Tonight a recipe from a kindle book I bought, simply called ‘Vegan Slowcooker Cookbook’ by Laura Hamilton. It seems a good collection of recipes, and slow cooker makes everything nice and simple. The book suggests pumpkin, but I used butternut squash. Maybe I’ll try it again in a month’s time when the shops are full…
Month: Sep 2018
Nut-Crusted Tofu with Quinoa and Sugar-Snap Peas
So apparently I have become the kind of person who cooks nut-crusted tofu and serves it with quinoa. Well, I’m alright with that because this evening’s dinner tasted amazing. This was another recipe from the No Meat Athlete Cookbook. It’s not the kind of thing I normally cook, but I thought I’d give it a…
Oumph! Pizza
It’s been a long day, we didn’t get home until 8.30pm so something quick and easy was needed. I had read that Oumph! have launched a new vegan pizza at selected Tesco stores, including the one I shop at, so tonight was the night to give it a try. This is the second vegan pizza…
Homemade Mint Raita
I went out for a curry last Friday, and was pleased to find that there were a lot of vegan choices. Sadly, as I excepted, the mint dipping sauce for the poppadums was (as is traditional) based on yoghurt. Tonight we were finishing off a coconut and green bean curry from the freezer, so I…
Huel
For six months or so before going vegan I had noticed Facebook ads for something called Huel, marketed as a ‘nutritionally complete food’. I wasn’t really interested at first. I figured it was a kind of protein shake, and I’ve never been into that kind of thing. I decided to give it a try back…
Allen Valley Velo Two-Stage Hill-Climb
Yesterday I took part in my first competitive cycling event: the annual Two-Stage Hill-Climb competition organised by my club. For the uninitiated, it’s a time trial event – riders start at one-minute intervals and race against the clock. In this particular event there are two hills, you race up each in turn and your combined…
Humber Bridge 200 Audax
A year ago I took part in my first audax. An audax is a non-competitive long-distance cycling event, with its origins in France. As I understand it, years ago cyclists in France would ride from one city to another and back again within a certain time-frame, bringing some sort of proof of having visited their…
Homemade Oat Milk
I haven’t found it difficult to give up milk. There are so many alternatives out there (soya, cashew, almond, coconut…), it really isn’t hard. None of them taste exactly like cows milk, but most taste pretty good. They don’t behave exactly like cows milk either, so I’m learning which kinds work best for different uses….
Why I’ve Gone Vegan
I wasn’t expecting to go vegan. It felt quite a spontaneous decision, almost like it came out of nowhere, although looking back I think I had probably had it at the back of my mind for a while. I had previously described myself as a ‘lapsed vegetarian’ – I had been vegetarian for a while,…
Tofu Stir-fry after a Weekend Away
I’ve been away for a residential weekend as part of a study course I’m doing. It was the first time I had really had to rely on someone else to cook me vegan food. I had informed my college in advance, so just had to trust that the message would get through. I have stayed…
Plant-Powered Pedalling 