I love chickpeas, but I usually make houmous because it’s something both my husband and I love. This time I’ve decided to make a stew with some roasted peppers I already had. For this chickpeas and peppers stew I’ve used brown chickpeas, dried. After reading a lot on how to prepare the dried chickpeas I
The second Kalettes recipe I’m sharing is Kalettes with polenta. I loved it, my husband loved it too. This one too is easy to make and healthy. Ingredients for 2 servings: – 1 bag of Kalettes – 70g cornmeal – salt – 2 spoons of olive oil – Nigella seeds – black pepper Make the
I talked yesterday about how to cook Kalettes, a new vegetable. I made this Kalettes side dish for vegan hoisin duck from Linda McCartney’s food range. I like trying “mock meat”, not because I miss the taste of meat (I don’t), but because I really like the taste of soya and I used to eat
On a trip, I bought houmous with asparagus and I loved it. I wanted to recreate the recipe at home, so this is my version of asparagus houmous, served with shallow-fried halloumi. I used fresh asparagus, but I imagine the recipe would be just as delicious with frozen asparagus. Ingredients for 2 portions: – 200g
In my last trip to the Chinese supermarket I got a lot of ingredients I never tried before, like the winter melon. After searching online, I’ve decided to make a Vegan winter melon curry with coconut milk and black beans. It was a fab idea as both my husband and I enjoyed it so much
Week 8 of the Great British Bake Off was Tudor week. I’m fascinated by old recipes and I was very excited about it. The signature was a pie, the technical was jumbles, very interesting looking biscuits and the showstopper was a marzipan centerpiece. It wasn’t hard to pick the Tudor pie, as it was made
As I didn’t find a traditional Thai salad, I used Thai flavours to make a Thai-inspired Banana Blossom Salad. It all started with me going to the Chinese supermarket and coming back with lots of things I had no idea what they were (just that they were vegetarian). The same thing happened with the Banana
