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Ghee

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Ghee Diana Earnshaw, Volunteer Contributor Ghee is ideal for people who are lactose intolerant. It has all the wonderful benefits of butter but without the lactose. It tastes fab too!   Ghee lends a lovely nutty intense flavour to dishes and is perfect to use while cooking especially as… Read More »Ghee

Olive Oil Dip

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Olive Oil Dip By Diana Earnsahw, Volunteer Contributor Here’s a gorgeous Olive Oil Dip for True Food’s Olive bread! Recipe courtesy of Kitchme.com Relevant article: Fat does not make you fat. Ingredients 4 tbsp olive oil 5 cloves of garlic 2 tbsp balasamic vinegar 2 tbsp parmesan cheese (optional) 1… Read More »Olive Oil Dip

Brownies – No added sugar

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Recipe and photograph from Olive magazine. Ingredients 200 grams baking chocolate (dark chocolate couverture or 100% cocoa solids chocolate) ½ teaspoon baking soda 200 grams pitted dates (about 10 dates) 3 eggs ¼ cup coconut oil, melted 1 tablespoon vanilla extract Method In a food processor, pulse chocolate… Read More »Brownies – No added sugar

Summer Pudding

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Summer Pudding By Diana Earnshaw, Volunteer Contributor Recipe based on Jamie Oliver’s recipes. Read related article: Summer Fruits Ingredients 800g mixed summer berries, such as raspberries, redcurrants, strawberries, blackcurrants and blackberries  150g sugar  ½ an orange  ½ teaspoon vanilla paste (optional)  7 large slices of white bread  2 tablespoons… Read More »Summer Pudding

Summer Fruit Cobbler

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Based on a Jamie Oliver recipe Ingredients 1 peach stoned and sliced 1 pear, cored and thickly sliced 500g mixed berries 1 apple, grated 5 tablespoons sugar A good glug of balsamic vinegar For the topping 6 heaped tablespoons butter, chilled 225g self-raising flour 70g sugar a large… Read More »Summer Fruit Cobbler

Watercress Soup

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Watercress Soup By Diana Earnshaw, Volunteer Contributor Ideal for those slightly cooler summer evenings. Courtesy of BBC Good Food. Related article: Summer greens Related recipe to try: Avocado & Spinach Breakfast Smoothie Ingredients 15ml/1 tbsp olive oil/butter 1 small onion, chopped 1 small stick celery 350g/12oz potato, peeled… Read More »Watercress Soup

Spiced Plum Sauce

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Spiced Plum Sauce By Diana Earnshaw, Volunteer Contributor Related article: Dealing with a glut – and making the best of inexpensive seasonal food Ingredients 10 plums, stoned and quartered  1 apple peeled, cored and cut into chunks 1 small onion, peeled and chopped 1 clove of garlic, peeled… Read More »Spiced Plum Sauce

Roasted root vegetables

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Roasted root vegetables by Diana Earnshaw Although they are available all year, in autumn and winter root vegetables really come into their own – especially when they are locally sourced and freshly uprooted. Now, they are cheap and plentiful. Root vegetables are very much thought of as comfort foods.… Read More »Roasted root vegetables