Mystery Ingredient Monday #4

Greetings fellow travellers,

Sorry today’s MIM is a little late, usually I do all my blogging at the weekend, but I spend all Saturday out with my gentleman friend and Sunday at the London Vegan Festival, so am a bit behind.

Today’s Mystery Ingredient Monday is brought to you by…

Carmine (Cochineal)

Animal, vegetable or mineral? Carmine or Cochineal is [...]

So what DO you eat?

A silly song which answers the perpetual question of the uninitiated when they learn you are a vegan.

As found on Earth Muffin.

Happy Friday!

~ Quirky Vegan

The hardest thing about being vegan

Greetings fellow travellers,

So you’ve done it, you’ve come over to the dark side. You’ve said goodbye to animal products, you wear pleather, and now you’re fully signed up to vegan life.

Is there a special handshake or something? An initiation ceremony? A doctrine?

Mmmm, no. You might like to join the Vegan Sociey or an animal advocacy organisation [...]

Mystery Ingredient Monday #2

Greetings fellow travellers,

Today’s Mystery Ingredient Monday is brought to you by:

Nutritional Yeast Flakes

Animal vegetable or mineral? These fall into the vegetable category and are therefore vegan. Hooray!

What are they used in? You can sprinkle nutritional yeast flakes into soup or on top of veggie bolognaise for a cheesy, nutty taste.

What kind of nutritional value do [...]

Flexivoracious Times

Greetings fellow travellers,

An intriguing commentary popped up in the Times Online this week, in an article called I’ve no beef with part time vegetarians. Ultimately each person much decide what is acceptable for themself, but the entire article for me folded on the following statement:

A much-neglected downside of not eating meat is the presumptuousness and [...]

Do you know what a vegan is?

Greetings fellow travellers,

I saw this on My Face is on Fire and it gave me a good old chuckle. A vegan? Some kind of alien?!

Enjoy!

~ Quirky Vegan

P.S. Do you know what a vegan is? Click here for the answer!

Raisin and Seed Flapjack

Greetings fellow travellers,

Last week I had a break from work. I had some holidays to use and since I couldn’t afford to go anywhere I stayed home. Most of the week the weather was nice, but on the day where it rained incessantly, I decided to turn my hand to some vegan baking.

This flapjack is [...]

Mystery Ingredient Monday #1

Greetings fellow travellers,

In the first of a new series, I’m going to share with you some of the mystery ingredients which find their way into food and other consumer products and have a look at whether they are animal, vegetable or mineral. For animal products which vegans avoid, alternatives will be given.

Today’s Mystery Ingredient Monday [...]

Chocolate Ganache Cake

Greetings Fellow Travellers,

Today it’s my birthday. I’m in my prime, don’t you know? And the Quirky Family are coming over to celebrate with me, which is an opportunity for me to demonstrate how delicious vegan food can be. And to bake a cake, cos we all love cake.

Ingredients:

175g/6oz plain flour

50g/2oz cocoa powder

1tsp baking [...]

Why am I a vegan?

Greetings Fellow Travellers,

I choose to follow a vegan lifestyle because I think that it is the right thing to do. It is an ethical and practical choice, and makes sense to me. I feel that this way of life is a way of practising what I preach (not that I preach, oh no).

For [...]