Thank you all for the birthday wishes! Yesterday I turned 41 and filled my day with, family, friends and food!

As well as a considerable amount of cake throughout the day, a friend organised a raw vegan lunch with the Chef Tina Barrat, previously from Maya Cafe who now...

A vegan friend first made me this salad, using a recipe from her Thermomix cookbook. In the absence of such a time saving yet costly device, I resorted to the old fashioned technique of chopping by hand. I also tweaked it to reduce the glycemic index of the dressing. T...

This is a super quick family pudding using fresh bananas and a homemade chocolate sauce which contains just three ingredients: cacao powder, coconut oil and maple syrup. Is it therefore dairy-free and refined sugar free. You could sprinkle some dessicated coconut on t...

Here is a slightly more elegant way of presenting an old classic, in muffin cups bought at Twinsco and taster forks from Jason's. The presentation was possibly lost on my husband's cricket team but I think the wives liked it...

What you need:

2 cups couscous

2 cups boi...

 There are plenty of ways to liven up breakfast time with these coconut based wraps from Green Vitamin. These are raw, paleo, gluten-free, soy-free, low calorie, vegan and low-carb! Now breathe...  Above you can see the cacao coconut wraps with sunflower seed butter,...

Summery weather calls for drinks & dips, and pico de gallo (tomato salsa) is something I could eat with a spoon, never mind the tortilla chips (although clearly I ate a whole packet while shooting this).

What you need:

6 large tomatoes, skinned & deseeded

1/2 red onion...

This is (one of my) current guilty pleasures and could not be simpler.  Apart from being very moreish, there are many health benefits of eating miso which is made from fermented soya beans. It contains all the amino acids so is a complete protein, aids digestion, is a...

Everyone in my household seems to have a bit of a funny tummy and I in particular have been craving miso soup to settle it. Miso is a form of fermented food containing soy beans, Koji (culture of cooked rice/wheat/soy) and salt. It's particularly good at protecting ou...

These were just an excuse to use my new coconut flour. The recipe is from Empowered Sustenance and a pretty good result re bake, texture, lightness and moisture BUT why did I expect the foul-smelling, raw buckwheat honey (also a new purchase) to smell less like cow ma...

Or ideal as a mid-afternoon snack which meant I had to make excuses come supper time as to why I wasn't so hungry....

The layers are:

1 Fresh, pitted cherries. 
2. Granola from Bob's Red Mill. 
3. Raw dairy-free coconut yoghurt from Green Vitamin - possibly be...