Vegetarian Foods Archive

So it's the Friday before Halloween.   I thought I would share this post  Five on Fridays  hosted by Amy at  Love Made My Home . Last year I was humbled to judge some cakes at a community event in the city centre.  I never got round to sharing the pictures on my blog last year, so here are a selected few from Halloween last year. One - This one by the way is not one of the entries, it was the prize for the winner.  Two - These Halloween cupcakes were the winners, for taste but also for visual impact and effort.  I love the individual pumpkin, the witches hat, the grave-stone heads, and look close there is even a spider and a ghost!  We had this Chocolate Bundt cake covered in skull heads. Three - There were also plenty of savoury nibbles, such as these creepy black olive spiders.  Not the best picture, but don't they look like they are moving - they were delicious to eat. Another savoury morsel topped with peppers, olives, s...

Did I tell you we had 1 inch of snow in the Welsh valleys at the weekend.  It was a bit of a surprise, to look out of the bedroom window to find the greenhouse and dirt ground covered with the cold white stuff.  It took us a little while to scrape the ice of the car too. Anyway, to escape the cold and being stuck indoors, we took a drive and made a day trip of going into Bristol.  I love Bristol for many reasons, when I graduated from University all those years ago  - I applied for jobs in Bristol, Brighton and Birmingham, but ended up finding a job in the city when I went to Uni - Glasgow.  I do love exploring Bristol as well as trying out the many vegetarian and vegan eateries.  I also enjoy taking a lazy wander around  Stokes Croft for the graffiti art - but there was not much new there this time round, just a handful around the #RefugeesWelcome.    This is the only one that I managed to capture on camera.  Its Paddington Bear -...

I've never been to Cheltenham, England but when I saw that there was Cheltenham were hosting a Vegan Fair, well I thought this would be the weekend to go and make a whole day of it.   It was icy cold, but the hospitality of the Cheltenham people was very warm that it was a delight to explore the city, but also the stalls at the Cheltenham Vegan Fair.    Although it was small,  I loved it as it made a fabulous and genuine refreshing change from the usual suspects in South Wales.  So here are some of the delights that my eyes (and belly) were able to feast on.  I apologise sincerely in advance if I have missed your stall here, it was getting busy so I was unable to take pictures of all that were there, but I did visit each and every one of them.    Lovely little Badger flower pots I know a friend who would love this in her kitchen.  I regret not getting it for her now, it would have been a nice house warming gift. Some of the mos...

I do feel my calling is to work in a big community kitchen with people from diverse, cultural and ethnic backgrounds.  I even dream one day if I win the lottery big time to start a community canteen where people from all backgrounds can come together, share and eat food and mostly talk with each other to break down preconceived ideas and challenge misinformation disseminated often by cheap paper tabloids.  I would not want it to be one of those places, where people come along, a bit like so-called 'Diversity days' 'eat the food from different countries, dance to the music, have their hands painted in henna', then go back to their homes continuing to still carry those prejudices.  I've seen that way to many times and always avoid it as tokenism.  Anyway, today (and the rest of this week) is not about me.  This week I give my blog space freely over to Refugee Week  in the hope that it will raise some awareness of refugees and asylum seekers across the world f...

In the past I have seen fellow bloggers share blog post of their  fails in the kitchen, I  thought I would share some food related photographs that did not make a blog post in their own right. Here is a vegetarian roast dinner with mock 'meat' slices.  I loved the colours but the presentation let me down. I have been making Courgetti for a while, but never featured it as the final dish always looks a bit scraggy. This dish made with new potatoes, cherry tomatoes and black olives is called Airport Potatoes.  It is a recipe that I have made twice with home grown cherry tomatoes.  It was bookmarked from Good Cooking: The New Essentials by Jill Dupleix tasted utterly gorgeous, but it looked an utter squishy mess.    This Roasted cauliflower salad with kale and sun dried tomatoes just did not photograph well and looked a bit insipid.  Below is an Jumbo or Giant Israeli Couscous that looked like slug eggs and the roasted summer vegetabl...