I wanted to give polenta another go as I haven’t used it since I tried it as a topping for a casserole (that turned out quite well), and I’m trying to come up with some “fine dining” style dishes to wow our good friend who’ll be arriving on Monday! I’m still a beginner when it […]

While we were in Newcastle we found a great little stall on Grey Street that specialised in Vegan pies, pasties and sweet patries. We were tempted in with the curried lentil pastie and spicy bean pastie all encased in a delicious seeded whole wheat pastry. We bought them and then sat on Grey’s Monument and […]

Friday night is curry night and this time I thought I’d give the biryani a try. Our usual takeaway curry order is Veg Biryani with Vindaloo sauce, Aloo Brinjal and an Aloo Saag. But we’ve moved away from the takeaway side of things now, just wasn’t enjoying it quite as much as we used to. […]

I have tried a few different approaches to making veggie burgers and in the past they have been tasty but the consistency was not quite right. They’ve either dried out too much from my over cooking or the’re too “wet” and have turned to mush when trying to move them. Not today though, I’ve played […]

There was a time when I used to live on Marks and Spencers stemmed ginger cookies. I could buy a box and pretty much eat the whole lot in a night (I know greedy guts!) This was about 9 years ago and I’d forgotten all about those cookies, right until I made this batch of […]

I had to share this, as if there are other “try hard” bakers out there like myself, you might make this same horrendous resulting baking mistake. I whipped up a batch of what looked like delicious vanilla & oat cookies, they puffed up nicely, looked the right consistency, smelled luscious, until I served them up on […]