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7+ Apple Recipes That Prove One Fruit Can Do Everything

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The apple does everything. We eat it raw, bake it into pies, and rarely think much further. But spend enough time cooking with apples and you start to see how far this one fruit can stretch. Sweet, savoury, spiced, fermented, or put into a bag and gifted straight from the tree.

Over the years on this blog, the apple has quietly appeared in more recipes than I realised. Sometimes they are sharing the spotlight, but they’re always there front and center; a crumble made from freshly picked mountain apples, a birthday cake born out of lockdown, a syrup made so we wouldn’t throw away the peels. Looking back, the apple has been here all along.

Here are 7+ recipes from the archives that prove one fruit really can do everything.

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20 Vegetarian and Vegan Recipes to Cook During Lent

I’d like to take the opportunity and with those who are fasting a Blessed Lent.

I, myself, haven’t fasted in a few years and haven’t abstained from meats or dairies for longer. The thing is, I don’t usually cook with a lot of meats. Most of my recipes are either vegetarian, vegan, or can be altered to be either one.

For the son of a butcher, and a whole family of butchers, it is blasphemous for me to quit meats. I did quit red meats for2 years and I was given a hard time, even though I sometimes used to cook for myself or ask mom for a meat-less or chicken version of whatever she’s cooking. I decided to finally end it when I was tempted by mom’s spicy barbequed kababs. Now I am back to meats regularly. And allow me to say, a bit more than ever. I am a fan of beef burgers now, I ate barbecued meat, I have no problem with pork, and I enjoyed beef curries. Weird, isn’t it?

For now, I have not made up my mind whether I will be abstaining from a certain food group but for those of you who have, I present you with this list of 20 vegetarian and vegan recipes to cook during lent:

Lunch or Dinner

Creamy Cauliflower Soup (vegan)
https://cookin5m2.com/2014/01/13/vegan-creamy-cauliflower-soup/ 

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Summer and Cherry Cheesecake Ice Cream

Summer is about to end and I am taking advantage of my summer vacation. I had spent the day at the beach. Nothing but the blue waves of the Mediterranean, the blue sky and the sand all over my body to alter my mood whatever it was.cherry cheesecake ice cream 01

Day at the beach


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