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I'm not sure how it got to be over 3 months since I last posted. I got busy and then I got out of the habit. Lately I've really missed blogging and reading everyone else's blogs. I'm going to be pretty busy for the next month or so but then I would like to get back in to it, so if anyone still drops by here please know that I am still vegan, still cooking and er..still Scottish :) Hope to "

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I’m not doing anything special to celebrate World Vegan Day, just being my usual vegan self. If you’re reading this and you’re not already vegan perhaps you might want to try eating vegan for the day. It doesn’t have to be today. It could be tomorrow. And then you could try it again the next day and the next day and the next day...and just don’t stop :) On to food...last night I made a

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I can’t believe it has been 4 months since we got back to Scotland now and I have blogged so few times since getting back! I just seem to have been so busy...I am having a hard time adjusting to being back at work and having enough time to fit in all the other things I would like to do! The day we moved back to Scotland was the longest day of the year. We arrived home in the morning and to try

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Our broadband is fixed! Hurrah! Don’t even ask what happened...it’s a long and boring story of utter incompetence and company craziness. The good news is that I have taken loads of photos for the blog! The bad news is that the memory card broke and jammed in the camera and we can’t get any photos off it now... :( However, I do still have lots of pics on the pc. So let’s take a little trip back

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Edinburgh Castle Hello friends and bloggers! I am still here and have not forgotten my blog. Life has been getting in the way! We are sooo happy to be home and see all our family and friends but are definitely missing the California sunshine. It seems like we have had about 4 days of sun since we got back. Ah well, without rain we wouldn’t get rainbows :) We have had a total nightmare with

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Thanks for all your comments. We are settling in well, but still only have a dial up connection...and it's super slow...pah! We should have broadband by next weekend if things go to plan (which they haven’t so far…). Due to lack of kitchen equipment and general laziness I haven’t been cooking anything exciting so I don’t have that much to tell you all. Our belongings should arrive in about two

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We are finally in Edinburgh and settling back in to our flat...hurrah! The last few weeks in LA were so busy that I never got a chance to blog, but I haven’t forgotten about it and will be back soon! We currently only have a super slow dial up connection, but when we get our broadband I will be back to blogging and catching up with all your blogs too! Hope you are all doing well...see you soon!

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I haven’t abandoned my blog...just been very busy with moving stuff. Things are going well and we don’t have that much left to do now...hurrah!! I will hopefully have a little more time this week to catch up with everyone else’s blogs as I have missed reading them lately. For some reason lately we’ve tried quite a few new foody things...well new to us at least. Here’s how we got on. These are

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The Secret Plans to Turn Us All Vegetarian By SEAN POULTER Secret plans to encourage the nation to give up eating meat are being examined by the (UK)Government. A leaked e-mail expresses sympathy for the environmental benefits of a mass switch to a vegan diet - a strict form of vegetarianism which bans milk, dairy products and fish. The change would need to be done "gently" because of a "risk

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I’ve been tagged by Johanna at Green Gourmet Giraffe to blog about seven random facts about me. So here you go: 1 I am addicted to lip balm. I cannot go anywhere without one. I buy them constantly because I always lose them or wreck them (usually by leaving them in the car to melt or putting them in the washing machine). 2 My favourite colour is pink. Yes I am quite girly :) 3 I have no memory.

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We’ve been so busy this past week, packing, organising, selling and general upping and moving to another country type stuff. But there’s always time for eating and cooking :) So, here’s some of the stuff we’ve been munching lately… This is Sri Lankan Eggplant Curry from Madhur Jaffrey’s World Vegetarian. It was mildly spicy and creamy and I threw in some chickpeas to make it a little more

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We are really getting in to packing now and it seems like everything is everywhere… :( I am planning on packing the kitchen stuff last so that I can keep cooking for as long as possible :) I bought some Pillsbury Crescent Rolls (which are accidentally vegan). "Crescent Rolls are VEGAN??!!" I intended to spread them with my Notella, but it was all gone by the time I got round to using them,

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Yesterday was our wedding anniversary :) Wee G had to work late so we decided to just stay in and I made dinner. We snuggled up and watched American Idol...how romantic! Remember the other day when I said that I try to make fairly healthy food in the house? Well, I guess l lied cos this meal was far from low fat or low calorie :) First up I made Zucchini Delight from How It All Vegan. It’s a

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I know sometimes it seems like I am unconcerned with healthy eating, what with the burgers, pizza etc that I have posted lately, but when we are at home I do try to make an effort to make our food semi healthy. I tend to cut down or omit the oil, salt and sugar in recipes when I can. So when I found this replacement for oil on fatfreevegan.com I had to try it out. It’s basically a mix of

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The other day I threw together some vegetable soup with what I had kicking around the house and it turned out really well. Wee G told me about three times while eating it “I reaaaaally like this soup” so I think I am on to a winner! It’s a very simple soup with lots of tasty veggies and a little kick from the black pepper. I have posted the recipe at the end if you want to give it a go. To go

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I finally made the famous Seitan O Greatness that everyone has been making recently. Baking seitan is so much simpler than boiling and gives a much better texture... I don’t think I’ll boil seitan again. It was sweeter than I expected so I think next time I will need to change the spices a little.Once I’d made it I wasn’t sure what to do with it. I had been thinking about making vegetable chilli

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Vive Le Vegan! by Dreena Burton is definitely my favourite cookbook. I’ve nowhere near made everything from the book, but everything that I have made is a winner! Plus Dreena has her own blog and is always happy to answer any queries you might have about her recipes. Here are some things from the book I have made recently. This is Chickpea Ratatouille. Dreena mentions in the book that this is

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Last weekend we took a little trip to Venice Beach. We just wandered around the boardwalk area and beach and watched some basketball and skateboarders. There were no dancing rollerbladers though which was a shame as the last few times we have gone we have sat for ages watching them...they have some amazing moves! And of course we ate! I found a groovy little place called Good Karma on the

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I am always up for a cheeky wee bargain and they don't come much better than this. These cute little boards were found at the Dollar Spot in Target for a dollar each (obviously!). They are pretty useless for cutting on, but they make great pot stands and brighten up the kitchen! I forgot to tell you about this fantastic pizza that Wee G brought home one night. He went out for veggie sushi one

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Erm...hello! Sorry for my lack of blogging lately. The past week or so has not been the best for my family and while I’ve still been cooking and eating (of course :)) I haven’t been in much of a mood to enthuse about food here. But now I think it’s time to get back to it, so here’s some stuff we’ve been eating lately... This is Moroccan Chickpea and Lentil Soup from Vegetarian Soups For All

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This is probably the most adorable thing I've ever seen! Thought you all might like to see it :)

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I read Susan at FatFreeVegan.com’s recent post about baba ganoush and her enthusiasm for it made me really want to try it. It’s super simple to make. I think it’s a taste that takes a little while to get used (for me anyway), but the more I ate the more I liked it!. Even though it gives you mega garlic breath I really enjoyed it with my celery and carrot sticks :)As I was already toasting the

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First up is an amazingly yummy curry posted originally by Fairly Odd Tofu Mom a while back. It’s Aloo Mutter Gobi (Spicy Cauliflower, Potatoes and Peas). I saw it again on Veg-a-nut's blog and she was raving about it. Like veg-a-nut I used less oil and light coconut milk. I also used edamame in place of the peas. I have to agree with veg-a-nut, it is soooo good! Anytime I have made Indian food

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Inspired by Bazu’s post last month, I thought I would post about how I came to be a vegan as this month is my one year veganniversary. Also like Bazu this is actually my second time around being vegan. I wish I had stuck with it the first time, but here’s how I got there in the end: I’ve always liked animals and when I was around 15 I used to see animal rights stalls in the city centre of

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I recently borrowed Breaking The Food Seduction and Eat To Live from my local library as I had heard good things about both books online. I’m not actually following either programme but since reading Breaking The Food Seduction two weeks ago I haven’t eaten any chocolate which is pretty amazing for me as I usually eat some every day. What’s more I’m not missing it… Anyway, this soup is from Eat

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