Vegan MoFo

Vegan Month of Food starts on Sunday and what better excuse to get blogging again! Throughout the month of September I'll be blogging as regularly as poss. As you can tell by now I tend to dip in and out of things quite a bit but I'll be making every effort to commit for this special event. I'll be taking a lot of cues from here as well as a few things I've been meaning to post for a while.

In the meantime, here are some updates from me:

Wednesday marked the 1 year anniversary of living in Brighton with my BestfriendBoyfriend Josh. It really is the most fantastic city, exactly what I'd hoped for and there is still so much more I want to explore!

 I've just harvested my first red tomato! It was deelish and I'm looking forward to plenty more along with the odd sweet pepper if I can coax them to ripen. Last week I downloaded Instagram for our Ipad and that rosy beauty was my first upload. I'm not posting too much at the mo, (taking photos in public with Ipads looks weird doesn't it?!) but there are a few foodie snaps tentatively testing the water!

Till Sunday x

Curry Club

I'm a little addicted to cooking shows - I've got a little better now that I don't have a tv with food network to gaze at for hours and I actually have to chose an on demand show to watch, but I'm still quite fanatical about them. I like imagining how I could transform recipes, to veganise them, and how they might work with things I already eat. So it happened that this week whilst watching an old Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers episode I decided I to attempt this Korma. I'm an absolute curry novice - the processed stuff in a jar is usually adequate - so this simple one seemed an ideal place to start.

My ginger looked like a bunny!

I didn't have aaalll the spices - still working on the new kitchen's supplies! However it turned out really well and I felt very brave adding sultanas to a savoury dish for the first time ever(!)
My substitutions were:
Butter -> Vitalite
Yoghurt & Creme Fraiche -> One tin of coconut milk
I also added some cauliflower which worked really well.


A great simple way for beginners to experiment with spices, and hazelnuts in curry!

Unfortunately it wasn't a very appetising colour, perhaps it needed more turmeric?

Apologies for the late post, I've spent the day tending to my newly sprouted salad veg (So this is how it feels to be a proud mother!) in my new garden. Advice on how to deter a horde of snails anyone?!