Jack Monroe

Four Ingredient Christmas Cake, 16p

Posted by Jack Monroe | Nov 22, 2019 | Baking, Christmas, Dessert, Entertaining, Recipes |

Christmas for me is a disparate and disorganised affair – zipping between various peoples houses, delivering a Small Boy to all the relatives that want to pinch his cheeks and ruffle his hair, like an exasperated sugar-high parcel. Popping in on parents and grandparents, gathering waifs and strays at mine for my almost-annual ‘Make Christmas A Bit Less Shit’ gathering, and in all of that hullaballoo, well, I forgot to make a cake this year. I think I’m the only person that likes it, anyway. So a few weeks ago I dug out some old recipes of mine, from...

Mug Marmite Mac n Cheese (in a microwave), 34p

Posted by Jack Monroe | Nov 21, 2019 | Kids, Lunch, Microwave Cooking, Pasta, Recipes, Snacks & Treats, Vegetarian |

Friends will know that my Marmite obsession is almost as out of control as my peanut butter obsession. In leaner times, I would substitute Marmite, which was well out of my budget range, for a paste made from a crumbled Basics beef stock cube, mixed with boiling water, and allowed to cool. Smeared onto toast with butter, it delivered that tongue-warming tingle and salty kick I used to get from my yeast-extract friend. These days, my cupboard has a jar of Marmite in for toast and snacks, and today, it went in here, too. If you’re a hater, not...

Spiced Vegan Banana Bread, 11p

Posted by Jack Monroe | Nov 20, 2019 | Baking, Blog, Bread, Breakfast, Christmas, Dairy Free, Dessert, Entertaining, Recipes, Snacks & Treats, Vegan, Vegan Recipes, Vegetarian |

I almost had the audacity to call this recipe ‘Christmas-spiced Banana Bread’ as I am currently testing some new recipes for a December project (more on that below) but I didn’t think I could cope with the outrage of the Internet if I dared use the C-word halfway through September. So instead, euphemistically, this is an Autumn-spiced banana bread, warming, comforting, and pull-your-jumper-around-you warming delicious bliss. Based on the vegan banana bread recipe from A Girl Called Jack, but better. For best results you will need a small powerful blender to grind the spices into the sugar; I have...

Mushroom Rogan Josh, 31p

Posted by Jack Monroe | Nov 19, 2019 | Beans & Lentils, Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Recipes, Vegan, Vegan Recipes, Vegetarian |

Last night I fancied a curry, a nice hot curry to warm the very cockles of my draughty flat, but like so many evenings of the dreaded ‘cooking for one’, I just couldn’t decide what curry to have. I opened the fridge, glowered at a bunch of onions and a handful of mushrooms, and took to Twitter with a poll. It’s my new favourite way of, to coin a phrase, Making Your Mind Up. (I challenge you, Brits of a certain age, to not take that on as an earworm now. I make no apologies.) The poll returned me...

Peanut Butter & Banana Superpower Muffins, 10p

Posted by Jack Monroe | Nov 19, 2019 | Bread, Breakfast, Recipes, Snacks & Treats, Vegan, Vegan Recipes, Vegetarian |

What do you do when you have a pile of black bananas sitting in the fruit bowl? I don’t even know how this happens – I generally work from home, bananas are my go-to snack because I can reach them and don’t have to do anything except peel them and shove them in. Sometimes they get sliced and flung in the oven to make dried bananas for the kids, sometimes I whizz them with yoghurt, milk and oats for a breakfast smoothie, but today I fancied neither of those things. It’s freezing. And raining a bit. And I’m a...