A little too realistic for my liking…

I gave up eating chicken nuggets long before I became vegetarian, once you read what goes into a chicken nugget you can’t look at them the same again! Plus nine times out of ten I would always end up gagging on a piece of gristle, ugh!
Anyway, our local supermarket has recently been overshadowed by a [...]

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Back to the good stuff… curry!

Thanks for reading my moany post, but now it’s time to move it down the page!
So here is our lastest yummy dinner from Dreena Burton’s Eat, Drink & Be Vegan, Zucchini Chickpea Tomato Curry with basmati rice. Along with the veggies in its name there are also potatoes and green beans so it’s very [...]

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Green Tea Popsicles

The weather is so very, very nice and hot that I made some juice popsicles for myself yesterday. And as our matcha powder had arrived, I took the opportunity to make some Green Tea Freezer Pops from My Sweet Vegan too. Here’s one in all its rocketship-shaped green-tea glory!

I won’t give my verdict because you [...]

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Chai “Cheese”cake & Happy Birthday Mr. HPP

Mr. HPP is having a wonderful birthday, we went to the beach, for a walk in the woods, to the playground, got takeout soy cappuchinos with hummus & tomato pesto bruschettas, and generally chilled. Littlepixie is having a snooze, Mr. HPP is reading his birthday books and I’m letting you all know that Chai “Cheese”cake [...]

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Baking plans…

It’s Mr. HPP’s birthday “fortnight” so I used it as an excuse to procure a new vegan dessert book, My Sweet Vegan by Hannah Kaminsky of Bittersweet Blog fame. Each dessert has a full colour, full page photo and if I could eat them right off the page I would. But I can’t so [...]

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Soup on Sunday

It’s cold and misty outside today, we’re just back from a walk, I’m NAK (cool-speak for Nursing at Keyboard) and Littlepixie has fallen asleep so now I’m trapped! Luckily Mr. HPP has arrived in with a bowl of steaming hot soup for me (and the recipe so I can share it with all of you). [...]

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Vegan “milk” chocolate buttons

Ooh, look what I found in my local health food store today. Vegan chocolate buttons!
They taste just like the Cadbury’s ones (to the best of my memory of them anyway), creamy, not dark and very smooth, they have a the lovely chocolatey mouth-feel that is missing in many vegan milk chocolates. They even smell like [...]

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Magicmum BeanRice Mush

Dinner today was inspired by a post on a thread about veggie dinners on Magicmum. The following nameless recipe was given, a recipe should have a name, therefore until I find its real name we shall call it…
Magicmum BeanRice Mush
1 large onion
1 garlic clove
1 tsp fresh grated ginger
1 tablespoon curry powder (optional)
1/2 tsp paprika
1/4 [...]

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Chocolate Sin-namon Cake

Mr. Halfpintpixie is now suitably recovered from last week’s illness, so he made my birthday cake today, yay! Chocolate Sin-namon Cake from Dreena Burton’s Eat, Drink & Be Vegan covered in Chocolate Hazelnut Frosting (which tastes like Nutella, or so I have been reliably informed, I’ve never tasted Nutella).

Yum, yum, yum, very good cake. A [...]

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Vegan pancake success

Here is proof that I can make pancakes. Notice there is only one, the others were shockingly unphotogenic, but still yummy.
We can’t get canola oil here so I used safflower oil, which normally does the trick nicely in baking. I did have to add in a good bit more soy milk as the mixture was [...]

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