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Finding vegan goodies. A visit to British shop Stonemanor, Everberg

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Shop review #17 – Stonemanor is a large British Store, where you can find a lot of products that are regularly sold in British shops, but which may be more difficult to find in regular Belgian shops. It is in between Brussels and Leuven, on the outskirts of the community of Everberg (120km from Bruges). There’s also a Stonemanor shop in Waterloo. We were there a couple of montsh ago, on our route to Leuven (Louvain), and took some time to discover the shop. Food items are downstairs, on the first floor you can find books (no vegan cookbooks though), baking tools, culinary decoration, posters etc, and on the top floor beds and accessories (didn’t verify if any of it was vegan). To be clear: it is not a vegan shop, nor an organic shop, but since it does sell many items that are not regularly found on the Belgian market, there are also some vegan goodies to be found here that are not so common in Belgian shops. There are some vegan products available in the frozen …

Cranberry orange muffins

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Cranberry time! Lots of fresh cranberries in the shops available now (tip: freeze some so you have them available later as well).  We have plenty of walnuts from a walnut tree in our garden, so I like adding chopped walnuts to baking goods. I wish I could say the cranberries are also home grown, but unfortunately our cranberries only produced a handfull of small berries. Ingredients cranberry orange muffins (vegan) 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flower 1 1/4 ts baking powder 1 ts baking soda 1/2 ts salt 1/2 cup sugar 2 ts orange zest 3/4 cup fresh orange juice 1/3 cup canola oil 1 ts vanille extract 1 1/4 cup chopped cranberries 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional) some sugar for sprinkling on top (optional) Preparation Preheat the oven to 190° (375°). Slightly grease the holes of a muffin tin (12 muffins) with some canola oil. In a large bowl, mix the dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In another bowl, mix the ‘wet’ ingredients: sugar, zest, orange juice, oil and vanilla extract. Mix the …