My Mum's Vegetable Bake

People always ask me what I have with a roast dinner if I don't have meat, and as I don't really like meat subsitities my mum makes this. It's basically a very indulgent creamy, cheesy vegetable dish: proper good comfort food (I belive in it's healing properties, it's the first meal I had both times I got my lip pierced!). I've been trying to persuade my mum to cook it all...

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Black Bean Tofu and Garlic Fried Rice

I love tofu in black bean sauce, I get it pretty much every time I get a Chinese take away (I do try other stuff some times, but I always come back to this). It was the first thing I tried from a Chinese take away when I became vegetarian, so it hold a special place in my heart. I thought as part of my favourite things I would attempt to make it for the first time! I found...

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Earl Grey Scones

Of course cream tea and strawberries are some of my favourite things, they remind me of trips to the seaside and small tea shops run by old ladies. So today my friend Mike and I went on a pick your own strawberry mission, but it didn't quite go the way we planned.The first tragedy struck when we set off to go strawberry picking in Gawcott... it was closed! And then we managed...

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Asparagus

I can't really say that this is one of my favourite meals as tonight was the first time I've made it but asparagus is one of my favourite foods and it's also in season so I thought it would be a good one to go for. I got the recipe from BBC Good Food, but made twice as much sauce as some people suggested and added a tiny drop of truffle oil because I am addicted to the stuff....

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My Dad's Spicy Bean Soup

One of the reasons I've been able to commit to being vegetarian for the last 7 years is that both of my parents are fully supportive and have always looked out for new veggie recipes to cook me. My dad first made this for me when I started college 6 years ago and it's been one of my favorites since. It's really easy to make (although I've only made it once, I leave it to him)...

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Chili Cheese Fries

So it's national vegetarian week and to celebrate I thought I'd post my favourite vegetarian meals for the next 7 days. This one comes from when I went to America about 8 years ago as a non veggie and became obsessed with chili cheese fries. And I mean really obsessed, I pretty much ate them every day, and I even managed to find some to eat at the airport just before we were...

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Scott's Cookie Dough Cake

In the last five years I've only made my boyfriend one birthday cake and to be honest, Betty Crocker did most of the work there. So this year I wanted to make him something special and as he doesn't really like cake that much, I came up with the idea of making a cookie dough cake (he loves cookies!) by having chocolate chip icing, cookie dough in the cake mixture...

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Cup of Tea Tasting

Let me start this by saying that before I went to this tea tasting I knew nothing about tea, only that I like herbal and green. I think it's safe to say that afterwards, if I didn't have a memory like a sieve I would pretty much be an expert. My friend Georgie invited me to to go with her by sending me this link on face book and although I have loads of uni work still to do,...

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Atomic Burger New Menu

It's been a while since I last went to Atomic Burger, but yesterday I finally got to go to try the new menu! Again there was loads of veggie stuff, and I found it really hard to choose what I wanted, but ultimately it had to be the Frito Bandito. Nacho's in a burger... The dream! The new menu is awesome, super colourful and retro and as before vegetarians are well catered...

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Green Macaroni and Cheese

I didn't blog about the Linda McCartney competition because of my utter devastation of not winning, but it's been a few moths now... I feel ready to talk about it. As I'm having a weekend of last suppers, I have to have my ultimate favourite meal, mac and cheese. After blogging about my favourite comfort food I submitted it to the competition without really thinking and was...

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Oreo Stuffed Cookies

So as part of my last weekend of being bad, I wanted to bake something truly indulgent. My friend Will send me a picture of chocolate chip Oreo stuffed cookies a few weeks ago saying: 'MAKE THESE NOW' so I thought now would be the right time! I used one pack of double stuffed Oreos and one pack of chocolate cream. They both worked really well but the chocolate ones broke a...

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Bake Sale!

This is a very belated blog post as I made these for a bake sale about weeks ago, but I thought I may as well upload them. I had to make some cakes for my mum's bake sale and after seeing Sim Wise make these beautiful ones on Project Bunker, I thought they would be perfect for kids. After doing a bit of research on the internet I found that I needed gel food colouring to make...

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