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Monthly Archives: October 2014

World Vegan Day 2014

31 Friday Oct 2014

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70th Veganniversary, The Vegan Society, Vegan Cake, Vegan Month, World Vegan Day

This very special World Vegan Day Marks the 70th birthday of the vegan society.

Today I’m encouraging you to do two very simple things: listen to Michael Jackson and eat cake!
Have you ever listened to the lyrics of ‘Man in the mirror’ properly…
just have a go!

There’s another version here with some incredibly moving and powerful images.

 

Wherever you may be in the world I hope you have a wonderful day full of compassion, kindness and delicious party cake. Here’s my virtual selection box – grab a slice and join the fun.

HAPPY 70th ANNIVERSARY, Vegan Society!

LR Cute Cupcake
Choc cake
Strawberry Cheescake
Cupcake 2013
VH Cake square
SONY DSC
Chocolate Fudge Cake
Gold Cherry Cake
Coffee Walnut Cake
VL Cheesecake
LR Blackberry tarts
Starcakes
Chocolate torte
Carrot Parsnip Cake
Tartlet

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Quick and easy family dinners: Lentil’s king!

22 Wednesday Oct 2014

Posted by flavourphotos in Food Photography, Vegan Recipes

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Easy midweek recipes, Easy Pasta sauces, Healthy family meals, Lentil Bolognese, Meat-free Monday, Vegan, vegan main course, Vegetarian, Vegetarian Living magazine, Vegetarian main course

How often do you find yourself getting stuck in a midweek dinner rut? After a long day at work and school dinner has got to be tasty, quick and easy!

Now that the weather is turning autumnal and blustery it’s no wonder that I’m craving comfort food! Today I’d like to share one of our family favourites with you. It’s the kind of recipe that’s so easy to throw together but makes you glow contentedly… it’s healthy, nutritious and still leaves you time to help with homework or finding those missing PE shorts!

Lentil Bolognese

LR Lentil Bolognaise

1 onion, finely chopped
1 red pepper, in small cubes
1-2 tbsp olive oil
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 courgette, grated or in small cubes
100g red lentils
400ml water
400g tin of chopped tomatoes
2 tbsp fresh marjoram leaves
a sprig or fresh rosemary
1 tsp milk paprika powder
1/2 vegetable stock cube
salt and freshly ground black pepper
a little marmite or soy sauce

Start off by sautéing the onion and pepper pieces in olive oil until softened. After 5 minutes add the crushed garlic, courgette, lentils, water and chopped tomatoes. Stir well and season with the fresh herbs, paprika and stock cube.
Simmer for 20-25 minutes until the lentils are soft and are starting to fall apart.
Season to taste with salt, black pepper and a little marmite or dark soy sauce for an extra rich flavour.

If you’re feeding a fussy eater you can blend the sauce until smooth before serving it with their favourite pasta shapes. I would recommend peeling the courgette first to avoid the tell-tale green specks in the bolognese!
I’m bringing this scrumptious dinner to the weeks Fiesta Friday. It’s Angie’s birthday and I hope these lovely bright colours will cheer up her day 🙂


LRVL September 2014
Vegetarian Living September 2014

This recipe first appeared in my Vegetarian Living column and I got the sweetest letter in the next month’s issue.

I would like more bias towards easy, interesting everyday meals. The best one in the September issue was the idea of Bolognese sauce – not even set out as a recipe – in Chava Eichner’s column. We happily lived on it, combined with various things, for several days. Wonderful. 

Must admit that I actually blushed when I spotted this… it really means a lot to me! Anyone who writes recipes can tell you that it’s the greatest joy when somebody cooks one of your dishes and loves it. Thank you so much June, you made my day 🙂

And here’s just a little reminder…
Chocolate Hamper
Don’t forget to enter the Halloween competition for all these wonderful Moo Free chocolates. Closing date is midnight on Sunday 26th October.

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Win A Moo Free Chocolate Hamper

13 Monday Oct 2014

Posted by flavourphotos in Food Photography

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Best Halloween Sweets, Chocolate Week, Competition, Food photography, Moo Free Chocolate, vegan chocolate recipes, Vegan Desserts

It’s National Chocolate Week – as if we needed an excuse! I’ll be featuring my favourite chocolate recipes from the last year and there’s an exciting competition for a Moo Free Chocolate hamper too.

The last weeks have been an amazing whirlwind of magazine deadlines for Vegetarian Living and Viva!Life, Christmas photo shoots and being the official photographer at Vegfest London. I nearly missed my first blog anniversary this Wednesday 🙂
To celebrate I’ll be tempting you with some mouth-watering chocolate recipes from the last 12 months… Will you be able to resist?
Whether you’ve just stumbled across my blog or have been following from day one – it’s lovely to have you here. I hope you’ll stick around for a while and join the fun. (There’s a subscribe button in the top left corner so you’ll always get the latest posts the moment they appear on here!)

Gold Cherry Cake
Chocolate Cherry Cakes

SONY DSC5-ingredient Chocolate Pots

Choc cake
Rich Chocolate Fudge Cake

Vegan Cookie Pie
Ruby’s Cookie Pie

Vegan Mousse
Viva!’s Chocolate Mousse

 

Are you tempted yet?!?
To celebrate National Chocolate Week and to link in with my BIG vegan Halloween sweet-round up you can win a delicious selection of Moo Free chocolates. Thank you so much to the lovely Moo Free team!
Team Moo

To enter, simply tell me in the comments section how many different flavours of Mini Moo Bars you can get and what your absolute favourite vegan Halloween treat would be. (Click here to help with your answer 🙂 )
The competition will close at midnight on Sunday 26th October and is open to UK residents only.

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and look out for more scrumptious food photography here: www.flavourphotos.com

 

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