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Vegan Mofo 2015 Day 26- It’s cold and rainy and there’s a snow drift outside your door! What are you going to make using the ingredients that you have?

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Back to my original theme today which was Carol Vorderman -    Accidental Vegan Hero, blogging about recipes from a series of Detox Recipe books that the television presenter and maths whizz put out with nutritionist Anita Bean in the noughties. The answer to the blog title question -  Dahl with Sweet potatoes and Coconut from Carol Vorderman's Eat To Be Cellulite Recipes. This was the first recipe I made from Carol and Anita's book - Eat To Beat Cellulite Recipes . I remember the first time I ate dahl was back in the mid nineties. My friend Tracey came over from Wales to visit me in Manchester and she cooked some dahl for us.  I remember it being a taste sensation! I love sweet potatoes and I love dahl so I was immediately drawn to this recipe. I've had cooked lentils in coconut milk before - there's a nice coconut dahl recipe in the Tibits cookbook . Where this recipe differs from other recipes is that there is no oil at all. You cook the lentils wi...