A Vegetarian Family Life - On Land and At Sea
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Black Quinoa and Spiced Chickpea Salad
It’s all change here at Thinly Spread – Number One left for Berlin last week where he will be spending 7 months studying and Number Two is also flying the nest shortly to head up North for his first year at Uni. It will be very odd going from six of us to four and I will be over cooking again as I did last year until I get a handle on quantities. Perhaps I should just pack up the extras and send them on to my boys – this Black Quinoa and Spiced Chickpea Salad would travel well!
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Vegan Kimchi Buddha Bowl – Fermented Deliciousness!
I have been planning to make a Vegan Kimchi Buddha Bowl myself ever since we visited the Wilderness Festival in 2012 and found the Buddha Bowl Van – that’s FOUR YEARS AGO! Why does time have to do this slippy thing?! The Buddha Bowl Van team produced bowl...
Easy Vegetarian Recipes – Pea and Potato Frittata
On Monday I introduced my new series here on Thinly Spread. Every Wednesday, in term time, I will be sharing the simplest vegetarian recipes in my repertoire. I now have two boys away at University so this is as much an easy vegetarian student cookbook for them as it...
Vegetarian Students – An Introduction!
Well, it’s happened, we have two vegetarian students in the family. We have gone from a household of six to one of four as our second born has flown the nest and headed up North to Uni. Number one is in Berlin studying at Uni there on his year abroad so we are...
Lavender Biscuits
The lavender in my garden is just coming into flower, I’ve been watching it like a hawk, waiting to pounce so that I could make a batch of these beautiful lavender biscuits to mark Midsummer! Lavender is thought to have come to our shores with the Romans who...
Home Made Sun Dried Tomatoes
Home Made Sun Dried Tomatoes – golly I love that! I must’ve spent a small fortune on jars and packets of sun dried tomatoes over the years – they are an essential ingredient in so many of my dishes adding a chewiness and depth of flavour which even...
The Simplest Pineapple Smoothie Recipe
This Pineapple Smoothie Recipe is so simple it hardly merits the word ‘recipe’ at all – it took moments to make and vanished in seconds – it all happened so fast I’m beginning to wonder if I imagined it. Lucky I took a photograph or two...
Grilled Vegetable Salad – Seasonal in September!
*I originally created this Grilled Vegetable Salad recipe for the July/August edition of Superfood Magazine* I’m loving this spell of hot sunny weather as summer sings its swan song. The last of my tomatoes are ripening beautifully on their vines, peppers and...
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Food Lovers Visit Dorset
Living where Somerset meets both Dorset and Wiltshire means that I am spoilt for choice with local food producers, farmer’s markets and – of course – Frome’s own utterly fabulous monthly Independent Market. I love knowing exactly where my food...
Cruising on Island Princess – Sea Days and Surprises
When I told people that Mr TS and I were going on a cruise they raised their eyebrows while looking me up and down and doing that thing people do with their mouths which says ‘You?! Are you sure?!’ without any words actually coming out. So – did we enjoy it? Yes, we did and this is why!
Visit Venice – Our First Time!
I’ve wanted to visit Venice for as long as I can remember so when the opportunity arose to spend a couple of days there ahead of my press trip through the Med on Island Princess*, it was too good to miss – Mr TS booked us two nights in a hotel in the...
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Explaining the EU Referendum to Children and Distracting Myself with PomPom Caterpillars
Goodness, it’s been a ‘bit of a week’ here in the UK – Harold Wilson once said that ‘a week is a long time in politics’ and this has certainly been the longest and maddest week I can remember! Mr TS and I run our own businesses, our...
Champagne Cork Craft – Lighthouse Keyring
I’m a cork collector – if we get a bottle with a real cork rather than a plastic imitation I hoard them, jealously, until a cork craft pops into my head. We had an 18th birthday in this house, just before Christmas, and there was Champagne – which...
How To Make Paper Roses
Today is my daughter’s fifteenth birthday, I brought her home on 14th February 2000 so it seems very appropriate that most of us are going to see her perform in Romeo and Juliet this evening – my Valentine’s baby! In her honour Bonus Boy and I have...
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How to Design a Kitchen – Second Time Around
We moved into our large and rambling home 16 years ago and we’ve spent the intervening years renovating it and raising our four children. We have, in all honesty, spent more time with the children than we have on the house and have now reached the point where...
Patio Garden Makeover – Moving On
My kitchen has windows at both ends, the garden wraps around the house and in the summer the sliding doors from the sunroom/dining room are always open. Over the last 15 years children have run in and out with muddy boots or sandy feet, showing me a pebble which...
Flowers in the Autumn Garden
As August ended we sailed back along the coast past Cornwall and Devon, then across Lyme Bay to Dorset and there was a distinct chill in the air. When we returned to our Somerset garden all the exuberance of late summer was fading and autumn was squaring its shoulders...