FIVE BEAN SOUP

09/07/2020

Homemade BBQ Sauce

Sure you could buy your sauce from the store. You wouldn’t know everything that is in it and you would be bringing home more plastic waste but you could do that. That shop bought sauce also couldn’t be adjusted to your own taste. I will give you the basic recipe I use here but you […]

07/07/2020

Crispy Spicy Tofu with Ramen Style Soup

Please excuse the lack of pretty pictures as I was not planning to do this recipe for a post but it was so good that I have to share. The picture below does not do this dish justice at all. I had no attempted anything like this before so searched for inspiration this morning. In […]

05/07/2020

Ashridge Walk

With the Covid lockdown we are generally not traveling far but luckily we have several forests and parks around to choose from for walks. This time we chose to head over to the Ashridge Estate in Hertfordshire. It is a National Trust property with public footpaths winding all over it. We parked at a small […]

03/07/2020

Veggie Quesadilla (vg)

I guess technically a quesadilla should have cheese but we are whole foods plant based. So for my hubby and I it was no cheese or cheese like substance. If you aren’t doing the WFPB thing and want some cheese it is up to you. The omnis and the vegetarian chose cheddar cheese in the […]

30/06/2020

Creamy Red Lentils

As things evolve in my home we are now up to three people that are plant-based and three that are not. This means my cooking strategies have also needed to evolve. As of Friday I am now making one very big plant-based meal and just providing a meat on the side for those that still […]

27/06/2020

Safari Walk

As we missed out the last bit of our Woburn walk last week we decided to finish it off this week. As the whole walk was meant to be 8 miles and we walked 7 miles last week we didn’t expect this walk to be terribly long. We did get slightly lost last week and […]

25/06/2020

Homemade Pizza (vegan)

There can be no better way to cater for all your family’s dietary choices than pizza. Why is that? Because everyone can have their own made just the way they like it. Only the choice of toppings divide the omnis from the vegans. Of course you could make individual pizzas using a store bought dough/ […]

23/06/2020

Curry Two Ways

I think I have mentioned that though on the whole my family is an omnivorous group we do have one vegetarian who is aiming at paganism. I know that many families find this a hard situation. I like for us to sit down and have our meals together whenever possible so this means the food […]

21/06/2020

Woburn walk

We found an 8 mile walk around Woburn Abbey on Northamptonshire Walks which is rather funny considering that Woburn Abbey is well inside of Bedfordshire. They have some lovely pictures and the details of the correct walk… in the end it was not quite the walk we did. This walk was written up five years ago and […]

20/06/2020

Chicken Sourdough Casserole

I started this by roasting two chickens. Don’t worry….this recipe only uses half a chicken. I roasted two chickens because the meal planned for the next day is chicken with salad and I want to have extra for two more meals. My plan for next week is a chicken noodle soup and a chicken stir-fry. […]