Vegan Pizza @ The Stable, Cheltenham

Vegan Pizza @ The Stable

The Stable has been in Cheltenham for quite a while now, but we have only recently caught onto it's Vegan Pizza menu!! So we rolled down to town (not literally!!) to eat all their Pizza!!

We are quite lucky in Cheltenham as we have a Zizzi nearby, which also makes Vegan Pizza, a large Wholefoods which sells Vegan Pizza (without the v-cheese), plenty of health food stores that sell pizza brands like Redwood with vegan cheese, so we are spoilt for choice really! I have to say though, so far, The Stable do the best Pizza! The base is thin but tasty, plenty of melty vegan cheese (which I hear is the ever popular Violife), and also a large Garlic Bread complete with violife, delicious!

It was fairly steep price wise, but great if you are having a treat. It might be because we bought quite a few drinks too though! 

Whilst we were eating there was live music playing, the atmosphere was really relaxed and family friendly. There was also plenty of vegans there which is always a good sign!

Overall a really good experience, and highly recommended! 

Finn decided he would rather have his milk than pizza, oddly enough :)

All The Kale Please Vol. II..The Coconut Edition

All The Kale Please Vol. II..The Coconut Edition

I was inspired today by going on a play date with Esme. The kids were eating Thai Green Curry and the house just smelled amazing! It made me SUPER hungry! So I thought, what do I have in my cupboards or fridge that can even remotely replicate this? Being the beginning of the month, we had slightly more of an abundance of food than usual. So this means..KALE!! YUM!!

It was definitely a 15 minute throw everything together sort of meal! But pretty delicious and worth it :)

Note: This does not taste like Green Curry, but the nearest I could get with the ingredients in my cupboards!!

What you need: (feeds 2-3 people)

Tofu (1/2 block for 2 people)

Kale (1/2 bag, more if needed!)

Olive Oil/Coconut oil

Rice

Onion

Garlic (2 Cloves)

1 tbsp flour (GF)

1-2 tsp chilli powder

Salt & Pepper

Tin of Coconut milk
Seeds

What you need to do (apart from save the world)

• Put on enough rice to feed ALL the people
• Fry Onions and Garlic for a couple of minutes, throw in the chopped tofu. Saute until Tofu is brown
• Add the Kale, saute, then the chilli powder.
• Scoop the cream off the top of the coconut milk
• Add the flour, stir, then the water from the tin of coconut milk
• The sauce should thicken, add as much coconut cream as you think is needed!
• Add salt and pepper to taste
• Decorate with seeeds
• EATS!!!

Hannah xx

All The Kale Please.. - Quick Eats

All The Kale Please..

I have been really obsessed with Kale lately. I love cabbage, but Kale really is on another level!

This was a really nice snacky meal, as I am often shattered by lunchtime, due to running after 3 year old all morning! She even enjoyed it, which is a double win for mankind!

So all you really need is:

• Kale
• Houmous (Shop bought or home-made - if you have no time like me rolling out of bed and buying houmous is an easy option!!)
• Walnuts - or any kind of nuts!
• Seeds ( I added this afterwards, because I am so tired I cannot think right now XD)
• 1 Onion
• Optional - Nutritional Yeast - I tend to just put this on everything
• Himalayan Salt or Sea Salt - no table salt please!

You can easily adapt this dish to be raw if you prefer. Esme will not eat raw Kale so I boiled it for maybe 10 mins (generally best to do it for not very long, I do it on orders of a 3 year old!). Meanwhile fry up some onions, when ready just throw together really! Add the walnuts/seeds/houmous. Eat, then fall asleep, if you are very very lucky!

Hannah xx

Creamy Lemon and Chickpea Noms

Creamy Lemon and Chickpea Noms

(Serves 3-4)

Ingredients:

1 Tin of Chick Peas

1 Tin of Coconut Milk (Alt. Soya milk)

1 Onion, Chopped

2 Cloves Garlic

1 small bag of Spinach

Mushrooms

Cornflour

Salt and Pepper

1 Lemon

Savoury Yeast Flakes (optional)

Olive/Sunflower/Coconut oil

Rice

1) Put the rice on to boil, enough for 3-4 people

2) Fry the onion, garlic and then mushrooms together with a little oil

3) Stir in a tin of chick peas!

4) Open the tin of coconut milk, scoop the coconut cream off the top and put in a bowl - Alternatively if soya milk go to the next step

5) Add a little more oil and stir in a few spoons of cornflour

6) Add the coconut or soya milk, a little at a time and stir until a thick sauce

7) Add the spinach, salt and pepper, and a little savoury yeast flakes to taste
8) Stir in the coconut cream

9) Squeeze half a lemon, taste, may need more!

10) Stir!

11) Serve! Omnomnom!

12) Bring me some :D