Happy Easter Everyone

Belated Happy Easter!

Easter is getting more and more exciting for Vegans! Sugar high!

This year I got:

Choices White Chocolate Egg and Choices Caramel Egg from Sainsbury's.

The white chocolate egg came with white chocolate buttons. You can see the caramels that came with the other egg. I got a hit of caramel smell when I cracked the Caramel Egg but I found the flavour to not be as strong as the smell. Still tasty.

After Eight bunny from the 99p shop.

After Eights have been vegan in the past but then they added buttermilk. The bunny is vegan though and my mum decided it was better than the creamy After Eights. Lovely mint chocolate.

I'm also tempted to go and try and find this Hotel Chocolat egg today in the sales but it is still expensive!

Yesterday evening the boyfriend's and my uni friends came round to make a vegan roast dinner. :) I had a great time and would happily cook for them all again.

We had:
Roast potatoes (roasted with garlic and rosemary)
Sweet potato and thyme mash
Yorkshire puddings
Roasted onion and parsnips
Broccoli
and Tofu roast with stuffing and gravy but we used shop bought stuffing and gravy

Tofu roast after being taken out of the colander. Ready to coat with Soy sauce and oil.

Tofu roast after cooking.

The tofu roast was a bit too salty for my taste but I don't often add salt to my food. I want to try and think of some new flavours for it. I am really looking forward to my tofu and stuffing sandwiches for lunch :)

The morning after the night before..

The morning after the Christmas party at our house. Someone's left over tinsel makes a good prop. Scrambled tofu in pita with ketchup, Jack Daniels BBQ sauce and courgette. Pitta was almost the only bread left in the supermarket after people's panic buying when it snowed.

They got her on soya milk and alcohol

The title is slightly adapted from a Dr. Feelgood song. I saw them with my Dad a while ago.

Students often (not often me) drink a lot of alcohol but it's also great in food! I discovered this by making Beer Battered Tofu from Vegan Brunch by Isa Chandra Moskowitz.

It was yummy and my non-vegan boyfriend (from now on to be referred to as the boyfriend) loved it too. We roughly halved the recipe (I roughly guessed the amount of tofu that I thought me and the boyfriend could eat rather than weighing it to the right amount). It was a fun meal to make together and very messy. I'm sure it is possible to make them without the mess but getting my hands sticky was part of the fun. We had some batter left over so he had the wonderful idea of attempting to make onion bhajis. They were not proper onion bhajis as we didn't add spices and well, I don't think bhajis would normally contain beer. They were tasty though. So if you have any batter left, try slicing up some onion and putting a handful at a time into the batter and mix it around to coat. Try to scoop all the battered slices up with a fork and slowly drop them into the hot oil. It should all stick together as long as you drop it in in one go. I think beer battered baby corn, broccoli and peppers would be good too. I went all out and had the tofu and onions with chips and veg mmmmmm.

Any suggestions for what the boyfriend should be called in posts are welcome. Should I just keep calling him the boyfriend?