How to Make Healthy Vegetarian Foods Recipes

2016 seems to be the year of the Turmeric. Turmeric boasts a number of health benefits: digestive and antiseptic, but as a person of South Asian heritage Turmeric known as Haldi has been part of my heritage and not seen as a trend.  Turmeric is traditionally used in South Asian curries, pickles, thrown into chappati's aka roti's , rice,  Dals , soups, but also as a beauty treatment.   However as a vegetarian experimental cook, even I have succumbed to the recent attention turmeric  has been getting in the foodie world.  The past couple of years has seen the rise in turmeric consumption in the Western world doused in vegan tofu scramble to give it that ochre egg yoke  colouring, stirred into breakfast oats, as well as in drinks such as turmeric lattes, turmeric smoothies and turmeric teas - all of which seem to be the rage right now.   Today I bring you my bakers dozen: 13  meatless vegetarian and vegan recipes that make turmeric the golden ...

We Brits are very reserved with our strawberries come the Summer season.   We love mostly to make jam with our British strawberries so that we can slather it on our homemade scones.  Come Wimbledon - it becomes fashionable to indulge in Strawberries and Cream or the more traditional Eton Mess.   Well for a change and in the name of  culinary and cultural diversity, I recently decided to make a Strawberry Curry and it got me thinking about other savoury strawberry recipes.  Strawberries in a savoury dish?!  Its actually not as terrible as you may think.  Imagine a strawberry a bit like a cherry tomato.  Its not always sweet, sometimes sharp too or sometimes both.  Perfect for Goats cheese or Mozzarella Toasted Panini, or on a Bruschetta.   Here are twelve Savoury Strawberry vegetarian and vegan recipes from around blogosphere.    Strawberry, Avocado and Walnut Salad  from the magnificent Green Gourmet Giraffe St...

This Meat Free Fruit Curry blog post came about after conversing with my vegetarian blogger friend Johanna who blogs over at Green Gourmet Giraffe.  Johanna had recenlty made a variation of Peach and Chickpea Curry  a few years back.   It was  in making that Peach and Chickpeas Curry inspired by Peach and Chickpea Curry  a few years back.   It was  in making that Peach fruit curry that both inspired and gave me the confidence last year to make a vegan Peach and Chickpea Curry  a few years back.   It was  in making that Plum Chickpea Curry with the plums that were literally falling from the garden tree .  This blog engagement with Green Gourmet Giraffe got me thinking and swiftly decide to share 13 Vegetarian and/ or Vegan Meat Free Fruit Curry Recipes and try and inspire some of you to try some of these unusual combinations, after all if we can have vegetables in desserts, puddings and cake - then I guess, why not a savour...