I love veggie sushi and this week, for the first time, I enjoyed making my own with the Yo! Sushi Rolling Kit. Sushi Rolling Kit and Noodle Bowl set As part of Yo!’s Christmas store, you can buy the Sushi Rolling Kit, which includes a bamboo rolling mat, sushi rice, chopsticks, nori sheets, sushi rice […]
TRIED & TESTED // Frantoi Extra Virgin Olive Oil
This week I was really excited to sample the much anticipated 2020 batch of Frantoi extra virgin olive oil. Frantoi only offers new season olive oil for 8 weeks of the year. This is to give the maximum health benefits and enjoyment window of their oil. They claim that: ‘once you have tasted oils of […]
Lizzy’s Cosy, Vegan Christmas Wish List 2020
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a Christmas wish list. If you are looking for vegan, sustainable, snuggly and indulgent gifts, my list could be for you! Yawn pyjamas I’ve been on the hunt for some gorgeous, luxurious and grown-up pyjamas for a while and Yawn tick all of my boxes! I love their organic ‘port […]
Pumpkin recipes
With Halloween around the corner, the green grocers here in North London are piled high with pumpkins. As is tradition, we will be buying a couple to carve into lanterns. But as I try to avoid food waste, I have found myself doing my usual search for vegan friendly pumpkin recipes. I wanted to share […]
TRIED & TESTED // Bright Barley drinks
In a week when I needed an extra little treat, I received a box of Bright Barley drinks to sample. With chocolate, salted caramel and coffee flavours, made with all natural ingredients, I was too tempted to say no. These vegan drinks contain organic barley syrup, agave sugar and organic barley, grown on UK farms. […]
TRIED & TESTED // Ballet Fusion
This week I enjoyed my first online fitness class of lockdown: Ballet Fusion. In a class that promised to combine dance, fun, fitness and amazing results, with a feel-good factor thrown in, how could I refuse? About Ballet Fusion Ballet Fusion was founded by dance teacher Rhea Sheedy. Passionate about adult fitness, health and wellbeing, […]
TRIED & TESTED // Iced Coffee
I was first introduced to iced coffee during my summer in New York in 2014. Since then it has become a taste of the summer season for me. Much as mulled wine remains the preserve of late October to early January, iced coffee has a place somewhere between May and September (depending on the particulars […]
BOOK REVIEW // The Garden Chef
There is something wonderfully indulgent about a Phaidon book. They are so elegantly designed. Printed on a paper sympathetic to the subject and beautifully bound to complete the perfect package. ‘The Garden Chef’ is no exception to this rule. Printed on an uncoated stock to give it a rustic feel, with copper foil lettering on […]
WE WENT // Tenzing Clean Air Run Club
Running and London. Two of my favourite things. But as fellow Londoners will know, these are two things that aren’t always the most compatible when it comes to the levels of air pollution on some of the city’s most popular running routes. That’s why, when the opportunity came up to join the Tenzing Clean Air […]
WE WENT // JOCKEY FIT
Launched to coincide with the weekend of the Grand National (Saturday, 6 April), Jockey Fit is a fun but intensive workout, designed to showcase the elite levels of fitness required by jockeys.