Training can be hard work but it also provides a great excuse to get creative with tasty, runner- friendly dinners, such as this vegetarian twist on a classic kedgeree. Traditional kedgeree uses smoked fish. Traditional vegetarian kedgeree doesn’t used smoked anything. Upshot? Vegetarian kedgeree is usually rubbish. Sad but true. Not this time, though! No, no,…
Date and Sultana Cake
Photo by Zsolt: zsoltsandor.com Everybody loves a slice of cake now and again, right? Cake’s great. What’s not so wonderful is all the refined sugar that most cakes contain. So when we discovered date syrup, we were in seventh heaven. It’s 100% natural, made of nothing but dates and, well, you could say it’s like sunshine…
Carrot and Sweet Potato ‘Fries’ with Spicy Peanut Sauce
Chips, fries, call them what you will. All fries are not created equal. This Carrot and Sweet Potato ‘Fries’ with Spicy Peanut Sauce recipe takes all of the good bits of traditional fries – the starchy veg, the crunch, seasoning – and makes them ten times better for you without sacrifice. There’s no frying, and the…
Curried Split Pea and Roasted Red Pepper Soup
Split peas are one of those dry goods that can hang around in your store cupboard for years, unused and unloved. Which is a shame because you can make some amazingly tasty recipes with them. I mentioned the bag of split peas lurking in my pantry before when I wrote up our Spicy Thai Bean…
Root Vegetable Barlotto
This Root Vegetable Barlotto is a perfect carb loading dish with added bonus of that wondrous food of the gods, beetroot. It’s made with delicious root vegetables and pearl barley. Problem is, we don’t know what to call it. It’s a risotto but it’s not made with rice. Does that make it ris-notto? Given that…
Savoury Breakfast Muffins – Two Recipes in One!
So, you need breakfast in a hurry. You don’t fancy cereal or porridge and you’re not quite in the mood for toast. Oh, noooooooo, whaddya gonna do?! ‘s ok, we’re here to save the day. Our marvellous breakfast muffins are that rare breakfast treat that you can make the night before. I took a basic…
Moroccan Chickpea Tagine with Fragrant Brown Rice
This recipe has quickly become one of my favourites to impress friends with something a bit different. The lemon and olives give it a unique punchy flavour and can be made with various different vegetable. I have used courgette, but it would certainly go well with aubergine, green beans, carrots or squash. On this occasion I served…
Vegan Aromatic Lentil Soup
We all know the jokes about lentil-eating, granola-crunching, hemp-wearing vegetarians. Apart from the fact that they’re not funny and wrong (though, hey, if I did want to wear granola I would!), they miss the fact that lentils can be DELICIOUS. The jokers will soon be laughing on the other side of their faces (what exactly…