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Rainy day grub 🌧 Sausage and kidney bean casserole with barley 🥘 One of my firm fave things to cook as we almost always have the ingredients in the house and it's not only easy to make but damn delicious 🤤 Lefovers somehow taste better than the night it's cooked too, which is a bonus 😅

Beige toastie for #FilthyFriday this week 🔥🔥🔥 With crispy Quorn vegan nuggets 🐔 McCain lightly spiced wedges 🌶 (I could eat a whole pack of them 😭🤤) Violife cheese slices 🧀 and gravy inside and outside 😋 Have a top weekend guys 'n dolls 💖💖💖

Lovely big bowl of tomato and basil gnocchi sitting in the rain this evening 🌧 Yeah the bowl was literally on the windowsil in the rain for this photo 😬 With a side of baked broccoli 🥦 Napolina gnocchi, Mutti tinned toms 🍅 garlic, basil, spinach 🍃 and a shed load of Violife grated Epic Mature 🧀 Have a cosy evening, lovers 💫

Seitan steak w peppercorn gravy, quinoa and edamame salad and little spuds 🥩🌶🥗🥔 Don't listen to the haters - you CAN have salad and gravy on the same plate! Just be vigilant with your cutlery skills and they won't crossover 🍴😜 Still madly in love with these seitan steaks - recipe is on the jencooksplants.com website if you want to give them a go yourself. Gravy made with Bisto and half hot Oatly milk 🥛 (instead of boiling water), plus cracked pepper. Life changer 😉

Chili cheese fries for #FilthyFriday this week 🍟 Using chips I had leftover from a recent Mikos Brixton order (their vegan gyros are 👌👌👌), leftover spicy bean and lentil chili 🌶 and a healthy dump of grated Plant Kitchen cheese 🧀 I used spinach for the green bits as I'd ran out of fresh herbs 😆🍃 Hope you lot all had fab weeks 😊😚🤗

Enchiladas made with a bit of everything and a little bean and corn salad 🌽🥗 Inside the enchiladas we had a mix of kidney beans, diced Plant Kitchen chorizo pups, Veggie-Day plant based mince, butternut squash and all the other usuals (tomato, onion, garlic, herbs etc.) 🍎🧄🧅🌶 Bit of Plant Kitchen cheese on top 🧀 and baked to perfection 👌

Balsamic tofu, pesto pearl couscous and veggies 🥗 Probably one of my favourite meals this - I get way too excited about eating it for some reason 🙈 Marinated tofu in balsamic and Italian herbs for about an hour, then baked until crispy. Cooked some Artisan Grains pearl couscous and then stirred theough some Sacala vegan pesto 🍃 Few salad-y bits, avo 🥑 black sesame seeds and my mouth is watering 💦👅

The simplest of #FilthyFriday sarnies - Richmond vegan sausages 🌭 creamy M&S Plant Kitchen potato salad 🥔🥗 Vitalite on white bread 🍞🧈 Jobs a good'un. Happy weekend to you good folk - hope it bangs 😚

Vegan chorizo and butternut squash risotto with a side of buttery green beans 🍚🧈🌱 Using Plant Kitchen chorizo puppies 🌭 grated Violife parmesan 🧀 and allllll the butternut squash (there is literally a whole squash in there 😮). It's TOO DAMN HOT for cooking - why am I still cooking?! 🌡🔥🥵 We have plenty of salads but still the hob goes on every night 😅 Hope my fellow London-&-surrounding-area mates are keeping cool somehow... plenty of vegan Magnums over here 🤭🍦

Seitan steak & salads for dinner 🥩🥗 My salads have come a long way since becoming plant based - salad to me used to mean iceberg lettuce, tomato, carrot and chunks of cheese 🤣 And even then I wouldn't eat the tomato... I've now added a 3 bean salad (kidney, cannelini and green beans, cucumber, peppers and red onion with a sweet, vinegar-y dressing 🥒🧅🌶) and macaroni salad (pasta, corn, grated carrot, pickles, peppers and chives in a mayo dressing 🥕🌽🌱) to my repertoire 💅 Have been mixing up the macaroni salad every time I make it - previously adding chopped Quorn chicken slices, sesame seeds, and yes, even cheese 🧀😅 No more wilted lettuce leaves for me please 🥬🧐

Maple tempeh and n00dz 🍜 Sautéed Tofoo Co tempeh coated in maple syrup and soy sauce 🍁 alongside some udon noodles with peppers, edamame, mushrooms and sesame seeds 🍄🌶 Sauce was made with white miso paste, soy sauce, garlic, sriracha, maple syrup, sesame oil and vinegar 🪔🧄🔥 So who's feeling rough today after last night? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️ Thank dog I don't drink, or today would have been a LOT worse 😬🥴

Toasted chicken, cheese bacon and pineapple sarnie for #FilthyFriday 🍞 Without the use of chicken, pigs, or cows 😉 Know I'm gonna get some "Ewww pineapple!" comments but whatevs 🤷‍♀️ So - homemade tofu bacon 🥓 Quorn "chicken" slices 🍗 Violife sliced "cheese" 🧀 and some chopped up pineapple pieces, sauteed first in a dollop of maple Syrup and a dash of soy sauce 🍍🍁 All toasted in some disgustingly delicious white, buttery bread 🍞 Happy days folks, happy days 💥💥💥

Moussaka 🍅🍆🥔 Made with all the usuals (spuds, aubergine, tomatoes, garlic, onion) plus lentils and vegan mince 👌 Have been off here for a hot minute as the boy has been ill and home from nursery (please kill me before I ever need to give him a PCR test again 😖😖😖) and work has been heeeeeectic 🤪 I somehow thought working from home would be way more chill??? 🙈 Hope you lot are surviving out there 👋

Little currywurst plate for #FilthyFriday lunch today 🍟🌭 Easy currywurst sauce made with ketchup 🍅 tomato paste 🥫 vinegar, curry powder 🍛 garlic powder 🧄 onion powder 🧅 soy sauce 🥣 and sriracha 🌶 Richmond sausages (the ONLY sausage these days 😍) and McCain fries 🍟 Happy soggy weekend to you all ☔🌧😒

🥗 Salad weather 🥗 Pretty much every dinner at our house has "salad-y bits" with it lately. Tonight's has Richmond sausages, roasted buttery new potatoes 🧈🥔 and salad-y bits - red peppers 🌶 cucumber 🥒 red cabbage and a spinach, avocado and pine nut salad 🥑🍃 Anyone else having more salad-y bits lately, or are you all still doing pies, chips and gravy in this weather?! 🍟🥵

Poutine and nuggets garlic bread stack for today's #FilthyFriday 🍞🧀🍟 My dad always said to me "Jen, don't play with your food". WELL WELL WELL LOOK AT ME NOW, DAD 😛😛😛

Midweek chick*n noodles for your viewing pleasure 🍜 Using Vivera "chicken" pieces in a sticky soy/maple sauce, julienne carrots 🥕 green peppers and shredded cabbage. Things have been a little hectic around here lately with me starting a new job 🥳 and Orren having settling in days at nursery 😭 so my spare time on insta is dwindling 😅 Usual service shall resume in a week or two... because I miss scrolling through all your bloody fit food creations 🤤🤤🤤

Sausage and lentil stew with roasties and tenderstem broccoli 🥦🥔 Been away in Norwich/Cromer for the past few days hence the radio silence 📻 Taking a lockdown toddler to meet friends and family wasn't half stressful 🤪 But we did have a great time and I didn't eat any hot chips while there 😲🍟 Back on the bandwagon this week 😅 Happy Monday lovelies 😚

Made a selection of pastries this morning 😇 Tomato, Nush cream cheese, onion and hemp seeds for Orren's upcoming lunches 🍅 Violife cheese slices and Heinz baked beans for my partner 🧀 and finally some strawberry and Doisy & Dam chocolate drops mini pastries for me 🍓🍫 Hope you've all had brilliant Bank Holiday weekends, guys 🥳 Living for this weather 🌞

Happy #FilthyFriday Reuben bagel day 🙌 Using the delicious Squeaky Bean pastrami (yeah umm, the whole packet 😬🐷), little Violife slice 🧀 red onions, pickled cucumber 🥒 some sauerkraut and mustard mayo 🤌 on a lightly toasted thin bagel 🥯 Have a cracking weekend you lot, summer time is FINALLY hitting us in London PRAISE BE! 🙏🌞🙏😎🙏💃

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