Essentials
Kitchen Planning
10 quick tips for making plant milks. Plant milks are growing in popularity – from almond to macadamia to cashew milk - there is bound to be a plant-based milk to suit your taste.
7 STEPS TO KEEPING YOUR FRIDGE COLD SO YOUR FOOD LASTS LONGER. The ideal temperature for a fridge is between 3 degrees C (37 degrees F) and 5 degrees C (40 degrees F) to stop harmful bacteria from growing. Too cold and your lettuce will be frozen and too warm, your food will spoil.
Techniques
Soaking makes nuts easier to digest but also elevates the taste and texture of your favourite nut and seed dishes. This practice champions both gastronomy and nutrition, offering a small shift in preparation that can make a significant difference in how your body receives and benefits from nuts and seeds.
Buckwheatsicles is sprouted and dehydrated buckwheat. It makes a delicious breakfast cereal alternative or can be ground into buckwheat flour.
Stop the endless cycle of buying fresh to throwing slimy greens in the trash with these simple ideas.
This isn’t really a recipe but more of an idea. It certainly isn’t raw, but it does use up potential food waste and ticks a lot of other boxes. Plus you can enjoy it with raw dishes too.
There has been something of a fashion recently for raw cauliflower rice. Learn the secret of making a fluffy raw cauliflower rice.
Seasoning and Flavour
Pumpkin pie spice can be used in cookies, pies, smoothies, cheesecakes, energy balls - and you can even use it to give raw brownies an Autumnal twist. It works in any recipe where you would like a little bit of a warm cosy feeling.
Chai spice is easy to make yourself. Simply make up your blend, adjusting the spices to your liking. Combine well and store in an airtight jar until required. For a fresher tasting spice blend, you can grind your own spices. You can use a coffee grinder or a traditional pestle and mortar to grind them separately before measuring the ground spices and blending together.
Seasonality
These whimsical Halloween raw chocolates are scarily good and a scream to make. An impressive treat for when people come knocking.
Dandelion capers are easy to make and a good use of the buds that may be appearing in your garden in the Spring.
A last minute Christmas pudding - super quick and easy, without any cooking whatsoever and virtually no effort. What more could you want?
This recipe is an amalgamation of two favourites – Christmas pudding and vanilla cheesecake. I don’t think it’s cutting corners to have two desserts in one, but more of an irresistible embellishment of two classics.
Where the hedgerows are heavy with glossy juicy elderberries and blackberries, grab your secateurs and make this elderberry and blackberry syrup - a powerful preparation against cold and flu.
Easy elderflower vinegar for your salad dressings
Elderflower vinegar has a slightly liquorice-like flavour which will add an extra dimension to your salad dressings.
Wild garlic sometimes goes by the name of ramsons, ramps, bears garlic, buckrams, bear leek, broad leafed garlic or wood garlic. Whatever the name you know it as, it certainly is a delicious herb.
It strikes me that making decorations that can be eaten is a much-improved way of getting a head start on any clearing up to be done. Think of it as an hor d'oeuvre, if you will, for the volumes of chocolate you may consume on Christmas Day.
Evolution
This isn’t really a recipe but more of an idea. It certainly isn’t raw, but it does use up potential food waste and ticks a lot of other boxes. Plus you can enjoy it with raw dishes too.
Soaking makes nuts easier to digest but also elevates the taste and texture of your favourite nut and seed dishes. This practice champions both gastronomy and nutrition, offering a small shift in preparation that can make a significant difference in how your body receives and benefits from nuts and seeds.