Category: Vegan
-
Gingerbread
These are great fun to make with family and friends and taste delicious with a cup of tea or coffee. Ingredients 100g vegan butter3 tbsp golden syrup100g dark muscovado sugar½ tsp bicarbonate of soda1 tbsp ground ginger1 tsp ground cinnamon225g plain flour50g icing sugar (for icing – optional) Method Based on this recipe 🙏❤️ https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/ultimate-easy-gingerbread
-
Mum’s Hummus Recipe
Here’s my mum’s vegan hummus recipe – she showed me how to make it while we were in the UK this Summer. INGREDIENTSCooked chickpeas (cooked with salted water) 300g6 small cloves garlic, slicedJuice of one lemon1 tsp of cumin4 tbsp tahini4 tbsp olive oil METHODAdd a little of the chickpea water to the chickpeas, garlic…
-
Cucumber Water
This is so refreshing in hot weather 😊 Just add sliced cucumber and optionally sliced lemon and/or some mint leaves to a bottle or jug of water, add ice or cool in the fridge.
-
Iced Matcha Latte
We have some good quality matcha (Japanese green tea powder) given to us from my son’s Japanese great grandmother who is 95 and lives next door. She showed me how to do the tea ceremony, including how to handle the tea bowl and whisk the tea so the bubbles are the right size. But as…
-
Dhal Curry
Tried “vegan-izing” a dhal recipe and it was soo good and simple to make, thought I’d share it here 🙂 Ingredients (Makes about 5 servings) Method
-
Boost Immunity Smoothie
Blend together (serves 1): 1 banana300ml orange juiceJuice of half a lemon1/4 tsp turmeric1/4 teaspoon ginger1/2 tsp chia seeds if you have them 🙂
-
Raspberry Smoothie Recipe
Made this with things I could find in my kitchen, it was pretty good! Blended together: Handful of frozen or fresh raspberries 1 banana Approx. 150ml orange juice Dash of turmeric Dash of cinnamon Just realised the photo looks a bit like the “Super Flower Blood Moon” that happened yesterday 🙂 Unfortunately couldn’t see it…
-
Simnel Cake Recipe
Marzipan recipe based on:https://elavegan.com/homemade-marzipan-recipe/ 😊🙏 This cake appeared with us in NHK’s グレーテルのかまど「英国 春を告げるシムネルケーキ」and we were also in グレーテルのかまど「朝吹真理子のスコーン」making scones and in グレーテルのかまど「英国カリスマ主婦のトライフルのレシピ」making trifle.
-
Green Smoothie Recipe
Quite low on ingredients, but made this green smoothie today, blending together: Approx. 200ml apple juice 1/2 banana1/4 tsp ginger powder (from Miyuki’s organic farm in Nagasaki)1/4 tsp turmeric2g green kale powder (from Alishan) Still enjoying Veganuary!
-
Breakfast Smoothie Recipe
Am trying Veganuary this month and made this smoothie for breakfast out of ingredients I found in our kitchen, it was really good! Here’s the recipe: Blend all these ingredients together with a mixer or blender (serves one): Large handful or frozen mangoHandful of frozen blueberries Juice of half a lemon1/2 tsp chia seedstbsp maple…
-
Teacake
This is a yummy, relatively healthy teacake I make quite often. Recommend it with a cup of tea! Ingredients 300g dried fruit (raisins, sultanas, etc.) 260ml hot tea (about one mug of tea) 40ml juice and grated peel of 1 orange 250g wholemeal flour 2 tsp baking powder ½ tsp cinnamon 100g brown sugar 3…
Grace Kishino 