“Can you get enough protein if you don’t eat meat?” Ask any vegan or vegetarian and they’ll tell you they hear the protein question lots. Like, really lots. We’re pleased to tell you that it’s really not that hard. Check out this post from registered (and plant-based) nutritionist, Laura Thomas, Are You Getting Enough Protein? The answer is…
Best Vegan Cookbooks for Veganuary
Veganuary is a pledge taken by people worldwide to commit to a vegan lifestyle for one month, and the best vegan cookbooks and recipes can really help on the journey. Are you taking part in the phenomenon this year? I did my first one in 2014 and it was a big turning point in becoming more and…
Vegan Almond Butter Ice Cream, with Cherry Swirl
I am seriously proud of this Almond Butter Ice Cream recipe. It’s totally dairy free and free from refined sugar but it’s as delicious as anything you would get from a gelataria, I promise. I am often proud of what we accomplish with Veggie Runners, but this one is totes my Atticus Finch, my…
Szechuan Tofu with Mushrooms and Baby Bok Choi
Have you ever chewed Szechuan peppercorns by themselves? They make your tongue tingle, a feeling like licking a battery. It’s like nothing else in the world – you can see why Szechuan foods are sometimes labelled “Numb and Spicy” when translated from Chinese. Don’t worry though, in this vegan and gluten-free recipe, the feeling is…
Chocolate Pretzel Energy Bars
After a big race, I’m always starving, and desperately crave two things – salt and protein. This can lead to some of my most pleasing food inventions. After the Pocklington 10 miler, I demolished Harissa Hummus and beetroot crisp sandwiches in my chia seed pittas. After a training run last week, I went weak at the…
Vegan Pancakes
Everybody loves pancakes, right? These are quick and easy to make – fab as a healthy breakfast with fruit and yoghurt and great with peanut butter and/or jam for marginally less healthy start to the day! It’s Shrove Tuesday today – aka Pancake Tuesday (aka Day of Joy on a Plate!) but you can eat…
Ultimate Veggie Burgers
As we’ve said before, we don’t really believe in “new year, starve yourself” resolutions. I would hope you know us well enough by now to know that. I have made myself one January pact, though – I want to walk with a lighter environmental footprint. Being a vegetarian helps my carbon footprint a lot, and…
Vegan Ginger-Chocolate Brownies
I was given Scott Jurek’s book ‘Eat & Run’ for Christmas and have been devouring it ever since. It’s part running guide, part autobiography of the world’s greatest ultramarathon runner and part vegan recipe book. A proper book review will follow shortly when I’ve gulped the whole thing down. His book couldn’t come at a…
Creamy Paneer and Tomato Curry
Once upon a time, many moons ago, before Bibi was even a twinkle in my eye (gasp, can you imagine such a time ever existed?!), I stayed with the Hare Krishnas. I’m guessing you weren’t expecting the sentence to end like that… Anyway, I’d been travelling and was finally heading home, making my way from…
Baba Ganoush
Early Victorians grew aubergines purely as ornamental plants, suspicious of their resemblance to nightshade. As with a few other things things – workhouses, child labour, ignoring women – they got things quite wrong. Aren’t aubergines great? Aren’t we glad to live in such enlightened times? A source of B vitamins and fibre, they’re adaptable to pretty much…
Tofu Tikka Masala
I strongly believe that cuisine is like language – living, and ever changing. Orthodoxy has no place in my kitchen. The quest for “the authentic ratatouille/baba ganoush/tikka masala” is not that interesting. I’d prefer to have the best one! Besides, playing by the book is not as much fun as a bit of experimentation. (I…
Stuffed Butternut Squash
We have some great recipes for squash on the blog. Our Best Roasted Butternut Squash Ever is a real winner, mainly because it’s name tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Our Spicy Butternut Squash Soup With Paneer Croutons is also delicious and hugely popular. And the all-time favourite recipe with…