The Vegan Butcher

A Canadian, three Italians, and a Polish girl walk into an all-vegan Chinese restaurant in North London. Sounds like the set up to an awesome joke, eh? Well, it’s not. It was how dinner started last night with a few friends at the Loving Hut in Archway.

My vegan coworker, Fib, swung by work on her day off yesterday with a crew of vegan Italians in tow. They were heading out for Chinese food and, since I was almost finished my shift, invited me to come along. All-vegan Chinese with mock meat options for days? Hell. Yes. (more…)

As if eating together for six hours straight at the West Midlands Vegan Festival wasn’t enough, when we got back to the city Fat Gay Vegan, Josh (his handsome man) and I went for dinner at 222 Veggie Vegan. FGV has talked in the past about how 222 VV was one of his favourite spots in London and I have been keen to try it. (more…)

I have lost my vegan fest virginity! …In Wolverhampton. How utterly unromantic.

On Saturday I got up before the crack of dawn and hopped a train northwards. After a couple of hours of sheep and countryside I arrived in the quaint midwestern town of Wolverhampton. (Not John Wayne midwestern, though. West Midlands midwestern.) (more…)

My friend Rachelle is in town and is staying with me this weekend. She met me at my new workplace and we headed to Soho for some din. When I told a vegan friend that I needed someplace blog-worthy to eat tonight, she recommended we check out Mildred’s. I’m glad we listened. (more…)

Today’s London restaurant adventure is thanks to my friend Els. This morning I got up, got ready, and sat in front of my computer, asking the sweet Baby Jesus to give me inspiration as to where to have vegan food on this rainy London day.

Into my Twitter feed popped this little prayer-answering Tweet:

What’s this? Awesome staff? Awesome food?! I’m there! Y’all know how I feel about hummus anyway. (Don’t you? I love it. A bit too much, actually.) I hopped a couple trains and arrived at the Hummus Bros location in Soho. (With this song in my head the ENTIRE TIME.) (more…)

I am blogging about pumpkin seeds. Can you tell I haven’t left the house today?

When I made my Chelsea’d Pumpkin a while back I saved the seeds for roasting. Golly, I love roasted pumpkin seeds! One of my super sexy web admin boys, Patrick, and I are borderline obsessed with Hallowe’en. Back in the day we would carve pumpkins together and would always do a minimum of three. Each. That made for a lot of seeds to snack on! (more…)

I am obsessively counting down the days to a very special event. No, not Christmas. The release of Alicia C. Simpson’s next cookbook: Quick and Easy Low-Cal Vegan Comfort Food! It is being released 03 January 2012 in North America. In the UK it will be released 01 February 2012 (boo). (more…)

My fack, I love bread. So, so, so much. And Dr. Atkins can kiss my carb-filled ass, because I ain’t givin’ it up anytime soon.

Today was a bit out of hand, though. I had toast for breakfast (as I ran to my Tube station), a peanut butter sandwich for lunch (at my new job!) and when I got home I made a big ol’ pan of bruschetta. The Bruschetta Experience involved using a gas oven for the first time. Did I blow up the house?!? Only one way to find out… (more…)

I finally found tofu in this new city of mine! The Tescos and Marks & Spencers that I have been haunting these past three weeks have left me high and dry in the soy curd department. This afternoon was a perfect, sunny, crisp October day to walk around and finally find a Sainsbury’s. I took a roughly 5km roundtrip jaunt to the supermarket located over in East Ham. The way there was lovely. I was walking through a part of town I hadn’t seen yet, taking in local shops and wandering town their High Street, marvelling at the new and exciting.

The way back was AWFUL. My arms nearly fell off my body. I always buy too much stuff. Between the supermarket and the street-side vegetable market stalls, I got some wicked (albeit far too many) ingredients for a stir-fry. (more…)

It’s not always easy being vegan in a non-vegan world. In this post I will not cry you a river about never being able to eat in social situations, blah blah. This post is about the amazing and heartwarming times you find omnivorous restaurants that are willing to go out of their way to ensure you get a delicious vegan meal in their non-vegan setting. Here are some stories about places like that. (more…)