Spring

Spring vegetable quiche (V)

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Asparagus & pea season is one of the best seasons, if you ask me.

After never ending months of winter, where your 5-a-day is basically made up of carrots, some sort of cabbage and apples (booooooooring), the appearance of the first spring vegetables brings back memories of sunny afternoons spent preping the haul from my parents’ garden.

Popping peas out of their pods, removing stems from green beans and strawberries, peeling and chopping tomatoes…

Spring Vegetable Quiche (V) ● Cake + Whisky

Perfect ambassadors of the beautiful days to come, asparagus, peas and all their spring vegetable friends taste just like a crisp spring day: green, light and fresh.

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Have them as a starter or a side, just blanched and served with French dressing.

Or as the main event by adding them into your kitchen staples, be it risotto or, like me, a delicious Spring vegetable quiche!

Spring Vegetable Quiche (V) ● Cake + Whisky

The perfect spring supper.

(and lunch)

(and breakfast)

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More mid-week Spring supper ideas?

Spring gnocchi with tomato and wild garlic (V)

Garlic butter mushroom bun (V – Vegan option)

Spring potato salad (Vegan, GF)

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Spring vegetable quiche (V)

Spring Gnocchi with Tomato and Wild Garlic (V)

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Easter this year was a very casual affair.

No big family lunch, no big egg hunt, no roast lamb… Just the Mr. & I in our lovely little central London flat, a little bunch of white daisies, a couple of Hot Cross buns for brekkie, and the simplest, most spring-y of gnocchi dishes for lunch.

Spring on a plate: gnocchi with tomatoes and wild garlic | Cake + Whisky

Potato gnocchi, boiled then pan-fried with fresh cherry toms, wild garlic and finished with a sprinkle of feta and scrummy crispy onions… Delicious and ready in just 10 minutes, this combination is definitely a good egg!

Spring gnocchi with tomatoes and wild garlic | Cake + Whisky Spring on a plate: gnocchi with tomatoes and wild garlic | Cake + Whisky

Because after all, that’s what a hoppy Easter (and a delicious Spring) is all about. Good food, good people (and a suitable amount of chocolate, of course)!

Spring on a plate: gnocchi with tomatoes and wild garlic | Cake + Whisky Spring on a plate: gnocchi with tomatoes and wild garlic | Cake + Whisky

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More Spring dinner inspo?

Spring Potato Salad (Vegan, GF)

Super Breakfast Pots with Paleo Granola (V, GF)

Kale & Rice Salad

Spring Gnocchi with Tomato and Wild Garlic (V)

Spring Buddha Bowl • Vegan, GF

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Sooooo… My diet over the last month has been 80% deep-fried takeaway food and 110% carbs. #sohealthy #not

But now that the flat’s finally starting to feel like home, it’s about time for me to go back into the kitchen and onto the (mainly*) healthy eating bandwagon.

*because there really isn’t any point in me pretending I’m going to quit chips and bread, is there?

Spring Buddha Bowl (Vegan, Gluten Free) ● Cake + Whisky

Buddha bowls – colourful combinations of vegetables, grains and protein, all piled up in a bowl – are one of this year’s top food trends.

And that’s really no wonder seing that a buddha bowl is:

  1. The best when it comes to healthy yet satisfying meals
  2. A genius way to use up leftovers and reduce food waste (any- and everything pretty much goes!)
  3. Packed with fibers, vitamins, high-quality proteins and antioxydants
  4. My new go-to lunch for all the above reasons!

Spring Buddha Bowl (Vegan, Gluten Free) ● Cake + Whisky

My current favourite is this Spring-inspired little number.

Green beans, quinoa, radishes, pistachios, olives and a zesty, lemony dressing… Spring lunch perfection!

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Looking for more healthy, plant-based lunch-spiration?

Spring cauliflower salad

Best ever guacamole

Vegetarian Caesar salad

Spring Buddha Bowl • Vegan, GF

Spring Potato Salad (Vegan, GF)

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We all have different ways to tell Spring has sprung.

For some, it’s as simple as looking at tha calendar. Past the Spring equinox? Good. Here’s your answer.

For others, it’s the blooms and the cold-but sunny days.

Spring Potato Salad (Vegan, GF) | Cake + Whisky

For me though? There are three signs.

  1. My irrepressible need to clear, clean and tidy everything within an inch of my life. I mean, I’m already borderline ‘less is more’ compulsive the rest of the year, but Spring definitely pushes me over the line.
  2. My constant daydreaming of owning all things pastel. Home trinkets, candy, cushions, -and more than anything else- nailpolish… You name it, I want it.
  3. The urge to cook/eat potato salad every chance I get.

Spring Potato Salad (Vegan, GF) | Cake + Whisky Spring Potato Salad (Vegan, GF) | Cake + Whisky

Given that I’ve already spring-cleaned my flat, that my nails have been sporting a dusty baby blue shade for the last two weeks and that this Spring-inspired potato salad was my dinner yesterday, I’m positive that Spring has finally made its way to London!

Spring Potato Salad (Vegan, GF) | Cake + Whisky

Much like putting winter coats & boots away and filling the house with flowers, this Spring potato salad is the perfect way to celebrate springtime.

Spring Potato Salad (Vegan, GF) | Cake + Whisky

Packed with tender asparagus and baby peas as well as super sweet new potatoes and pea shoots, it’s the perfect dish to spring into the new season!

Spring Potato Salad (Vegan, GF) | Cake + Whisky

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More Spring salad inspiration?

Rainbow Salad (this would be ah-mazing for a St Patrick’s Day get together!)

Kale & Rice Salad with Avocado & Salmon

Pink Fruit Salad

Spring Potato Salad (Vegan, GF)

Spring Wish-List

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Every year, it’s just the same: after 2-3 days of sunny warm-ish weather, I forget all about my winter wish-list and build an entirely new one. Most of the time, my spring wish-lists include pastel nailpolish, ballerinas and tones of home stuff.

However this year, it seems I have slightly different ideas. It might be because I already have 25 shades of mint nailpolish, or that I already bought the ballerinas of my dream, or that I don’t want to scare anyone with my home wish-list… Or it might be that I’m finally making some progress on this whole capsule wardrobe thing, and accepted that basics will always be the new black to me!

Cake + Whisky | Spring Wish-List | GAP, Vero Moda, Petit Bateau, Pure, Clinique

1. Vero Moda Parka Coat: I’ve been looking for a mid-season coat for quite a while (as in, I can’t remember when was the last time I ever owned one of those…) and it was love at first when I spotted this beauty in Oliver Bonas’ window!

2. Petit Bateau Basic White V neck Tshirt: I love love LOVE Petit Bateau, all their stuff is incredibly good quality and the cuts are amazing! Not sure if I’ll get the cotton or the linen version, but I’m pretty sure where I’ll head to quench my thirst for white-v-neck-tshirts!

3. GAP 1969 Legging Jeans: Mine died. I need new ones. As simple as that!

4. Pure Grace perfume: It smells like soap and laundry. Do I really need to say more? #SoReadyForSpring

5. Clinique Chubby Stick: I haven’t quite decided which colour I want to get it in, but I’m working on it!!

Spring Wish-List