When I was invited to try out Hula, described by the PR as ‘two gorgeous Vegan/Vegetarian-friendly (but not exclusive) health food restaurants in Fountainbridge and The Grassmarket, I didn’t automatically jump at the chance. Call me shallow but the word vegan always gets my hackles up. It was only when…
A couple of weeks ago I decided to have a look at the ‘dine in’ offer at a popular high-street food court. For years, I’ve heard people croon about M&S food and I have been known to dip into their take-away food isle myself. This is the first I’ve tried…
A few years ago I was interested to see that Scandinavian food, ingredients and ways of thinking about food was all the rage. Then clean eating happened. Always one to try to resist a fad I kept schtum about that one. Recently, I was listning to the BBC’s Food Program…
We went to Paris for my birthday – it had been a while since our last visit. We expected a lovely weekend of walking and seeing interesting things: we did not expect a weekend of vegetarian choice. Much has changed in the last few years.
Saturdays are normally quite busy in our house with the typical last minute rush out the door to get to swimming lessons on time. Fortunately, this now finishes at lunchtime and we use this as a reward to go somewhere nice as a treat for lunch. I’ve often driven past…
I don’t often have quiet afternoons on my own with the chance to have a leisurely few hours doing my own thing, however an opportunity popped up the other week and I seized the chance to take my mum out for lunch. We had heard there was a buzz in…
We’re a vegetarian household so eating vegan for a week every month shouldn’t be that difficult. I already cook with oil, soya milk and gram flour instead of butter, milk and eggs. We eat vast amounts of pulses – what else is the slow cooker for? – and liven things up with stir-fries…
Curious about vegan cooking? Carrie Mancini has been a vegan for years and found that a lot of people wondered what she ate. She decided to let people know and Happy Food vegan cooking videos are the result. I went to the launch at Hemma to snack on vegan canapés,…
I really like lasagna, but since we’re a vegetarian household, we don’t make a bolognese version. I’ve had veggie ones that I quite liked – my favourite was a tricolore with gorgeous home-made pesto – but often veggie lasagna is synonymous with soggy bits of courgette and mushroom. To overcome…
I like cooking. Not everyone one does. The thing about cooking that sometimes get away from me is planning. And when I haven’t planned well, I tend to waste more: I don’t have the right things, or I don’t cook the things I have. Enter Gousto. If you’re a fan of Dragons’ Den,…
