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I'm not sure how it got to be over 3 months since I last posted. I got busy and then I got out of the habit. Lately I've really missed blogging and reading everyone else's blogs. I'm going to be pretty busy for the next month or so but then I would like to get back in to it, so if anyone still drops by here please know that I am still vegan, still cooking and er..still Scottish :)Hope to "see

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I’m not doing anything special to celebrate World Vegan Day, just being my usual vegan self. If you’re reading this and you’re not already vegan perhaps you might want to try eating vegan for the day. It doesn’t have to be today. It could be tomorrow. And then you could try it again the next day and the next day and the next day...and just don’t stop :)On to food...last night I made a scrumptious

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I can’t believe it has been 4 months since we got back to Scotland now and I have blogged so few times since getting back! I just seem to have been so busy...I am having a hard time adjusting to being back at work and having enough time to fit in all the other things I would like to do!The day we moved back to Scotland was the longest day of the year. We arrived home in the morning and to try and

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Our broadband is fixed! Hurrah! Don’t even ask what happened...it’s a long and boring story of utter incompetence and company craziness.The good news is that I have taken loads of photos for the blog! The bad news is that the memory card broke and jammed in the camera and we can’t get any photos off it now... :(However, I do still have lots of pics on the pc. So let’s take a little trip back to

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Edinburgh CastleHello friends and bloggers! I am still here and have not forgotten my blog. Life has been getting in the way! We are sooo happy to be home and see all our family and friends but are definitely missing the California sunshine. It seems like we have had about 4 days of sun since we got back. Ah well, without rain we wouldn’t get rainbows :)We have had a total nightmare with our

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Thanks for all your comments. We are settling in well, but still only have a dial up connection...and it's super slow...pah! We should have broadband by next weekend if things go to plan (which they haven’t so far…). Due to lack of kitchen equipment and general laziness I haven’t been cooking anything exciting so I don’t have that much to tell you all. Our belongings should arrive in about two

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We are finally in Edinburgh and settling back in to our flat...hurrah! The last few weeks in LA were so busy that I never got a chance to blog, but I haven’t forgotten about it and will be back soon! We currently only have a super slow dial up connection, but when we get our broadband I will be back to blogging and catching up with all your blogs too! Hope you are all doing well...see you soon!

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I haven’t abandoned my blog...just been very busy with moving stuff. Things are going well and we don’t have that much left to do now...hurrah!! I will hopefully have a little more time this week to catch up with everyone else’s blogs as I have missed reading them lately.For some reason lately we’ve tried quite a few new foody things...well new to us at least. Here’s how we got on.These are

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The Secret Plans to Turn Us All VegetarianBy SEAN POULTERSecret plans to encourage the nation to give up eating meat are being examined by the (UK)Government.A leaked e-mail expresses sympathy for the environmental benefits of a mass switch to a vegan diet - a strict form of vegetarianism which bans milk, dairy products and fish. The change would need to be done "gently" because of a "risk of

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I’ve been tagged by Johanna at Green Gourmet Giraffe to blog about seven random facts about me. So here you go:1 I am addicted to lip balm. I cannot go anywhere without one. I buy them constantly because I always lose them or wreck them (usually by leaving them in the car to melt or putting them in the washing machine).2 My favourite colour is pink. Yes I am quite girly :)3 I have no memory. Well

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We’ve been so busy this past week, packing, organising, selling and general upping and moving to another country type stuff. But there’s always time for eating and cooking :) So, here’s some of the stuff we’ve been munching lately…This is Sri Lankan Eggplant Curry from Madhur Jaffrey’s World Vegetarian. It was mildly spicy and creamy and I threw in some chickpeas to make it a little more filling.

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We are really getting in to packing now and it seems like everything is everywhere… :( I am planning on packing the kitchen stuff last so that I can keep cooking for as long as possible :)I bought some Pillsbury Crescent Rolls (which are accidentally vegan). "Crescent Rolls are VEGAN??!!"I intended to spread them with my Notella, but it was all gone by the time I got round to using them, so

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Yesterday was our wedding anniversary :) Wee G had to work late so we decided to just stay in and I made dinner. We snuggled up and watched American Idol...how romantic!Remember the other day when I said that I try to make fairly healthy food in the house? Well, I guess l lied cos this meal was far from low fat or low calorie :)First up I made Zucchini Delight from How It All Vegan. It’s a mix

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I know sometimes it seems like I am unconcerned with healthy eating, what with the burgers, pizza etc that I have posted lately, but when we are at home I do try to make an effort to make our food semi healthy. I tend to cut down or omit the oil, salt and sugar in recipes when I can. So when I found this replacement for oil on fatfreevegan.com I had to try it out.It’s basically a mix of

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The other day I threw together some vegetable soup with what I had kicking around the house and it turned out really well. Wee G told me about three times while eating it “I reaaaaally like this soup” so I think I am on to a winner! It’s a very simple soup with lots of tasty veggies and a little kick from the black pepper. I have posted the recipe at the end if you want to give it a go.To go

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I finally made the famous Seitan O Greatness that everyone has been making recently. Baking seitan is so much simpler than boiling and gives a much better texture... I don’t think I’ll boil seitan again. It was sweeter than I expected so I think next time I will need to change the spices a little.Once I’d made it I wasn’t sure what to do with it. I had been thinking about making vegetable chilli

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Vive Le Vegan! by Dreena Burton is definitely my favourite cookbook. I’ve nowhere near made everything from the book, but everything that I have made is a winner! Plus Dreena has her own blog and is always happy to answer any queries you might have about her recipes.Here are some things from the book I have made recently.This is Chickpea Ratatouille. Dreena mentions in the book that this is her

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Last weekend we took a little trip to Venice Beach. We just wandered around the boardwalk area and beach and watched some basketball and skateboarders. There were no dancing rollerbladers though which was a shame as the last few times we have gone we have sat for ages watching them...they have some amazing moves! And of course we ate! I found a groovy little place called Good Karma on the

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I am always up for a cheeky wee bargain and they don't come much better than this. These cute little boards were found at the Dollar Spot in Target for a dollar each (obviously!). They are pretty useless for cutting on, but they make great pot stands and brighten up the kitchen!I forgot to tell you about this fantastic pizza that Wee G brought home one night. He went out for veggie sushi one

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Erm...hello! Sorry for my lack of blogging lately. The past week or so has not been the best for my family and while I’ve still been cooking and eating (of course :)) I haven’t been in much of a mood to enthuse about food here. But now I think it’s time to get back to it, so here’s some stuff we’ve been eating lately... This is Moroccan Chickpea and Lentil Soup from Vegetarian Soups For All

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This is probably the most adorable thing I've ever seen! Thought you all might like to see it :)

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I read Susan at FatFreeVegan.com’s recent post about baba ganoush and her enthusiasm for it made me really want to try it. It’s super simple to make. I think it’s a taste that takes a little while to get used (for me anyway), but the more I ate the more I liked it!. Even though it gives you mega garlic breath I really enjoyed it with my celery and carrot sticks :)As I was already toasting the

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First up is an amazingly yummy curry posted originally by Fairly Odd Tofu Mom a while back. It’s Aloo Mutter Gobi (Spicy Cauliflower, Potatoes and Peas). I saw it again on Veg-a-nut's blog and she was raving about it. Like veg-a-nut I used less oil and light coconut milk. I also used edamame in place of the peas. I have to agree with veg-a-nut, it is soooo good! Anytime I have made Indian food

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Inspired by Bazu’s post last month, I thought I would post about how I came to be a vegan as this month is my one year veganniversary. Also like Bazu this is actually my second time around being vegan. I wish I had stuck with it the first time, but here’s how I got there in the end:I’ve always liked animals and when I was around 15 I used to see animal rights stalls in the city centre of Glasgow

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I recently borrowed Breaking The Food Seduction and Eat To Live from my local library as I had heard good things about both books online. I’m not actually following either programme but since reading Breaking The Food Seduction two weeks ago I haven’t eaten any chocolate which is pretty amazing for me as I usually eat some every day. What’s more I’m not missing it…Anyway, this soup is from Eat To

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On Saturday for dinner I made some Mexican Rice. I got the original recipe from allrecipes.com and adapted it. I love the spices in this and the colours from the tomatoes, green pepper, sweetcorn and green chickpeas. It’s very flavoursome and not too spicy.Then on Sunday we went out to eat at Sharky’s, a Mexican fast food kind of restaurant nearby. I forgot to take photos, but I had a yummy

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Anything with chickpeas is good in my opinion and I’m always looking for other ways to cook them . This Hummus-Quinoa Casserole is from Vive! and although it sounds like a strange mix it turned out really well. It’s a layer of quinoa covered with a layer of hummus and topped with veggies roasted in balsamic vinegar (to which I added garlic to make them extra tasty). It came out a little dry, but

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This rice and lentils recipe came from a recipe book I had years ago. I no longer have the book as it, and several of my other cookbooks, met a soggy end when I had the great idea of storing them near the sink. I have pretty much the worst memory of anyone I know so when I thought about making this recipe I remembered there was rice and lentils and ummmm..... Well, I think there was onions,

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I made some seitan using the recipe from VWAV. Then wondering what I would do with it I flicked to the next page of the book and saw Jerk Seitan. I didn’t really know what it was supposed to taste like as it’s flavoured with lime, allspice, nutmeg and soy sauce among other things which sounded a strange mix to me, but it turned out really nice. Very tasty, but not the greatest dish lookswise.Then

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Even though it’s like the middle of summer here I am still making soup with winter squash... This is Butternut Tomato Soup from How It All Vegan. It’s got a pretty mild taste as the only things flavouring it apart from the veggies are ginger and garlic. It was a nice change from my usual lentil soup.I made US style biscuits for the first time a few weeks ago and I have started making them quite

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I don’t know why I keep making thing that seem to have the main ingredient missing (omelettes without eggs, clam chowder without clams), but I am continuing the trend here with this chicken salad without chicken. This is from How It All Vegan. I was looking for a tempeh recipe so that I could make something a bit more exciting than stir fry and found this. It’s basically steamed tempeh with vegan

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We rarely have white bread in the house, but after making the no knead bread I thought I would take the opportunity to use it to make some Fantastic French Toast from Vive Le Vegan! It was really nice with a delicate cinnamon/nutmeg flavour, unlike French Toast we used to eat when we were kids which was more savoury and flavoured with salt and pepper. I remember my Mum making it for lunch for my

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I finally got round to trying out the no knead bread recipe that everyone has been making. Supposedly it’s the easiest recipe ever and it just can’t go wrong. Unless you are me :( I bought white whole wheat flour recently and thought this bread would be great to try it out on. I used all white whole wheat flour instead of the white flour called for in the recipe. All through the almost 24 hour

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I saw these Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies from VWAV on Midwest Vegan’s blog the other day and when I had a craving for something chocolatey I thought I would try them out. They taste a bit more like brownies than cookies and that leads to comparisons with Dreena’s utterly gorgeous fudgy brownies from Vive Le Vegan! And nothing that is remotely brownie-like will ever be as truly scrumptious as

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I was never really in to eggs before I was vegan so they are not something I miss. But I wanted to try this Spanish Revolutionary Omelette with Saffron and Red Pepper-Almond Sauce from VWAV out of curiosity and because I love tofu.In the recipe you are supposed to oven cook potatoes and onion in ¼ cup oil before putting them in the omelette, but I didn’t like the idea of all that oil, so I boiled

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I might have mentioned before that Wee G can get lunch at work (paid for by the company) and sometimes he gets so much that he brings it home for dinner too. So, when that happens I take the opportunity to make myself something that he wouldn’t want. I came up with this pasta dish with courgettes (zucchini) as he’s not really in to courgettes.It was so easy and really yummy. It was ready in the

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What do you cook when you need to go shopping and there’s barely a fresh veggie to be seen? In this house spag bol is the meal of choice in that situation. The only fresh veggies required are an onion and some mushrooms (and if things are really dire it can even be made without…I know, I’ve done it). We used to eat this all the time, but have been eating it less since November when I had a wee

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Over at the Vegcooking.com you can pick up a coupon for a free veggie burger at Johnny Rockets. We are always up for some free food, so on Saturday we printed off a voucher and headed over to our nearest Johnny Rockets. We have never been in before as I’ve always assumed that there would be little chance of getting anything remotely veggie friendly there. As it happens, their veggie burger and

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I can’t remember what we were watching on tv recently, but we saw someone eating scones and Wee G bemoaned the fact that he had not eaten scones in ages. So I set about finding a recipe. Unfortunately I didn’t think to look at Vegan With A Vengeance like Brooke did when making her lovely scones the other day. I found a recipe here and changed it slightly to use oil instead of margarine and I also

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Chickpeas and broccoli are two of my favourite things . So put them together in the same dish and it’s sure to be a winner, right? Well, kind of :) I’ve flicked through Vegan With A Vengeance so many times and paused at this recipe and then decided that I’ll make it another day and moved on. I keep getting put off by the blurb before the recipe where Isa admits “it is a little bland”. Hmmm, that’

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What could me more fun than testing recipes? Not much, that’s why when Melody at Melomeals.com was looking for recipe testers I volunteered straight away! She is hoping to publish her own cookbook in the future, and if all the recipes are like this one then I expect she will do very well!This is a simple to make, spicy dish that was filling and aromatic. We loved it and had it for dinner one

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Another recipe from Vive Le Vegan! Another fantastic recipe I might add! I think I am just going to work my way through this entire book trying everything! It’s like a loaf made with sunflower seeds and lentils combined with onion, oats, celery and flavoured with ketchup, tamari and Worcestershire sauce. I served it with Sesame Mustard Tahini Sauce (also from Vive), garlicky greens and mashed

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I saw this on Fueled By Popcorn’s blog a while ago and thought it looked yummy, so when I saw it again on Harmonia’s blog and I had a whole lot of zucchini in the fridge I knew I had to make it. It’s also kind of similar to something I made a while ago that I really liked so I knew I was going to love it. I didn’t have any sun-dried tomatoes so I just chopped up a few regular ones.Unfortunately

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These are Homestyle Chocolate Chip Cookies from Vive Le Vegan! Everything I’ve made from Vive so far has turned out so good. Wee G was eyeing up some cookies when we were out and I remembered that I had read on Dreena’s blog about these so I thought I would try them out. They are simple to whip up and can be made in less than half an hour. They have no refined sugar and I used half whole wheat

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I bought a fresh pineapple and wanted to do something other than eat it “as is” because that’s what we usually do. I found this recipe in Carol Vorderman’s Detox For Life. In the book the recipe actually uses tinned pineapple, but Wee G and I agreed that the best part of it was definitely the fresh pineapple. It’s a very basic recipe and garlic and ginger are the only added flavours. I was

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This is my version of Pukkolla from Jamie Oliver’s The Return Of The Naked Chef. I know Jamie Oliver really irritates the life out of some people, but I like him. I love his enthusiasm for food, even if I don’t agree with him what exactly constitutes food. I have most of his cookbooks and there are a surprisingly high number of vegetarian recipes in them. If you have a wee look at the index

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The pizzas were dinky and the guest list small (me and Wee G) so it was about the most mini pizza party you could have! This one had mushroom, onion and pineapple.This was tomato and basil.And this is more of a garlic bread than a pizza. I just squished a couple of cloves of garlic and mixed them with a bit of chopped parsley and basil and a sprinkling of dried oregano. Then I mixed in some olive

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I am little late posting these pics we took on Sunday at Chinese New Year. We went to a vegetarian Chinese restaurant called Garden Wok in Tarzana that we found out about on the internet a while ago and just got round to trying out. Almost everything on the menu was vegan. The three or so things that weren’t were clearly marked. We decided to order the Complete Dinner which included an appetizer

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I like margarine a lot, but let’s face it, it’s just a tub of fat destined to make your bum bigger. So, when I found a recipe for Easy Veggie Butter in How It All Vegan using tofu I had to try it. It’s basically tofu and oil blended together with a little salt for flavour and a little turmeric for colour. I usually use Earth Balance Whipped which has about 144g fat per cup, whereas this has about

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I was inspired to make this when I saw it on Lucy’s blog. It looked so yummy and her little heart pots were so nice that I practically ran in to my kitchen to make it! To try and kid myself that it was sort of healthy I added some bananas and kiwi fruit to the glass before adding the chocolate mousse. Lucy doesn’t give an exact recipe on her web site, but here’s what I did.Chocolate Mousse (

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This is Lemon Herb Tofu from Vive Le Vegan! It’s really simple to make and doesn’t involve many ingredients. We had this with some Green Goddess Potatoes and Sesame Broccoli. I know the flavours don’t really go, but these are the things I felt like eating at the time!I really liked the Lemon Herb Tofu, but Wee G didn’t. He did eat it, but he wasn’t keen on having it again. I think the texture was

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For our Valentine’s meal last night I made some veggie fajitas with some Morningstar Farms Meal Starters Chik'n Strips. The only vegan tortillas I could find in the store were low carb ones which I didn’t realise are pretty horrible. They were chewy and dry. So I decided to make my own, using this recipe, but using 1/3 whole wheat pastry flour. My tortillas turned out soft and tasty, but I found

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First the bottom fell out of my garlic press, then my heart got broken, this week it was the turn of my pestle. I was cleaning the kitchen and I moved my pestle and mortar from one counter to another, when the pestle slipped out my hand and clattered on to the kitchen tiles... In the split second before it hit the floor I thought to myself “It won’t break...it’s made of marble/concrete/something

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This is one of my favourite things to make for lunch when it’s just for me. It’s really fast and tasty. It was inspired by a recipe for Gingery Miso-Spinach Soup from Vegetarian Soups For All Seasons. Ginger partners well with miso and give the soup aMiso is thought to help reduce the risk of developing breast cancer. However you have to eat 3 bowls of soup a day to reap the benefits. Every 2

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Quinoa is something that I always mean to eat more of, but I never manage to do anything creative with it usually having it alongside a stir fry. So I found this recipe for a whole wheat bread including quinoa and thought I would try it. I modified it slightly and it turned out really well. I haven’t ever added vital wheat gluten to my bread before and I think this made a difference...I

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Lime and Coriander Rice with Tofu HeartsSusan at FatFreeVegan.com has set a challenge to come up with a Valentine’s Day meal using vegetables as opposed to lots of chocolate and fatty things. My meal is something that I make fairly frequently and I love it because the flavours are so fresh and vibrant. The only added fat is 2 teaspoons of olive oil in the salad dressing and spray cooking oil for

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This is Earthy Lentil Soup from Vive Le Vegan! I made it with black lentils that I bought in Trader Joe’s. That’s why it looks so dark. It also has molasses in it which makes it even darker. The molasses adds a nice sweetness to the soup, and the lemon added at the end makes sure it isn’t too sweet. After I took this photo I blended about half the soup to make it smoother and I think I prefer it

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I made goulash the other day with seitan. It was very blah and not really worth blogging about, but what I do really want to blog about is the potatoes that we had with it. They are called Green Goddess Potatoes and I got the recipe from. Don’t Get Mad, Get Vegan’s blog . And they are sooooo good! Honestly, you have to try them. They are a mix of red potatoes and sweet potatoes, mashed together

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I am not the biggest fan of BBQ sauce, but I wanted to try BBQ Pomegranate Tofu from Vegan With A Vengeance for Wee G because he’s into that kind of thing. Plus I saw this pomegranate glaze in Trader Joe’s and figured it must be pretty much the same thing as the pomegranate molasses called for in the recipe. It looks like molasses...all thick and syrupy. This is actually the second time I have

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I got the recipe for this from a newspaper years ago. I made it several times, but haven’t made it for years and had forgotten all about it. I was wondering what I could make with some of my beloved chickpeas when I suddenly remembered this. I had a wee look on the internet at a few other fattoush recipes and few authentic recipes actually include chickpeas. Also, a lot of recipes I read

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Yesterday we ate lunch at the Follow Your Heart café in Canoga Park. Even though we only live a short distance away I have only eaten here once before, and this was Wee G’s first time. Almost everything on the menu is vegan or can be veganised. We both took forever to decide what to order as there was so much choice! Wee G decided on the Grilled Vegetable Quesedilla that he enjoyed immensely,

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This pasta is way yummier than it looks in this photo. This is such a quick and easy dinner to make and involves hardly any dishes and barely any cooking. Basically you just cook the pasta and then throw the other stuff in the pot and mix round. Not really a recipe, but here it is anyway...Broccoli, Tomato and Olive Pasta (serves 2)1 ½ cups dry whole wheat pasta1 ½ cups broccoli1 tbsp oil (I

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We have stir fries pretty often...and why not? They’re healthy, quick and tasty and they can be so varied. This one has red onion, green pepper, broccoli, brown mushrooms, baby bok choy and tofu. The sauce is Spicy Peanut Sauce from Vive Le Vegan!. The original recipe is actually for Spicy Almond Sauce which calls for almond butter which I didn’t have, so I used peanut butter instead. It’s such a

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I love soup. I eat it pretty much every day for lunch. Lentil is my favourite and I generally make the same old recipe all the time, but I think it’s time for something new. So, this is Curried Red Lentil Soup from Vegetarian Soups For All Seasons. It’s a mildly spiced soup, using curry powder, fresh ginger, ground coriander, cinnamon and nutmeg. The book suggests letting the soup stand for an

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I made this pasty to use up the leftover veggies and puff pastry from the night before. All I did was mix the veggies with a tiny amount of soy milk (to prevent them drying up), then rolled the pastry in a circle, slapped on the veggies, folded over and sealed. It went in the oven for about 15 minutes and that was it.Wee G and I both thought it was very yummy. I commented that I could wrap

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Yesterday was Wee G’s birthday and to celebrate we had Orange Creamsicle Cupcakes from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World (where else?!). Why have only one birthday cake when you can have twelve?! These are orangey cupcakes with an orangey pudding centre and orangey butter cream frosting. So, they are quite orangey... They are super sweet, but very , very nice...and also a little addictive... I

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This is a great soup to make if you are not in the mood for chopping loads of veggies. Just chop one onion and that’s it... It maybe takes about 10 minutes to prep this soup and after that it takes around an hour to cook. So simple and so tasty. Nearly forgot to say it is from Vegan With A Vengeance.

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Ok, I know that title is rubbish, but I am trying to be more imaginative! And I have actually finally been tempted to buy some tempeh. I ate it once years ago, didn’t enjoy it and then just forgot it existed. It’s not something that I ever saw much of in the stores in the UK anyway, but here I have seen it many times here and always thought to myself – yeah, I’ll get some next time So, finally I

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25th January is Burns' Night and traditionally in Scotland people get together and celebrate the poetry of Rabbie Burns. The typical meal is haggis (if you don’t know what haggis is made from you can find out here, but it’s not pleasant and definitely not vegan) and tatties (potatoes) and neeps (turnips). In Scotland you can actually buy vegan haggis in the supermarket quite easily. I figured I

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I had a craving for baked potatoes but didn’t have any big potatoes so used two little ones each. They are topped with my favourite sandwich filling/baked potato topping – chickpea salad (recipe below). I have seen many versions of this recipe on the internet, many calling it mock tuna salad. Personally I don’t really like the idea that it might taste like tuna, but I do love it! The potatoes

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We made Sundaes using some of the brownies from the other day. The photo is not too good...i was more concerned with eating the sundae than taking photos!! I heated the brownies in the microwave a little then added some Whole Foods Vanilla Soy Cream (soy ice cream), some hot fudgy chocolate sauce (recipe below) and topped it off with some Soyatoo and some frozen cherries (defrosted). This is the

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Last week I went in to the Follow Your Heart store (home of Follow Your Heart Gourment Cheese and Vegenaise ) as it’s really near me. I don’t actually shop there often as I think it’s expensive and I can buy Vegenaise in Whole Foods which I go in to all the time. I bought some of their vegan cheese as I have read so much about it on the internet. Everyone seems to love it so I thought I would

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I have made this soup about 6 times since reading about it on Leslie's blog. It is absolutely delicious...nice and spicy and I think it tastes even better the day after it's made. I pretty much follow Leslie's recipe, but I have to half the recipe unfortunately because I don't have a pot big enough to make the full recipe!I cube the tofu before frying it and then throw it in the non stick frying

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These are the scrummiest brownies ever... I know the photos doesn’t make them look that great, but trust me, they are yum! I did ruin them slightly with my impatience...hence the reason they look a little rubbish, but they taste fantastic. I didn’t really keep them in the oven quite long enough and then I was in such a hurry to get them out the tin and try them that they fell apart on the way...

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This is from Vegan With A Vengeance. Isa says you will make this at least once a week, and I would if only I could get Wee G to eat it once a week. I won’t tell you what he says it looks like, but he’s not a fan, let’s put it that way. He won’t touch it, but I guess that means twice as much for me :) I don’t bash up the chickpeas too much so my gravy is quite lumpy and thick. In fact I don’t

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I loooove this recipe. I found it on veganforum.com and have made it about 4 times and I always really enjoy it. Unfortunately Wee G isn’t so keen. He eats it but doesn’t love it like I do... I use tinned tomatoes in place of passatta and some Tabasco instead of cayenne pepper. I also actually use yams not sweet potatoes because that’s what they usually have in the store. After typing that I went

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This is from Vegetarian Soups For All Seasons by Nava Atlas. The weather has been cold (well, for here) lately so I wanted to make some kind of warm wintery soup and as this has winter in the name it seemed to fit the bill. I really like barley so that was an added incentive (I know barley is not in the name, but there’s some in there!). I pretty much stuck to the recipe apart from adding

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After making Moroccan Chickpea Patties from Vive Le Vegan! I decided to try the Pumpkin Seed Coated Lentil Patties from the same book. I made a few changes – I used green lentils instead of brown, ground coriander instead of seeds, a regular onion instead of a red onion and curry powder instead of paste. They were really good and had a nice lightly spiced flavor. We had them along with mashed

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These are Your Basic Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World. The cupcakes are really moist and I could happily eat them with no frosting...but to make them a little prettier I added (a little) frosting. While I think the photos in the book make the cupcakes look gorgeous with a ton of frosting towering atop I think I would find that much

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This is another recipe from Vegan With A Vengeance. I have made this several times and love it! Isa suggests that this is served over mashed potatoes, but, as much as I love potatoes, that seems like potato overload to me. Usually I eat it with some kind of green vegetable on the side. Today I only had some courgettes (zucchini) which wouldn’t be my first choice to go with this dish...but that’s

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We had leftover Moroccan Chickpea Patties today with more potato wedges again. But this time I mixed a little of the Ginger Dipping Sauce with some Vegenaise to make a little dip (on the right in the photo). We also had Sautéed Green Beans with Mushrooms from Vegan With A Vengeance. This is the first time I have made these and they were really good! I omitted the wine as I didn’t have any, but I

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Vegan Factory is a yummy vegan Thai restaurant near where we live and not, as Wee G claims, a place where vegans are mashed up and made in to burgers. It’s my favourite place to eat out…I love being able to go out to eat and be able to choose anything on the menu! Plus the food is delicious and the staff are really friendly. The photos are taken on my phone so they are not great.We started with “

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These Moroccan Chickpea Patties are from Vive Le Vegan! by Dreena Burton. I adore chickpeas, but I am not a fan of anything with an aniseed type flavour, so the fact that there was fennel in them was putting me off. However, after reading the rave reviews on Don't Get Mad, Get Vegan's blog and Leslie's blog I decided to go for it...and I am so glad I did!! These are very, very tasty and the

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A while ago I bought a bag of Organic Rice Puffs thinking they would be like Rice Krispies, but they are soft and chewy rather than crispy (hence the reason they are called puffs and not kripsies I guess ) They are more like Sugar Puffs, but without the sugar. If I had looked at them more closely in the bag while in the store I would have probably realised this, but never mind. Anyway I am not

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