Asparagus is so good for you, a great source of vitamins A and C as well as potassium and calcium. This hollandaise is as near the real thing as I can do and I think I did a good job. Please try it!

The supermarkets here always have the 5 main pre-packed vegetables going very cheap the week everyone is buying their Christmas dinner accompaniments. I got sprouts, parsnips, carrots, potatoes and onions for 15p a bag at Tesco, apparently Asdas were even cheaper! A lot of people dislike sprouts but we eat them all year round. Some people like to pair them with bacon or chestnuts at Christmas and you could certainly use ham stock if you like in this if you want to tone the sprout flavour down. I opt for half and half chicken / vegetable stock and you can add extra water depending on how thick you prefer your soup. Some cheese straws or crusty bread completes the meal

I love mushrooms and this recipe is kind of a variation of my previously posted Mushroom Stroganoff

If you're not a fan of raw celery, neither am I but this soup is delicious! Celery tastes so much better cooked in my opinion. This is a thin but creamy, low calorie soup, great for lunch along with a sandwich. For more creaminess without the coconut cream, just add an extra potato

I've shared a couple of banana bread recipes and even banana muffins so far but not this banana layer cake. My eldest sons favourite is banana and it's always handy to use up the over ripe ones. It's my husbands birthday today and with 2 almost black bananas staring at me from the fruit bowl, I knew what I had to do!

I don't normally buy prepared, bagged fresh vegetables because they're expensive compared to whole veggies, but Tesco were selling short coded 480g bags of mixed broccoli florets and carrot batons off for only 20p so I bought a few bags. I used one of them to make this quick soup!

This is a popular recipe that comes around my feed every Christmas. I've veganized it for Jack to enjoy

Another tomato-free pasta sauce. The kids really love this one

Looks like the heatwave is over and we're back to our normal Scottish weather! Jack announced it must be a soup day so why not a traditional tattie soup? Add in whatever else you would like, this is the basic, bare bones version. Best with homemade stock - chicken, vegetable or ham - but old-fashioned tattie soup would have been made with beef or mutton bones. My grannie would boil up a ham hough for hers but for the sake of ease and what we enjoy the most, I use an equal mixture of chicken and vegetble stock cubes

A miserable day in the North East of Scotland calls for soup! Be aware that lentils belong to the same food group as soya beans and if you have a soy allergy as opposed to an intolerance, you may not fare well with lentils and have the same reaction

Cocoa bombs are very popular this year! I think it's the year for homemade Christmas hamper gifts! You can add in lots of optional extras such as crushed peppermint candy canes, Christmas themed sugar sprinkles, edible glitter etc. This recipe is based on 5 servings of 250ml of milk (Just over 1 cup) so please adjust the cocoa amounts to your milk quantity as stated on the cocoa powder packaging. Mine said 1 tsp per 200mls milk but bear in mind there's chocolate going in there too!

Just a quick throw-together meal using the last of what was in the fridge. The Violife 'parmesan' is perfect in this recipe or you can add some nutritional yeast if you prefer. In any case the 'cheese' is optional