meatfreemonday

One of my favourite meals is the butternut and lentil salad I put in the jar for the market. I always make enough for us to have some, l...

Where to begin with this? Perhaps with the pretty porcelain plates. There's a new potter in town. No, not a new arrival. Rather, someon...

Last night's meatless Monday supper should have been lentil salad, but the turning season called for a warm meal. So, I turned Saturday'...

As usual for most seasons, other than winter, last night's meatless Monday supper came out of the jar. This week, it was the raw, marina...

Last night's meat free supper came, as usual, out of jars. This carrot salad with tzatziki is one of our favourites. I usually serve it...

It was another not salad supper evening, so Saturday's Moroccan lentil salad #inthejar became a bake. Layered with brinjal from the gard...

Last night's meat free Monday supper is as close as I get to convenience foods. Just about. Not having to actually cook last night, rea...

Last night was another Mediterranean inspired and seasonal meat free Monday. It was inspired by our garden brinjals. I roasted and marin...

Normal programming, happily, has mostly resumed. I admit that it's good and especially so as I meet with clients to confirm work - for ...

Hello V-Gang!, It is another meat-free Monday and I am back in the kitchen after a 2-month hiatus and I am preparing a tasty vegan lunch....

May all our clouds this year, be as pretty and benign as this one. Yesterday was a not entirely quiet day: I spent at least half of it ...

Last night's meat free Monday supper was easy. Mostly courtesy, as usual, of market fare. I admit that I was unusually grateful because l...

I got a real kick out of looking back at yesterday and realising that it had been a "normal" Monday. For me, that means knuckl...

Hello V-Gang!, It is another meat-free Monday and I am back in the kitchen after a break last week and I am preparing a tasty vegan lunch...

Sometimes I don't like Mondays. Yesterday was one of them. No, the events didn't send me down the path of the story immortalised in this ...

This week, we had our meat free Monday on Tuesday because we were out for dinner on Monday. Although our hosts know that I'm a proponen...

That was how my Monday began. Glorious, but it should have been a warning of things to come - you know what they say about red skies in...

Last night was my second effort at making pita breads. Again, I made a full batch of dough but only four pitas. The other half of the do...

After a lull, I'm preoccupied with my day job (I'm busy - yay!) and matters market. I - and we - are getting better organised. I have a...

Lentils I do like lentils. Especially the red ones. I've been looking for a recipe to make patties for an age. I have a chickpea patt...

Mondays can be challenging because, well, they're Monday. I've been working hard on rearranging my head about that although it did niggl...

I am a total convert to flatbreads (naan) made with sourdough discard. It's no secret that I am not fond of rice and until I discovered ...

Glorious winter light at the entrance to our village At this time of the year, the light in our village is often spectacular and as to be...

Yesterday, we took a necessary trip to Worcester. Although we can get most things in our nearest town, 20km away, somethings we cannot, ...

Last night's meatless Monday supper harked back to my youth. I first "met" falafel in pita bread in Johannesburg in the mid-80...

Having not had Swiss chard (which we call spinach) in the garden thanks to the guineafowl, that have now moved on, we have a new crop. I...

I slept through the lunar eclipse but hoped to catch it just before the moon set. I was too late. La luna had already sunk behind our m...

Another Monday and another sort of fusion meatfree meal. It was ratatouille again. I do so enjoy it and since I had the brainwave of co...

On public holidays, I volunteer for breakfast duty and fiddle in the kitchen. Today, it was pie: there was some leftover pastry and I fe...

Yesterday was mad. C returned to work so we had a long heart to heart. J's employer, for whom he had worked for 15 years, had (has) made ...