Simple aubergine rolls, perfect for buffets, picnics and parties. Jump to Recipe Christmas is well under way chez Thinly Spread. The Christmas trees are up, festooned with our ever growing collection of beautiful baubles and the oven is working overtime to keep...
This simple cashew nut roast is savoury, moist and moreish and is the perfect centrepiece for a vegan Christmas dinner! I’ve gone all fancy pants with my presentation (I just can’t help myself!) but you can just as easily make it in a regular roasting tin....
A simple roast cauliflower salad with a jolly sweet pepper salsa. This one is a feast for the eyes as well as the tummy! Jump to Recipe Roasting Cauliflower Roasting cauliflower is one of those culinary tricks I wish I’d known donkey’s years ago...
This simple vegan mushroom pate is full of flavour and texture and is perfect with crackers or spread on crusty fresh bread. Jump to Recipe I developed this mushroom pâté because Mr TS and I have been missing the vegetarian version of it which I have been making for...
These pumpkin brownies are, to my mind, the best vegan chocolate brownies in the whole wide world! Deeply chocolatey, moist, fluffy and fudgy, they are always a massive hit in my house. Jump to Recipe They are super simple to make and last really well in an air...
This simple recipe for dairy free sticky ginger cake ticks all the sticky gingerbread boxes. It is full of black treacle, ginger and spice. It is fluffy and light yet full of depth and rich sticky flavour. Jump to Recipe The first chill of autumn, the...
Celebrate apple season with this scrumptious apple pizza! Topped with apple slices, hazelnuts, sultanas and cinnamon this sweet pizza is a celebration of all things autumn. Jump to Recipe Apple season is upon us! I may have mentioned before that I live right in the...
An easy recipe for Butternut Squash and Lentil Soup with Chilli, Ginger and Coconut to warm you up from the inside out. Jump to Recipe Butternut Squash Season I get so excited when the new season’s squashes start showing up on the shelves and I get more than a...
There’s always a lot of kerfuffle on line and in print media around the latest superfoods and the last few years have seen an explosion of enthusiasm for cooking with ancient grains. There were lists of reasons you should be eating ancient grains, lists of the...
We’re in that mad space twixt winter and spring when the weather can change in a blink and I am forever going out in The Wrong Clothes. Sailing is currently a very blustery experience indeed and I am longing for long, lazy days in the sunshine just drifting...
With Valentine’s Day tiptoeing towards us, and my daughter’s birthday falling two days before it, it is time to share this – this, my friends, is The Best Vegan Chocolate Fudge Cake! Jump to Recipe Vegan Chocolate Fudge Cake – The Story...
Vegan Chocolate Orange Muffins, light and fluffy, sumptuous and pillowy, rich and indulgent – everything we are told vegan food is not! Jump to Recipe These gorgeous double chocolate cupcakes make me gasp every time I take a batch out of the oven. I’m...
You can make these easy vegan falafels and bake them in the oven if you want the healthy option but I am writing this post in deepest, darkest, coldest January and I want comfort food! My falafel were shallow fried in sunflower oil and drained on a clean tea towel to...
I did it! I made the most delicious Vegan Bratwurst with Caramelised Beer Onions and Mustard… Jump to Recipe “Vegan Bratwurst?” I hear you cry, “What inspired that one?!” Well, this time last year our eldest was living in the heart of...
Hoorah Hooray! It’s a Grinchmas sort of a day! It is SIXTY years since ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas!’ hit the shelves for the first time and it has become a must read Christmas book every year chez Thinly Spread – I’m pretty sure my...
