Vegetarian Whole Foods Made Simple
These easy 5 Spice Noodles come together in less than 15 minutes! Do you ever have one of those weeks where every recipe fails you? Well my friends, that has been my sorry situation for the past 7 days. My granola bars were dry and …
This whole wheat Lemon Ginger Cake is just bursting with zingy citrus and warm gingery flavour. This weekend I will be celebrating Mothers Day. As a mother to a British-American child, I feel I am allowed to double dip with this Holiday. So Kirk, if …
These whole wheat Welsh Rarebit Muffins are addictively cheesy, and make the perfect savoury snack!
Last week Kirk and I booked tickets to visit home in the Summer. I’m so excited!! We have decided to make this visit more of a holiday, so along with the rest of the clan (9 of us now!), we are renting a lush cottage in North Wales for a week. Somehow we are also cramming in London, Edinburgh, and my beloved Lancaster <3. Just 5 more months to wait, (and 5 months to prepare for that transatlantic flight with the babe!).
In the meantime, I’m satisfying myself with a little baking. Welsh baking. Or rather Welsh-inspired baking. Welsh Rarebit obviously phenomenal in its pure, original form, but I couldn’t resist fiddling around with it. The result- these beautiful savoury muffins. I got the original idea from Nigella, and then bumped up the nutrition a little by making them whole wheat.
Warning, these muffins are highly addictive! The buttery, salty flavour is so moreish that you may just eat the whole batch…
Enjoy!
I use this brand of vegetarian Worcestershire Sauce
These muffins are also really good if you choose to omit the Worcestershire Sauce, and keep them as regular cheese muffins
Like all muffins, these are best when heated within 24 hours of baking. I usually freeze any that we will not eat immediately. They freeze really well!
Inspired by Nigella Lawson’s Welsh Rarebit Muffins in Nigella Bites.
Zesty, vibrant, and nourishing! This one pot Brazilian Chickpeas and Rice is an easy weeknight option! I don’t know if my fellow veggies can relate, but sometimes I’ll be scrolling through Pinterest, or Foodgawker, and a beautiful dish will catch my eye. Then I realise …
These vegan Coconut Cashew Granola Bars are sweet, satisfying, and wholesome! I was watching a clip of my favourite lady Nigella making Granola Bars the other day, and she described medjool dates as “the most delicious edible glue”. Isn’t that perfect? She’s right (obviously…!), medjool dates …
These simple almond hearts are gluten-free, refined sugar free, and vegan! Plus they only require 4 ingredients, one bowl, and about 10 minutes to make!
This was not supposed to be a post about cookies. For months I had a glorious Valentines breakfast bun recipe in my head- light flaky buns with swirls of strawberry baked to perfection and then topped with a lemon glaze. Sounds good right?! Unfortunately I just couldn’t bring it together. I had a series of experimental flops, and in the end I gave up. Worst of all, they were incredibly cumbersome to make, and I wasted many a nap time up to my elbows in dough with absolutely nothing to show for it.
Then I remembered that I was supposed to be keeping things simple, and the greatest gift I could give to my husband on Valentines day was something sweet, and a dirty-dish free sink. Enter the MOST SIMPLE cookie you will ever meet. Just four ingredients, one bowl, and about 10 minutes in the oven. Happy Valentines Day Darling!
Naturally I cut these babies into heart for Valentines Day, but they can be recreated for any Holiday- Stars for Christmas, Bunnies for Easter, Spooky Bats on Halloween… the list goes on and on. It really is a perfect cookie recipe to have in your back pocket. So I will keep working on those Strawberry Breakfast rolls for you, but in the meantime, have a cookie!
Enjoy!
Adapted minimally from The Clean Dish.
Pancake Day is upon us, rejoice!! And I have a little treat to help you celebrate: 17 Healthy Pancake Recipes gathered from the interweb, just for you. Much as I love traditional pancake day pancakes with a sprinkle of sugar and a dab of lemon, …
Do you ever come across recipes that seem too good to be true? Thats exactly how I felt about this beauty when I first stumbled upon it. How can 3 very simple ingredients come together to create something that bloggers were waxing lyrical over? Well, I …
These fruit & nut breakfast cookies are healthy, tasty, and easy to make for a convenient breakfast or snack!
You know when your little, and you don’t understand why adults, who can do ANYTHING THEY WANT, opt for sensible high fibre breakfasts instead of, say, cookies?! Well today I’m helping you to realise that childhood dream with some delicious breakfast cookies! Here’s the thing though- they are sensible and high fibre too, to placate your inner adult.
There are endless combinations to be had with these fruit and nut breakfast cookies, today I’m simply showing you my favourite! The base of my breakfast cookies are bananas and oats, and I like to add pecans or walnuts for crunch, a smattering of dried cranberry, and just a touch of dark choc (this may be a healthy cookie, but it’s still a cookie!). You can change things up with different dried fruit, or different nuts. You could also leave out the chocolate to make it extra healthy.
The result is a soft, tasty snack that you can grab on the way out of the door, or in my case, munch-on-the-go as I wrangle a speedy, “curious”, one year old. They also freeze well, pack well, and come together in about 15 minutes. Ahhhhh, here’s to stress free mornings!
Enjoy!
Frozen bananas are magical, and I always try to have some in the freezer for baking and smoothies. I’m not sure on the science behind it, but something about freezing bananas makes them sweeter. I often use frozen defrosted bananas in this recipe.
Bonus Baby Recipe: When James was a little younger, I would make half of the batch with the chocolate, cranberries and nuts, and half of the batch just bananas and oats. It made a fabulous and nutritious baby cookie- and all of our baby-friends seem to love them too!
This Flourless Chocolate Olive Oil cake, is dense, rich and absolutely heavenly. Who has two thumbs and turned 30 this week… Yeah, this girl! So in recognition of this daunting, yet happy milestone, I wanted to share 30 pearls of wisdom with you. 30 lessons …
