Things in my kitchen for the New Year

Happy New Year to you bloggers from around the world.

My kitchen this month is heavy with gifts from the festive season, as well as lots of leftovers as our eyes were bigger than our bellies (no Turkey though, remember I am vegetarian!).  

So let me begin.  Above is some left over homemade beetroot horseradish pate smothered over slices of Germanic style rye bread. For those of you interested, I will share the recipe later on in the month.

In my kitchen is this ceramic hen that holds some little jars of jam and marmalade.  I was also given some chutneys and boxes of chocolates (in fact I am eating a piece of dark chocolate right now).  If you want to see my Chocolate collection, then please have a look at my festive eats blog post if you click here. 

In my kitchen are empty containers that once held a very large Panettone.  The panettone is gone but the tin remains.  The tin will be used to hold some delicate Christmas decorations when we put away the Christmas tree back in the attic later today.

In my kitchen is a loaf of sourdough white bread.  I have been making sourdough bread a lot over the festive period, as I was mostly home alone on most days with D still having to go into work.  Its still hit and miss though. 

New Year to Eat More Greens Challenge

Happy New Year 2019 !

Let me start, by saying a big Thank you to my readers.  I honestly do appreciate you for supporting and reading my 'not for profit' blog and taking time to comment when you can.  This continued interaction is part of the reason that I continue to blog. 

Well, its my turn to host the Eat Your Greens challenge.   Are you up for it?!

Its really easy to participate, all you have to do is make either a vegan or vegetarian recipe with green vegetables or fruit on your blog.  Then copy the blog link to the comment section below.  If your looking for some seasonal inspiration, then please do check out the #EatYourGreens archive, as well as The VegHog's Round Up from November 2018. Eat Your Greens is alternately co-hosted by myself and The VegHog. 

For more details Follow this link on how to participate just please remember to link back to the host page (this page) and my co-host The VegHog.   

The use of the #EatYourGreens logo is optional, but is appreciated.  The deadline is the 30th January and the Round up will be on the 1st February 2019.

Some Festive Eats over Christmas

I hope my readers had a good Christmas break.  I had a good one and I must confess I am pleased as I am still on my holidays, I don't go back until after the New Year.  

So with some time on my hands, I thought I would share some homemade festive eats.

A very simple and easy recipe for pinwheels made to look like a Christmas tree.  These are green wraps filled with hummus, strips of yellow, orange and red peppers, rocket and spring onions.  

Vegan sausage roll bites in two flavours: apricot and yellow pepper; the other was beetroot and horseradish served with Smoked Paprika Ketchup.

Black chickpea and sweet potato frittata bites.

As well as the homemade chocolate 'salami', I made another festive bookmarked recipe from the Green Gourmet Giraffe, this time for Gingerbread Cookies.  This was also actually an excuse to play with my box of eclectic cookie cutters.