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 :)

The ''I don't have time to have breakfast'' Vegan Flapjacks

Time for school!!

My daughter Esme had her first day at school last week, she is such a grown up girl! I figured there would be many days we would be in a rush and wouldn't have time for breakfast, sometimes so much of a rush that we have to grab something on the way to school, so I threw a load of ingredients together, and made a flapjack of sorts. This is Gluten Free too, so tummy friendly :)

The ''I don't have time to have breakfast'' Vegan Flapjacks

The question is, what are the measurements for the ingredients? The answer to this is, I haven't the foggiest! I would really just add until you get the right consistency. Right now I have an 11 week old baby so I don't get a lot of time so make food, so a recipe throwing everything in a bowl is ideal really!!

This is a mysterious recipe, like that on the great british bake off *rotfl*

Ingredients:

Cup of dates, soaked 

Cup of Cashews, soaked

Slug of maple syrup (no not a real slug ^_^)

Tablespoon of melted non-dairy marg

Quinoa Flakes

*Whizz up the dates and cashews in a food processor or nutribullet

*De-cant into a bowl, add the Quinoa flakes and mix until they are all combined.

*Melt the non-dairy marg in a pan, add the maple syrup

*Pour into the mixture and stir

*Line a tin with baking parchment, press down mixture into the tin, then throwww in the oven!

*Bake for 15-20 mins, take the flapjacks out and cut into squares.

*Cool the flapjacks and put them in a tub, ready to eat!!

I plan on making these again soon with a carob style chocolate on top (chocolate makes my daughter rather loopy!) They are nutty and delicious!

Vegan Sweet Scones Recipe

Vegan Sweet Scones Recipe

Recipe adapted from: https://emilycooksvegan.com/2012/05/28/summery-scones/

Summer is here! Yipppeee!! I mean *dies from the heat*. I am currently very very pregnant and the weather is melting me. MELTING!!

So it was half term and I had a sudden urge to bake. Trying to find something easy that my 4 year old and I could make. I am NOT a natural baker! When I was very young I used to bake constantly, and was pretty good at it! As I grew older I completely forgot how to bake, and now I am vegan I have to relearn everything anyway! 

Esme's dad was round so we all had a go, Esme is actually incredibly good at following the steps!! I was very impressed :) :)

I did alter a few of the ingredients as having pregnancy brain I did indeed forget some of the ingredients!! Here it is anyway :) :)

Ingredients

• 350g Self Raising Flour
• Pinch of Salt
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• 85g Vegan Margarine
• 3 Tablespoons Caster Sugar (I used maybe 2.5, I hate using the full amount of sugar in any recipe!!)
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract ( I forgot this, d'oh!!)
• A good squeeze of lemon juice * This doesn't make it particularly lemony, if you want it super lemony I would add the zest*
• 175ml of Soy Milk ( I used rice milk)
• 85g Dried Fruit (I used Sultanas)

What you need to do!

• Preheat the oven to 220 degrees (I just used the highest setting possible)

• Grab a mixing bowl, pour in the flour, baking powder and salt, then add the marg. Get your 4 year old to rub in the margarine to the flour mixture until it is a crumb like consistency. Or all over the floor. 

• Pour in the sugar and fruit and mixxx!! Or squish together in this case!!

• Make a well in the middle of the mixture. Pour in the milk, vanilla and lemon and stir. In the recipe it says stir with a metal knife. In this case Esme squashed the mixture together with her hands, stopping every now and again to taste the dough.
• Tip the mixture onto a surface and knead the dough into a ball. By this time Esme was more interested in eating the dough so dad stepped in!
• Divide the dough into rounds, place on baking tray (with baking parchment - absolute washing up life saver!!) 
• Brush with a little melted marg
• The recipe now says to bake for 10-15 minutes, which I would recommend trying first if you don't have a weird oven like mine. However, my oven took 35 minutes, and I had to flip the scones over to make sure they were cooked all the way through. If in doubt poke a fork in the middle to see in the middle is still uncooked. I have the worst oven ever..
• Take out the oven when cooked, put some delicious vegan cream and jam on, we had no cream so I just had marg and jam. 

 Finally, try and stop your 4 year old licking every single scone before anyone else has tasted them. ENJOY!

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