Sunday 22 November 2015

Vegan Carmel Deliciousness

I'm gonna get straight to the point, I can drink this stuff. Anyway, it's good on ice cream and fruit and works well on cakes (more to follow on that soon, it makes a nice glaze). It's easy to store and keeps for 3 weeks or so (mine never lasts that long anyway)

Makes about one cup (I store mine in a recycled jar)
Keep in the fridge 
Can be reheated 
Prep time 2 mins
Cook time 10 mins 
Probably about one million calories per teaspoon 


3/4 cup soy milk 
1 cup unrefined raw brown sugar
1/4 pure maple syrup 
2 tablespoons sunflower margarine 
4 drops vanilla essence 
Pinch of salt

1 tablespoon cornstarch combined with 1 tablespoon water separately

Combine milk, sugar and maple syrup in a medium saucepan for 5 minutes whisking often. 
Add in cornstarch and water mix and cook for a further 5 minutes. 
Remove from heat and add vanilla, salt and margarine. 
BAM. 


Sunday 8 November 2015

Custard


Grated nutmeg
Half tsp cinnamon
Crushed lotus biscuit 
Tsp chai seeds
Tsp mixed chopped nuts 
Goji berries

In that order on top of comforting Alpro custard. 

Tuesday 15 September 2015

Together with Davines, we will save the world!


Yesterday I went to the Davines show "Hair on Stage", held at Central St Martins, London. It was pretty darn great. Thanks bosses!

I've recently changed work places to a much more eco friendly approach to hairdressing and I am lovin it! Sorry to bring it all to light but so many companies out there don't respect our planet and the animals that roam here along side us. As soon as it came to light about the awful things that ANY company in the Chinese market have to test on animals I became uneasy about using them and I subconsciously started to stray away from most companies in my toiletries that don't give back to the planet in some way.

Davines put together an amazing evening showcasing work from the UK finalists for the World Style Contest, also Blue Tit, Allilon and the Davines Creative Director, Angelo Seminara, it was insane! I've never seen hair like it. There were also The Crafts, a collection of mixed artists and talent in which you could watch productions. I did try to take some photos but not very many came out good (thank goodness for that photography a level-time well spent.) 










Although all the hair was fabulous, I learned a few tips and tricks and colour formular, met some cool people; the part I most appreciated was Davines devotion to the environment.

"WE'VE BEEN USING RENEWABLE ENERGY SINCE 2006. EVERY PRODUCT FORMULATED, DESIGNED AND PRODUCED BY DAVINES IS OBTAINED WITH 100% CLEAN ENERGY."

www.davines.com

Most of their products are vegan, with exception to
-Mask colour,Mask bleaching powder
and Alchemic because these all contain milk proteins.
-Natural Tech Reconstraiction Miracle and Hair Building Pak and Melu serum contain keratin.
-Defining Texturizer also contains cashmere and silk extracts.
Davines has also stated on their website that they are all happy farmed, no ones hurt or killed for their goods.

"To offset the environmental impact, Davines has been using renewable electric energy from natural sources - such as sun, wind, water and soil - to supply its plants and offices since 2006.
These inexhaustible sources of energy do not release CO2, they do not pollute and are constantly renewed."
Fabulous. Thanks for being so cool, Davines. Keep up the good work.

Monday 14 September 2015

Southsea Coffee Co


THE MEGA VEGGIE SANDWHICH

By 'eck this is a sandwich and a half. Literally, I could only eat half. It was great though cause I got to experience it again for dinner that night (I always get things wrapped for future Nay!) 

It's packed full of avocado, beets and  seeds; alllllll those delishy super foods. Beets, like all red fruit and veg, are good for your skin, which is what I struggle with, So I try and get loads of these in. (Funny cause my problem is redness so you solve that with red foods, duh). And obviously the seeds are good for fibre which can be a struggle sometimes in a vegan diet.  

The venue is great to, lots of plants hanging everywhere and a wall of a black board for kids (and adults) to draw on. There's also a little bit I like to sit at right at the back with lots of cushions. The staff there are so friendly and knowledgable, I always feel so welcome and at come, which is nice for a coffee shop in Portsmouth, normally they're pretty cold. 
Obviously the name is a bit of a give away that the place is actually a coffee house. This is embarrassing but wherever I get coffee I usually get an iced latte, with soy, obviously. And decaf. I cringe when I order it, but it's my fave! I don't get any eye roll here at Southsea Coffee Company like do at other places when I place my pretentious order. So anyway, they're range of coffee is great too. 

If you do end up going here make sure you get some cake too! Any one, they're all great! 

63, Osbourne Road, Southsea.

Tuesday 25 August 2015

Toast Topping


It's such a cliché of a photo, like instagram puked on my kitchen counter, but thats what 2015 is all about; the internet throwing up on individuals and everyone rolling around and relishing in it. Mmm delishy internet puke.
But honestly, this is SO DAMN FULL OF NUTRIENTS, avocados and tomatoes have been branded as "super foods", and if you're reading my blog, I'm sure you've read about super foods plenty of times before on plenty other internet spots
BAM
BAM
BAM
Just in case you hadn't.
So wholewheat toast (duh) then I'm pretty generous with (soy) butter. Chopped tomato and half an avocado, nutritional yeast, salt n' pepper. yum, easy, healthy, most importantly minimum washing up.

Monday 24 August 2015

Vegan peanut butter cups

Yum. Keep 'em in the freezer to keep the "chocolate" crunchy. 

2:1:1
coconut oil : cacao powder : nut butter 
and a massive dollop of agave syrup (2 tbsp)

Softly melt the coconut oil (I've also seen variations where people have used cacao butter). I tend to boil water in a small sauce pan and measure out my coconut oil in a glass pyrex jug, the jug being only a little smaller than the saucepan so I can melt the oil like you would chocolate, by putting the whole jug in the water in the saucepan. 


Once that has all melted slowly add in the cacao powder and stir the whole time (you can take the jug out of the water, the oil will stay melted for a while. Then add the agave.


Pour half the mix into cases, freeze to set. After 10 minutes, blob some nut butter in the centre and flatten out then cover the butter with the rest of the mixture. Freeze for a further 10 minutes. 



Enjoy!

I hope soon to add these on top of some of Mums vegan brownies... more to follow soon.

Sunday 23 August 2015

Welcome to my vegan adventure..

This is a fabulous follow on spot from where I normally post on tumblr as www.nayliensveganadventure.tumblr.com. I wanted to make a place where I can keep a record of my plant based diet and memories of how veganism has inspired me, so when I get hungry to breaking point I have a quick reference of free from animal based product foods I've made before. I only really make easy stuff too so enjoy! I'm very new to all this blogging, (as well as veganism and decaf, soy lattes; the shame of it all.) and www.tumblr.com didn't really seem the place for lengthy rambles and recipes. 

From time to time expect other, miscellaneous subjects under tips & tricks, hair & beauty and what ever else comes to mind.

I was a vegan virgin up until very recently, but check that out here.