Bonfire Night here in the UK is one of my favourite nights of the year. We wrap up warm, huddle round a bonfire to watch an effigy of Guy Falkes, our most famed terrorist failure, burn on top of it, then turn our peepers to...
Hokey Pokey, that is what I love to call this honeycomb candy. It’s a witchy, Halloween kind of name that honours the season. I guess it comes from the fact that it appears to be made up of poked out holes! It is perfect for...
Halloween is creeping up on us, here is another fun thing that I made this week. I found the silicon mould in the supermarket, apparently for muffins, and wondered what I could conjure up in them. I regularly implored to make ‘peanut butter things’ by C,...
These cute little cookies are a bit like Nightmare Before Christmas in the respect that they are Christmas cookies masquerading as Halloween Cookies. I’d bought some little Halloween cookie cutters about a month ago, thinking how fun it would be to bake little bite-sized cookies....
I first baked these delicious cookies while house sitting in France last year. I was looking after a gorgeous cat, called Wallace, in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps. There were a heap of vegan cookbooks on the bookshelf, amongst them was the rather...
Chris took the van to Manchester for a lads weekend last friday, so I had a couple of homeless days by myself. I decided to get the train to Liverpool and go on an art gallery pilgrimage, something I’ve been wanting to do for ages. Liverpool...
These little shortbread gems are more of a production line than anything, the only baking involved is the easy-peasy biscuit bottoms. I used the homemade lemon curd left over from the Blue Meringues but you could, of course, buy a jar. As for the meringue...
Ok, so they’re not brilliantly blue, more of a slaty grey but cut them open and they reveal a deep purply-blue courtesy of a couple of spoonfuls of that old favourite of mine, ground freeze-dried blueberries. If you bought some to make the Blueberry Swirl...
This is my first attempt at iced cookies, I have wanted to try them for a while, there are so many beautiful examples online and in magazines. They have always seemed time-consuming though, so I thought I’d wait for a rainy few days for the...
I must say, I’m rather pleased with these cookies. They were a bit of an experiment, an ‘off the top of my head’ idea which worked out a treat. Oh my, they are très délicieux! and shall I tell you a little secret? They are vegan!...
I baked these cookies in my little oven camped on the beach, on the silver sands of Morar. We had arrived back on the mainland by ferry from the Isle of Skye and had found a campsite for the night a few miles south of Mallaig. The...
We drove the van up into Galloway Forest Park, Britain’s only Dark Sky Park, in fact one of only 4 in the entire world. This means that light pollution in the area is monitored and controlled resulting in stunning views of the stars and planets at...
We were supposed to be on the road today, heading for Dumfriesshire for the weekend then on towards Yorkshire but spring cleaning and repacking the van took much longer than expected. It took two days but now we are ready for the off. I thought...
These Almond Slices are perfect for afternoon tea and are deceptively simple to make. I have even made them in the camper van. I like having a few vegan treats up my sleeve for my wonderful vegan friends, but don’t let this put you off...
