This is an easy side to any meal, it goes well with Fish, veggie burgers, pasta and more. It’s also a good alternative to gravy or tomato based sauces. You can also make a carbonara style pasta sauce with it, just add basil and pancetta or meat alternative bacon bits. Ingredients 1 small brown onion […]Continue reading “Veg and white sauce Recipe — Sorry, I can’t eat that”
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Cooking Weights and Base
With Christmas approaching and baking madness descending, I realised I had lost my trusty old 4, 2 and 1 ounce weights and have been using pennies instead ( I worked out that 4 tuppences and a penny made one ounce). So someone lovely who can make things decided to help. He found some vintage (maybeContinue reading “Cooking Weights and Base”
Vietnamese spring rolls
We have recently discovered these delicious rice wraps that are easy to make and can be filled with all your favourite salad stuff with a dip of your choice. You buy these dry and soak them for a minute or two in warm water to soften them before adding your salad and rolling them up.Continue reading “Vietnamese spring rolls”
Experimental Japanese meal
One of the fun things I like to do, preferably with one of my kids, is experimental cooking. We like to try different recipes from other cultures but we have to make them vegetarian and dairy free so lots of tweaking is often involved. So “Bear” and I decided to have a go at aContinue reading “Experimental Japanese meal”
Wonder Mill
As we like to be as self sufficient as possible, we decided a couple of yeas ago to buy a mill for making flour from various grains. We wanted somethin small and sturdy and after much research we got ourselves the Junior Wondermill We use this for grinding wheat, oats and chick peas mostly, forContinue reading “Wonder Mill”
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