carrot cake with a cream cheese frosting (vegan)

I had my sights on a go-to celebration carrot cake that is walnut-studded, carrot-flecked, fragrant, moist, and lavish with decadent frosting. So, I revisited and reposted a recipe created a few years back and made a few adjustments. Variations can be found at the end of the recipe! This cake uses walnuts for crunch and […]
a warm salad of roasted carrot, cauliflower, dal & mustard

It’s so good to have my site back. It had disappeared for ten days, and having it back was like having the comfort of an old friend. We just returned from a holiday with my husband’s family, travelling through parts of Kerala in the South of India. We started in Cochin, staying in a lovely […]
carrot moong dal soup – a winter warming soup

I thought I would revisit this soup, as it is one I make most often in the colder months and a particular favourite of Donna’s. It is also very quick and easy to prepare and has such simple flavours and warmth due to the pepper and ginger, keeping us nourished and grounded in these colder […]
green split pea & carrot soup

A soup inspired by a garden full of peas. Ode to the sweet pea Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. – John Keats, English Romantic poet GREEN SPLIT PEA […]