Mulled wine

Did you know mulled wine was originally created by the Romans in the 2nd century during the winter to keep themselves warm?⁠ Many also believed in drinking mulled wine for health and to avoid sickness. ⁠
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Apart from spices like cinnamon⁠, nutmeg⁠, cloves, people would also add herbs and flowers to their mulled wine as natural sweeteners to make wines taste better.
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It’s now enjoyed as a popular winter traditionally and is so easy to make, especially using our⁠ mulled spice mix.

Serves 4-6

Ingredients

• 1 (750 ml) bottle of dry red wine or sweet apple cider

• 1 orange, sliced into rounds (also peeled, if you would like a less-bitter drink)

• Galloway’s mulled wine spice mix

• 2-4 tablespoons sugar, honey, or maple syrup to taste (or your desired sweetener)

• optional add-in: 1/4 cup brandy (or your favourite liqueur)

• optional garnishes: citrus slices (orange, lemon and/or lime), extra cinnamon sticks, extra star anise

Instructions

• Add wine or sweet apple cider ,orange slices, mulled wine mix, 2 tablespoons sweetener, and brandy (optional) to a large saucepan. Stir gently to combine

• Cook the mulled wine on medium-high heat until it almost starts to simmer. (Avoid letting it bubble — you don’t want to boil off the alcohol).

• Reduce heat to low, cover, and let the wine simmer for at least 15 minutes or up to 3 hours

• Using a fine mesh strainer, remove and discard the orange slices and spices. Give the mulled wine a taste, and stir in extra sweetener if needed

• Serve warm in heatproof mugs, topped with your favourite garnish

Roasted pumpkin seeds

Don’t ditch the pumpkin seeds after carving!

Instead, use them to roast and spice or sweeten them however you want!
For a sweet or savoury recipe, try adding some of our spices and seasonings to your pumpkin seeds.

Remove and clean the seeds from your pumpkin. Dry the seeds. Add oil, salt and seasonings.

• In a bowl add 1 tbsp sunflower oil, coconut oil or avocado oil to

  1 cup of seeds. (Keep the ratio the same for more seeds) add your favourite seasonings making sure to coat each seed well with mixture.

• Place seeds on a baking sheet (use parchment paper for best results)

• Bake for 20-30 minutes at 300 degrees F or until pumpkin seeds are crisp and golden brown. Rotate pan if you see some seeds getting darker and make sure to stir 2-3 times during the baking time.

• Let cool and they will crisp up.

• Enjoy this treat with your loved ones on Halloween!

• Use the following Galloway’s Spices and seasonings or scroll down for some spooky recipes and make your own sweet or savoury pumpkin seeds.

• Cajun spice

• cayenne

• garlic powder

• curry powder

• pumpkin spice

• Himalayan salt

Cinnamon sugar:

For 1 cup of raw pumpkin seeds you will need:

• 2tsp olive oil

• 2tbsp brown sugar

• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

• pinch of sea salt

Sweet & spicy:

For 1 cup of raw pumpkin seeds you will need

• 2 teaspoons olive oil

• 2 tablespoons brown sugar

• 1 teaspoon sea salt

• 1/2 tsp cayenne or to taste

• 1/2 tsp black pepper or to taste

Pizza roasted pumpkin seeds:

For 1 cup of raw pumpkin seeds you will need

• 2 tsp olive oi

• 2 tbsp grated parmesan cheese or nutritional yeast

• 1 tsp dried basil

• 1 tsp dried oregano

• 1/2 tsp sea salt

• 1/2 tsp garlic powder

Homemade granola

Good granola requires just a few quality ingredients like oats, a sweetener of your choice, some oil, and maybe nuts, seeds and dried fruit. Once you master that basic formula, it’s even easier to mix up a granola made just the way you like it.

Some ingredients to choose from:

Oats

• Whole-grain old-fashioned oats, slow cooking keep their shape during baking. Be sure to use certified gluten-free oats if you need gluten-free granola.

Nuts/Seeds

• I used almonds, pecans and sesame seeds to make this batch. Other options include walnuts, which are rich in Omega-3s, whole or slivered almonds, cashews, peanuts, pistachios, macadamia nuts, pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds.

Oil

• I used coconut oil, but you can use olive oil, or any unrefined oil.

Natural sweetener

• I love using real maple syrup in my granola. Honey works great, too. You can use demerara or brown sugar.

Salt and spice

• Make sure not to skip the salt! I prefer using sea salt. It brings the flavour up a notch.

  I added cinnamon to this batch for some subtle warming spice. Ground ginger (use half as much) and pumpkin spice blends are other options. Savoury granola: You can make a savoury granola by combining turmeric, smoked paprika, chilli powder, cayenne, and ginger in mixed with maple syrup and oil and poured over the oats before baking.

Dried Fruit

• Dried fruit gives it that chewy and fruity texture and flavour. I used chopped dried apricots and pitted dates for this batch. I also love dried cranberries, tart dried cherries, raisins, banana chips, dried bananas, dried mangoes, dried pineapple and dried papaya. Make sure to add dried fruit after the baking process as fruit tends to burn.

Other add ons

• Chocolate chips, coconut flakes, orange zest or pomegranate seeds can be added on and enjoyed.

Ideas on how to serve and store

• Serve with plant based milk and fresh fruit like strawberries or blue berries

• Serve with your choice of yogurt and berries in a bowl or mason jar in layers

• Serve as a Buddha bowl with chia seeds, berries, yogurt and coconut drizzled with pumpkin seeds.

• Store in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks or freeze up to 3 months.

Basic recipe

• Yields 6 cups

• Prep time 15 minutes

• Bake time

Ingredients

• 3 cups old fashioned oats⁠ or gluten-free oats

• 1 1/2 cups chopped nuts (almonds, pecans and walnuts)⁠⠀

• 1 1/2 cups coconut, fancy shredded⁠⠀

• 1/2 cup maple syrup⁠⠀

• 1/4 cup coconut oil, warmed⁠

• 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract⠀

• 1/4 cup natural sesame seeds⁠⠀

• 2 tbsp Demerara sugar

• 1 tsp fine sea salt⁠⠀

• 1 1/2 tsp organic ceylon cinnamon

• 1 cup chopped apricots or pitted dates or both.⁠⠀

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 300 degrees. Toss all ingredients together in a bowl (except the dried fruit) and spread on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.⁠⠀

2. Bake granola stirring every 10 minutes until golden brown (40-45mins)⁠⠀

3. Let cool and add in the chopped dried fruit.⁠⠀

Different variations you can try

• Honey hazelnut ( instead of maple syrup, use 1/2 cup of honey and add toasted hazelnuts )

• Pistachio goji ( add raw pistachios and coconut after granola is toasty and toast pistachio for 5-7 mins) then add goji berries

• Pineapple coconut ( add dried pineapple as your dried fruit after granola is toasted and then sprinkle with coconut)

• Apple pie spice (just add 1 tsp apple pie spice as your spice and add 1/4 cup apple sauce) then add dried apple chips as your dried fruit

• Cranberry orange ( just add 1 tbsp dried orange peel into oat mixture ) then add cranberries after your granola has been toasted.

• Chocolate almonds (just add 1 1/2 teaspoons of cocoa powder and add more sugar if needed) toast slivered almonds or whole almonds with the granola.

• Chai spice ( You can use honey or maple syrup here and add almond extract instead of vanilla (Just add 3 tsp chai spice mix as your spice and almonds or pecans or your favourite nuts)

• Pumpkin pie spice granola (just add 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice to the granola mixture)