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Healthy Vegan - Horseradish and Beetroot Powder Popcorn for Grown Ups

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I am such a moody person, I don't have one late night snack I go to, its depends how I feel. These days late night snacking for me can be nacho and dip or hummus with pitta chips or simply Marmite on toast , but there are night when it can also popcorn in all its many flavours Turmeric Garam Masala and chilli, Wasabi Popcorn,  B lack Pepper and Salt Popcorn,  Rosemary and Chilli Popcorn ,  Sumac Popcorn   and more recently Beetroot and horseradish.  This is popcorn for grown ups.  I don't really do sweet popcorn and find it a bit sickly, though recently whilst looking at a bottle of ginger syrup in my kitchen cupboards, I got thinking about making some gingerbread popcorn for Christmas festivities. I've picked up some beetroot powder, tomato powder, lemon powder, spinach powder, horseradish powder and a number of others and have been thinking of ways to use them in my sweet and savoury baking and cooking.   I have used it in shortcrust past...

Healthy Vegan - Snake Beans In My Kitchen

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I have lots of new things in my kitchen, like new tea-towels and a new kettle and a gorgeous retro umbrella shaped cake stand that I picked from Fig Jam and Lime Cordial .        If you interested you may want to take a peek at   Crock and Cosy in Rye, East Sussex, but I haven't got round to taking a picture of any of these, so this is a short post to share some things that I have managed to photograph  in what is becoming a dark kitchen with the changing season.  I picked up these ceramic celery, garlic and tomato pieces from the flea market in Bristol a little while back.  I am not quite sure of their purpose, but they could serve either as spoon rests or to hold olives maybe, or maybe they are just designed to be admired.  The vegetarian and vegetable grower in me could not resist bringing them home with me.  I've purchased  Snake Beans also known as Yard Long Beans from the Bangladeshi grocers before, but forgot about the...

Healthy Vegan - Black Butter and Charcoal Biscuits In My Kitchen

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Mostly black things in my kitchen this month.   This was not intentional, but more of a shopping happy accident - for some reason there seemed to be an overwhelming selection of dark edible things in my kitchen  and I have no idea why, especially as Halloween is way off and I don't even have a black supper menu planned either, well not until now.  Let me begin with this jar of Black Butter that I picked up the last time I was in Bristol from the a pop up market.  It is made from apples, cider, clack treacle, licorice and spices. This Black Butter is suitable for both vegetarians and vegans.   Its a jammy product that could compliment both sweet and savoury dishes.  If you like the sound of this, then you may also like to my homemade Sweet Black Sesame Seed Butte r too.  l saw these Charcoal Biscuits and picked them up for two reasons, they were available at a reduced price and secondly, curiosity.  I like trying new things.  Wel...