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Healthy Vegan - Turmeric Mango - Apricot Oat Flapjacks

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These are British style flapjacks enhanced with turmeric, apricot and mango pieces.  I don't have breakfast during the working week, so a banana, flapjack and coffee are what gets me to lunch on a working day and today was no different.   I make flapjacks all the time and vary them wit different dried fruit or fresh seasonal fruit.  Recently its been strawberry flapjacks  with strawberries from the garden, but I wanted to experiment a little.   Turmeric seems to be trendy at the moment, so I thought I would chuck a teaspoon into my flapjacks just for a change.  Not only were the oats a golden autumn yellow, the turmeric also imparted its flavour and that was okay with me as I don't mind turmeric, but D was not overly keen on having these particular ones for his breakfast, saying that his preference was the other ones I usually make.  He thought these were more suited for a snack. These Turmeric Flapjacks are so easy to make vegan, just replac...

Healthy Vegan - Plum Fruit Leather Bats for A Batman Fan or Halloween Party

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I made these plum fruit leather bats for Halloween with   Our Best Bites   Natasha's Kitchen  Plum Fruit Leather   the plums that were literally falling from the tree in my garden .   I have so many garden to kitchen cookbooks and many have recipes for fruit leather, but never got round to making it at home despite having so many recipes bookmarked.  I am embarrassed to admit, its only because fruit leather began popping up on blogosphere that got me finally motivated.  I   couldn't find my black cat cookie cutter as that is what I really wanted to do with the plum fruit leather, but I guess I could do that for next year now, so instead we have some of Batmans back up - Nocturnal Bats.  I've rolled some plum fruit leather too for effect. My regular readers will that my first attempt at making fruit leather was a bit of a fail, but I managed to save the pulped plums for other recipes including   Our Best Bites   ...

Healthy Vegan - Bakers Dozen: Vegetarian Vegan Meat Free Fruit Curry Recipes

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This Meat Free Fruit Curry blog post came about after conversing with my vegetarian blogger friend Johanna who blogs over at Green Gourmet Giraffe.  Johanna had recenlty made a variation of Peach and Chickpea Curry  a few years back.   It was  in making that Peach and Chickpeas Curry inspired by Peach and Chickpea Curry  a few years back.   It was  in making that Peach fruit curry that both inspired and gave me the confidence last year to make a vegan Peach and Chickpea Curry  a few years back.   It was  in making that Plum Chickpea Curry with the plums that were literally falling from the garden tree .  This blog engagement with Green Gourmet Giraffe got me thinking and swiftly decide to share 13 Vegetarian and/ or Vegan Meat Free Fruit Curry Recipes and try and inspire some of you to try some of these unusual combinations, after all if we can have vegetables in desserts, puddings and cake - then I guess, why not a savour...