Aug 1, 2014
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SOME OF OUR FAVE... BOOKS ABOUT FOOD
Actually, maybe that title should be "BOOKS ABOUT FOOD WE ABSOLUTELY NEED IN OUR LIFE RIGHT NOW".
top row l-r: 1. The Forest Feast 2. A Love For Food 3. Home Made Summer 4. Leon - Fast Vegetarian 5. Gail's Artisan Bakery bottom row l-r: 6. trEATs 7. Persiana 8. First Prize Pies 9. Hummus Bros 10. Pizza Pilgrims
High-end publisher Roads worked with design studio Conor & David to update the covers of what they consider to be the "most important books to have been published during the last two centuries". These are our favourites (you can see the rest here) - especially that Frankenstein one.
Weekend Hashtag Project is a new Instagram series - a weekly challenge with a theme picked by Instagram's Community Team, and open for everyone to enter.
The one a couple of weeks ago was a favourite of ours - using mirrors to capture creative angles. These are some of the ones we loved.
1) @syuhaidazain 2) @ainhoamgm 3) @skandia 4) @jamarch 5) @bethbeeson 6) @patriciarelva
ST CLEMENTS
Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clements. Remember that? This is one of our go-to summer drinks, because it's so damn simple.
Mix orange juice and bitter lemon in equal measure, and serve over ice with - yep, you guessed it - orange and lemon. (add gin if you wish, but you have to refer to it as a Gin St Clements then, and it's not so catchy). Enjoy!
We have a new collage crush - Ernesto Artillo. A fashion photographer and graphic designer, he draws inspiration from Renaissance paintings, modern artists like Matisse and Picasso, and from Spanish folklore.
We've got a sudden urge to collage... now where's our craft knife?
VEGAN COOKIES
Since we've been living with a vegan, we've been much more experimental with our baking. This is one of the easiest recipes we've ever featured, doesn't require any crazy ingredients, and you honestly can't tell that they're dairy free.
You will need:
2 cups plain flour
3/4 cup demerara sugar
1/2 cup almond milk (or soy milk)
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3/4 cup dark chocolate chips
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
1. Pre-heat the oven to 175c 2. Mix together the flour, baking powder and chocolate chips 3. In a separate bowl, mix the milk, oil, vanilla extract and sugar 4. Combine the two mixtures - mix well 5. Spoon the mixture onto baking sheets, and bake for about 15 minutes
See? Told you it was easy. A few things to remember: if you're going for vegan, make sure the dark chocolate you use is definitely dairy free - some do contain traces of milk. There's enough oil in the mixture that you don't need to grease the baking trays. And finally - the cookies don't really go particularly golden when they're cooked. They firm up as they cool down too, so if they don't look done after 15 minutes, they probably are anyway.