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Falooda, creamy tofu curry and spiced paneer - Arla organic milk recipes

Falooda, creamy tofu curry and spiced paneer – Arla organic milk recipes

We have made some subtle, but impactful lifestyle changes in our home recently and I’m not ever sure whether the change is enough, but there is change and I see that, as positive. One of my boy’s teacher’s said something I will use, and that is that ‘practise makes progress’ (rather than the unattainable standard of perfection). We have moved from refined white flour to spelt for foods like…

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Red pepper and goat's cheese bites

Red pepper and goat’s cheese bites

Crispy, red pepper and goats cheese bites red pepper and goats cheese bites by Deena Kakaya I had a good day on the Friday just gone. After a week of early starts with the school run and late finishes with work, I took time out on Friday. This doesn’t happen often (in fact it is very rare) despite my husband frequently persuading me about the benefits of ‘down time’. There is a lot of sense in…

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Breakfast cookies

Breakfast cookies 2016 was an interesting year wasn’t it. Let’s not get into it, but I think the world outside and most definitely within, in the last year was fraught. But what did I take from it? I learned that perhaps in a world where shouting ‘look at me’ though the wide-open windows of social media is now normal, it is of probably of benefit to close the door now and again and think about…

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Spiced Apricot, nut and Kellogg’s Special K snack Balls

The wild effects of hunger I am one of those that has a frequently growling tummy and it is just best for all those involved (with me) that the beast within me (my appetite) is tamed, frequently. I don’t feel naughty with these balls of apricot, nuts and Kellogg’s special K. They are bursting with spice, coconut and pistachio…keep them in the fridge and they will last a few days. Ingredients…

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Coconut and spice Quinoa porridge with apple and raspberries

I like having structure and purpose to my day. I like the feeling of being expended for a worthwhile purpose, one that is driving me towards productivity and something meaningful. I like talking to people and delivering. I want to contribute towards a bigger picture and I want to learn. When I am hungry however, I am not the best version of me and so, whether I have worked the evening before or…

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cauliflower, fennel, chilli and cheese croquettes

Nowadays my weekly menu is devised on bases a little like this; is it something that we can all eat, does it deliver on the ‘rainbow factor’, does it taste good, is it quick to make and can we cook it together? The latter is important because there are repeated demonstrations of my little boy’s best manners when he wants to get involved, ‘mammap please may I help you, it will be educational for…

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5 Tasty Vegetarian BBQ recipes

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Kale thepla / Kale chapatti

If anything, with parenting my boy, I want to assure myself and my child that I am doing my best. When I eventually look back at his wonderful, chaotic and fun and deeply pleasurable childhood I want to know that I did my best. But it doesn’t have to be perfect, to be wonderful does it. And that is why we have had a LOT of kale cooking in our home over the last three months. We have spent three…

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Pistachio & coconut smoothie

The husband and I have been especially lovely to each other recently, so it wasn’t in any mournful or malevolent way that we nattered about where we would be and what we would be doing, if we had not ever met. I guess it’s no great surprise, given that I have spent my entire adult life in his company, that my estimations of where he would be and his of mine married well with our own guesses. Him?…

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Asian spiced edamame bean, new potato and quinoa patties

Asian spiced edamame bean, new potato and quinoa patties I do get exasperated at points; my eyes fill with foggy grey, disorderly purple, and at the moment I have a stream of lectures to prepare for, a fourth birthday party to plan, a husband in Hong Kong, leaking boiler, new after nursery activities starting up, recipe submissions in two different directions, a cookery class to get ready…

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Piri piri chickpea salad

On Wednesday I started at 6.30am (the usual time) by cooking for the long day ahead. I then went to a class of body attack. I always feel like I will collapse within the first fifteen minutes of that class, but I did it and it felt good! I came home, showered and changed and then went on the nursery run and collected my energetic and spirited little sweetie before taking him to eat pizza, as a…

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Green beans and soya beans in red sambal

I had a lovely Christmas break. If you are reading this and you didn’t then I can relate to you. Things are not always the same. This year, it was lovely. We saw Santa four times; at the activity farm where we ice skated, made a bear, rode a tractor and saw a real reindeer. We also saw Santa at the children’s theatre, where the performance charmed my child into sitting quietly, eyes widened for…

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Black bean and Halloumi Curry- Video recipe

One of the most popular recipes that is visited on my site is the black bean and hallomi curry. It is also a recipe that is now close to my heart. Why? Well it was a very early recipe on the vegetarian blog and I really enjoyed all the banter it created about it being strange and wonderful…halloumi is not a common ingredient for…

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Indian spiced, coconut rice pudding and aromatic poached pears

Yesterday I sent my husband a song through the speakers in the kitchen, via my phone. He walked in, smiled and asked if it was an apology for it was the song he would play when I visited him in his student halls and it subsequently became my ‘walk in’ song on my wedding day. Nostalgia, music and food are all so evocative aren’t they? I recently asked a question on the blog about your favourite…

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Christmas spring rolls made with paneer, butternut squash, puy lentils and beetroot

During Christmas my family and I eat throughout the day, you know to keep the energy up! There are no rules around the 5/7 a day or consideration of portion controls during the festive season and indulgence is high up on the agenda. The table is laid with abundance and variety and as we chat, chase children and chuckle we consume copious canapés like these pretty, seasonal and utterly Moorish…

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Rose Harissa, parsnip and paneer puff pastry plait + you can Win £50 waitrose vouchers

A winter main dish, for me should be one that tickles all the senses; a bit of heat to stoke the internal flames, a little sweetness to lift the fog and some light and easy depth to satisfy the heart. What better way than to wrap it all in pastry? Home-made paneer tastes fabulous when heated through and even more so with the rose scented Harissa and sweet roasted parsnips that this pastry plait…

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Street food style chickpeas and sprouted mung beans with sweet potato dumplings

Street food style chickpeas and sprouted mung beans with sweet potato dumplings Sundays, simple Sundays. It feels good to toss the autumn leaves around our boots; cheeks a little frosty and noses puffing warm mist into the cool air. I composed my boy into the middle of a tree, where the branches heavily parted ways and then took many a picture of his helmet clad, easy-going and shiny hair which…

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