Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts

Yippee, at last a new Alpro Soya product hits the shelves (well, in Tesco’s at least).

It may still be March, but the weather today looks perfect for a trip to the beach.

This sauce is blinding! Packed full of sweet roasted tomato flavour, it adds to many a dish.

Yet more salads! I’ve always had a fondness of potato salad that I can’t really explain – gloopy cold potatoes anyone? This version can be easily made either dairy and egg free or…

Easter is a bit different for us, in a household where the children are dairy-free, egg-free and nut-free.

So, with the lack of actual Easter Eggs in this house I decided to make some chocolate biscuits in the shape of eggs.

No, not made of Giraffes, just from the restaurant chain! We had an unusual Easter Sunday… A very early morning Easter egg hunt (luckily the Easter Bunny had visited) followed by a day out wi…

I’ve just downloaded masses of photos from my phone and come across a few birthday cake photos.

As I’ve mentioned before, Sainsbury’s is normally a complete nightmare to shop in if you are dairy, egg and nut-free, with a complete lack of (or even non existence of) choice in a lot …

Ginger snaps are lovely biscuits, and while McVitie’s Ginger Nuts are a great dairy, egg and nut free standby, sometimes it’s nicer to have homemade.

I always wanted to make some home-made pasta – I even gave D a pasta machine a few years ago as a birthday present, but somehow it never saw the light of day until today.

Here’s the recipe for the burger buns I used with the Butternut Squash and Mushroom Burgers.

It seems like it was a ‘Burger Tuesday’ in this house this week.

I do like tapas, but as a veggie you often have a limited choice, mainly with a potato or rice theme – and if you’re at a restaurant with meat eaters everyone wants to try your dishes b…

The sunshine in the last couple of days has had my thought turning to salads, and this one is a particular favourite.

I know tofu can be a challenging ingredient to many people, but I defy anyone not to be totally converted to its delights after eating this fabulous dish.

In writing this blog I wanted to challenge myself to be able to create any foodstuff (within reason!) that I like (or liked as a child), or my girls would like to try, and make it dairy/egg/nut-fre…

So I have a half pack of silken tofu left over from the chocolate cheesecake recipe – what to do with it? I could have made brownies with silken tofu, but I’m all out of ‘safeR…