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Healthy Vegan - Harvest Monday: Rainbow Chard Gratin and White Sprouting Broccoli

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Its been a long while since I participated in Harvest Monday which is hosted these days by Dave over Our Happy Acres . So here is my very small harvest. A good bunch of Rainbow Chard  and Perpetual Spinach. From A2K blog archives I have    also harvested some white sprouting broccoli that have been simply steamed as an accompaniment for meals. I still have a load in the garden to harvest, but should hurry as many are beginning to flower now.  At the weekend, I managed to get a little work done in the garden.  I weeded the plot that had the stinky sprouts.  But there is so much to do and I am out of sync and so unfit that my body ached the following few days.  I was hoping for extra hands at the weekend to help but sadly they did not materialise.  So the work has been postponed for the coming weekend.  I don't know how many seeds I will sow, but already know that I will be picking up some plants from local garden nurse...

Healthy Vegan - Darjeeling Pecan Tea Loaf

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This is a softly scented Darjeeling Pecan Tea Loaf. I was prompted to make when vegan Jaffa Cake' , after responding to her comment.  I had a little nosy around a blog she followed and clocked a Tea Loaf recipe that would use up 2 tablespoons of marmalade sitting at the bottom of the jar left over from the Jaffa Cake recipe ,  It was not long before I found myself in the kitchen measuring out the ingredients and those I d id not have, I substituted with what I had. For example her cake was made with Orange flavour Redbush (Rooibos), I used Darjeeling.     I am not a Darjeeling tea drinker, my husband is and I've used his teabags in the past for Banana and Darjeeling Cake : this loaf though is suitable for vegans.   There was something Welsh  Bara Brith  about it too which I liked. So even though this cake is made with tea, you still need a cuppa with it to wash it down.  I am sharing these 'Cake' with Love Cake: the theme is...

Healthy Vegan - Harvest Monday: Rainbow Chard Gratin and White Sprouting Broccoli

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Its been a long while since I participated in Harvest Monday which is hosted these days by Dave over Our Happy Acres . So here is my very small harvest. A good bunch of Rainbow Chard  and Perpetual Spinach. From A2K blog archives I have    also harvested some white sprouting broccoli that have been simply steamed as an accompaniment for meals. I still have a load in the garden to harvest, but should hurry as many are beginning to flower now.  At the weekend, I managed to get a little work done in the garden.  I weeded the plot that had the stinky sprouts.  But there is so much to do and I am out of sync and so unfit that my body ached the following few days.  I was hoping for extra hands at the weekend to help but sadly they did not materialise.  So the work has been postponed for the coming weekend.  I don't know how many seeds I will sow, but already know that I will be picking up some plants from local garden nurse...

Healthy Vegan - Darjeeling Pecan Tea Loaf

Image
This is a softly scented Darjeeling Pecan Tea Loaf. I was prompted to make when vegan Jaffa Cake' , after responding to her comment.  I had a little nosy around a blog she followed and clocked a Tea Loaf recipe that would use up 2 tablespoons of marmalade sitting at the bottom of the jar left over from the Jaffa Cake recipe ,  It was not long before I found myself in the kitchen measuring out the ingredients and those I d id not have, I substituted with what I had. For example her cake was made with Orange flavour Redbush (Rooibos), I used Darjeeling.     I am not a Darjeeling tea drinker, my husband is and I've used his teabags in the past for Banana and Darjeeling Cake : this loaf though is suitable for vegans.   There was something Welsh  Bara Brith  about it too which I liked. So even though this cake is made with tea, you still need a cuppa with it to wash it down.  I am sharing these 'Cake' with Love Cake: the theme is...

Healthy Vegan - Harvest Monday: Rainbow Chard Gratin and White Sprouting Broccoli

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Its been a long while since I participated in Harvest Monday which is hosted these days by Dave over Our Happy Acres . So here is my very small harvest. A good bunch of Rainbow Chard  and Perpetual Spinach. From A2K blog archives I have    also harvested some white sprouting broccoli that have been simply steamed as an accompaniment for meals. I still have a load in the garden to harvest, but should hurry as many are beginning to flower now.  At the weekend, I managed to get a little work done in the garden.  I weeded the plot that had the stinky sprouts.  But there is so much to do and I am out of sync and so unfit that my body ached the following few days.  I was hoping for extra hands at the weekend to help but sadly they did not materialise.  So the work has been postponed for the coming weekend.  I don't know how many seeds I will sow, but already know that I will be picking up some plants from local garden nurse...

Healthy Vegan - Darjeeling Pecan Tea Loaf

Image
This is a softly scented Darjeeling Pecan Tea Loaf. I was prompted to make when vegan Jaffa Cake' , after responding to her comment.  I had a little nosy around a blog she followed and clocked a Tea Loaf recipe that would use up 2 tablespoons of marmalade sitting at the bottom of the jar left over from the Jaffa Cake recipe ,  It was not long before I found myself in the kitchen measuring out the ingredients and those I d id not have, I substituted with what I had. For example her cake was made with Orange flavour Redbush (Rooibos), I used Darjeeling.     I am not a Darjeeling tea drinker, my husband is and I've used his teabags in the past for Banana and Darjeeling Cake : this loaf though is suitable for vegans.   There was something Welsh  Bara Brith  about it too which I liked. So even though this cake is made with tea, you still need a cuppa with it to wash it down.  I am sharing these 'Cake' with Love Cake: the theme is...