peony in a nutshell

NEW BLOG, new me, new year

2010-01-06T08:32:00.000-08:00

I MOVED TO WORD PRESS

http://peonynutshell.wordpress.com/

http://peonynutshell.wordpress.com/

Its a new start for me :) hope you can follow me on the journey !!

love peony xxxxx

As the decorations come down...

2010-01-01T14:17:00.000-08:00

And its time to start the new year everyone is so full of things they plan to do..

including me :)

1) Visit atleast one new country
2) Go out more and meet new people
3) Leave my job and get a new one.
4) Sell some more art.
5) Get a decent boyfriend
(yerning over a guy for 4 months has made me realy down)
and 6!!! ENJOY MSELF

What are yours??

Look at these yummy vegan treas from my boss :)
she remebered how i said how i got anoyed how normaly i get milk chocolate and i have to give it away
and she said that i didnt have to give this away :D!

lovely friend Stevie bought me a vegan cook book for christmas :)

(as well as a beautiful purple scarf as he knows how much i love purple)
and so ive used this book a few times noww :)

firstly i tryed making theses babies:

which are walnut brownies, but i made them into balls.
they tasted nice but a bit dry as i left them in until hard.

BUT i tried again.. but this time with choc chip vegan cookies,
the key was this time to take them out of the oven whilst still soft

these went down very well with my mother ;)

HEY! isnt one missing here..

... this would be my mums boyfriend picking one up whilst my back is turned grabbing my camra.. sneaaaakyyy!

cant forget boxing day bubble and squeak can wee ;) with a lovely dolop of crandberry sauce

and who dosnt enjoy christmas with a light game of scrabble, some chilli brown rice and paprika tofu?

gluten free pear pancakes!! im not going to go into detail about them il just leave you with the image ;D

Its not all been about food with me though.. never is! ;D
as ART is the true love of my life.. sorry pancakes, u were alright..
but compaired to empty canvas's a sketch pad and my camra its nothinggg :D

I'l post some of my new pictures ive drawn next time :)

......... lets not go into new years .....
il just leave u with images of my sister before she vanished into the hot tub... :D aha
only in englanddd

.. my pictures are not for show haha....eeeek

christmas love

2009-12-25T12:55:00.000-08:00

Sorry girlies about my lack of postage but things my end havnt exacily been none busy, i'm sure your understand :D
With the festive season apon us i desided to make my own cakeee.
I made this for my christmas cake, i was making a traditional one but this gluten free vegan one seemed alot better in my opinion:
eggless carrot cake
It was so nice heated up with abit of soya cream ontop

this looks massive but it wasnt, left abit obviously having to leave room for desert ;)
I used a beany soy cutlet, it worked realy well with my gluten free gravy,roast potatoes/boiled and parsnips :) e.c.t crrrannndberry sauce.

..i may have had abit too much fun with a blow up man.. ;) oioiiii

hope everyone had an amazing dayyyy :D !!!

xxxx

Sea

2009-10-27T11:39:00.000-07:00

hello there.
My names Peony, and i have a secret....

I'm in love with the sea
my british sea ;)

I paint the sea

(this i did yesterday :D )

I have sea inspired tattoos (more to come!)

I love doing my sea inspired sports

and am continiously at the sea,

today for example at the beach..

trying out my new camra for "everyday use" rather than my massivily lensed camra which is hard to lug around.

:)

xoxo

another new tattoo...haha

2009-10-24T04:17:00.000-07:00

ita autumn babies!

so chris has gone off skiing for a month and im a little *heart aching* but ive filled my time well ;)

and by well i meen alot of cooookinggg.....

I roasted the okra in cumin in the oven untill crispy
i got the idea from meghann and kath.

i used a little bit of cooking spray and on a realy low heat ocasionly turned the tofu over in the pan untill it was evenly golden on each side, i then added some of the masala sauce mixture into the pan, still on a low heat untill the sauce is heated through
i platted it up with my okra fries and brown rice

this was yum scrum :)

my bishbosh meal includes:

pineapple ring
brown rice
cherry tomatos
pineapple juice
chinese stir fry spice
tamari sauce
tofu cubed

i paired this meal with roasted butternut squash, my fav! and green beans :)

this was simply soya protein balls in a vegan cream cheeze and cheeze slices and chive sauce i made, i added spices, tomatoes, chopped broccoli and a ton of random things i dont remeber but clearly from the picture some pumpkin seeds were present :)
i used the leftover okra in paprika and tomato/garlic/herbed rice :)

I got my new uggs :) my old ones i have had for a year and are looking abit ergh after too much wearing :p

EDITED**** yes i am a vegan, im a vegan because im alergic to everything a vegan chooses not to eat, i cant eat eggs, dairy products and my body cannot break down meat, everyones aloud there own opinion, i grew up on farms and so i know that if a sheep is not shawn then it will get fly blown and so get infected wool and flesh, i have seen this and its horrible , u shear it so that it stops infection and the wool is sold on for things like uggs, but like i said everyone can do what they wish
so dont give me greif in what i choose to buy

i decided to get the button fold down one this time. i think there cuter but the £160 price tag wasnt nice :/
but totally worth it!!

Chris came with me the other day to town becausee...

(this pic is distorted as my wrist is super swollen)
i got ANOTHER tattoo.. god im so obsessed!
its a seagull to symbolise my sailing obsession and the fact on my old house land we owned part of a beach so permently like lived on it:)

mmmmm raisins.... artists food ;D

(like a week after i got it done btw..haha i duno if u can see but i have a burn through it atm from the oven..owtch)

I FINALLY PAINTED A CANVAS, FIRST TIME SINCE FEB!!!

its called.."taste"
and yes.. yes it is a guy about to lick a girls stomach.. i think maybe in a weird way i was painting a guy i know ;) but ofcourse id never admit that ..teehee

tofu scramble, turmeric,smashed firm tofu, corgettes, tomo's, mushrooms, spinach and roasted butternut squash :) ohh and gota love the tatters with soy butter mm yummy

ohh and some pics of my new foal! !
selling it next week thoughh

yummmy... babycorned soymice with corn pasta

and with that i will bit you a good dayo :)
and im off to make sloe gin with the sloes i picked!!!!

btw!!

i swear the whole of america is obsessed with pumpkin, over here like no one eats it at all, iv tried it roasted but thats about it,

QUESTIONS::
do u eat alot of pumpkin products?

alice's tea party

2009-09-19T06:02:00.000-07:00

Did you know that the girl that was used in "alice in wonderland", the real girl it was based on is burried in lyndhurst in hampshire :)
LOOK HERE :D

me and dee went to look at her grave on our work break, its liturly right behind my bakery which i think is realy cool, theres alot of alice in wonderland inspired stuff here,
infact.. the tea rooms neer us is called the mad hatters ;)
the card i made chelsea

my friend chelseas 20th birthday is alice in wonderland themed and i'm going as the dormouse :P to junk in southampton

this is my ears and bowtie for it :D:D

il post an update of it after the party

Alot of my meals this week will comsist of this beauty...

plaintan

ooh and mixed beans!

black beans, brown rice (from them spanish cups i broght back) plaintan chips,

this is quite boring i guess but i thought it looked and tasted amazing :) i love braised tofu

I used this kids pasta sauce over rice pasta in this one, it was alot nicer on my stomach,its all natural with no artificial flavors or preservitives and things, its got hidden veggies in aswell, always good
my salad was baked brussel sprouts in gluten free soy sauce.

salsaaa, my family brought it back from camping un opened, couldnt resist using it in some way or another

i got this amazing book the other day on a break at work, there is this realy cheap book shop in lyndhurst that sells all books at like a small amount of the origional price, i scanned the shelfs and saw a vegan section! and for £4.99 its a barginnn! well any book less than a 5er is hehe

my boss loved the book and wants to borrow it after me :p the recipes are realy diffrent and i will be making some very soon!

ive muched down two jacket potatoes recently, gluten free spaghetti in tomo sauce is yummy!, i paired it with pinapple and tomato slices, great combo, i find soya cheese and pinapple is realy nice on a jacket

I used some left over chilli and added extra chilli to fill this jacket, was so great the two diffrent flavors, they complimented each other perfectly.

WIIIZZZZZZZ back in the time machine to the day before were we brewed a BEAST of a chilli in my mightly couldron... ok a cooking pan but still... use abit of the imagination here!

the original chilli is here!

mayola, peas, mashed tofu and uncle bens chilli sauce, soo great, the rest of my family used the chilli sauce mix with real mince, i like to sometimes feel apart of the evening meal by having somthing simmilar

a few things ive gotten recently.
this old lady i knew gave me this vintage harrods writing notlett set :) its beautiful

this seahorse necklace i bought at romsey show last weekend is the inspiration behind my next tattoo ;) (to be continued)

QUESTIONSSS
do you eat the same foods as the rest of your family?
do you cook your own?
what do your family think of the foods you choose to consume?

BACK from girona

2009-09-02T23:38:00.000-07:00

NOTE: both mine and ollies hair are naturly curly so a holiday without straightners was..erm intresting ;) **

the first night we were there we managed to just about find somthing open in the form of a tapas all you cane at fro 9 euros,they had things from amazing vegetable and seed mixes, meats, pastas, pizzas, potatos, rices, fruits, fruitsalads, cakes and deserts
was gooood

*~*~*~**~*~*~**~*~*~*~*~*~*~**~*~*~*~*~*~*~
(skip forward abit to the last night temp ;P)
BR>

this is a mixed salad we had in a irish bar/pub outside it was stunning and yummy.. with potato chunks, first ive had in years, i was proud of myself :)

i got round to trying figs! there was a little vegetable/fruit shop opisite our apartment which i spent alot of time in :)
sooo cheap compaired to england

we ate in one night, on the balcony which was realy pretty :) as u can imagine, ollie had a pizza but i found some vegetable incrused tofu and brown rice cuts and vegetables (i brought home a spair vege packa dn rice cups! they were THAT good)

the tofu was actually free as the shop seller gave it to me free, how nice was that?!

(LOL its ok because its the same as him in swimming trunks :p, his secound tattoo (one on the arm is only half finished the top isnt done and bottom isnt coloured)

how great is the cathedrol?

thats an arrow to the top appart. by the way, the only one with a balcony :) yay
it went past so quickly but it was nice to just have a few days away :)
my family have gone camping to wales untill monday so im home alone, im currently making a scrap book of my holiday so might head of to boots to print out my pictures.

once its finished il post some pictures up :)

(some food type things i brought back)
any recipe ideas using figs or plantain?
ive put figs in porridge aswell as micro-ing some and using it as a spread, thinking brownies or in a dinner idea?
would lovee in some sort of dinner (need using asap realy as i bought them in spain)

one thing i did NOT like from spain that i brought back was one of them doughnut peaches, i thought it was bland and made me gag :( daaaamn it

but....
i was thinking about having bean and plantain baked "dumpling" style balls in a spicy tomato sauce using the peppers and tomoatos picked from the garden?

But before i make that i made pasta bake!! ive been craving it for ages and since it was my first proper day at home i pre made it and froze it,

sorry that it looks a bit messy, the taste made up for it
after baking...

i think its one of the nicest things ive ever made to be perfectly honest! yayy
ilike how bits are crispy and bits are soft
fyi its a tiny plate!

i made it with salsa, tomato and basil sauce, crumbled tofu, basil, rice pasta twists, chopped yellow and red tomatos, mushrooms, green runner beans and asparagus :)
i sprinkled grated vegan cheddar cheese on top yay

I think THIS!! cereal is amazing, it tastes so good first thing in the morning with some heated figgs added to it ;D MMMMMMM!
(doves farm organic choco stars) its my first time trying it, always seen it in tescos just never got it :)

i found that eating porridge in the morning is the thing which has been making me ill, crazy right? i was hoping that the amount of oats wouldnt bother my gluten free thing but it obviously is?
ah well cereal it is then....

so did any of you go away this summer? and were too?

im going away agai at christmas with some friends to the german christmas markets :) yay girlie trip away
and my mums gone back to kenya for work this week, love being incharge at home ;)

right got to go now sorry for the mammoth post! going shopping for winter clothes:D
xxxxxx

NEW TATTOO

2009-08-23T11:18:00.000-07:00

GIRONA (in spain) TOMORROW!
me and ollie are just friends now, we wernt ever together but we have both moved on from our little crushes and i think it will make our friendship stronger to be honest :) still realy close with muke (his best freind) though.
I will take alot of photos of my trip and post up, hopfully i will get to try out one of their vegan resturants whilst i am there, im only going untill thursday evenining but its my first proper trip on holiday with a friend :)
New amy's meal to try!
i loved the fact it was gluten free and vegan, i bought it after my tattoo with my friend deena and mike :)
ENCHILADAS;

I loved this :) ive eaten it twice since i bought this, secound time it hurt my tummy... i hate how my ibs chooses days and random things to upset it grrr
was realy nice finding it though, beening gluten free aswell.

plated up:

talking about tattoo monkey....
heres a quick picture i took of the inside of the shop :) amazing wall huh?

il take a healed picture soon
couple hours later and like no pain (i have a good pain level) i got this babyyy

its a magpie on a key :)
i wanted this pic

looks sooooooo much better and more detailed when its NOT COVERED in cream and icky stuff, il show u next time :)
planning my next one, guna be pretty big looooooovee tattoos and i love ricky hes amazing!

i also had my first tatoo redone there the other day, il post before and after pictures up when its healed :)

...adn seeing as my freezer is pretty titchy i needed to start eating up all these things i had frozen!

then there was that lentil curry from last week !x!

FIRST IMPRESSIONS:

meh..looks kinda gross, typical frozen meal, loooked ok untill i froze it..
once cooked (microwave style hehe) looked burnt out, bland

plated and tasted:

YUMM it was realy nice, lots of flavor and textures, the rice went realy well and it was healthy too.

to buy or not to buy?
defenently a repeate buy *thumbs up*

mmmm rasberry porridge ^_^

other things i made was a mushroom pate and vegetable pizza and strawberry scone cupcakes
, it was a mini pizza but i cut it in half so that i could enjoy it with other things :)

question:
as a trainee tattooist, i will be exspected to tattoo onto dead animals for practice, i find this a little disterbing thinking of inking onto a dead pig for 3-4 hours continiously.
whats your views on practicig on dead animals?
i know that the "skin is simmilar" and without it my tattoos on people would be terrible but still...

Blackberry ink

2009-08-08T23:40:00.000-07:00

AAAAAAANNNNNDDDDDDD good morning to you :)

this smoothie was gorgeous, it was;
Pineapple chunks
Mango chunks
Alpo soya vanilla yoghurt

even though it tasted like one of thoughs tropical icelollys with the icecream in the middle..not complaining ;)
infact!! it tasted JUST LIKE THESE DID

**CRAP PHONE CAMRA PICTURE ALERT! !**

the bulk of this meal was this curry (half tin) with brown rice, green beans/sweetcorn/portabello mushroom/tomato
this was it but if diffrent packaging

i realy enjoyed the taste, even if it did bear a scarily simmilar taste to that of a chicken curry, i had to check i was eating the right thing..three times!!!
sorryabout the crap pictre, my canon was out of battery

quickie lunch before i went flat huntinggg, whilst reading a review of "the new forest show"

berry cheeky nakd bar with peach soy yoghurt and strawberries, i decided toeat smaller lunches but snack through out the day, works better for me :)

Sorry for the repeated sandwich but it realy was THAT GOOD that i needed to eat it again! this time i added grilled tomato slices as well as.

I know you cant really see here but this is a chopping bord that my mums boyfriend MADE for me :)
aparently my chopping is realy loud in the morning (i eat at like 6am) its realy nice though and well made.

Blackberry/Kiwis/banana/soymilk

I added the banana as it was super sharp!

TATTOOO BOOKED FOR TUESDAY 2PM :D:D:D:D woohooo

how cute is that appointment card?!?
Kinda wish i was going back to my old one though, the guy was megga hot like O M G hot and we wellll flirted :(...mayyyybee i should erm just erm.. go back to show how my other tattoo is getting on ;)...hehe

Whilst booking in my tattoo i nipped into holland and barret next door and picked up two amy's meals (never tried any before- hard to get hold of!)
so i'm sure you will be seing these shortly in my eats.

..Ignore the ice on the packets...straight from thhe freezer to photograph!

Question timeeeeee :

Do you worry about getting a tattoo (or having one) and when u get old it gets wrinkly?

If you could get a tattoo what would it be? / if you have a tattoo what is it off and whats your reasons for getting it?

I do alot, i meen i know its a fact but its still in the back of my mind, abit like my stomach tattoo, when i have children its going to stretch major bad eek..
ah well i got a hella' while before i need to worry about that ;)
xxxx

mmmmm cam pictureesss

smooth (ie) talker

2009-08-01T13:26:00.000-07:00

I tried making my first ever green monster smoothie ! !
I decided to try this particular one for my first to "break me in" for part of my trying diffrent lunches brand new start!
recipe

i didnt use that exact amount as i just used it as a rough gideline to what ingredients to add,i didnt have any perejil (parsley-haha getting in my spanish practicing ;] ) and i used soy milk instead of almond breeze,
hmmm what else did i change? ohh yeah! i used lindseed instead of flax- oh my gosh flax is soo expensive around here:S
... well it wasnt that bad, it was nice in small doses even though thinking about it now is making me gag... i chugged it and omg i felt so sick- lindseeds in it = ewwwwwwwwwwwwww

i think im going to stick to a fruit smoothie next time :D

talking od fruit smoothies...
'nana/strawberry/cherry/soymilk

yummy yummy in my tummy..

At the new forest show i was keen on going to the apro soya food area as i realy wanted some :)
i got a couple last year ( a whole year ago i got my call to go into an eating disorders unit.. the 4th aug i went in...)
i talked to the (cute may i add;] ) guy and said hw being vegan and gluten free there was practicaly nothing i could eat here and he looked around, said the boss was out of sight and filled a cool bag with:

*2 cartons of soya milk
* A ton of yoghurts
*Loads of money off vouchers
* Soya recipe book

was proper happy :)

i also picked up a juice book to experiment on, im loving fruit ones at the moment,they fill me up great but not in a sticky painful "chewable food way"

i made a roll for my new forest show day though, i filled it with a grilled portabello mushroom, vegan cream cheese that i got from tescos (finaly stocks it) sweetcorn and lettuce (+ herbs)

I loved the compination it was soo yummy :) defo repeating it xx

My best smoothie so far (says mich at work)
i had a coupole strawberries, loads of cherries and new vanilla flavor soy yoghurt :) it was realy good!! a realy bright red colour.
when i make it again BLATENTLY NEXT WEEEK!!!
i will photograph it ;)

a sauce from the free from organic section of tescos baked on my tofu, rested on a bed of spinach, plain and simple but very tasty

the sauce was cranks tomato/ginger/basil

update on things+++++
my tattoo place i went to not happy so im going to another one now :) i get to see ollies tattoo (half finished) tomorrow when we go shopping together :) excited!
also we finally booked for defo our holiday, were staying in an apartment 10 mins from the "old city"
its cheaper than the other place and we have our own kitchen and everything :)
were so excited now!!

5 foods i dont think i could live without are:

1* Tofu, i think i eat tofu atleast twice a week, i love at the moment braised and beech-smoked tofu mmmm
2* Dairy free chocolate spread - i have this melted over my cookies and apples as desert
3* ginger jam - i love putting it in my porridge whilst cooking, it gives it such a nice flavor
4* Mayola - ON EVERYTHINGG!!!... used to cover everything in saladcream pre-vegan so now this has turned into my new subb.
5* bananas - probibibly my most consumed fruit, i have it in anything..i at the moment like it in coconut curries

okokok most of the things on that list are sauces? but i dont care :D
a girl likes what a girl likes...

WHATS YOURS?

oink oink this little piggy went to market

2009-07-24T23:26:00.000-07:00

So my lovely mother is just another case of swine flu thats sweeping over the globe...ohh dont i just LOVEE having to drive everywere for her haha

this is the puttanesca i made !

i used alot actually,olives, medeteranian pasta sauce, CAPERS, mushrooms, courgettes, kidney beans, sweetcorn, broad beans, this tofu from waitrose, its marinated in sundried tomatoes and olive oil and is realy flavorful,mixed herbs and buckwheat noodles :)
i realy loved the combination and thankfuly ihad another portion for LEFTOVERSSSS to feeze yay

I made another GLUTEN FREE pizza the other day,It looks kind of burnt but i promice it wasnt..must be the weird lighting, there just so coveniant to freeze and then pull out slices, for this pizza i only made it big enough for 4 slices but thats plenty enough of one flavor..even if it was yum!
the base was rice flour/water/cumin and herbs
I used that blackbean mash that i had the other day for dinner in a previous post as a sauce base.. to be honest i just defrosted a random sauce container from my freezer and put it on but it worked well,
i covered it in the usuals like capers, sweetcorn, potato slices, spinach and a cherry tomato ring around the edge,

using some left over pasta sauce i coated my tofu and spuds and baked them in the oven, the tofu in gluten fre breadcrumbs, it was realy crispy on the outside and soft in the middle.. perfect

so far ive had two slices for dinner one night, in a picture above, and a slice with some grapfruit salad for lunch :)

At work sometimes its kind of hard to deside what to eat for my lunch break.
yeah its easy enough to pack a salad or some sort of gluten free sandwich but after months and months it sure gets boring.

welcome a warmed up bowl of V8 vegetable juice with taco shells broken up for dipping and a soy yoghurt :) bliss

i cant beelive its been a year since i last talked about my sisters birthday cake, well this time ive done it again :)
but made it with loads of bits and pieces on, i took a peice to work and my boss was so happy with it that shes comisioning me to bake cakes at work to sell in the bakery :D and sending me on a day release course yaaaay

me my mum and her boyfriend, my youngest sister and ollie went to see harry potter the other day and i dont think i liked it as much as the last ones, i think because it was as well as it is.. leading up to a massive battle and so i know KNOW the next is going to be amazing.

Ollie and i are off to girona in late august :) i must say im realy excited, its just us two and weve managed to get a realy cheap deal for it.

Girona is in spain quite close to barcelona on the costa brava.

Its full of great buildings and views from gothic cathedrals, museums, amazing picture opertunies.oh btw ollie said he wants to be in a relationship and i said no, im stupid but i think it would be best all around, im worried that if we got together somthing bad might happen before we go and then we end up canceling or somthing?

click here

they even have resturants for coeliacs and vegans...perfect :)

a just on this final note a few more dinners i had

a stuffed red pepper with cannellini beans, tinned tomato in tomato juice and Orgran Rice & Corn Risoni (Pilaf) Garlic & Herb packet which was a recent buy from a health food shop i didnt know about, yay!

and simple mushroom rice with "staggs vegetable chilli" from tescos, i used broken up taco shells for dipping too :)

NEW TATTOOOOO THIS WEEEEEEEK yumyum

Berry nice

2009-07-12T11:58:00.000-07:00

love when the strawberries come out.

I used up the left over black beans for a new dish.
I slightly mushed up the black beans and added in a caper/mushroom/olive tomato sauce mixture and let it chill in the fridge overnight.

So the following night i had it with baby potatoes, a mixed salad and courgette slices, was realy nice actually!
I recon this would work well in mexican dishes or in jacket potatoes.. the list is endless
To be honest ive enjoyed making new meals that dont always involve tofu..major rut
but ofcourse...there has to be tofu dishes in here somewere!! hehe

I like experimenting with diffrent tofu flavors and this was no exception.

I made a mixture of lemon juice, tamari and mixed herbs, i dipped the tofu in the sauce and then baked it in the oven usuing a tin foil pouch full of the lemon juice.
for the last 10 mins i opened the wrapper and let it crisp up slightly,

The potatoes are also cooked in the same mixture.
definate repeat
*thumbs up*

I did somthing a tad diffrent this time, i maranated the tofu in orange juice and peel over night aswell as my potato slices,
I baked it in the oven for 30 mins with orange slices

BLACK BEAN BURGERS!!

Many times before i have attempted these but this time i was determined.
I liturly mashed up some blackbeans with tamari sauce and coated it in soya milk,
i then covered it in gluten free bread crumbs and baked it in the oven for 30 mins.
and lastly i grilled it slightly to crisp it up.

In my next post im going to cover the Puttanesca that was sugested :D
and some more awesome caper recipes.

anddddd pictures somene from my house randomly took of when ollie slept over this weekend
haha cought in the actionn

Tattoo Monsters

2009-07-07T07:27:00.000-07:00

Hiya bayybayys ;)

so i decided i wanted to start regular postings again :) for shitz'n'gigglez
(i duno if people say that were your from?)
i went to somerset for a fewe days and it was beautiful :) we stayed in self-catering as it was easier for a quick break, aswell as a summer break i think im going away with friends aswel :)

morning porridge at the place :)

Lint and lynmouth and blury car window shot

i pretty much loved the current heat wave we had over in rainy england, it was lovely....
well not when working in the kitchen at work! hot pasty ovens= OWWWWWWCH THE HEATTT

im drawing my new tattoo design at the moment but i cant seem to get it right, ideas?

In the week thats past ive worked alot but also had time to fit in a fun weekend :)
me and ollie.. this boy that my psycic said i would get with.. (kindaa have ;)spoooky) i only met him a couple weeks ago off facebook LOL! and i get on amazing with his best friend aswell
so baasicialy he invited me to his 18th family bbq (well his best mate and a girl we know was there) and i baked a cake :) was such a great time and fingers crossed this wont turn into what happened last time with james... ergh rough time that was :(

I enjoyed this scrummy lunch zee other day, with ofcourse some cherry and berry fruit juice :), it contained brown rice aswell.. hidden deep deeep below haha

these are a few random pics from the night :) hope i dont bore you

just wanted to show u how thin ollies legs are!!!!

and his first tattoo, secound next weekend! , mikes got what if tattooed on his front and the club,dimond,ace and heart symbols on his arm sooo good looking :)
were guna be tattooo monsters soon!

Morning after, smoking in the garden in the sun, was lushh

thats his two cousins- amazing

the cake ;)

I made a quick and easy dinner the other night, dont you find the heat effects your apitite for long cooking?!?
this was tofu in a tomoto caper and basil sauce, it compimented eachother perfectly.

Blueberry cookies, i used agave nectar to sweeten them aswell as a spoon of blueberry jam :)

and finaly half a pasty i had for lunch that i made, its full of seasoned bbq mushrooms, maranaded peppers, lemon grass e.c.t including spinach
was nice seing as im alergic to gluten to have a pasty :) even if the pastry was abit weird texture
btw that cucumber slice was the size od like a small marrow infact i stuffed one and had it like a stuffed marrow (more on that next timeee) LOVE HOME GROWN ONES , LOVE U GRANDADD :D
(fyi thats toasted polenta cubes)

QUESTION:

are you going on holiday this year? would u rather go with friends or family? do you prefer relaxing pool/beach or full on exploaring?

i personly prefer to explore as i feel i could just go to the beach back home :p

cyaaaa xxoxoxoxo

P.S Ive bought some capers, any ideas what to do with them?

Cow Bum

2009-06-14T12:52:00.000-07:00

Good day my little peanuts!

I love having the weekend off!
Unfortuntly my boss said that i HAVE to work the weekend at the end of the month as "im part of a team and i'm needed" aparnetly its selfish of me to not? she even shouted at me! it was abit out of order to be honest seing as i work al week and its a damn long day!

anyway..
after all that my lovely mum booked a coule nights self catering in Somerset! sunday the 28th untill the 30th, its not long but its long enough as were all going through some difficult times and need a tiny btit away before our holiday to kenya in july.
I'm dreading asking my boss for the day off though! eeeek

Were taking my little doggy izzy along with us so alot of biking and walking and sight seeing :).. maybe getting to see some of the local eye candy? ..i got to stop thinking of boys!

speaking of izzy...
today me and my mum decided to take her for her usual walk but this time to were our ponies are kept in some feilds the other side of Beaulieu, ofcourse if anyone has been to beaulieu or the new forest in hampshire in jenural you would know that the "new forest ponies" run all over the place, people think there whild but they do infact have owners, i will post pictures of some of our ponies on the forest's foals when i upload the pictures of when me and my ex were walking on the forest and saw them!

anyway theres aso other things on the forest like pigs and cows (i swear its not a hick area!! its actually very expensive to live in the new forest :S.. think its paying for the views)

these are some of the pictures i snapped along the wayo

Cows in the road driving through Beaufre (buh-ver-ee)
(btw like all the places in the area are french because the monks were french that lived/live in the abbey and palace house (seriously its stunning here u should totally visit!!)

me and kallalah bay (lala) OMGZZ please ignore my scary white legs

in our feild, the one infronts ours aswell but were resting the grass at the moment.

OH i did a car boot sale today with my mum and i sold a canvas !
it wasnt great so was glad to say good bye to it!

my roast din dins :) thats braised tofu by the way, i also had rubarb crumble with soy custard
+++ MY BOYYY LOVES HIS SOYYYY (fig the giant african land snail)

carrot and lentil soup :)
in one salad i have blueberry and apple yum yum

and with that i bid you all good night :)
need to be up early for work tomorrow
BOOOOOO

p.s

LOLL WHATT THEEEE HELLL !!!!

hhaha find crazy picture on my camra my sister must have taken whilst i was driving

Baby pea

2009-06-11T04:23:00.000-07:00

I had an amazing bike ride yesterday, all around the local forest, its inspired me to start taking my cycling more seriously, im buying a new road bike next week :) dont know how practical that is seing as i live in beaulieu!

hmmm oh yea!
I GOT A TATTOO!
i have been waiting a while now, and omg i realy want to be a tattooist now!! they loved my design and are willing to train me up!
im going back to get another one on my bum.. lol of a dandelion and leaves.
this one realy meens alot to me, more than a random one of the wall, and im realy obsessed with strawberry print so it fit :)
I wanted it as natural as possible.

and so here we are, a quick run down on some of the things i have been munching away on as of late:

p.s go to infinity foods in brighton!! and the infinity foods cafe, you wont be disapointed, omgzz the gluten free vegan pizza is PURE HEAVEN

vegan white choc chip cookies (hand made)

tofu with seaweed and other yummy things in :)

LET ME KNOW IF ANYONE IS GOING TO THE NEW FOREST SHOW! lets hang outtt :D

home made pizza ( bbq infused tofu) broad beans, spinach, basil and tomato,mushrooms, gf free soy sauce infused potato, paprika, cumin and alot of other things :) was scrummy

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soya mince with tomato
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peanut butter cookies

stuffed vine leaves and spicy sweet potato chips (or u americans call them fries ;) )
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home made lasagne, i used chickpeqa flour (gram flour) abd nade lasagne sheets by boiling it in water till it rose up,
i layered lasagne sheet with a soy mince and tomoato basil sauce mixture then another layer of pasta sheet, then a mushroom and pesto layer and repeated the sequence from then on, on the top later i brushed with pesto (vegan g/f variety) and baked in the oven, YUMMY!!
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Pesto, herb and mushroom stuffed tofu

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spinach flan, butter bean base

LOL !! AT MY FRUIT BOWL

I WILL BE BACK!! love you all

xoxoxo
peony

stuffed like a vine leaf

2009-04-30T03:56:00.000-07:00

and so i am now 18 as of 9.05pm last night :D
i woke up to 18 banners everywere! we lit my cake (while i was in my works uniform!) so that i could cut it to take to worky.

i worked all day but it was realy fun, mich made it realy nice day and i even got flowers delivered to work!.. with peonies ofcourse!
I will post a better picture of them next time, along with the other flowers i got from my sister erica.

SUCH a diffrence from my last birthday, i usualy always cry on it and get depressed but i didnt! i almost did but i thought to myself "i can make this day amazing or i could make this day depressive and boring" i chose to make it amazing :)
i had some lovely things that i received that i will post about in my next post as it goes on for abit.

i got nasty burns from the cake oven at work :( it like liturly had my skin stuck to it when i looked at it after i put it down! it dosnt look bad in the picture but it was horrible when i did it!

i made a lemon cake for my birthday :) with lemon peel and grated vegan white chocolate on top and vegan wipping creme in the middle with lemon extract it wanst that good though unfortuntly but i will addapt the recipe on a later date (vegan gluten free cakes never were the same!)

I was going to post the recipe but once i change it around abit i will!
was huge step though as ilast year my cake was of this :
A TRIP BACK IN TIMEEEE
I wanted to show the diffrence between this birthday and last
and the year before that (so basicaly my 16th, 17th and 18th) defently the cakes;
this is me at my 16th.. ergh! i dont think i cared at all about foods at that time judging by the pre bought cake i had;

this was my 17th, no face picture as i looked realy triggeringly thin, to be honest it was a break through for me to even make a cake, not that it was much of a cake (last year by the way) it was oats in water and cloves baked in the oven.
i mixed strawberries and banana to make the "icing" and then decorated it with the remainder, i think i had like 1 tiny slice of this "pudding cake" (even though it was the size of like two of my palms) and some bean sprouts.. cooked in water for my dinner and then went to bed and cried for hours.

and this years!

back to the 2009!!

We went out to dinner too,
Fat Fig a greek resturant in southampton, Ive always loved greek food but didnt eat it because of the oils before, it was amazing being able to go to a resturant and not have to have just a salad as nothing was gluten free, egg free, dairy fre.. e.c.t free because it had a massive selection of foods i could eat!

I had the spicy tomato rice stuffed vine leaves with salad, i didnt eat the chips and passed them over to my mum

i finished all the vineleaves and half the salad because i thought "why the hell not!?!"

it was yummy defently! but sorry about the bad picture, i was doing it on the sly so the other people wouldnt think i was odd, wow could have told them i was a food critic or somthing hehe

my mum and sister loved their meals too and we all decided it was a definate place we would come back :D yay

i realised i didnt have enough money to get my tattoo today:z my friend lewis got the day off to come with me aswell! my mum really needs to pay me back!

brighton on saturday! god my fav place ever/
MY PEONY PLATE!!

as to other eats this week!

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Flapjacks i made for my mums firefighter work colgs. they are allways requesting my baking yayy, i dont need to explain about them, the lable says it all

and i will stop here before i bore everyone to death

bu byee xxxxx

oLIVE you

2009-04-26T14:16:00.000-07:00

hello helloo :D
sunday was beautiful to start with!
It was seposed to rain but it didnt... untill like 3 grrr!

anyway food!!!
I bought this from tescos, i had my eye out for a while but could only see it if i shopped online!

i bought two flavors this and the soya bean one which i will review abt later on.

sorry i didnt make it propper good i was going to though, i had it with wheat free soy sauce soaked tofu, a rice noodle ball and diffrent types of crispy seaweed, i realy liked it and
when my sister came in she was like,
"whos ordered chinese?!?" ...by the way that meens it was amazing:p
haha are you liking my sisters 007 walky talky set in the picture, she was going through some old things that we are selling at a car boot sale

todays dinner was;
Braised tofu and sweet potato rounds roasted in gluten free soy sauce (addicted much?) and mixed veggies, it looks abit like meat here :S it didnt in real life!

for desert i had rubard crumble (vegan and gluten free ofcourse) my mother is a saintttt

i had it with alpro soya custard, i love this!

few lunches; i STILL havnt uploaded my phone picture ones, not that your missing much.. the quality of the photgraphs are not great!
Ive been using this olive/pepper/s-corn mix in a few of these, with new chopsticks and a book i bought while browsing a few shops in hythe after my last acupunture for a while :(

first time trying soya mince, i liked it! i think m going to try it in a tomato sauce with spaghetti and bean balls soon!

my day was tiring, my ex called me again at half 1 and asked to meet up but there was no way i was getting up!
we went to ikea in southampton and looked around for abit and then on the way back i booked in my tattoo for next thursday! nervous haha day after i turn legal age to get it done!
my tummy was hurting alot as usual :/ its because i ate hummus last night and i cant realy eat chickpeas or garlic or onion or anything like that but i did because i LOVE IT

i thouht id update more often as its easier!
and im going to leave u with one of the pictures i took a while ago on my old farm. baby ontop of mummy :D

lots of lovee xxxx

Luncheon time mummy sprout

2009-04-23T01:34:00.000-07:00

Half these pictures were taken with my mobile as my camra needed charging and im abit lazy :p so thats why there not very good quality :O
I'd love to say i made this chilli myself.. but that woudl be a BIG FAT LIE because i got it from a can.. it was realy nice :) stag's vege chilli less than 1% fat, i had it with polenta and asparagus and 4 squares of white vegan chocolate that i found in waitrose (thankyou god!) i loved it.
i have such a massive fruit bowl at the moment im trying to work through before it goes bad, the satsumas were getting softer so i was like eek better eat them up as like noone else eats fruit like sibling wize.. my mum does though but shes still away awayy in africa.
(shes bck now, but i started this post before she had gotten back)
1# satsuma with vegan cream cheeze

2# satsuma with plum jam and cinnamon heated in the micro&& a crappy phone picture of...
3# satsuma with strawberry jam and cress, fyi the cakes n stuff in the backfround were for a customer order.
...im bored of satsumas.. new fruit maybe?or maybe even go for mushrooms, strawberry jam and strawberry?

i had it two days for lunch on the secound it was knife and fork time as i put too much mushrooms on!.. was no way it was going to cut into 4 to eat by handmy motherss back from kenya :) i havnt actually hurd all about it yet as iv been working..11 hours a day is killing meee
BUT

bubble and squeak with beach smoked tofu :D
perfect meal when youv been working 11 hours and need a quick dinner option!
/NEARLY MY 18th!!!! BIRTHDAY :D ;o LESS THAN ONE WEEKKKK

i liked the spinach sandwich combo one too, not so much the ginger jam but the blueberry omg soo goood, not going to post pictures of them all. i dont want to kill you with bread overloadd ! x !
For easter sunday we had dinner at my grandparents (the ones from the uk) because mum was still in kenya, i tried one of these clives pies that i picked up in a local health food shop:
(minty chickpea -gluten free-)
linkageee

this was the "lentil and olive" version, prefered it more!
it was realy nice actually, pastry was good and i thought it was a massiver step because i was unsure on the amount of calories that was in it :) but i got bored and decided to finish it off in the microwave.. haha it like exploaded :D!!
all in all iv been alot better these last few days, works a great healer! i met two new girls at work their great and ima post some pics up soon:D! funny ones
had a glass of no added suger vimto today! first squash in what like .,..years? oh wait no they had it in hospital but yea , apart from that..it was nice though i missed vimto, i had it with this boy im close with hes the vimto kingg!
I decided that from now onwards for 3 weeks im going gluten free because im still reacting badly when eating my rye bread.. looks like il be having to come up with some cool new lunch options!lets just see if it works first ;)

"bye bye pretty sandwiches, or whichies as i liked to call you :'( you were good while you lasted but now its time for me to move on to new things, im sorry, stil mates yeah?"

(a dinner picture randomly in lunch section below)

i'm quite liking this "new lunch" style im doing :)
I think il just show u some random food pics from my week, got some more exciting stuff for th next post by the way!!

ok this was a dinner not a lunch (below).. why is that in the luncheon section? oh god if i updated more regurly then i wouldnt have this mess!!

buckwheat noodles :) didnt realy like them to be honest.. the lunch was colourful though,

Because working at a bakery.. i get ALOT of bread to take home at the end of the day and seing as i cant eat it and my sisters refuse to eat starches...ooookkkk then..weirdos ahum anyway the rest of my family householf can oinly get through so much!
so i made vegan bread pudding :D.. ok its pretty easy to mske this vegan.. you just.. dont add an egg to bind it haha
i used scones,mixed dried fruit and banana chips, cinnamon, sugar and hot water and baked for 3 hours..
vollah

mummm said it was scrummy :D i wish i could try it, she took it to work and the other firefighters scoffed it in like 4 secounds. ;D they want more.. YAY more baking hehe

trying to grow my own.. lets see if they actually survive :')

i can be mummy sprout.. ohh the proudness...
some REALY COOL lunches that i havnt posted because im too lazy to go get my works mobile but i will next time, ima post just before my birthday i think!

love you xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Fruit bowl

2009-04-05T01:50:00.000-07:00

long and moaning post : sorry feel free to skip!!!!!!!!

My mums gone to kenya today.
she goes all the time because she works out there alot as shes in charge of usar (urban search and rescue) in south england and shes going out there to train firefighters in thika and giving them a fireengine e.c.t and doing up there station e.c.t with other work people, im going next time! in july, i was seposed to be going on another project of hers last april sround this time but i had just pulled my tube from my tummy out for the millionth time and it had got all infected from me sucking the food out of it to make me thin. its weird thinking back to that.
but anyway because of that i couldnt go and it was to romania to help with the orphanage building and id be teaching art for a month and stuff i was even spending my bday out there
its on the 29th OMGG NEARLY 18!!!!!!!
BUT THIS TIME IL BE OK FOR KENYA :D
but im realy down atm as im scared that im going to get fully better (sounds realy weird) coz from the 29th my counceler wont be able to see me even tho i always refuse latly coz il be 18 and its a kids thing and shes going to call again on the 28th to see how i am, im so scared i need someone to be there but shes going to get me transfered over to the adults one but still omg
also when mums in kenya im worried il cut out all my snacks again because noone wil realy be around apart from my youngest sister and she liturly only eats 250 cals a day and realy underweight even though shes not boney? she just looks about 11 even though shes about 16 and she is a major trigger :(
but shes realy worried about leaving me this time but i told her to enjoy it (even though she will be working hard) shes lost out on about 35,000 pounds this year on missing bits of work, projecys and meetings and stuff and so i told her its important she goes back to work proper but my nan hung up on her and said shes a selfish bitch, my mum cried, my NANS the BITCH :/

sorry i dont meen to be all defetish like that
I was going to post my whole days worth of food but once i had looked at the pictures i cried, its such alot of food, im on the TWO HOUR PLAN which is like minum of 200 cals every 2 hours but obs more for dinner n stuff,mainly because i do it this way so that i can front load for the morning as i dont like eating beyond 7 as i like time to digest.
im going to post aspects if my days foods though as im more brave for that ;D
I LOVE this sandwich, mayve my altime fruit sandwich? i have them every day as of late.
this combination was strawberries that my boss angie picked up for me on her way to work *love her :)* vegan cheese chive/herb, soy butter on a new flavor rye toasted bread, 79p from tescos as an introductory price, scorrrree! and grapes, it worked beautifuly together, paired with a pineapple juice box.

Pineapple and vegan cheese sandwich, most REFRESHING sandwich ever, it didnt make me bloated HOLY COWW NOT BLOATED? ARE YOU SURE? actually i lie i was but i didnt feel like sick so its ok? meh its ok, and with apple juice SOOOOO gooood

This morning i was realy confused, thers no way i could have pu on 7 pounds in a week right? righttt?!?!?! because if i have im TOTALY FREAKING OUT bujbfusibfgsiiiiiiubgfibfusibfisbibi
but the crazy thing about it is if i realy am this "new" weight (which is my healthy weight) then why am i still boney? exspecialy as when i was this weight previously i wasnt at all boney?
this is major fucked up.

think it might be because my mum has been mucking around with the scales trying to weigh up her luggage...i realy hope it is because if im maintaining il have to cut back on my portions and i LOVE EATINHG

it was just great for my mum who went "good" but she dosnt understand that just to her its a weight but to me it is going to swim around in my head FOREVER

great

just fucking great

...ahm sorry aha errm :/

"Marmite and vegan parma tofu, corn pasta(shell and bob the builder shapes ;D) /courgette and boiled tomos"

"rice noodles, i added my tofu fake creamcheese to it and vegan parma. and microed it for a few secs and it went all creamy and mmmmmm ^_^ "

This wheat free rye bread i bought from waitrose OMG WE ARE IN LOVE i love it
i realy love it
..did i mention how much i loved it? no? didnt think so ;)
I FREAKKKKIN LOVE THIS BREAD

i toast it and put on marmalade :) yummyyummmy as i added two slices to my breakie meal for added calzz

sliced :)

toastedd :D:D:D:D:D:D !!!!!!!

oo i got my hair re bleached :D cant realy see it in the pic though - its not that short but its inside my hoodie

i made milkshake :) with soy milk and bits of fruit i found, was not that great though, lacked flavor which suprised me :(.. ima sticking with my bought alpro soya milkshakes for snacks from now onwards.. well on busy work mornings that is.

this was my vegan haggis, was the first meal my mum has cooked for me like without me interveening.. ok i platted it up because she shuvved way to much on there i shouted and she looked pissed off but i didnt meen to shout but i got worried
i also had some vegan fudge for desert, was scrum yum

im sorry for making this post so long
next time il make it short and sweet
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this was yellow plum and vegan cheese and cinnamon.. i put it in the micro for 30 secs to make it melt, was maybe my ACTUALL favorite

the book im resting on was a rough idea for a game i had to make for my mum to take to kenya with her for the fightfights children in the slums, it was all firefighting baced though :) enjoyed making it

ima post pics she gets when shes back!

i decided as my problems are nothing compaired so other peoples that i wont moan anymore il be all happy n stuff, i kno its not what everyone needs for me to be negitive
sozzzz
;D

sandwiches are everywhere!!!!!!!!!

2009-03-30T13:13:00.000-07:00

I'm so happy because ive finally been able to leave food on my plate!
I know it wasnt alot left but it was somthing!!!
so i havnt felt so stuffed afterwards,I know sorry the picture is abit gross but i was just so happy i didnt binge that i took an "after" pic too :)

okok right i have HAVE to ask this, do any of you girlies bloat at all? i dont think im ever not bloated.. infact i wake up bloated, i dont eat wheat or dairy, eggs or meat and i kno nuts do it to me but like so does anything and iv tried soo many tablets but it dosnt stop its so irriating and dosnt make me want to keep eating which is making my gaining weight hard blegh, ideass?
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Angie at work gave me some beetroot and i took it home and stuffed my tofu with it and baked it, it gave it a realy unusual fragrance and texture but not at all un plesent, i realy enjoyed it :)

I had a kiwi and apple and pear fruit spread sandwich on rye toast the other day, i paired this with a bag of vege crisps, still soo proud of myself for this, been a major fear food for my crisps, but seriously.. was there any point putting them in the bag look how empty it is! haha

This is at work, banana and strawberry jam toasted rye bread sandwich :)

P your seposed to be WORKING!!!
LIKE OMG seriously ive felt so crap the last two days, iv got a tummy bug :( and so its made my weight drop again...GREAT :/ JUST what i need!..NOT ergh
i didnt eat too much yesterday because it wasnt spending too long hanging around my body gross, but i had a vegan choloate bar :) was realy proud of myself but my family didnt realy seem to care? thanks mum
omg she had the biggest go at me and was like "stop it just stop it and be normal" seriously its not like i can control this? i kno full well that ive relapsed of late but shes trying to send me back the the priory and i realy hated it there, i hated the fat tube they stuck into my tummy and the scar still looks rough now, soo hard having to explain it to people!
she told me that the "vegan blogs i look on are all anti eating so they have brainwashed you" and i shouted sooo bad, 1. i got ana at 13 so its not like i got it of a blog? and 2. evryone in the blog world are amazing (your all so helpful and friendly !!) im going to show her one 1day to prove to her..

This was in costa on saturday, i wasnt feeling too bad at this point, but walking around town was NOT COOL FOR MY TUMMY!!
it was blackcurrant tea which i had with a peach chunked alpro soya yoghurt, my youngest sister kibby took the pic (slyly aparently so that *she didnt look like a twat*) i was happy because its the first none water drink to drink out!!!

this was a dress i bought whilst in southampton shopping, its realy weird and funky so i thought why not? lol, it actally has the same front circular design style as the top im wearing in the costa picture has on it,new obsession maybe?

apricot jam with mashed heated banana and soy butter on two slices of roasted sunflower seed rye bread, actually maybe it was the jam that made me sick as it says it maybe has wheat frucose syrup in it? ah idk if thats enough jam (and in my porridge) to make me ill? OMG PPEA SHUT UP U HAVE A BUG IT ISNT YOUR FOOD MAKING YOU ILL!!!
this sandwich (with a blueberry soy yoghurt was amazing)

rasberry jam and peanut butter on wheat free rice toast

vegan haggis? wheat free food? omg are you for real oh holy foody goodness! :) this is for my early easter family dinner next saturday, the day before my mum goes to kenya for 10 dayss but i thought id show u the haggis now :p because i was happy

These are only a few of the things i bought the other day :) i will post the rest next time as im sure im starting to bore you now!

these boots are soo comftable!they work realy well with my skinny jeans tucked in
my dog izzy dosnt seem too impressed though ;)

this is what i took a picture of in the changing room, its abit weird yes but totally me and i love the purple top lovee it, it looks the same size as the dress but only because i zoomed in, its actually tiny and so cute, looks weird but on it looks alot better, il take a pic when i finally wear it

defently a sandwich post this one isnt it? haha, this is vegan creamcheese and herb/chive on my rye toast and grapes, was a great combo, with a blueberry yogzz

ima go to sleep now as my tummy is doing the washing machine on skitzo spin mode

tomorrow im going to start my weight gaining diet as i havnt realy been focused on it. i was more like "binging to put on weight but being sick so i didnt?" its fucked up because i kno i need to gain but i still dont want to, :( mehh

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made a new blog top when i finally got my illustrator working again
yayz

ok seriously im going now

STOP BLEEPING TYPING

sorry pea ;)

*she stops talking to herself*

SPUDZ, REPEAT!!!, noodlez, REPEAT!!

2009-03-24T10:06:00.000-07:00

Well.. to be honest there isnt much to tell about the eye :p i got smaked in the face by a girl who lives in a town neer me..me and her boyfriend are like proper close but not in that way, but because we talk more than they do she got all pissy and proper punched me in the face.
james was not happy!!! and broke up with her later that night, hes been soo sweet to me since

haha this is protioned rice noodles in a spicy tomato sauce with carrots,peas and broud beans

COOKER STILL NOT FIXED!! hes comming next monday! arghh, i had all these cool recipies ready to try so im afraid these meals have been boring, when its fixed i wont repeate myself and stuff.

I loved this combo so i had it a few dyas later after work (9 hour work shift!) with tofu and brussel sprouts and lentils

I ate nearly all of this. i swear the peas were proper green, for some reason the lentils look the same colour.

This is gluten free spaghetti in tomato sauce which you can get in tins in the free from sections in supermarkets :) its convenient and quick for long work dayss
i combined this with salad and a sweet potato.

AGAIN.. i liked it so i had it again another day.. jeeez i need to GET MY COOKER FIXED!

this is on a normal spud though.
On mothers day my mum was watching a film on tv and this rice crispy cake advery kept showing and she turned around and said to me..
"sweet-pea i realy fancy some crispy cakes" then did a realy funny angel face, so i raced of to the kitchen..slyly and made some vegan crispy cakess using vegan chocolate :D
and presented them after din dins, they went down well!

lunch on saturdayy, i ate all apart from half the salad, it was boring

I did abit of customizing at the weekend
I had a realy boring plain navy strappy top and i attatched lace around the bottom and placed a t-shirt transfer onto the front that i made earlier the day, i realy liked the picture and i'm quite happy with the final outcome of the top :)

I used up some of my butternut squash wedges in this stir fry meal, i mashed them in then set it in the fridge..sounds gross but it was realy refreshing.

On my way to feed the ponies the other day i snacked on a "goji berry" flapjack that i got from julian graves (its next to work so im living in there at the mo) i hated it, no realy.. i HATED IT
well i think i hated it? i couldnt actually taste it.. at all, i didnt even taste the oats, i couldnt taste a thing, NOT buying again!
looked pretty though?

this was my lunch today,i snacked on tons before this though like 4 morning snacks so i wasnt very hungry. wheat free rye bread slices with salad and abit of my left over dinner in it haha,had this with a peach soy yoghurt, omg rele imbarrising insident like 10 mins after eating this.. i guess my ibs dosnt realy like garlicy onion tomato spicy sauce! >.<

i ate this around 1/2 3 in my car.. i drove all the way to brockenhurst for college then turned around and came home.. twat!, i love these bars, with carob chocolate and stuff, i decided as its my own personal reasons why im a vegan im going to consume honey porducts, i like these (and other bars) too much not to!

ACUPUNCTURE

I have this once a week on my stomach (and knees if you can see) and have to have my stomach,legs, back/rib/spine area pumled and punched/beat twice a day,i take 3 liiquid medicines and 3 tablets in the morning and 5 at night this is the side effects of having anorexia and i will have this for the rest of my life, makes you think..

*************OH im comming up to a RAW WEEK in two weeks to see if my body will feel better eating it, at the moment it gurgles and everything so uncomftable after eating anything nearly so recipes would be realy welcomed***********

i also had a clothes delivery today from my mummy :D il ppost pics next time soo cutee clothes!!

love love xxxxxxxxxx

Fighting..in more ways than one!

2009-03-19T03:10:00.000-07:00

I BLEW UP THE COOKER :o!!
...mother was not happy ;)
i was making porridge and droped water down the front of the cooker and blew the circit board.. and i needed to bake flapjacks later that day :( grrr

I started my new job! its working in a cafe/bakery and so im baking cakes and bread alot but im realy enjoying it, i thought it would be abit sketch but because i cant actually eat hardly any of it because of being alergic its ok :)
but what actually upset me is that i look realy thin, i didnt notice it before i just thought everyone was over reacting again but its true i have got thin again, i only lost a couple pounds because erm.. my ibs was erm yea.. u get the picture ima not gross you out! but it meens now iv got to put it back on.
i meen i guess the best thing about loosing weight is the gaining part as in i can eat whatever i want.. but still it freaks me out abit even though i know i need to gain abit but i still dont like it when the scales change..
i ate a well good fruit flapjack from julian graves at lunch yesterday, it was a realy big step for me as i dont normaly eat somthing that high, but i realy injoyed it, i was worried because it had soya flour in and i thought that was wheat? haha but obs it isnt after asking my mum.. calmmm!

heres the flapjackers :) i took my own picture but its on my mobile.

sorry my meals have been boring as iv kind of lived off stirfry and bbq sauce for a while now due to not hardly being at home! and having no cooker!! microwave all the way!
Promicee il be making some cool meals this week once my cookeres mended!
this is laying on a giant page of my current story im writing :)

..you checking out my heart out of bbq sauce ;D

me and jax (friendy) made homemade stew soup thing with everything in, choped tomatos,cucumber,mushrooms,celery,polenta and alot of other stuff i dont rememebr haha
he actually liked it though so was ok, we ate it infront of the tv watching tropic thunder, his flat isnt that bad actually!

we kept "mm and oo uhmmmmhmhmm ^^ -ing " the whole time, the people next door must have thought we were shooting a pornooo ;o

LOOK AT ALL THAT FROGSTUFF! i wish i had been there when there was all the frogs! would have made an aamazing pic, this is my pony field btw

my youngest sister (kibby) was doing a thing from when she was a baby till when she got to this age and i nicked some of the pictures i was in

oh yea

ha
erm
i dont know if you can proper see but i have
THE BIGGEST BLACK EYE EVERR

;) il explain how i got given that beauty next time :) which will be soon as im making awesome meals from now on so il be posting

lovelove and fairy dust ;D
xxxxxxxxx
peony

chomp chew swallow

2009-03-02T03:21:00.000-08:00

Bunã dimineata xoxox
Sorry i havn't been around in the last week, it hasnt realy been the best for me!
ive been realy sick and my laptop died and so ive had to nick my mums computer and stuff

Ive also been like living in a box because of my break up, mainly because hes back with his ex..13!!!!! seriously its like sick and illegal..
and hes best mate and everyone kinda hates him now ;D but its ok! because iv had a few offers since :D and went out for lunch with this guy from costa.. haha was good though :)
and me and david are still talking..even if he does go on about his sex life with hannah :S but aparently hes getting well jealous everytime i speak to another guy and laodza other stuff i wont type coz u dont wana know my life story!

First off i got these amazing packages in the post!
this is from the lovely emma who sent me some larabars because iv only ever tired one and you cant get them anywere neer me :( grr
you have noo idea how happy i was though to get a package haha like i think i screached...im a hyper personn
she sent me some well yummy flavors, so far ive eaten the pecan and pistacio one :) i think i prefered the pecan one? not sure.. but the pecan one filled me up for longer :)
yes.. i look mad in thispic :D:D

this other one was from the nakd bar people :) because i sent them a comment and they sent me two bars because id never tried the banana one, i realy liked the taste and it smelt amazing, think it would be abit too sweet if i had it in big bar form thoughh.

this is well sketch aswell.. me and vix (whos also recovering) were looking in this spell type crystal shop because she does these type meeting things and there was this book that u had to ask a question then open a page and i know its silly but it realy freaked me out becasue i opened the page to this....

omg BUT we went to a garden thingy with y family and there was a sainsburys next door and i remember emma saying thats where you can get lara's and there isnt one anywere neer me (odd) and so mum went in and yea they did have them :D! she got me apple pie,ginger snap and a treck berry bar, i tried the ginger snap and i think it was abit too ginger-ish for me.

ignore my thighs, it was in the car on the way home
This is home-made pumpkin soup with roasted pumpkin seeds ontop, my mum makes great vegan/wheat free soups :D

I will christen this.."grumble tumble" as i was realy hungry and its abit of a tumbly messs :) veggie stirfry!

blueberry and cinnamon :)

A really bad pic of stuffed butternut squash half- brown rice,broud beans,tomato e.c.t

last but not least was this yummy salad :)

ok this was me just being bored taking pics >.<

"Wow thatsa big treeee.cheeep cheep *makes bird noises"

Roasted Heart?..i mean vegetables anyone?.. :(

2009-02-20T07:14:00.000-08:00

NI HAO ! <3

Ok.. i mayy have a tiny weeny bit talked this valentines meal up too much..
but because david made it it was realy nice :) it was quite quick as we were just off out.
This was chickpea,italian vegetable stew "thingy", it was realllly filling and a lovely taste:)!
I think maybe hes been around me making food abit too much..

He used to have bulimia, did u know that?

updated***********

Oh yeah...me and david broke up at 3 this morning, my friend kyle called me up and we had a longg 2 hour convo about it, and then i disapeared untill 11am.. my mum wasnt happy but i needed to get out,
I was going to post a massive post about his birthday and his cake he requested i made for him but now it seems kinda pointless because i didnt see him on his bday(19th), his presents are still here and his best friend thinks hes a compleate ****head for it,
I meen i guess we have been together such a long time and it kinda didnt feel the same as it used to, i was more in love with being in love rather than actually in love with him i think.
He banned me from talking to any other guys and checked my phone and emails constently,

yet he was aloud to get away with sleeping with two other girls when he was with me and flirt continiously? im a twat
It was hard coz most my friends are boys so i kinda cut myself away from everyone, and droped pretty much outa college for him.

Im realy going to get everything back on track now :)..going to be weird not having him over on a saturday night though..hmmmm

************************

A couple of these pictures are ones i didnt post up for some reason so i thought i would now :)
roasted cauliflour.

W.F granolaa :) with berries and oat milk.. i think i ate this for lunch one day though?

Original tofu fry fry :)

this was my lunchie one day,looks pretty :)..in a glumpy way hehe, its fruit and frozen berries with a alpro soy vanilla desert yoghurt ontop :)

This was a simple roasted veg and polenta salad as i was at my friends.

Arty pic time :)
This is a canvas i did for my mum for christmas, she works in thika in kenya alot of the time and so we have an african theme :)

OH!!!!! I had an amazing dinner last night that i will post next time ;D

xoxoxox love love !

Cabbage love <3

2009-02-15T07:56:00.000-08:00

Hello monkey-pies!...
haha dont ask ^^ valentines day was.. INTRESTING...to say the least, My sister and her boy friend ditched david in town and so at 11pm! my mum drove an hour to pick him up! then he was all depressed and cried! on valentines day! it was ..great fun for me! but it was horrible seing him like that, he was fine after abit though so it was worth it :)

oh yea.. i got 4 dozen red roses delivered to my door!!!
Nop.. not by the boyfriend aha ;)
by this man that has previously propoused to me. no joke! hes well minted and aparently he "fell in love with me" whe he saw me pick up my sister from his pool party once, hes like 29 its wrong haha plus i was 4 stone at the time so its well f**ked up!! my mum is not happy tbh becauses hes proper harrasing me now, hes even like. u and david have to break up by april because your mine blah blah : ergghhghg
thankfuly at the moment hes sailing around the carabeean with some mates and isnt back till april! il deal with him then, ima pot some of his post cards at some point haha there realy odd!!!
also got a card from emily this girl from my youngest sisters school thats in love with mee..
been an odd day !
anyyywayyyyy.... haha getting away from the creepy stalkers topic

This was a sweet and sour fake chicken crumbles that my oldest sister kerry sent me in the postiee, im going to ask her in my next letter were she got them from!
haha we dont talk hardly we just write, its far cooler to get letters than phone calls ^__^..
well i think soo.
anyway..bit distracted there! lol i had it with brown rice, baked parsnip (parsnip is one of my favs, i used to have a pet giant african land snail called parsnip!! :'( she was my babyyy)
with other veg and baby broud beans when were frozen in tescos, i dont actually remeber picking these up? but abviously i did or its them damn fairies again!!

This was weird, i was out of fruit...and like everything! so i decided to have frozen veg and cinnamon in my porrige.. it sounds weird but it actually was realy good, filled me up nicely but i have to say major craving for fruit now because i missed itt.

This is somthing diffrent ive wanted to try for ages now!

STUFFED CABBAGE ROLLSSS xD
two large purple cabbage leaves that i boiled for two minuets to soften, in the mean while i put a scoop of brown rice in the micro and cooked it abit quick,
i then mixed half a packet of silken tofu with a couple baby frozen broad beans and the rice and a tiny bit of bbq sauce,
then split the mixture into the two cabbage leaves and folded them up, i then mixed a spoon of tomato puree with a tiny bit of boiling water and spooned it over the rolls.
then i covered it in foil and baked it for 45mins, i baked carrot and parsnips to go along with it.

omg it was like the nicest thing everr, i know it looks burnt but it wasnt, it was jsujt the colour of the leaves*****

this was a quick eat because i had two slices of marmite on rye toast at 5 and so come 7 i still wasnt hungry gr gr

It was the other half of that silken tofu baked with asparagus, i put the leftover tomato puree on the top before i baked it as well :)

This is the card i made for davey, i just has a simple front of gold and mocha and on the back a mademade envelope with a peice of reed paper with a letter on :)
he loved it.
i will at some point put a piccy up of us!!! maybe i'l take a load on his bday on thursday, hes at band practice at the mo with my sister so ive got time to blogg!

tomorrrow i will post pictures of my valentine dinner, was beautiful!! but havnt uploaded them yet xox

POINTLESS TRIVIA nowww!!!

but u know you secretly wanted to know ;)
DUCT TAPE FOR THE U.S MILITARY DURING WW2 COULD BE BOILED AND EATEN
yea im not realy loving it ;) tofu is still my baybayyy!

now i will leave you with my lovvee and fairy dustt ^____^ ohhh yeaaaaaaahh xxxxx

BY THE WAYYYY

i'm changing my sername to eather Finn or Fionn

which sounds better

because my names
Samantha-Peony
so does it sound better with Finn or Fionn?

Cocoa Woods x

2009-02-11T05:02:00.000-08:00

I'm sorry.. this post isnt going to be very foodie.
the reason being is i wrote a book the other day, haha well it is comming up to David's birthday and to go with the other drumming stuff ive got him,
i was getting him some parts for his motorbike but it got nicked on tuesday : hes proper gutted as you can imagine...
anyway i wrote him a story, its kinda a thing between us i guess i duno, to you it might be weird, but we always make up stories and things about giant eagles and talking flowers e.c.t
so i decided to make our own, about us :), it took me about 7 hours i think to do it all in so im quite happy. oh and i added in things hes obsessed with like creme eggs, if you wondered why theres so many sweets names in the story haha.
btw i used my joint first name in this book, if your wondering who sammi is? LOL hope you dont get bored if you do actually read it ;D i tried to make it short but i loooove writing so its hard hhaa.. hence the typing im doing now OMG STOP TYPING.

ALSOOOO*** I know iv got alot of typos and wrong word mistakes in it but pretend u havnt seen it.. obvioulsy my proof reading was not great teehee
I'l fit some food pics into this post aswell, haha check out the sneaky glass of OJ!..complete with jucy bits ofcourse!

This is the making of the book, and the finished outside.

Sorry this meal was boring, i was trying to get my dinner out the way before david came over...
i am still not great at dealing with eating big meals infront of him, i get imbarrised
loook pretty though?

This is usual polenta and tofu stackers, i used a pea, tomato and spinach stuffing for the middles.

This is a better picture of it.. the lighting was pooop.

And that is all so far lovely ladies
bubye xxxxxox

p.s if its not readable.. ishould have just posted it up i have it on word HA!!

B for branston,broccoli & beans

2009-02-09T01:15:00.000-08:00

I just want to start by thankyou you for your comments :) it made me feel so much better! xoxox

elooo
haha look at my car the other morning..
i had funn ;D but there was no way i was going anywere yaay lazy day at home,
so i had the boys over and we made a snow man:) it snowed more later so this was nothing compaired but still.. i was excited

I ran out of sauces this week ! *shock*!!*horror*!! !
so i ended up stuffing tofu with branston pickle.. haha what the hell
it actually worked pretty cool, i teamed it with yeast free- everything free stock cube.

this is just crumbled tofu in a tomato sauce on pastaa

I had it right before i went ice skating with david, i did not do well! about 15 mins in i gave up and sat on the side haha

I was set a chalange by my mum to make a meal for once that resembled theres.. haha even though they eat crap all the time i was like FINE!
I made this by chopping polenta into strips and baking it to resemble chips, i think i won ;)
Please excuse the state of this table, it was at one of my sisters ericas flat and she has a beat up old table and no cloth on it today :)

i covered my tofu in a bbq and tomato puree paste and pressed it into gluten free crumbs and then baked it.
It actually tasted so good, soo good infact that i had it the next night!! but i covered this one in only tomato puree. no frying involved!!

OKOOK this meal is weird. when u look in the cute bowl..it looks abit like jumbled everything.

and to be perfectly honest it kind of was..
I was major tired because david had been there for like 2 days and so i wasnt sleeping properly and at this stage i was so grumpy and hungry that i couldnt even walk to co-op for my usual tofu.
I guess i play it safe too often by living off tofu. haha infact ive even got tofu in my msn addy!! but i realy was lazy so i opened a packet of baked beans, mixed it with carrots, pasta, spinach and brocoli and cooked it up with some spicy sauce added.
suprisingly enough it was hell good.

This was my roast dinner, it was soya cheese,baco type biits and cherry tomato stuffed polenta and tofu with veg. it was realy nice :).. this is me just comparing it to a family members dinner :)

I STILL EAT WITH BABY KNIFES AND FORKS

and finaly.. so sorry about all the typing by the way, if you think this is bad im a million times worse in real life, i talk
NONESTOPTAKINGNOBREAKSATALL
haha it takes a long time to be able to take in all the information i say ;)
but this is a final pic of my canvas i just finished,
i did it origonly about greek mythology becasue the women they painted were bigger and i wanted proper women with proper thighs on my wall to make me remeber how important it is not to be stick thin.. they turned out not greek at all haha and kinda thinner than i wanted :S duno what happened, they looked greek in the original!!

Ignore my unmade bed thismorning, i only took it like 2 hours ago, you cant realy see the detail in the pic though on the face :/ damn itt

sorry im stopping now i always get carried awayyy

Do any of you have anything your saving up for at the moment?

camcamcamcamcam ;D

Duck's cannot digest rye bread...

2009-02-02T00:34:00.000-08:00

...!! thank god im not a duck then because i live on the stuff!!
I had a realy bad weel with my ED, because iv been ill so off college for 3 weeks! ive just eaten so much junk, well not realy but like my dinner and lunch portions are massive because i dont snack or anything and so it dosnt always stay down...
im realy imbarrised t admit that because i thought i would be ok once i got discharged from hospital but its kinda spiraling again..
Some of my closest friends know though and are trying to help but unless i make my food portions smaller i will keep feeling guilty and bloated..ergh why cant i stop eating when im full? bordum eating i recon... haha sorrryy

Im actually kinda totally obsesed with peanut butter... im getting through a tub in like 4 days : i swear that cant be good, but its soo is sooo sooo sooooooooo goood :D :D:D:D so i dont care!!
This week i have tried a few new things that i will tell you about :)

On the 27th Jan it was my youngest sisters boyfriends birthday, he turned 17 :)
so around 3pm i got a knock on the door and on the doorstep was a smiley darryl and my boyfriend david, both sporting new hair!!
darryl had bleached his blonde..it was dark before
(hes just put a blue strip in it :D-looks well amazing)
and david had had a tonnn cut off his, both look good, didnt think i would like darryls but i did :D

Before they came over i tried baking maybe 3/4 cakes? all failed horribily, im not sure why because i used the same method i have before? madness.

Eventually i managed to bake 4 mini layers of chocolate sponge (unfortunutly not vegan :/ i was low on my vegan stuff so had to use my mums milk e.c.t) so i missed out on eating cake.. aha oh well im abit freaked out about it at the mo. weird how things can change in the space of a week?
In between the layers i placed choclate filling and vanilla buttercream, i then placed all the layers ontop of eachother and finished it off by menting milk chocolate and pouring it over the top and placing them tiny silver balls all over and m&m's.

phew! haha that cake suree was high on the cals. im guessing ;) ah well i didnt get any but it looked realy nice :(
i also made cupcakes with flakes and chocolate chips baked into them.

thats a small update of the cakeee ;D

This is simply herb coated tofu that i fried with baked tomatoes and veg/corn pasta.

I bought this lentil ad vege casserole from holland and barrett when i was out shopping with my mums boyfriend on wednesday, it was pretty much the same as the one i had previously bought at tescos (dont stock it at mine anymore grr) I realy liked the flavor of it and had it with polenta and extra vege mmm ^__^

OMGG these drinks were amazing!!
Me and my mum were in waitrose a couple weeks ago and she bought a paper and aparently if you bought that paper you got a free drink, and because there was two of us we got two :D:D mum gave them both to me and i put them in my food storeage thingy.
I ran outa fresh orange this week so i was like **SCOREEEE** im going to have my drinks, it was like fizzy drink realy but made from natural ingreditents and no like added flavors and stuff. was realy nice!!!

For lunch one day this week i had another flavor of seeds of change soups that i bought from tescos, This time i had "three bean soup" it was realy nice actually, i think i prefer the flavor to that of the spicy lentil one i tried last week, this one didnt give me such a strong after taste of garlic (which is good seing as garlic makes me realy ill!!)

heres the product http://www.seedsofchange.co.uk/our_foods/product.aspx?c=soups&p=331

I could post more pics but i havnt uploaded them yet... ITS SNOWING!!! and my next post il post pics of it:D and stuff, have a lovely dayyy im off as the boyfriend just came through the door :D:D yaaay xxxxx

MUSHROOM MEALS

2009-01-22T04:00:00.000-08:00

Hello all :)
sorry i havn't been posting much latly.. not that many people look but its all good:D , it's been abit stressful and i've been off college for abit being ill :(
i've had 2 driving tests and failed them both grr but only 6 fults on both! and i tapped the curb on both ones... anoying.
Ive spent alot of time with my boyfriend this last week so i dont have many food pics, this is because my bf, my sisters bf and her (my bfs best friend is seing my sister lol!) have all been eating chips and chocolate and no time for real food, even though david tried to go vegan for me :D and his fav veg is brussel sprouts.. just like mee :D its loveee haha,
actually.. i dont think iv ever showed you a picture of us together? haha well weird, il post one next time :D xx

anyway sorry there isnt many food pics, i promice there will be soon though.

I've tried to get away from just having tofu all the time and the cubards being bare was a great way to help me do this.. as i get in food ruts, as does everyone! this was because i actually had alot of cool things in there to eat but didnt get round to it.

This is a chickpea curry (i mentioned before how ive used the cans from the free from section, i dont think there selling them in my local tescos anymore :[ )
I added peas to it to give it more volume, i think everything looks bare without tofu ahah, and brown rice, it was realy nice.

I had this for lunch the other day, it was realy filling and had a great flavor, i bought it from tescos in the organic section, "seeds of change" curried butternut squash and lentil soup, i just bought the bean one so hopfully that will be as good :) il blog on it next time. its funny because it seemed to change colour once i tipped it into the bowl.

This is braised tofu that i picked up in holland and barrett ages ago, i never realy got round to eating it and now im thinking OMG WHY NOT because it was amazing, the flavor and texture was so good and diffrent from what i was expecting or used too, it worked realy well with my nice noodles,mushroom,spinach,pea + veg stir fry :D yummy.

I used the same mushroom stirfry mix the next night aswell, minus the spinach, peas and rice noodles, i used some new pasta i got from tescos, it was made of corn and maize from doves farm, i think it might be my fave wheat free pasta to date!!!!!

by the way **** ive been addding them bacon fake bits and herbs to everything ive eaten this week just thought id add, SOO ADDICTED :D ****

. This is roasted tomatos,butternut squash wedges and asparagus, i love roasting veg because it brings out an amazing flavor to them, i had it with peas and sweetcorn that was cooked with frozen spinach, i lovee veg btw i try to have atleast 7 diffrent types a day >.<>

I will be back soooon :D byee xxxxxx

sorry :( there was a deathhh

2009-01-03T01:18:00.000-08:00

Sorry for my lack of posts!my mate died last week and its been abit hectic since then :/
This last week ive had two days where i had friends over for a cooked lunch, just because we could realy, i never seem to go to lesssons when these two are around :p bad influence i think hehe
anyway first day i made them a vegan curry by using a can of chickpea curry, which ive blogged about a long time ago, its like free of everything!, i cooked it with soy mince and served it with pilau rice :) it went down well aha, i ate this with Liam and vickie :)

This secound meal was soy chicken meal with vegan korma sauce, vickie is in the process of turning vegan :D, shes also wheat free so its handy when were out and stuff to grab food together, plus she knows w/e she easts here it will be vegan wheat free which is good for her as her mum is pretty much just serving her jacket potatos at home!
i served this with popadoms and rice, we had white and brown rice as we ran out of brown rice half way though, the chips vickie and my sister kibby shaired with there korma, i didnt have anyy obviously.
Its lacking abit in the vegge department.. but for tea i had tons of them so it kinda made up for it :). kibby actually ate this which was good for me as she never touches anything "vegan".. like just to make a point,, silly realy but atleast she admitted she liked it aha.

wooow im well woffeling now ;D

This is a sepreated stir fry with soy chicken bits (was using them up!) and cabbage, the rice noodles had chilli flakes in to make them taste better, it had a cashew dressing on by the way.

I used a vegan, everything free.e.c.t vege stock cube for this next dinner meal, it was runner beans and carrot with wheat free vegan turkey slices :O i got them from my health food shop and omg they are soo good,dont think its anything like turkey though..thankfully ;D but i had this with nice noodles (im out of pasta :O) it made it taste abit like super noodles from my pre vegan days, but i kinda liked that, it gave it a nice twanggggg

O.M.G i tried this hot pepper sauce that english vegan (emma) has tried a few times,(in above dishes) i dont like to like keep nicking peoples ideas.. but it realy made me want to try it and so i did.. silly me tipped on 3/4 of the bottle on my food : when i was eating it it made like a million tears run down my face it was soooooooo hot, not doing that again!! , but me loving to try stuff bought the mago version which was mild. it smelt like sweet and sour sauce and this was much nicer infact i want some right now :D:D. i tried in on a few of these meals.

this was tofu caramalized in the mago sauce. AMAZINGGG

NOW CHRISTMASSSSSS..
i tried these soya bacon stle chunks, they were amazinggg.. iv had them in vegan mac and cheeze it totaly the best ;D

i had an amazing package from emma to open christmas dayy:D i was sooo excited to be honest!! i got the yummiest of things (tooka pic)
i was like yaaaaay when it came to my housee :P
so far ive had some of my oat cakey thingys with my lunch and some of the chocolate buttons :) they were nice in my fruity salad i had.
thankyou soooo much xxxxx

theres two pics of my dinners for christmas day and boxing day.. kinda the same but i had christmas dinner at my grandparents and boxing day "secound day" dinner at my house with my mum, youngest sister and my mums boyfriend, as he was working christmas dayy.
My other siblings are all abroud as im not origonly from the uk so same goes with the rest of my fam so it was pretty quiet.. but nice.. didnt feel like christmas tbh!!

for the dinner i had tofu (suprise supris ;P ) but i stuffed it with herbed chstnut puree..which was like amazing.. then baked it, i used smoked tofu to get a better flaovor. was totaly the nicest thing ive had and the whole time everyone commented on how nice it looked :D.. my mum even nicked a bite!
for desert..even though i was stuffed!.. was christmas though.. was a fruit salad with alpro soya plain yoghurt with agar nectar, cinnamon and chocolate buttons.. ive been eating it for lunch alot as well :D:D why the hell not lolz

This is boxing day dinner. kinda the same but diffrent if u get me.. this is the stuffed tofu before it got cooked btw, also in the pic is falafal- gluten free that i bought to make and try.. the garlic and onion like killed me.. but it was nice to have somthing new for once :) i had it with a homemade tomato sauce, i was guna have it with noodles as a spaghetti bolognase but i got lazyyy.

pasta

2008-12-07T12:02:00.000-08:00

Hello there ;)
this week has been a very lazy one at that!
Sorry some of my photos are not that great, my canon needed charging up and i couldnt be bothered! aha so i used my phone camra, its why i waited so long to post.

i had blonde highlights added on monday,even though my hairs actually realy light naturly in person, i tried to take a pic at 5am (when i got up for college) but it was abit too dark :( aha hope u like mybed shirt and fluffy dressing gown loll
I got a few things this week :) chestnut puree which i thought i could marinade my tofu in and then bake for christmas day, for somthing diffrent!
my loveley mummyyyy got me some prebio 7 from Holland and barrett as i commented how i think it might help me (saw it in that healthy mag i got from H&B)
In this meal i had the last of my rice noodles i got a while back :(, brussle sprouts- i love them soo much!!, vegan chicken bits and sticky plumb sauce, it was realy nice.

this is corn pasta whith my nearly every day staple atm.. tofu,chopped massive tomato, lentils and somthing white? think it was buttercup mushrooms which my grandad grows from seeds he got in africam34 years ago!!

This is kind of the same.. a mixture of a ton of diffrent wheat free pastas with a smal tin of chopped tomatos, brussles and tofu triangles that have been soaked in herb melted soya cheese, ok it sounds gross but it was like sooooo gooood, the cheese ooozed ^____^ mmmmm...

This was the first time i had tried silken tofu and to be honest i wasnt that into it :/ i found it fell apart far too much and abit too soft to eat, i like chewynesss of normal tofu.

butternut squash, w.f pasta in spicy sauce and beans.

This is the bob the builder corn pasta i bought! omg it was soo good, like sooo soo good :) well.. not that good.. aha but i liked the diffrent shapes and stuff hehe :D it was fun to have them and it goes with so much stuff. I found it lost its yellow colour after cooking though which was a shame.

this was a polenta chilli i made, it was defently my fav thing of the week abit addictive to be honest, i got the idea from http://studentveganuk.blogspot.com/ (emma) on her blog which i love :D.

Ive been eating this for lunch recently, as i eat more for lunch when im at home, when im at college i usualy have a salad. I thought it tasted a tad plain for my liking, i think it would work well as a porridge, will have to try it :)

I havnt tried this pasta yet, i got it from waitrose today, its made out of chickpea flour and water, there was one with added egg yokes and one which didnt have egg in, i obviously opted for the egg-free version, going to have like a spaghetti vege bolognase i think or somthing creative.

i also bought some christmas cookie cutters so my next post will have alot of vegan cakes and stuff yay ;D

xox

my cross trainerr that arived :D:D god it took forever to make, it still has a squeak.. need to tune it up.

exams argh

2008-11-27T05:40:00.000-08:00

Booked my driving test for 2 weeks :D well excited, only had driving lessons since october so im pretty happy xx

Well its been well busy the last few days, i havn't even been on the internet!
last sunday we went into southampton to do some early christmas shopping.. just because were excited already!! well i am only 17 so its ok ;D
and mum took me into holland and barret and got me some nice things because she "feels sorry for me not havng anything in the house to eat" which is a lie but im not complaining if she wants to buy me stuff :D:D
she got me some new corn & vegetable pasta shapes because i eat pasta like everyday nearly and i love trying out new wheat free versions to varie my diet, i also got my staple (im eating tofu all the time this week aswell, sorry its abit boring for you and i promice next week ima eat somthing else :D but its quick and easy because of my exams!!,chemestry yesterday).. anyway smoked tofu, some rye bread with sunflower seeds in, havnt tryed that one, also some pear and apricot fruit spread because i love the pear and apple one so i gave it ago, and she got my a "healthy" mag... mainly because it has ibs solutions on the front.. it killlls me, and coz it had christmas food ideas in and she was having trouble thinking what to cook me, seing as last year i kinda just ate veg :S.

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Its tescos time again! god were spending so much in there at the moment, my cans of beans are closing a bomb :I
anyway, this is my stuff outa it, the rest of the stuff they got was like pizzas, steaks e.c.t lol right! i got..;
Wheat free granola, god its soo good, it feels me up so nicely i love it :) new obsession, was out of it last week so ate porridge with banana (hense all the bananas int he fruit bowl ;D)
Alot of orange juice, with bits ofcourse!
alot of cans of diffrent beans and lentils
Tomato puree cans
Peanut butter
Parsnips
Sweetcorn
Mushrooms
Tofu
Silken firm tofu
Pepermint and fennel tea
butternut squash
tomatos
salad
pears
bananas
pumpkin seed rye bread
polenta premade ***** anddd
Bob the builder corn and rice pasta shapes :D

These look soo cool, on te website it said i think there were in sauce :/ but there not but its going to be great to use themm.

On saturday last, me and mum popd into co-op to grab some lunch stuff for them and i was having a hungry day and knew a salad wouldnt hold me over and so i bought some of these oat,fruit,banana chip bag which was massive, i know i had stuff simmilar at home but i like trying new stuff, anyway i think your seposed to eat it cold but i heated it up and it was like fruity porridge, well yummy! the pic looks gross though, only because i was halfway through eating it, and thats a pic of it in the box btw :D

These dinner pictures are boring so i wont say what they are, basicaly though theres alot of bbq sauce, spicy lentil sauce, sweet chili sweetcorn dip sauce e.c.t over smoked tofu and diffrent pastas, including my new one ( the shells) to be honest they stuck together and didnt work that well which disipointed me, but still it was good to try it :D
tonight im going to create somthing well cool :D and then some day this week il try out my new bob the builder pastaa :D

These are two books i got from southampton when i was shopping, they were both reduced to £1.50!! seriously lol, so i had to get them, i meen they were priced like 12 pounds and 18 pounds so it was a right bargin ;D ima use them this week for dinner meals!

Backwardss mirror pic :p
aha you can see my fluffy red dressing gown that ive half got on ;D

the next post will totally be better : and not so much blabbing.. and more cool new foods, becauseee mums taking me to this amazing vegan shop in southampton were im going to buy all the stuff ;D also my interview there so maybe i could end up working there.. yayay aha

xxxxxpea

p.s i realy wana do like a parcel present to like an english person or somthing (so that it dosnt cost me like a million pounds for posting it,, even though i dont know how much it costs?) for christmas, because its realy cool :D

i think i live on tofu

2008-11-20T09:16:00.000-08:00

wel the tofu queen :D:D ;D

Alot of my pics look abit fuzzy but its not, its actually the steam comming off the food ( i like my food soooooo hot) and i always take a pic right before i eat it :D
I know my meals look quite big, expeshially since i have like pasta with polenta.. but its coz i dont eat much at lunch and i love a massive dinner.

sorry if my food all looks the same :/ i get into food ruts were i eat the same all the time because ites easier exspeshially since at the moment im doing my exams and i dont have much time to do anything! even blog arhgg

This is like some sort of tofu and brown rice mixture, it has spinach, runner beans, asparagus, carrots and polenta in it, simple but it was goood:D
by the way like all my meals i add a ton of egg free mayo on to after but i take a pic before i kill the food with it lol, im just abit addicted.

Tomato crusted tofu- covered the tofu in tomato purree and breaded it in wheat/gluten free bread crumbs and baked in the oven, served with lentil/carrot and pea mixture,polenta and vegetable rice pasta

This is crumbled tofu with stir fry mix and vegan sweet and sour sauce.

This is bbq tofu trinagles on thick rice noodles, chickpeas and alot of other crap but its goood and the best ive had ever.

This is the same stir fry mix with thin rice noodles from tescoss and black beans and mixed brocoli and carrots in a home made tomato sauce.

this is cubed tofu in chunky bbq brown bean sauce,home made- on a bed of quiona with mixed vegetables on the side with roasted butternut squash "chips"

this is a tomato and fake egg sauce that i had over my corn pasta, chickpeas, soy sauce incrusted polenta chunks, tofu slices and spinachh ;D

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after sauce**

this is brown rice with kidney beans/ water chestnuts/tomatos over rice, i added veg to it after.

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these are some meals i havnt been able to take a pic of because they were too damn yummy yaay lol, anoying because its always the meals that look and taste the best :(

orange 'la tofu- stuffed tofu with orange and lemon, i grated the zest on the top and baked, i grated the rest of the zest onto my rice and mushroom balls that i had with it (hand made)
stuffed acorn squah- i stuffed it with red rice and wild rice tofu mixture, i baked it and sereved it with mixed sweetcorn and runnerbeans.

This is new corn pasta i bought, it tastes realy good actually but made me quite bloated and full, more than rice vegetable pasta does.

(thats it dry in the box)

foody food food foooddd

2008-11-02T06:48:00.000-08:00

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MAMMOTH POST!!!
I've spent quite alot on food the last couple of day to be honest.
Its been my half term from college and i havnt been doing that well with my eating disorder, been pretty upset because ive just been sat at home all day not feeling well enough to go out and kinda binging on cereal and anything realy, i know it dosnt sound "terrible" but if u eat enough of anything u get extreamly bloated and feel crap about yourself, well i know i do but im working on being back to normal next week when im back into my college :)
haha sorry about my little moan.. on with the foodies!x!x!x!

shopping trip #1

this was my tescos shop, minus stuff like my tofu that was still in the fridge or freezer and the chickpea can i had already opened (and spinach bag)
*butternut squash,
*ready made polenta (this is like a stable with me as i cant eat potato)
*yeast free vege stock clubes, vegan/wheatfree/dairyfree/vegan e.c.t
*cans of diffrent types of beans and lentils
*diffrent bars- all vegan apart from one of the eat natual bars ( i gave it to my mum for work)
*new type of rye bread
*rice noodles
*two min oats :P (cheaterrrr) x2 plain and berry one
* dairy free caramel desert yogzz
* alpro soya yogzz
*peanut butter
*choc flaovor soya milkshake
If i didnt buy this then my mum would forget about me and just buy meat for everyone else and il be on a plate of veges everynight :/
I used the oats at breakie :D

This is plain porridge with soy milk, a pear and a baby spoon of peanut butter, i had it with a large glass of red grape and cherry juice and a slice of rye toast with fake cream cheese.

This was my special hallowe'en dinner i made for my mum and sister :P

I made a roasted med. pizza on a wholewheat crust, it has cheeze on top of it (tryed to get mum into the vegan feeallll:P) my sister unlike her wanted a thick white pizza base with no tomato base...and a ton of ham and cheese.. il never convince her lol even though i did manage to give her some raw carrot slices.

my plate was butternut squash with tofu, roasted pumpkin seeds, cabbage, spinach and various other things, i added vegan mayo on it (in the massvie tub next to me)

the drinks in my wine glass is actually cherry juice aha because i dont drink :)

i finished off making vegan garlic bread for my family ( i didnt have any though as im alergic to garlic and wheat e.c.t)

hehe i made a hallowe'en menu aswell ^__^

This was my vegan day! dinner :) i ate beech smoked tofu with a pumpkin, rice, mushroom and lentil..er...thingy.. salad and polenta :) a few dashes of vegan soy sauce and its done :D it was very tasty actually, will be buying that tofu again!!

I went shopping in eastleigh yesterday while mum went into work for abit and got a few things to eat for teaaa, things i obviously hadnt tryed before... including ;D

**braised tofu- yet to try it

**plum baby spinach,parsnip and basil pots( yes i know there for babies but there actually realy nice for dipping rye bread in and they come in pots so easy to carry... please dont judge meee :D

i got some of these

there blueberry soy yogzz, iv never tryed them before so i got them and had them with my usual dried fruit and banana chips for pudding, i did not like them with it :( it didnt seem right, they might be ok on there own though? bit dissipointed, aswell as some awesome rice noodels in a tescos i havnt been in before, obs im getting anything noodle-y which disnt have gluten in because i miss pasta soo bad :( grr
anyway im stopping now because ive typed far too much :D untill next time!

quorrnnnn

2008-10-28T04:27:00.000-07:00

borrowing a copy from my friend lotty :D so hopfuly so cool recipes to be madeee,
(ignore how i look btw, it was half 6am getting realy for college)
I can quite happily say that porridge (or oatmeal to you americans :D) realy does fill me up! ive had it quite alot recently for breakfast.
thismorning i cheated though and got one of quakers oat sachets which comes with dried berries e.c.t in it. i made this and added a dried fig into it and a sp of peanut butter for extra yummyness.
with this i usualy have a slice of pumpkin seed rye bread that my mum gets from tescoss for me :D seing as im alergic to wheat i cant eat normal bread.. and making it is abit of a chore sometimes.

This is my dinner for last night :) it was quorn beef style pieces in a bbq and sticky plum sauce which was a mixture of two diffrent shop bought ones.. i havnt mastered making ones yet as i cant eat garlic or onion as it does agree with me :( grr
this is with trecoloured rice pasta, sweetcorn and mixed vegtables, i placed in sliced baby tomoatos in with the quorn and sauce to give it more depth, overall it was realy nice but unfortuntly i get realy ill when i eat quorn and my stomach realy hunts even now like hourss later, which is anoying because i just bought a pack of quorn mince and chicken style bits :( i was looking forward to eating it aswel, i thought that maybe after time i could eat it again >.<

im back to regular updating now :D so il speak to you sooon
xox pea

Its been a while love ;)

2008-10-04T08:26:00.000-07:00

BACK!! Il be back to posting my usual finds and trials now :D
i havnt done that much this week but il post more in a couple days now im aloud to cook my own food again. to be honest i have been eating alot of eggs recently to help with my weight gain and i kind of like them.. not sure if im going to stop or not now that my weights healthy again, but just to let u know all my food posted and shown is egg free and vegan :)

These are some wheat free cupcakes i made :) bit boring as i didnt put a topping on, they have dried mixed fruit in or banana chips and i put a gelenine free gummy sweet on top but im abiit slow so i put it in before cooking so obs it sunk to the bottom hehe but they still tasted nice, and like normal cupcakes, i used chickpea flour by the way and some all purpous wheat free flour from doves farm sold at tescos, i also used a packet of bread mix wheat free and gluten free, it came out o.k ovioulsy it was quite thick and abit like a crumpet but it was nice all the same, i tryed toasting it and the colour didnt even change haha but still it was nice with my cereal in the morning :)

This is a wholebake hemp seed carob topped bar i got from my tescoss and ive eaten so many, there quite sweet but not how u would exspect, they also keep you full up for hours!

I bought this from my local health food shop as i was stoking up on all types of fake cheese lol, it was well good, so far ive had it on a wheat free crumpet, pumpkin seeded rye bread and on a toasted wheat free roll ^_^ mmm yummy

This was a mixture of tofu,chopped tomatos, brown rice, chick peas, mixed veg and a hell of a lot of vegan soya sauce from waitrosee, dispite looking gross it was well nice!

Abit too much rice cooked :p i know whats for lunch tomorrow now! hehe

bars bars ans BACKKK

2008-09-05T13:59:00.000-07:00

i changed hospitals to be closer to home and there having a meeting to see if im aloud to go to collage or not, hopfully!!
IM ON TWO WEEK TRIAL DISCHARGE!! im hoping i wont need to go back so im making sure my weight still goes on! so iv been snacking on a few diffrent barss...

today i tryed that nut bar eventualy seing as i had to leave it at home!
it was quite sweet but not too bad, nice crunchy taste, filled me up :)

I loved the cocanut flavored one more though it was so refershingg

Ive never had a real dairy milkshake before (being lactose intolerant) so these soya milkshakes were yummy! not sickly atall! i bought a chocolate flavored one so hopfully its yummy too :D

The apple pie flavored larabar and the apple pie flavored naked bar both tasted pretty much the same, i think i prefered the larabar as the cinamon flavor was yummy, it tasted like mincepie filling :)

This is a treck bar, peanut and oat flavor, i think its possibily myfav as i love the taste of peanut butter, it was abit like a flapjack, very filling.

I DIDNT! like the blueberry filled bar, i liked fig rolls but seriously this was nothing like it, it was realy hard and stodgy, too stodge for my liking :/ shame because i love blueberries

i also had the cocoa loco and berry cheeky one aswell , the cocoa one aws like a brownie and so nice but i found the berry one got abit sickly after a while :/ ah well
i will be trying more soon :D

byebye dinner

2008-08-03T09:44:00.000-07:00

Today was my goodbye dinner with my family, from tomorrow (monday) im going into huntercombe house in maidenhead (neer heathrow) to help me gain abit of weight, im actually doing realy well at home but aparently im not gaining fast enough so im having to go and be fed dairy,eggs and meat for a month to fatten up , its going to be hell : they better let me have my vegan food!

for desert i made cherry pie with alpro soya custard which was realy yummy! and i had sweedish glace icecream aswell :D

i should be able to blog still (?) and hopfully il be back weekends but i doubt for the first weekend tbh, il blog what im eating at the centre, im going to miss making my own cakes and buiscits!!

I bought both these bars for my trip up to the clinic, i dont know if im going to be able to eat them there.. but its always good to take snacks, il blog what i think of them! i reallllly want to try the nut bar. il speak to you all soon :) hopfullly in a few days xoxox

"Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man"

2008-07-30T07:46:00.000-07:00

Ive been baking alot this week! my mum put on 3lbs hah and i havnt.. even thought i ate all of the battleship-ant-sponge cake :S weird but amazing ;D

These cupcakes were made for my sister kim :D she dosnt like jam sponge type cakes so she couldnt have any of my other cake i made this week (talk about that one in a min!) but she loves my "buttercream" fillings, so i ecided to bake a small batch of 8 dark chocolate cupcakes with vegan buttercream filling.
I baked them for 18 mins and then cut a circle from the top and placed some buttercream in the hole, I then placed the circle i removed lightly back ontop, coating the top with a thin layer of vegan chocolate spread and a section of vegan chocolate flake. finally i dusted them with icing sugar and presented them to my family for our garden picnic ^^ they went down realy well with everyone :D which is always good!

" Cocoa flakey-bakey cakes "

This is " Battleship-Ant sponge cake " I gave it a weird name because its a sponge made with egg replacers, strawberry jam on the bottom layer, a layer of vegan vanilla buttercream, i chucked a few raisins ontop of this to make i duno? i just wanted to (there the "ants" in the name)and on the top layer i spread blackcurrent jam, it all went together amazingly :D kind of like eating a big scone realy, i ate pretty much the whole cake in 24 hours.. infact... i did opzi ^^ well minus the 2 pieces my mum ate. there wasnt enough time for her to eat anymore before i made it vanish. I called it battleship because it was like the "ants" were drowing in the buttercream sea and the jams the blood and the spondge is the ship haha abit weird but i think its cute :D

because i lost my victoria spondge tin (sob!) i used a bread dish and so it didnt rise as big as i wanted and stuck abit, hence why i had to cut it up to get it out :( ah well it turned out oki in the end and its so nice knowing i can actually eat these cakes because they have no products in!

before baking, after baking

ANDDD finally (sorry i dont meen to send u to sleep with all this rubbish!)

I made a german lentil hotpot, just latly ive been making new meals an last night i combined a tofu sausage which i got from waitrose and a can of lentil vege hotpot from tescos, i mixed it up and covered it with mashed white and sweet potatoes and baked it for 15-20 mins, even my meateating mother who hates anything vege liked it :) and so scorrrrrreee haha xoxox

tea time!

2008-07-24T13:13:00.000-07:00

just a few days dinners, i unfortuntly didnt take a picture of my mushroom burger with soya cheese that actually melted! but next time i have one i will!
first off is my pizza, it was made using organic spelt flour pizza bases that i bought from my local health food shop, i covered it with tomato pastasauce, soya cheese slice cut up, mixed vegtables/salad and vegan mayo. it was lovely, i polished off the whole thing aswell as a bowl of strawberries and soya yoghut, it wasnt realy har to eat like normal pizza bases were its thick, it was thin and good!

This was tonights dinner, i was extreamly full but managed to finish off the plate in the end

It was tofu stuffed ravioli and i was abit unsure what it was going to be like, it cost me over 5 pounds and so i was hoping it was worth it, it tasted just like ravioli used too, which was abit scary, I found it realy nice and defently would buy it again!
I had it with boiled potatoes, salad and vegan mayo.

You can see from the picture that we ate outside on the picnic table, as its been a beautiful hot day, in the backgrounmd is my mums hand and my sisters dinner plate (they both had chicken drumsticks and thighs which my sister made into kebabes.. my food looks better ;D haha)

CAKE

2008-07-19T07:32:00.000-07:00

Dairy free chocolate cake for my sisters 15th birthay (on the 18th july)
only problem is it has two eggs in.. :( but as im 6 stone 6/7 lbs and im seposed to be putting on a pound a week to get to a healthy weight im not too bothered about eating some egg because it will probily help.. for the time being anyway.

I searched many vegan cake recipes and tryed one the day before but unfortuntly it died haha and didnt rise or anything so i gave in and made one with eggs.
i replaced the milk with soya milk an marg with vegan marg in the recipe but it has soo much oil in eeeek :/ ive eaten so much of it though its soo good but realy sweet..
ingredients
170g flour
2 tbsp. cocoa power
2 tsp. baking powder
2 pinches salt
200g sugar
1 tbsp. vanilla essence
1/2 cup soya milk (could use water-i used soya milk)
1/2 cup oil (i used sunflower oil)
2 eggs (egg replacer if making vegan version-i used eggs)

prehead oven to 180 deg c (gas mark 4 or 350 deg F)
grease a 9 inch tin
mix flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt, sugar and vanilla essence in a bowl.add soya milk, sunflower oil and eggs.
mix everything together untill smooth, either by hand or an electic mixer at a slow speed.
bake in tin for about 35/40 mins- mine took around 38 mins to cook.
after cake has cooled cut through the middle and cover bottom layer with filling.
Ice top with chocolate icing made with melted dark chocolate.
Filling made by mixing soya marg,melted choc and icing sugar.

This is my sister cutting it open! but i was the only one to actually eat it last night (everyone was major full from the indian/chinese takeaway we ate for dinner- i had veg curry with mushroom veg rice and chinese pineapple fried rice, eww calories but still it was vegan i think? hopeeeeee)

I also bought some things from the shops while mum an her boyfriend took my sister into costa for a coffee and some buns (i didnt have eather)

*organic Spelt flour pizza bases
*organic peanut and choc butter
*waitrose vegan pizza (roasted veg no cheese)
*vegan cola bottle gummy sweets
*reduced salt soy sauce
* organic three bean chilli
*gluten free tinned organic spaghetti in tomato sauce
*TOFU RAVIOLI!! cost me like 5 quid! owtch but it looks gooodd ;D
and various other bits and bobs including some free mags and free tea samples of "african spice" flavor , they smell amazing!

This is a picture of my fridge now : look at the takeawayyyy ergh, even tho ive been eating it cold >.< the top cake is the vegan one that didnt work (probily will chuck it) the bottom one is the yummy one and the side one is the dairy one my sister took to school for her friends (left overs) basicaly were all going to be well fat after all this cake and stuff

Sweet joe pye

2008-07-14T01:21:00.000-07:00

found my first local food shop!!
well happy haha
my mum only let me spend like 2 mins in it though and i was anoyed :( so much i could have bought!!
In the end i settled just for some "cheese" slices for future pizzas or to use with my mushroom burgers, (hopfully BBQ soon if it ever stops raining! stuuuupid british weather!)
I also bought two bags of vegan gummy sweets, stock up time! licorice and gummy things that look like the fruit ones u get in shops, i saw the lara bars for the first time but because there like 250 cals i thought they wernt worth buying :S

Suprised to find out that co-op's "american hard gums" are vegan! shocked, maybe oneday soon...

In the pic also is my licorice bars from waitrose, my dairyfree yoghurts from tescos, organic oeanut butter, i wanted to try the one with chocolate in but i didnt realise till after that it was dairy free, i think i may buy it anyway and not wait to get through this monster tub i just bought, 45675435 stone later :P haha

for dinner i used wholegrain spaghetti, tomato pasta sauce, fake chicken bits, courgette, baby sweetcorns, bit of mushroom stirfry and mixed it all up :) it was scrummy and very filling, took me ages to finish my plate. il try upload my picture tonight!

cereal time!

2008-07-12T03:02:00.000-07:00

I must say.. on my quest to find a new yummy cereal i think i may have found one :)
I usualy, to be compleatly honest have readybrek with water and maybe some fresh fruit cut up inside, after microwaved ofcourse! as im more of a hot cereal person, cold bowls of cereal arnt as appealing for me....

but anyway, wilst looking in my local tescos (i swear i should set up camp on the toilet roll section and live here seing as i seem to spend all my time in food shops :p) I discovered ....

EnviroKidz Organic Gorilla Munch 284g

Ingredients
Organic corn meal, organic evaporated cane juice, sea salt.

It was about £2.49 i think.. in the "free from section", its sweet and morish which im not realy used too as most my breakfasts arnt sweet realy because i feel guilty, but i figure this being organic that its ok :p
after addin the milk i leave it abit because i like the ball thingys to absorbe abit of milk otherwise its too crunchy for me, im not a crunchy cereal person
it does actualy get abit overpowering neer the end but i think thats because its sweet and im not used to it. butttt overall its realy yummy and makes a nice change :) cant beleive ive run out though!. Im going to try some diffrent ones soon, apparently theres a peanut butter one!.. i will keep searching.. going into lymington today and im sure that there will be things i can post later from my finds :p

im well and truly back!

ohh btw....

"Capers" italian resturant/pizza place in hampshire is vegan friendly! my first pizza in about 8 months! i was realy happy haha sorry i dont have a pic because by the time we got it home i was starving and ate it all!

It came as a pizza platter(half pizza) with salad, which i didnt eat because it was covered in some sort of runny couslaw, chargrilled medetranian vegtables on a tomato base, no cheese, i sprinkled vegan parmazan cheese ontop and finished it off with egg free mayo and cherries

yum yum :D

6&7th July

2008-07-07T14:26:00.000-07:00

chickpea curry puffs

I used this which i buy weekly (nearly) from my local tescos "free-from" shelf.
I rolled out some "jus rol puff pastry" an placed a few spoonfuls of the curry into the centre, i presse down the sides an baked for 30mins, it was yummy! i tryed not to think of how fatty it probily was.. being pastry... ah well it was reallly thinly rolled so its ok ;D haha as u can see it exploaded abit out the front.. bad pressing down by me!

6th July, carrot and coriander vegan sausages

vegan Wicken Fen Carrot and Coriander sausages from Waitrose and vegan mayoo from tescos
was yummy quite filling with all the other stuff :)(asparagus,grilled tomatoes and chestnut mushrooms, salad and tuna)

work work and workkk

2008-04-28T00:29:00.000-07:00

This week has been arghhh
birthday tomorrow 17th :D
trying to find the perfect vegan birthday cake recipe though... not going well
anyway i thought i would update u on my work this week :)

foood ! i love tescos :p

only a couple of the pages ive done this week for my project :| my hand hurts from writing !!

and finally!! the two bags i stayed up till 3am making the other night, the designs actually upside down >.< but i dont careee lol
x

Photography

2008-04-18T07:46:00.000-07:00

RIGHT!
havn't posted much latly as ive been realy busy!
I saw a physic lady yesterday and she told me not to take art in collage again next year and to change my course.. so im pretty confused what to take now :S as art has been my life for like.. all my life!
anyway heres some pics i did recently of some of my ponies, if i dont have time to craft i have time to take pics!!

(pictures below;; Shamrock & Sunny,Banner, and kalalah bay (lala)for short )

Blue Boys

2008-04-11T13:37:00.000-07:00

Well the last few days have been manic,
not made much on the sewing machine though, but ill post up a picture of the black tote im making at the moment tomorrow :)
at the moment il just show u some of my chinese inspired canvas's on my bedroom wall.
I love my blue chinese men, i paint alot of them, i'm sure some will pop up for sale at some point

oh before i forget, another picture i did at like 2am.. not good but still :)

more picturess!

2008-04-08T09:44:00.000-07:00

I did a few pics today, nothing amazing or anything,
just getting familiar with the program :)
I'l post somthing intresting soon dont worry!
xox

Adope Illustrator

2008-04-07T15:15:00.000-07:00

Finally got round to getting it! shame its only a 30 day trial but I'm sure il get the real thing soon enough!!
so i thought i'd try it out :)
I made a banner (on request) for my sisters band

"Keiko's dragon cloud"

and a picture of me ^^ haha just starting off, pretty happy for my first try at it :)

New sewing machine!

2008-04-06T01:39:00.000-07:00

Well. I'm pretty sure its not the newest model on the market (i know too well) but it was cheap and on Ebay! and me being a 17 (in 3 weeeks!) year old student its all i could afford, much better than the hand turning one iv been using... 200 years old!

I decided to get working on some plushie toy designs ive made recently but unfortuntly i'm going to have to wait to buy some fleece as the cotton "i've just cut up your tshirt mum is that ok?" plushies were not looking quite right.
ah well i'l get them made soon :)

slightly destracted by the snowww- no snow since i was like... 11 or somthing, pretty cool!
I'm going to get my mum to drive me down to our horses feild in abit to get some pictures for my albums, hopfully there turn out good enough to post up!