I went to VegFest today in Colorado. Here is what I ate and some goodies I picked up! 🙂

Breakfast

Maple and pecan crisp cereal, soya milk

My usual sugary weekend breakfast. It always tastes great though, and ice cold soya milk is a nice way to start a (rare) sunny day.

Lunch

Sesame seed bagel with cucumber and strawberries, crisps, grapes, Nakd fruit bar

I thought a fruit based filling might be refreshing in a bagel. It was, although for this purpose I think the strawberries needed to be a little sweeter.

Dinner

Pea risotto, tangerine, sultana and cucumber salad

This is one of my favourite summer dishes and tonight’s version was expertly prepared by my dad. It’s  really nutritious and has a great Italian flavour. It’s also a really good example of how meat and dairy recipes can easily be veganized. This one was supposed to include bacon and butter, but it’s really easy just to use soya spread (or olive/vegetable/sunflower/rapeseed oil), then either omit the bacon…

The ingredient I am working with this week is cherries. And since I love baking, the first recipe post for this week is a cherry and almond loaf cake, from  Nigella Lawson. The recipe is simple and uncomplicated and calls for candied glacè cherries.

I have eaten lots of glacè cherries as a child- there used to be a bakery near my grandmother’s house that sold them in little sachets, and I’d sometimes pick them up on the way back from my math tutor’s house and eat them in secret. Sometimes, to the point of being sick. They are pretty wonderful. BUT since I bought desi cherries, I had to make do.

The cherries were sweet, but not sweet enough for my liking- so I decided to let them macerate in a some sugar and lemon juice for a bit. I always wondered what ‘macerate’ meant…I mean, it sounds like a…

I’m an asshole to sleep with.

I steal the sheets. Sometimes I snore. I drool. Excessively. And I totally hog the bed.

On several occasions Roo has found me in…

the “diagonal,”

the “L,”

the “Vitruvian Man,”

and what Roo likes to call, “the Captain Morgan.”

Did I mention that I’m notorious for shoving people out of “my space?” Like, onto the floor?

Yup, Roo is lucky to be with me.

And by lucky, I mean I bribe him with waffles for breakfast. Waffles totally make up for being pushed out of the bed, right?

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These waffles take on the weight of coconut whipped cream and loads of strawberries with ease, so be generous with the toppings. They can take it. The batter is quite thick, but it puffs up as it cooks, making a crisp, nutty waffle.

Adapted from Lunch Box Bunch

Makes About 8 Waffles

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