Slow-cooked aubergines with cheesy cashew sauce Melanzane alla Parmigiana has always been a favourite at home, so tonight it was time to invent a vegan version. Here’s what I did: Ingredients 2 red onions 2 cloves of garlic 1 tbsp olive oil 4 aubergines (egg plant) 1 kg passata salt pepper dried mixed herbs a…
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Vegan Junk Food in Byker
Shields Road in Byker (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) isn’t your stereotypical setting for a vegan eatery. I like Byker and used to live not far from Shields Road, but was surprised to hear about a vegan place among the pawn shops and bookmakers. I had to be in Newcastle for an evening meeting yesterday, so thought I would…
Lentil, Walnut and Apple Loaf
Yesterday I had another go at practising for Christmas. I’m trying a few recipes out to to see what would make good vegan Christmas lunch. I found this recipe online, it looked really good so I thought I’d give it a whirl. I won’t write the whole process out, the person who created the recipe…
Stuffed Seitan Wellington
I’m looking forward to Christmas! I’ve had in mind for a while that I would like to make a stuffed seitan wellington for Christmas dinner, but I thought I’d better practice first. It turned out really well, here’s what I did… Stuffing First I combined the following ingredients in a food processor until they were…
Two Pizzas – Which Was Better?
Tonight we had two different vegan pizzas, a gluten-free margherita by Kirsty’s and one described as caponata sourdough by Wicked Kitchen (vegan range at Tesco). I hadn’t intended to make two. I had ordered the Wicked Kitchen one in our groceries this week, but when it arrived it was really really small. In fact, here’s…
Homemade Vegan Cheese
I made cheese! Since going vegan I’ve been surprised how good a lot of the vegan versions of certain foods are – milk, cake, yoghurt etc. However, all the vegan cheese I have tried has been horrible. They all seem to be made from coconut oil, and I haven’t yet found one that I like….
Goodfella’s Pizza – Tasty, but…
It seems that everyone’s making vegan pizzas! This is the third one I’ve tried so far, after the efforts from Pizza Express and Oumph!. Right, I’ll get straight to the point: it’s a fairly decent pizza. Lots of flavour, helped along by some peppers which add some heat. It’s good value too – at £2.50…
My Favourite Vegan Meal So Far
Today I made slow-cooked seitan and mushroom stroganoff, and it turned out AMAZING. Of all the meals I have cooked since going vegan, this is my favourite. I drew on a few different recipes, but this was more or less my own invention. Here’s what I did… I made the seitan this morning by mixing…
Vegan New York – part 2
It’s been a really good couple of days exploring this amazing city. I think it’s fair to say that I could have made healthier choices with the food! But I’m not stressing about that. Yes, there were plenty of healthy vegan options available, but I really wanted to eat what I imagined to be ‘proper’…
Vegan New York – part 1
I’m visiting New York! It’s not a place I have ever been before, in fact this is my first ever trip outside Europe, so it’s pretty exciting. One thing I had been looking forward to most about New York was the food. Skyscrapers? Museums? Nah, just gimme the food! So far I have not been…
Plant-Powered Pedalling 