Toni is one of our lovely Content Marketing Assistants, and when she’s not writing posts about everything from Jamaican cooking to vegan champagne, she’s making a Spotify playlist (she was at 200, at her last count) or playing tennis in the park.

Toni Olukiran

This perfectly nutty and sweet treat is great to make for yourself or gift to your loved ones. Vegan and gluten-free, this decadent matzo crunch is great for passover and super easy to whip up. 

Vegan Chocolate Peanut Caramel Matzo Crunch

From what they are and which foods are rich in them, here’s a one stop-shop with everything you need to know about polyphenols. 

Move over sourdough, there’s a new fermented starter on the scene, and it’s actually a lot easier (and less fickle) to make. Here’s everything you need to know. 

Kombucha Scoby: What Is It, and How Do You Make It?

Many of us are already all about getting our 5-a-day of fruit and vegetables, but what’s the deal with the 30 plants a week challenge and how is this any different? Read on for everything you should know about this newest health recommendation from Dr Tim Spector, and why it’s worth giving it a go. 

Everything You Need To Know About the ‘30 Plants a Week’ Challenge

Between the copious amounts of rain, sleet and snow of winter combined with dark overcast mornings (and what feels like lunchtime sunsets), it’s easy to see how the winter blues can hit. Here are some of our favourite mood boosting ingredients in our very own meals to help improve your mood. 

5 Mood-Boosting allplants Dishes to Help Beat Winter Blues

From pasta to pastries to burgers and sandwiches, sometimes a tomato can’t be beaten to give your dishes that uniquely juicy, fresh and umami flavour. So what are some of its nutritional properties? Read on to find out the top five benefits of eating tomatoes, and why we’re planning on eating as many as possible all summer long. 

The Five Benefits Of Eating Tomatoes That May Surprise You

There are few things that prove summer has arrived more than a growing desire to make a potato salad. Minimal stovetop time (much needed for the random heatwave we seem to get every year), moreish, and great eaten cold, this easy recipe is smoky, tangy and puts your spice cupboard to great use. 

Desiccated coconut in savoury food is never not good. It adds a nutty, sweet flavour to everything you add it to, and this recipe is a great way to bring out those flavours in some crispy, crunchy tofu bites with a punchy dip.

Trinidadian buss up shut is the flaky, doughy, vessel you need for your favourite Caribbean currie and stews. Once you've mastered the art of rolling and laminating the dough to give the roti all its wonderful crispiness, you'll make it again and again.

Born out of not having enough ingredients for a curry as well as too few ingredients to make a stew, this hybrid dish was born and quickly became a midweek staple in my house. The potato does a lot for this dish – it soaks up the sauce, thickens it, and is only more delicious when paired with rice or roti for some double carb action.

Vegan curried potato, carrot and butter bean stew

Soap & Glory is a well known and loved brand in the UK, known for its fun and vintage style branding. So is it also cruelty-free and vegan? Find out its status here and read on for the full lowdown. 

Aesop is a luxury, modern brand that has a loyal customer base — but are its products cruelty-free and vegan? Read on to find out.

Toni Olukiran

Posts by Toni Olukiran

Vegan Chocolate Peanut Caramel Matzo Crunch

Polyphenols: Your Questions, Answered

Kombucha Scoby: What Is It, and How Do You Make It?

Everything You Need To Know About the ‘30 Plants a Week’ Challenge

5 Mood-Boosting allplants Dishes to Help Beat Winter Blues

The Five Benefits Of Eating Tomatoes That May Surprise You

Spicy Creole-Caribbean Potato Salad

Crispy Coconut Tofu Bites

Buss up shut (Trinidadian Roti)

Vegan curried potato, carrot and butter bean stew

Is Soap & Glory Cruelty-Free And Vegan?

Is Aesop Cruelty-Free And Vegan?

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