Vegan MoFo Day 5: A Friday Favourite

A cheeky little Friday Favourite for you today, as I'm currently on my way to Butlins for 90s weekend. Yes... I am seeing East 17 live this weekend, 13 year old me would be like sooooo jelly!

My Friday fave this week are the peanut butter popcorn pops from Earth Balance, which recent wanged (hehe) their way over to the UK and landed in selected Tesco stores. They are god damn good. So good I have to ration them! GAH.

GIMME!

Laterz
xXx

Vegan MoFo Day 4: Taco or Beer Challenge & Veganising Jamie Oliver

So today's a double whammy because my good friend Jojo tagged me to do the Taco or Beer Challenge and I accepted. So as Thursday is my day to veganise Jamie Oliver, I had a scout through the book and found the perfect recipe: Ultimate Pork Tacos.

I swapped out the pork for seitan and the dairy yoghurt for soya but that was actually all I had to change to make this vegan and you know what, it was pretty effin good!!

Before I crack on with the food pics / info, the point of the Taco or Beer Challenge is similar to the ice bucket challenge; do something rad (much nicer than chucking iced water on ya heed!) and then donate to a pro choice charity.  I've donated to Abortion Support Network.  They help women in Northern Ireland to travel to England for a safe & legal abortion, as abortion is still illegal in NI.  This boggles my mind as much as it boils my blood!  I'm tagging Katie from Don't Eat off the Sidewalk to do the challenge next.

OK so back to the tacos.

All ready to shcoff!

I added potatoes because Jojo's taco post made me want to do this. I didn't regret it!

I couldn't find black beans in my crap local tiny sainsbury's so I went with the nearest thing I could find: Kidney beans. So my refried beans were purple instead of black! haha. Still yummy though.

I also couldn't find the chilli sauce Jamie specifies so I used Franks.

I'm goin in!

Recipe Link: Ultimate Pork Tacos 

Actual Time Taken: about 20 minutes

(Today, I did what the book says and got everything out and ready and then started timing. So in reality, with getting the stuff out, it took more like 30 minutes.)

My Substitutions:
- I substituted seitan for the pork

- I substituted soya yoghurt for the dairy

- I substituted kidney beans for the black beans

- I substituted Franks for the chilli sauce I've never heard of

- I added some chopped potatoes (I used tinned to keep in the 15 minute meals mindset!) in with the seitan

Verdict:
There was too much filling for 2 taco shells, as there always is when I make tacos. So I ended up just kind of throwing it all together and it was seriously good.  I actually think with the potatoes added, this would be great without the taco shells just as a salad.  I was skeptical about adding apple to the salad but it worked really REALLY well, especially when some of the fennel seeds from the seitan mixed in with it.

All in all, I really enjoyed it and would definitely make it again.  A less faffy person could definitely do it in 15 minutes too!

See ya tomorrow!

Laterz
xXx

Vegan MoFo Day 3: What I Ate Wednesday

I'm making Wednesdays during MoFo a What I Ate day. I did a couple last year and I think they're fun so here's what I ate yesterday.

Breakfast:

I like to start the day during the week with a smoothie; it's easy, quick and I can sip it while I'm getting my lunch etc ready for the day.  Also it gets some fruit into me as I'm not so good at eating fruit.

So yesterday my smoothie consisted of frozen mango, some strawberries, strawberry protein powder, coconut water and a bit of soymilk to thin it.

Then after my smoothie I like to have a fresh juice, that I usually take with me to sip on the train to work. My juice yester was carrots, beetroot, ginger (not that much obviously as that much ginger would make me die!), a couple of apples and a kiwi.  I hate kiwi, it's rank! But it's a texture thing for me, they are fine in juice and they have loads of vitamin C in! YAY.

Ready to go, after my dad's shotglass worth was removed - he likes to have a taster!

Mid morning, I had a muffin, this is a banana speculoos muffin and I'm working on a recipe for you guys for this. It was good, but not great... yet! :)

My lunch all packed up...

Yes my lunch bag is THE cutest! (From Paperchase)

Lunch I had leftover chilli from yesterday's Jamie post and a bread roll.

And some cantaloupe which was a bit old so it was super ripe and delicious.

I got hungry about 4pm so I had a couple of salt n vinegar snack a jacks

For dinner I had a date and we went to a local Indian restaurant. So yeah, that was super awkward on a first date to explain the whole food photography thing! ahem, sorry the pics are crap - the lighting was terrible so I had to use flash.

We had a veggie byriani

Aloo Gobi (cauliflower & potato)

A veg curry that comes with the byriani

And brinjal bhaji (aubergine)

We also had poppadoms and a couple of chapatis but I didn't take pics of those.  It was a place I'd not been to before and it was pretty good!

So that's it for what I ate yesterday.  Happy humpday all!

Laterz
xXx

Vegan MoFo Day 2: Veganising Jamie - Veggie Chilli

Hello!

Today I am kicking off my Veganising Jamie Oliver's 15 Minute Meals Series. I need to come up with a catchier name for that!  

Anyway, I have been a fan of Jamie ever since the Naked Chef came out and recently I really enjoyed rewatching all the episodes of 15 Minutes Meals that are replaying on the Food Network. It does make Buffalo Stance get stuck in my head on a loop! But aside from that I like the premise of it.  So I bought the book and there's lots of veggie stuff in there and even a lot of the meaty stuff is veganisable.

That said, I went for a bit of a cop out last night, because it was the only thing I had most of the ingredients for already and it was 7.30 before I was finished work.  

So I made the Veggie Chilli.  I didn't make the accompanying salad as I didn't have all the components and I made a few subs that I will list below.  All in all, this was nice and super easy of course and was mainly composed of store cupboard staples.  The recipe is for 4 portions, so I have a couple of lunches in the fridge. :)

Also, I'm going to tell you how long it actually took to make, as I'm not convinced I can do any in 15 minutes - I'm a bit of a faffer. But if it's done in 30 or less, then I'm happy!

Recipe Link: Veggie chilli with crunchy tortilla avocado salad

Actual Time Taken: about 30 minutes

My Substitutions:
- I didn't have an ancho chilli or a chipotle. Or even a fresh one (I suck I know) so I used sriracha, a healthy dose of it!
- I didn't make the salad, I put some cubed up avocado on top to serve instead and served the crunchy tortilla strips on the side.
- I substituted soya yoghurt for the fat free dairy yoghurt called for.
- I didn't have passata so I subsitituted a 400g tin of chopped tomatoes that I whizzed in the processor after the base mix was done and also added a good tbsp of tomato puree and about half of the empty tomato tin's worth of water.
- I left out the coriander because I didn't have it.
- I didn't have wild/long grain rice mix so I used a pack of ready made brown basmati.

Verdict:
Yummy & filling and easy. Will definitely make again as it's meant to be made.

See ya tomorrow!

Laterz
xXx

Vegan MoFo Day 1

Oh my god it's MoFo time again, already!!  I love this time of year; I love taking part in MoFo and seeing everyone else's themes and posts. I also always discover new blogs during MoFo so I'm excited for that too.

My plan this year is to post every day in September; I don't think I've ever managed that so we'll see if I actually do this year! :o)

I have two themes this year: I'm veganising recipes from Jamie Oliver's 15 Minute Meals and I'll also be recreating some of the filthy dirty sandwiches that I used to eat* in my pregan days (*drunk usually - you'd have to be to eat some of them). So get ready to be appalled at my grossness.

I thought I'd start off MoFo with a picture of a cupcake; I made these for my friend's birthday this past weekend. They are the golden vanilla cupcakes from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World and the icing is just plain old buttercream with pink food colouring and Sainsbury's strawberry flavouring added. I tried to do that fancy double coloured piping thing, which was a huge kerfuffle, but I'm glad they came out ok. I also topped them with a mini party ring, as these are now vegan. YAY for no more superfluous gelatine in biscuits.

Happy MoFo'ing!

Laterz
xXx

My Everyday Makeup

Good afternoon, it's Monday again (already) and today I thought I'd go through what is pretty much my everyday makeup in the summer. I wore this yesterday to go out and I wear pretty much the same for work most days when I need to look neat but have my makeup done in less than 20 minutes!

In summer I don't want to wear a tonne of foundation, so I prefer to go for a light foundation, like my Gosh CC Cream (CV) that you knows I love, or the No 7 Superlight Foundation (CV). Yesterday I went for a BB Cream, this one is from superdrug in shade light (V) and the BB Concealer that goes along with it, also in light (V).

Although these are the lightest shades, they're really a bit too dark for me right now, because I'm pretty pale. So I probably won't wear them again until after I've been on holiday and got a bit of a tan (fingers crossed!).

The concealer doesn't really give much coverage, certainly not enough to cover my under-eye bags! So I generally just use it to highlight a bit, like this...

 

So for under the eyes and to cover the redness on my cheeks I used ELF's Maximum Coverage Concealer in the shade Sand. (V)  I wouldn't say this is full coverage - light to medium more like.

For the rest of the skin I used ELF's HD liquid blush in Superstar (V), SEVENTEEN Skin Wow! Highlighter (CV) and Barry M's Natural Dazzle Bronzer (V).

 Brows I just used a little bit of the GOSH brow pencil in Grey/Brown (CV) to fill in the gaps and then GOSH's clear brow gel to keep them in place (CV).

 I also kept the eyes really simple, I used the lightest matte shade from the MUA Undress Me Too palette (AV) all over the lid and up to the brow. I added a bit of dimension in the crease with the same bronzer I used on my cheeks. I added a quick sick of black liquid liner (Limecrime's Uniliner in Quill- V) and then my favourit Barry M Lash Vegas Fibres mascara (V).

 At the last minute I decided to add some gold on the waterline and used GOSH's Velvet Touch Eyeliner in Antinque Gold (CV).

Lips were a quick dab of Barry M's Loudmouth Gloss in Chatterbox.

 

And that's that!

I quite often change it up a wee bit by using a colour pencil instead of black liquid liner, but aside from that, my makeup is like this most days.

What's your go to products?

Love & Stuff
Sal xXx

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Wore it Wednesday

A little quickie for humpday, oo er!

My wore it Wednesday was OCC's Harlot Lip Tar. I'm wearing it in my picture to the right and I wore it to salsa on Monday and got a tonne of compliments on it.

So yeah I jinxed myself posting that eyeliner tutorial because my eyeliner was a hot mess Monday night! Hence no eye close up hahaha.  So I thought I'd distract from that with a bright lip.

Sorry bout the lighting, it was almost 9pm when I took this so the sun light was almost gone!

<3

Love & Stuff
Sal xXx

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