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Citrus and Roasted Winter Vegetable Salad with Pomegranate Dressing
Although it is eye-searingly bright here in Edinburgh, the temperature has dropped and I have treated myself to a morning of central heating. I don’t usually keep the heat on for myself (even though...
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Winter Vegetable Gratin with Truffle ‘Cream’
Week in and week out during the winter months some of us find a curious addition to our delivered or CSA vegetable box. Nestled in amongst the common-as-muck dirty potatoes and carrots, under a canopy...
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Quick and Clean Fragrant Noodle Soup
My Rachel, the ‘pop picker’ for food to glow, is smack in the middle of exams. And what does a teen with a heavy diet of exams need? Yup, home cooking. They may want crisps and chocolate and those...
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Black Bean Quinoa Chili – Super Bowl Supper
It will not have escaped many people that this weekend is Super Bowl Sunday. I know it is about the culmination of many months of blood, sweat and tears – and that’s just the fans – but there is also a...
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Fragrant Butternut Squash, Lentil and Lemongrass Curry + Cumin Seed Chapati
One can buy very good bought curry pastes nowadays, but there is just something extra-bright and fresh about a homemade paste. And it isn’t hard to make: I just pop everything into the bowl of my...
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Mediterranean Stuffed Peppers – naturally vegan, naturally delicious
The stuffed vegetable needs no introduction, especially to anyone from around the Mediterranean or in the Middle East. The farcis, dolmades, yemista, mahashi/mehshi – all can be exquisite examples of a...
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Show and Tell Thursday + Instant Japanese Pickle
snapped on my phone seconds before scoffing! All I can say is, “wow!” After hovering around the front door for a couple of days – occasionally having dark thoughts of neighbours signing for my special...
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