Chia jam is an easy, low sugar alternative to "normal" jam. The chia seeds help it to thicken, giving a jam like consistency. Plus, unlike your average jam, it takes just 30 minutes to make, start to finish. Because it's low in sugar, chia jam doesn't have the preservative required to let is keep as… Continue reading Strawberry & Pear Chia Jam
Author: Elsa
Hello and welcome to my blog! I'm a nature-loving, happy hippy PhD student from the UK interested in veganism, zero waste and other topics related to environmentalism, minimalism and living a conscious life in touch with nature.
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Peanut Butter & Chamomile Breakfast Muffins
Peanut butter and Chamomile I hear you ask?! Listen up for a great new flavour combination ... When I bake, it tends to be (1) spontaneous, (2) sporadic, and (3) chaotic. All of these elements combined in the creation of this recipe! Baking for me is really therapeutic and brings me much more into the… Continue reading Peanut Butter & Chamomile Breakfast Muffins
5 Steps to A Zero Waste Kitchen
In just five simple steps, you can drastically reduce to nearly zero the amount of waste you produce in your kitchen (aside from any food packaging waste). See my guide to shopping for food zero waste (without access to bulk stores!) if you want some tips on that. See all other posts relating to zero… Continue reading 5 Steps to A Zero Waste Kitchen
3 Ways With Wild Garlic
Foraging beginner? Check out my Foraging dos and don'ts guide to help you forage with confidence. Wild Garlic - the route into foraging for many ! It's hard to mistake the flowers and leaves of Allium ursinum, wild garlic or ramsons, for anything else. The leaves give off a very strong garlicky smell when crushed. It is very common… Continue reading 3 Ways With Wild Garlic
Summer Reds & Greens Soup
This week marks the festival of Lammas, traditionally the first harvest when the land is rich with abundance in the ripening crops in the fields, in our gardens, and in hedgerows and woodlands. This soup is a wonderful, vibrant way to use up a glut of summer tomatoes with a twist of fresh basil for… Continue reading Summer Reds & Greens Soup
Brighid Cake
Spring is coming! Yay! All around us, nature is starting to realise its potential and come into bud, returning to new life. At this time of year, following the festival of Imbolc or Candlemas at the start of February, we honour the Maiden Goddess Brighid (Christianised as St Bride), renewer of light, bearer of the… Continue reading Brighid Cake
No Bake Cacao, Hemp and Cardomom Flapjacks
These flapjacks are the bomb! I first encountered this incredible flavour combination in a flapjack I bought from EarthFayre, Glastonbury (UK), and as soon as I got home I knew I had to recreate the recipe! These flapjacks are so easy to make - it's a one bowl recipe with no baking required, as they set… Continue reading No Bake Cacao, Hemp and Cardomom Flapjacks
