(For all ingredients, please use organic versions if available) Peaceful Pumpkin Soup1 small pumpkin (about 6–8 cups diced pumpkin) 1 medium sweet potato (about 3 cups) ¾ cup red lentils 1 vegetable stock cube Water to cover 1–2 inches above the vegetables 1 small red chili pepper (optional) Heavenly Chocolate Chip Cookies4 tablespoons vegan margarine ½ cup castor sugar 1 cup wholemeal flour 4 heaped tablespoons freshly ground almonds ½ cup vegan chocolate chips
Peaceful Pumpkin Soup - Peel the pumpkin, deseed it, and roughly chop it.
- Peel and chop the sweet potatoes roughly.
- Put the pumpkin and the potatoes in a pot, add in some filtered water about ¾ of the way up.
- Add in the chili and ¾ cup of thoroughly washed red lentils.
- Put in the vegetable stock cube.
- Give it a bit of a stir.
- Put the pot on the stove to cook.
- Put the heat on high until it comes to a boil, and turn it down low to a simmer.
- When the soup come to boil, remove it from the heat to gently stir it, so that the lentils don’t stick to the bottom and burn the pan.
- Put the pot back on the stove with low heat to a simmer.
- If it cooks, put them in a blender, and put it again on the stove on a very, very low heat to keep warm.
- Meanwhile, cup up some freshly cooked home baked bread.
- Lay the bread on a plate, and spread that with tahini.
- Place the soup on a dish, top it with some fresh parsley.
- Serve it with the tahini bread.
Heavenly Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie- First, preheat the oven to 170 for the biscuits.
- Beat the castor sugar, but not too much.
- Combine the vegan margarine and the castor sugar.
- Sift in 1 cup of wholemeal plain flour.
- Mix everything.
- Add in 4 tablespoonfuls of freshly ground almonds.
- Add in the chocolate chips.
- Mix the dough again, very careful, not to over mix. Just to make sure everything is combined.
- Make a ball from the dough, whatever size doesn’t matter.
- Place them on the tray.
- Flatten them down.
- Put them in the oven for about 20 minutes.
- After 20 minutes, take the cookies out of the oven, and leave them on the tray to cool right down and crips them off.
- When they cool down, place them on a plate, and serve.
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