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Another year around the sun 🌞🎂 It was my birthday today, and as with most people's birthdays over the past 9 months, it was a pretty quiet affair. The day was spent with Orren 🧑🏼 (same as any other day), I ate lots of great food 🍟🍔🍫🍬 (same as any other day) and watched some junk on YouTube 🖥 (same as... yada yada). It's been a brilliant day to be fair 😅 Swipe for a close up of the Biscoff cheesecake I made earlier - a little "rustic" as entertaining a 15 month old and delicate cake decorating don't really mix 🤪

Lockdown 3 banana bread 😒🍌🍰 Got a little bored of the usual banana bread recipe so I tried a new, bubba-friendly one 🙎‍♂️ No sugar, oil or salt 🍬🧂 plus added homemade raspberry jam with chia seeds 💖 Came out really well! Used dates instead of sugar, plenty of bananas and some crushed almonds. Will be making again, and bubba loves it ❤

Brunch is served 👩‍🍳 Richmond sausages (bloody love these 👌) avocado on toast 🥑 buttered toast 🍞 for the Heinz beanz with nooch 🧀 and a little fried cabbage, leek and Miami Burger bacon and Oatly cream combo 🥓 (which was lush 🤤). Have a fab Saturday you guys 😊

Bacon, cream cheese, Vegemite, avocado and hash brown bagel 🥯 For you fabulous new followers (hiyaaaaaa 👋) I do this thing called #FilthyFriday where I post stuff on a Friday that's slightly more naughty than my usual eatings 🐷 Still vegan, just a bit filth. And more often than not, carb-heavy 🥔🍞 So here we have a thin Warburton toasted bagel 🥯 with crispy Miami Burger bacon 🥓 crunchy Aviko hash brown bites 🥔 Nush cream cheese 🧀 a smashed avo 🥑 and every Aussie's fave - Vegemite 🦘 Hope everyone is surviving out there 🤗

Made some sushi 🍣 The final recipe for @theveganchefschool course was pretty fun to make (and as always, delicious). No rice, no fish, no seaweed 😯 I'd tell you how to make it but it would take too long - you should just sign up for the vegan chef course and learn how to make it yourself 👩‍🍳😂 So glad to have finished the recipe part of the course, but the big final assessment I am still yet to complete. Must get my arse into gear 🤨

Brunch of pain au chocolat 🥐 with yoghurt, chunky berry coulis 🫐 and macadamia nuts 🌰 I've made only one New Years resolution this year, and that's to eat MORE 🐷 Running around after a 1 year old all day I don't have the energy to make anything elaborate for breakfast or lunch (crumpets and pot noodle currently 😒), so I need to eat more when I do eat. Cue bigger second breakfasts 😁 I've also been snacking on crisps and chocolate as it's easy and always there. That probs won't change 😆 but more nuts and fruit need to feature. All this SOUNDS easy, but as you all know, breaking habits (and finding energy to look after yourself when you're a parent) is HARD. Good luck to you if you're trying to change your habits this year. Don't be too hard on yourself though, just getting through a pandemic unscathed should be enough for any person to achieve this year 🏅

No fish & chips for dinner 🐟🍟 Deep fried "fish" recipe is on the jencooksplants.com blog if you want to do it yourself 👩‍💻 Made with nori and tofu so it's healthy, innit 😉 Also fried some courgettes in the same batter and they turned out bloody great! Homemade tartar sauce to bring it all together 👌 Happy Sunday you lot 😚

Chili cheese dog for the first #FilthyFriday of 2021 🥳🌭 (at least I think it's Friday? 🤔) Vegan Intelligent Planet frankfurters, grated Violife Epic Mature 🧀 leftover spicy bean chili 🌶 on a grilled hot dog bun 🔥 Sart as we mean to go on, mateys 👊

Last dinner of 2020 🥳 Cheesy pepperoni and broccoli pasta bake with lemony baby greens 🥦🍝 Swipe to see the basta bake fresh outta the oven 🔥 Included in the ingredients (not an exhaustive list...)

Creamy lentil and sweet potato curry 🍛 Finally getting back to "normal" eating after all the festivities 🥳 (yeah, all those CrAZy Christmas Skype calls 😏) A lovely one pot curry will do nicely, ta. Some dry roasted cashews on top just coz 👊

Charcuterie board (aka shark coochie board 😉) - because leftovers are gone and who can be arsed cooking right now? 🙃 Featuring:

Christmas leftovers bubble 'n squeak 🎄 Added an extra potato (mashed) and fried it up with all the leftover veggies, transferred to a baking dish, cheezed it up and gave it a good grilling 🔥 Had leftovers in a sarnie with gravy yesterday and while it was good, this was even good-er 👍 Recap on the veggies:

The Chrimbo dinner, 2020 🎄🎅 Swipe for the nut roast cranberry wellington and a pic of me and the boy whilst opening presents (yes, I did buy him a wooden vegetable toy set for Christmas - I am vegan after all 🙃). On the plate -

Chocolate orange Christmas balls 🍊🍫🎄 When you have plenty of chocolate in the house but it's Christmas so why not make some more sweet treats?! With three different coatings - shredded coconut 🥥 cacao powder (like truffles, innit) and raspberry powder 💗 Basic recipe below if you wanna make some yourself 😊

Biscoff and macadamia bites 🌰 Made some pizza bites for the boy earlier and had some leftover pastry so wanted to make something sweet and naughty with it 😇 Bite sized so you can shove a whole one in your gob and not feel guilty... or something 🤷‍♀️ Swipe for the "before" shot. Needless to say they were bloody awesome 👌

Vegan pork belly 😲 Can't say I've ever tried pork belly before I went vegan (just the name... gross 🤢), but I'll be having the vegan version again - loved them 👍 Swipe for a close up ➡️ Served them with plain rice 🍚 sautéed garlicky tenderstem broccoli 🥦 and a sprinkle of sesame seeds. Check out Plant Pioneers vegan pork belly at Sainsburys... if they've not all sold out already 😅

A little #FilthyFriday doughnut fried chicken burger with curly fries 🍟🍩🍔 Made with a Greggs glazed doughnut, Quorn spicy burger patty 🍗 M&S curly fries and some sriracha mayo 🌶 I was doubting the taste of this before I tried it, but I've seen people on this here app do it before (@dirtygingervegan 👋), so it must be good... and you know what, it bloody well was 😃 Don't wait to have your doughnuts for dessert, get that bastard IN there with the savoury mains. Delicious 🤤🤤🤤

Sweet salami log 🍫 So I saw this "thing" via a tweet of @nigellalawson's and had to do a double take - sweet salami?!? Ew! But fear not, it's just a chocolate log that looks like salami 😁 In the one I made there were raisins, pistachio and pecan nuts and choc chip Hobnobs 🍪 🍪🍪 plus the usual ingredients (have a Google search online 😉). So decadent... but you can't stop at one slice ☺

Last night's dinner with The Vegan Factor garlic kievs (pre-gravy 😋). Saw these kievs in Tesco, never heard of them before so had to give them a go. VERY tasty - other half even said they're better than the M&S ones 😲 For me, definitely on par 👍 Also had fried garlicky kale 🍃 Golden Syrup roasted parsnips 🍯 (@easypeasy.lemonsqueezy I didn't hate them! 😃) roast spuds 🥔 and peas 🌱

Beige toasted sarnie for #FilthyFriday today 🍞 with Quorn chicken slices (a pack of those lasts half a day in my house 😬🤤), McCain hash browns 🥔 and multiple Violife cheese slices (had to use up the pack 🤷) 🧀 Have a boss weekend you lot ✌

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