Atora Light Shredded Vegetable Suet

As a vegan, I seem to jack-knife between making funky, wild ingredients veggie stuff - and making more traditional stuff - but veganised. A veggie hot-pot with dumplings can be the ultimate in comfort food with its chunky veg like carrots, whole button mushrooms, beans and thick, rich-tasting sauce and the bit that makes it all worthwhile - the swollen dumplings bobbing on the top (they don't really bob that much but it sounded good). It's the perfect dish for a cold evening (or any evening). Now, when I went to school the teachers were not that concerned about healthy eating; our school cooking manual should have been re-named 'The Heart ...  Read the complete review

When I was a teen, I would come home from school and the first question that I would ask my mum was 'Whats for tea?'. If she ever replied with 'Stew' then I'd groan, get rather moody and storm off upstairs (What can I say? I was an hormonal young woman with the world on my shoulders! Lol!). The reason for this was because I knew that I didn't need o ask that questin for the next two or even three nights. My mum would make such a huge pot that it would be on the stove for nights on end and I hated it! It wasn't until a few months a go that my mum bought a little pot of food down for my son. It was all blended up and I forgot to ask her what it was. Any mum ...  Read the complete review

I remember as a little girl 'helping' my grandmother make her mincemeat on her big old scrubbed table. She used a huge blade set into a piece of wood and chopped all the ingredients by hand in a big heap on the table. It was hard work for her and my mom, who used to help her, but it was worth it as it tasted great! Later on I would help my own mom make her mincemeat, this time using a big metal mincer clamped to the side of the kitchen table. Later this week I will be making my own mincemeat using my mincer which is a lightweight up to date version of mom's old one! How times have changed. The recipe that I use is one that I found in a ...  Read the complete review

Aah, dumplings! I know that it's still supposed to be summer but the weather has been so dreadful that I am already thinking about winter stews and casseroles. A stew would not be a stew without dumplings and dumplings would not be dumplings without Atora Light Shredded Vegetable Suet. I use Atora Light nowadays; it contains 30% less fat than regular Atora and, in my opinion, makes lighter, fluffier dumplings. It is also suitable for vegetarians because it is made using vegetable suet. The ingredients are very simple; vegetable oils (59%), wheat flour, stabiliser and pectin, though, because of the wheat flour, it is not suitable for those with wheat gluten ...  Read the complete review