Peanut butter (vegan)cookies

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Peanut Butter and Pumpkin Seed Cookies 🍪 

Ok so I added the pumpkin seeds in to make them ever so slightly healthy but these bad boys should come with a health warning lol!  A bit too much sugar for my liking but I made them for the boys!  …of course I had to lick the utensils and taste the finished product.  They are dairy free and delicious!  😄

3/4 cups of brown sugar (or coconut sugar)

2/3 cup of rapeseed oil

1/4 cup of almond milk

2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract

1 1/2cups of white spelt flour

1/2 tsp of baking powder

sprinkle of salt

4 tbsp of pumpkin seeds

2 tbsp of peanut butter

Add all the ingredients into your mixer or bowl apart from the seeds and mix gently until combined.  Add the seeds in last and combine.  Drop 1 tbsp of mixture onto the baking sheet and repeat leaving space between your cookies as they will flatten slightly and bake at 170c for 8-10 minutes until slightly golden.

Enjoy 💋

 

 

 

 

 

Weekend Brekkie with my boy!

So this is what me and Daniel get up to at the weekends!  🙂  We make sausage sandwiches.

Super simple – slice the buns, spread with hummus, chopped tomatoes, chopped cucumber, mashed avocado, ketchup and add the sausages.  Serve straight away!  Delicious!

Check out the video for better instruction! 🙂  enjoy!

Kids Taste Test – Tesco Vegan & GF Snacks

 

A quick funny video of the kids first taste challenge, they were so excited about it Maggie rushed out to purchase all of the snacks for the next one from the Asian grocery store in Aberdeen.

This video consists of 6 snacks from Tesco which are gluten free and/or vegan friendly in an effort to get the kids to try new foods and not be scared off by how things look or appear at first.

Honest opinions are given, kids find it hard to lie lol! 🙂  The mustard I sneaked in at the end was a good surprise.

This video was Maggie’s idea and she made the signs etc. so I can’t take the credit for this one.

Well done Maggie xxxx

 

Subway mum at work!

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Daniel just told me ‘Mum your so good at making these sandwiches you should work in Subway!’

Super quick to make, slice your sub, spread with hummus and put in loads of salad and olives etc.  top with mayo of choice, we had an egg free one and serve.

 

 

Vegan Sweet & Sour

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A quick recipe for sweet & sour stir fry with shitake mushrooms on top! 🙂  Delicious!

Ingredients

1 onion

1 red pepper

1 pack of beansprouts

1 can of bamboo shoots

1 bunch of chinese greens of choice

1 packet of marinated tofu pieces

1 packet of shitake mushrooms cooked with ginger and garlic (optional)

1 jar of sweet & sour sauce

1 packet of buckwheat noodles

Ok so you want to chop everything up first to get it all ready to go, get the frying pan or wok up to heat and pop in a tablespoon of coconut oil.  Heat the onions and peppers for 5 mins, add in the rest of the vegetables and continue to cook breifly but don’t overcook the vegetables or they will go soggy!

Add the sauce and season with a little soy sauce.  Serve with the cooked buckwheat noodles or rice, what ever you prefer.

If you want to see the recipe in video format check out my youtube recipe below!

Enjoy 🙂 x

Quick Indian Curry

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Ok so here goes my super quick Indian curry recipe, this recipe was the result of me forgetting my Indian jar of sauce at the supermarket but I’m sure it was ten times tastier anyway than the jar I was supposed to pick up.  So here goes…

Ingredients

4 garlic cloves chopped or grated

1 knob of ginger chopped finely

2 green chilies, sliced, seeds included for extra heat (optional but don’t be a wimp!)

Cinnamon stick whole

4 cardamon pods

1 thickly sliced courgettes

1 thickly sliced red pepper

hot curry powder 3-4tbsp

Soy Cream

1 handful of cashew nuts

1 carton/tin of chopped tomatoes

4 cubes of frozen spinach

parsley (optional)

lime pickle and mango chutney or any other condiments

rice of choice

So chop and prepare everything and put a small amount of oil in the pan, stir in the garlic, ginger and green chilies, cook for 5 mins, stir in the cinnamon and cardamon pods and cook for a further 5 mins.

Add the chopped vegetables and cook for 10-15mins, add the chopped tomatoes, curry powder, frozen spinach, a dash of water , cook until the vegetables are tender.

Add a dash of soy cream, the cashew nuts and cook a further 5 mins, season and serve with the rice and condiments and parsely on top if you wish.

Thats it enjoy! 🙂

Beetroot Smoothie

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Beetroot Smoothie

A quick beetroot smoothie with oranges and honey, delicious before a run or other form of exercise. 🙂

Ingredients

1 whole fresh uncooked beetroot washed and peeled

2 large oranges

1 tsp of Nomi friut powder or other superfood of choice

1 tbsp of Hemp Seeds

1 Tbsp of raw honey

Pop all of the ingredients into the blender, top up with water and blend until smooth.  Share amongst two or three glasses and serve.  I like to have beetroot before working out as there are benefits for our bodies.  Check out some benefits listed in the link below.

http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/exercise/beetroot-improves-exercise-endurance.htm

 

Aldi’s Vegetarian Soup Review

A quick look at two soups I purchased from Aldi’s the other day whilst looking for vegetarian foods, I would really recommend giving them a try they taste delicious and were really cheap to buy! 🙂

Love Angie x

Salad Crispbreads

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Salad Crispbreads

So for a quick dinner I mixed up some chopped tomatoes, chopped red onion, dried mint (use fresh if you have), some olive oil and seasonings for a tomato salad and served it along with some plain and simple sliced avocado and cucumber with a squeeze of lime on top and some chopped coriander.  I finished this off with some sliced oranges and a couple squares of chocolate.

Ingredients

Sliced Tomatoes

Red Onion

Dried Mint (fresh if you have)

Olive oil

Sliced Cucumber

Sliced Avocado

4 pieces of artichokes (jar in olive oil)

Chopped coriander

Lime

Crispbreads of choice (I used aldi’s organic multiseed)

Blood oranges (although my oranges were not very red in the picture!)

Simple chop the tomatoes and add to the sliced onion with the mint and a drizzle of olive oil. Season!  Slice up the avocados and cucumber and drizzle with a sliced lime.  Serve on top of the crispbreads in the order you wish.  Enjoy!

 

 

Greek Falafel & Salad Wraps

greek_wrapsThese are so super easy to make and I can’t personally take credit for them as my husband made them for us all.  All you need to do is chop your vegetables of choice, you can see what I used from the picture but Ive also listed the ingredients below.

Black Olive

Tomatoes

Hummus (lots of)

Cous cous (I used a premade one)

Cucumber

Red Pepper

Lettuce

Falafel

Tofu pieces (optional)

Tortilla Wraps

Avocado

Red Onion

So you quite simply chop everything up and serve into little dishes and everyone gets to make their own.  My kids love their vegetables raw and would rather eat them this way, its the cooked veg I have to bribe down them, they would eat plates and plates of raw veggies.  My youngest son is actually a cucumber addict lol!  He would eat cucumber for breakfast, lunch and dinner if he could. 🙂

So anyway, once you have all your veggies chopped and into dishes, put your wraps in some tinfoil and stick them in the oven for a few minutes to warm up.  Once warmed spread with hummus and top with the vegetables of your choice.  Wrap up and serve with the cous cous on the side.  I also added in a little spicy sauce.

Enjoy! x