How to Make Healthy Vegetarian Foods Recipes

Early in the week, whilst I was doing some research for work (honestly I was), I stumbled on The Best Jollof Rice Competition held in Brixton, London today.  It the UKs first ever Jollof competition, in past there have been Best Rum Cake. Its hosted by The Afrikan Family Works . I  love these grassroots community spirited competitions.  I thought I would compete virtually with my vegan Jollof variation, but I sincerely wish the hosts and the participants the best and hope the event is a success.   For those of you unfamiliar with Jollof.  Jollof rice or Benachin which means 'one pot' originates in Senegal.  Jollof  is eaten all across West Africa and has recently become appreciated alongside the South Indian Pilaf and the Spanish Paella. So here it is my vegan Jollof  rice.  I added peppers, okra and chickpeas to the Jollof rice only because I didn't have an accompaniment with it.  I am no expert at making Jollof, in fact this is ...

All week,  except for Friday much to do with the EU Referendum I have been trying to raise some awareness of Refugee Week  through  Cooking A Dish from Another Country   .  Refugee Week  in the United Kingdom is an event that promotes positive encounters between asylum seekers and refugees and members of the receiving communities, as well as raising awareness. The theme for Refugee Week  2016 was  Welcome.     Today I will share another Middle Eastern dish called Maqluba .  . Over the years, I've seen various versions of Maqlub.   Maqluba is a Palestinian dish popular throughout the Middle East.   Once the dish is cooked, the cooking pot is turned   upside down and removed to reveal  the edible crown beneath.   I have no doubt that Maqluba takes centre stage on the table at Middle Eastern family feasts, especially now when many Muslims across the world are taking part in the holy time in the ...

One of the reasons I wanted to make this recipe for Venezuelan Black Beans was the fact that the recipe used Panela.       Eden Project  a couple of months back.  I'm planning a few other recipes with the panela, but if any of you have any other suggestions, please do share.   I adapted the recipe for the Venezuelan Black Beans from Viva Vegan.  I even made the sofrito with onions and green peppers.  I am not going to type up the recipe here, even with my tinkering and will just say, go on treat yourself to the cookbook Viva Vegan! by Terry Hope Romero; or borrow it from a friend; or your local library.   For those of you who have Viva Vegan and have made this recipe, what did you think of it?! I would like to know.  It was  a bit of a shock for me to eat, as this Venezuelan style Black Beans was not spicy at all, or even herby - its has sweet undertones from the Panela.  I served it with Turmeric Rice.   ...

Cauliflower 'Couscous' or Cauliflower 'Rice' seems all the rage right now, but it appeared on humble blog in 2009 thanks to the vegetarian chef and cookbook author Rose Elliot.  But even then the real credit goes to one of the worlds famous chefs Ferran Adria and The Food at El Bulli Gourmet Restaurant.     Early this year, I  was chatting to a fellow blogger, and we both mused how some food bloggers are acting that its their creation l ike  baking  a jacket potato, putting vegetables into cakes or making vegan ice-cream from frozen bananas,  never acknowledging or crediting origins or inspiration.  After all most recipes originate from somewhere, we all  - even I do it - put our twist on it, adapt it, enhance it, increase this ingredient, decrease that ingredient and so forth,   but its not often original.    Well Ferran Adria created and introduced foodies and popularized what we now call Cauliflow...

The inspiration for this Creamy Beet Rice Pudding with Pomegranate Seeds  has two sources.   The recipe idea itself  came about after a conversation with my work colleague.  She came back from town with what was supposed to be her lunch.   She says out loud to me ' I wanted a change from beetroot salad and I wanted something warm, so I have rice pudding from.. .'.  I started thinking -  Beetroot and rice pudding.   Then under her breath she grumbled and ' you still  owe me a beetroot cake'. Well still no beetroot cake for her, but did make the Creamy Beet Rice Pudding that I was imagining and rating in my head.  I was inspired further to add the Pomegranate Seeds as I had also just watched Pan's Labyrinth in readiness for Food'n'Flix. I have my own DVD of Pan's Labyrinth from Guillermo Del Toro along The Orphanage, The Devils Backbone and Cronos.  Its a dark fantasy Gothic supernatural fairytale set against the backdrop of ...

Some of you may remember last month I made a Beetroot Rose Rice Pudding , my husband loudly asserted  You can make that again !  Well I have been looking for a reason to make  a variation of it again and it came with the   Wendy at A Day In The Life on a Farm . The movie chosen this month is  The Martian .   I had not watched it, so we picked it up when we were in Bath, Somerset for the day.  I watched it that evening.   The Martian is about an astronaut  Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) a Botanist who is accidentally presumed to be dead and is left by his crew on Mars.  When he wakes up, he realises he is all alone and has to survive.  He embarks on a journey, a journey of survival where he attempts to grow potato crops on a land where nothing grows, biding time for his colleagues to come and rescue him.   Here is a trailer to the movie if you have not watched it.   The most obvious food reference was of cour...

I ts been snowing since the moment  I woke up and as I type this and look out the window, the snowflakes are still falling albeit slowly.   I went out into the garden briefly, the snow was soft and slushy.  I saw some people with children walking up the lane with sleighs to go up in the hills.  Its not for me.  I have never really liked the snow, even when I was a child - I really disliked playing snowballs, all that cold ice trickling down ...even the snow angels don't sing to me. I a m hoping the snow will remain slushy and melt away and not freeze and turn to ice over night, as driving to work tomorrow in the early hours will be dangerous as many parts of the UK have been issues with an Amber Weather Warning.   I hope your all safe and warm, wherever you are.  I have decided to share with you a Amber Warming Creamy Sweet Potato Rice Pudding with Mango Pearls.  This Amber Warming Creamy Sweet Potato Rice Pudding with Mango Pearls ...