Lots of people are switching to a vegan diet. Lots of people are also getting fed up quite quickly with trying to work out what to eat! It is easy to eat vegan, as long as you have some tasty recipes to put a bit of joy on your plate. These Five Easy Vegan Recipes are all…
6 Hearty Vegan Soups
As the weather draws in, we start thinking about soup and dark runs with headlamps. With our marathon behind us, our next goal is Leeds Abbey Dash at the beginning of November. This means that October will be full of tempo runs as the light just changes to dark, and we’ll want to be tucked up…
Kale and Sesame Soup
Kale is a superfood, right? That’s what people have been saying for ages. It’s rich in anti-oxidants, with an ORAC rating of 1770 (I don’t really know what that means but it sound good, doesn’t it?) It’s high in iron, has anti-cancer properties, it’s anti-inflammatory and on and on. Of course, there’s now a kale…
Beetroot and Roasted Red Onion Soup
Among my many, varied and mostly useless talents, I have an uncanny knack for finding a song for any occasion. You say a word, I have a song for it. Which is why I can often be found moonwalking in my kitchen whilst singing ‘Beetroot, just beetroot…’, in the manner of Michael Jackson. We’ve told…
Fennel and Black Eyed Bean Soup
My mum/Bibi’s grandma, Shirley, is far too busy having fun to spend all her time in the kitchen. She’s a world famous blogger for a start* and she has her writing group, reading club, gym sessions, charity shop work, coffee with her mates, hair do once a week without fail etc etc to keep…
Cumin-Roasted Cauliflower Cheese Soup
Someone told us recently that what she likes about Veggie Runners recipes is that they feel like real food made by real people in real kitchens. None of that marinading ingredients for 2 days, chopping 40 bulbs of garlic into tiny slivers or sourcing obscure ingredients (well, only occasionally). Our deal is: You get hungry….
Sweet Potato and Spring Onion Soup
Ever have those days when you think the cupboard is bare and it turns out it’s not nutritionally naked at all but bursting full of good-for-you tastiness? I had one such recently, thumping a couple of sweet potatoes on the worktop and wondering what on earth I was going to do with them this time….
Vegan Lentil Soup with Marmite Drizzle
Marmite haters, look away now. This Vegan Lentil Soup with Marmite Drizzle is emphatically not for you. In the olden days it would have been no use to readers outside of the UK either. But – joy of joys, miracle of miracles, all hail the internet – you can now buy Marmite online and have it…
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…
Broccoli, Bean and Basil Soup
When Bibi was little her favourite joke went like this. Customer in restaurant, pointing to his dish: ‘Waiter, what’s this?!’ Waiter: ‘Why, it’s bean soup, Sir.’ Customer: ‘I know it’s bean soup but what is it now?!’ Ho ho, how we laughed. Bean and been – to a child just learning to spell this was…
Smoky Lentil and Tomato Soup
After the Amsterdam marathon recently, my running buddies and I treated ourselves to dinner on the town. Well, it wasn’t quite on the town, as we were a) preserving our post-mara muscles by staying close to our hotel and b) skint. We found a great place with the use of my trusty 2008 guide book….
Easiest Broccoli and Stilton Soup Ever
This is the easiest soup in the world to make. Really. Made from Bibi’s own recipe, it uses only three ingredients – yes, three! – and is at least 1000x better than any you can buy in the shops. Stilton cheese has its own website with loads of fascinating facts (really!) and this information on…