Winter

Cornbread Toad in the Hole

Sometimes you just need good old fashioned comfort food, there are so many classics and one is Toad in the Hole, this Cornbread version is sooooo good and ridiculously easy to make, perfect if you are one of those people that struggle with getting your batter to rise !!! Cornbread…

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Vegan Toscakaka – Swedish Almond Cake

Saturday again and time to bake before setting off for a hike with Jo. Todays bake is a vegan version of a cake I already have on the blog https://www.gelsominascucina.com/2013/06/toscakaka-caramel-almond-topped-sponge.html so I won’t bore you with the story of where the name Toscakaka came from or the origins of this…

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Dutch Butter Cake – Boterkoek

This Dutch Butter Cake (Boterkoek) is a moist, soft butter cake, famous in the Netherlands and is often served with a cup of coffee. It’s so easy  to make and very popular, a regular when visiting friends , the smell of the baking buttery cake often greets you at the doorway. …

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Muscle Macaroni Cheese

Muscle Macaroni Cheese!!! Bold claim I know and this may not contain as much protein as the recipe that I found on Pinterest as I used a standard shop brought Cottage Cheese, but it still packs a punch on the protein score and as you don’t have to make a…

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Vegan Sweet Potato Caribbean Curry

I started to blog again because I have finally got my life back on track, its been a long road of self discovery, but I had to rebuild me and then find the real me, it was never going to be a quick fix. A lot of wonderful people have…

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Freddie and Olly

The Best Ever VEGAN Bread and Butter Pudding

I have been a very very busy girl in the kitchen and already have four new recipes that I need to get on my blog, I was going to do them in the order that I had made them! Well that was until yesterday when I made the best ever…

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Vegan Chunky Chilli

Well I am back, finally , and I would like to introduce you to a whole new me, its been nearly two years since my last post and so much has happened in that time, I have a new career, my daughter moved to New Zealand, I have four gorgeous…

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