Sugar Free & Vego Cookbook Sue Thorogood Author

An absolutely fabulous collection of vegetarian and sugar free recipes. Mouth watering Mediterranean dishes, beautiful pastry, bread made easy. There’s a whole range of delicious desserts and cakes with no sugar, even a sugar free chef’s sticky toffee pudding!If you want to make your own ricotta cheese, if you want to make your own pasta, this book is for you.A Cookbook for those who want to cook real food.REVIEWS:‘Thanks Sue. Veggies are the way to go. Great book.’ ScienTechie.I Bought it as a veggie friend who ATS with us some time has just had a pre diabetes diagnosis , so any ideas to help when cooking for someone else are great. Only tried a couple but all well received, recipes easy to follow so I am glad I bought it. Suegnu.‘Great recipes, great help.’ Melissa.‘The recipes in this book are brill but they do use all natural ingredients, butter cream and honey so be warned. Tonio.The Cook:Born in Yorkshire, England, Sue learnt to cook at her mother’s apron strings. As a young girl Sue would sit beside her mother when she was busy cooking and absorbed her traditional knowledge. Sometimes Sue helped which she found delightful and she even had her own little rolling pin. Years later, Dinah, Sue’s Mum, told Sue that Sue’s Grandma was a wonderful baker and that Sue’s way of cooking reminded her very much of Grandma’s.Sue’s Grandma took great pride every year in making the Christmas cake. She baked using an old coal fired range and part of the ritual was a baking zone of virtually complete silence whilst the cake was in the oven. It was believed that any noise, vibration or change of air temperature would prove fatal, consequently the family had to use extreme caution when going outside and the doors had to be very carefully and silently opened and closed as a sunken Christmas cake was regarded as a crime of colossal negligence.Cooking when Sue was a Yorkshire lass revolved around Friday afternoons. Friday was the big day for baking in readiness for the weekend. All sorts of cakes and tarts were baked and by Friday tea time the counter tops in the kitchen were covered in goodies but by Sunday night most things were gone. Anyone who came by to visit, and lots of people came by on weekends, got fed. The old Yorkshire way was to feed anyone and everyone and people got a great deal of pleasure in seeing people eat and in eating themselves. I remember Bill, Sue’s Dad, had a remedy for colds, coughs and any setbacks of life, it was to eat something and then you would feel better. Bill was slim and as fit as a fiddle till the end.The other big food event in Sue’s house was Sunday lunch. This was always Yorkshire puddings, roast beef, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, carrot and swede boiled and mashed together, brussels sprouts and not to forget a stodgy savoury pudding called season pudding made of bread, herbs, onions and Yorkshire pudding mixture.Guy Fawkes night saw another traditional food, a ginger cake not to be missed called parkin. And another Yorkshire cake I loved was curd tart, there were also beautiful rock cakes called fat rascals.Sue passionately believes in eating healthy food and her cookbook is a hands on how to cook book.