The Dopey Vegan

Ok so this is a little late, but I'm, hoping this helps all of you who like me are in the full midst of Christmas chaos. Christmas really snuck up on me this year, no sooner had it been my birthday we were basically at Christmas and right now we are under a week away and I'm so under-prepared. At least I have checked one thing of my list; what I'm going to eat. I had been thinking about a nut roast for a while, but I often find them to be dry and kinda boring. When I origina

I could write an ode to cauliflower, I really could. I use it so regularly in my cooking in so many various ways, I swear I could write a whole book about just how to cook cauliflower. But here is a comfort food classic; cauliflower cheese. Who doesn't love gooey cheesey goodness? Before I went vegan I thought cheese was going to be this great gaping hole in my life, now on the other side I never think about it. There are so many great cheese alternatives on supermarket shelv

Super quick and simple post today (but totally tasty too)! Rice pudding used to be a staple in my diet, a certain dairy desert company's rice puddings were often consumed after dinner as a treat. I think I ate them when I was vegetarian only to discover they used gelatin (eww, why?) and so rice pudding disappeared from my life. Until now! Oh yes I have been working on a rice pudding for a little while. I often eat rice, it's a nutritious easy accompaniment, and then have left

The 30th of November was my 25th birthday. Birthday's are always bitter sweet for me, I love celebrations, presents, eating out, seeing friends. But I hate knowing I'm getting older, and I often get anxious about everything needing to go well. In spite of all this I had an amazing birthday this year, and I only cried a tiny little bit! My birthday started a couple of days before, when my sister, Alice, told me she was taking me out for a surprise. The only clue I was given wa