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Put on Purple… served with ice-cream!


Put on Purple… served with ice-cream! I wasn’t intending to post today as I should really have ‘one’ rest day in my – “I’m having a rest week”! Never mind – maybe at the weekend I can get some rest! 😀 So, why am I posting and what’s all this about purple? Well, the month of May is Lupus month…

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Fast Food with a difference! It’s fast & it’s cake-y!!!


Fast Food with a difference! It’s fast & it’s cake-y!!! So, I’m sitting in my kitchen thinking I need more ‘rest’ time after my very busy week last week! Rest = tea & biscuits (cookies) or coffee & cake right? Of course it does! 😀 I have tea – green tea, mint tea, earl grey tea, English Breakfast tea, flower tea…

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Pitta Picnic Pockets…Gluten Free & Vegan


Pitta Picnic Pockets…Gluten Free & Vegan Oh my GOSH! Can you believe it’s May already! A whole third of the year has already passed! Don’t they say ‘time flies when you’re having fun?!’ It certainly flies that’s for sure… maybe it’s an ‘as-you-get-older’ thing? Talking of older, Happy Birthday to my little sister not that she’s little as she is…

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Chocolate, Calcium & Cookathon! All vegan!


Chocolate, Calcium & Cookathon! All vegan! Hello everyone! 🙂 Do you think that I’m a bit undecided about what to post this week? 😛 Well actually I have too many things to share so thought I’d give you a bit of everything today! 🙂 Chocolate first before I eat them my husband eats them all!!! Yes!!! Believe that! 😀 I’m sure…

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Fudgy chocolate brownies – vegan and gluten free


Fudgy chocolate brownies – vegan and gluten free 🙂 These brownies were inspired by a recipe on Caroline’s Cooking and I just had to give them a try… with a few tweaks of course! Isn’t it amazing how many brownie recipes you can have! This will be the third I have posted on this blog – and when I was asked the…

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Tahini Flapjack: FreeFrom & Vegan


Tahini Flapjack: FreeFrom & Vegan Tahini flapjack? Yes! That lovely jar of sesame paste hiding at the back of your cupboard which you bought to make homemade houmous has a new use! 🙂 I was looking for something which would bind oats together and decided that I’d see what I could come up with! With only four ingredients this flapjack…

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Kurdish Shifta. . . vegan and free-from


Shifta. . . vegan and free-from Shifta, not to be confused with Shifti (watermelon) is a traditionally Kurdish home cooked (and deep fried) food. Not often found in restaurants or as street-food, shifta are something you may not have come across – unless you are Kurdish, have Kurdish friends or Kurdish family! 😀 These little fritters are normally made from diced…

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Party bites and goodbye 2015!


Party Bites and Goodbye 2015! New Years Eve is here! 🙂 Are you going out to celebrate? Are you having a houseful of guests to welcome in 2016? Are you having a quiet night in with your family? or have you had enough of the festivities and will be having an early night? Whatever your plans this evening I hope…

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Sugar, Spice & All Things Nice!


Sugar, Spice & All Things Nice! Sugar… errr yes actually! Well, in one of the recipes (yes, I am sharing two today)! But it’s coconut sugar so none of that refined white stuff! 😛 Spice… because spice is so delicious and whether savoury or sweet it livens up everything! even brussel sprouts! 😛 All things nice… of course! It wouldn’t…

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