Fake chicken noodle soup

Me and the boyfriend were poorly so I made a meal with everything I could think of to make our cold's go away: chilli, garlic, ginger, veg (pak choi, carrots and spring onions), tofu and Sainsbury's basic chicken noodles. I'm not necessarily saying Sainsbury's basic noodles make you better but warm noodley mmm can.

I used two packets of noodles but took out one of the seasoning packets to make the flavouring less strong. There was enough flavour in it anyway without any seasoning packets and I still can't eat the noodles without my head going 'is this chicken, is this chicken, is this what chicken tastes like?'. As a lifelong vegan it freaks me out a bit!

I made the tofu using this great method. It was so easy.

Vegan/Veggie Fry Up with Friends

This is my plate of vegan food. My boyfriend often has a fry up after a night out but it normally involves bacon and I find bacon difficult to be around. Luckily our vegetarian friends have now come back after studying for a term in America. I'm now less outnumbered and it was actually the boyfriend and one of the vegetarian friends who suggested that we meet up for a veggie fry up. We even roped in a couple of meat eating friends a who were very satisfied with their meals.

Everyone brought round whatever they had at their student houses and we cooked it up together. This was a great achievement considering the size of our kitchen. The only non-vegan food were eggs and a couple of veggie sausages. The one on my plate is Linda McCartney.

We then danced off our food using the Wii and took some hilarious videos! We also had lots of fun playing with my new purple and sparkly hula hoop that I got for Christmas.

Birthday Cheesecake

I didn't have any candles to blow out for my birthday so when I went round to my parents house recently, they got out a cheesecake they had found in the health food shop. It's by 'Food Heaven..in association with swedish glace'.

My Dad helpfully (?) pointed out that it was 60grams of fat for the whole thing so if you imagine it is a clock then you can decide exactly how much fat you want to consume. Not really what I want to think about when I'm eating cake for my birthday :P Maybe I shouldn't have told you all either..

I thought it was quite small after my first experience of cheesecake being this strawberry cheesecake. When my parents told me we were having cheesecake I just assumed it would be bigger, especially after the fat content conversation (thanks Dad). However, I think this cheesecake was just the right size for a small family of vegans like us. The strawberry cheesecake took a long time to eat up and these cheesecakes are best within the first 24 hours of less (still yum later but different texture). The Food Heaven cheesecake is frozen and you defrost it for 60 minutes before eating. It tastes like lemon cream biscuits which sounds a bit obvious now that I write it. I can't wait to try the berry version.