vegan coconut shortbread with chocolate drizzle.

A tasty treat that happens to be dairy free and egg free too! This melt-in-the-mouth vegan shortbread recipe is scattering with coconuts and baked before being drizzled with heavenly dark chocolate. A naturally vegan sweet recipe which is perfectly bitesize.

chocolate, coconut & cardamom tart: baking with malibu.

inspired by sweet indian dessert flavours of coconut, pistachio and cardamom, this malibu infused chocolate tart is actually vegan and gluten free. i brought it to my friend's house for the sweet course, after a delicious indian banquet of freshly made pakora, tandoori salmon and potato and pea curry. i could eat it all over again. anyway, on to the recipe...

cardamom and coconut french toast + george foreman giveaway.

i think i've had a craving for french toast ever since i didn't get to a chance to go to le schmuck in paris earlier this year. the idea of sweet crunchy bread with a hint of spice and a dollop of good quality ice cream sounds like a dessert i would devour in seconds. i just hadn't really considered that i could make it myself. 

enter the new style george foreman, which i was kindly gifted to try out. at first i thought oh yes i've heard you can do all sorts of healthy grilling recipes on these. then i read the recipe book and saw french toast. sorry heathy eating, the naughty side of gastronomy wins this time. 

covent garden soup co. red thai sweet potato and coconut.

fresh red thai sweet potato, coconut and steamed vegetable soup.

three of your five a day.
252 calories.
around £2-3 in large supermarkets.

"a delicious, smooth base of flavoured sweet potato, red pepper, coconut, ginger and the heat of red chilli, nestled underneath spinach leaves, bamboo shoots, sweet potato and red pepper chunks."

a really quick, tasty and wholesome soup. you simply put in the microwave for five minutes - this steams the vegetables on top and warms the soup underneath. you then remove the little sleeve keeping the veg at the top and it drops in :) 

i just had to post this on my blog because i really recommend it for a lunch to take to work - i thought it was a really great idea for a soup packed with veg which was surprisingly filling! x