There is a trend sweeping social media today that involves using software to generate a best 9 list on Instagram.
Without too much pomp and ceremony, here is a collage of the most ‘liked’ photos from my Instagram account during 2015.
Enjoy!
Game over: we have a winner
It all makes sense now.
This is the vegan-friendly product I didn’t know I was waiting for my entire life.
Look!
Jim Beam Cherry Bourbon Sauce. Yes, you are reading correctly. Yes, you are correct to freak out and start running to your nearest Sainsbury’s store to buy boxes and boxes of this product.
Imagine this on seitan wings?!
9% of the sauce is Jim Beam bourbon. I am in love.
Crafty nutters
Earlier this month, FGV and I were up in Glasgow for VegFest Scotland where we got to meet lots of lovely people and cram lots of delicious food into our mouths. One of the products that really stood out was the Nutcrafter Creamery aged nut cheeses. So good in fact that I had to buy some to bring back to London with us.
Not having a fridge for our three-day journey back to London (we stopped in Manchester for a couple of nights on the way back) wasn’t a problem. These cheeses are air-aged which means that they can be kept out of the fridge. This is good new for those of you not in the Glasgow area as it means you can order them online. Check out the delicious flavours we brought back to London:
Vegan beer in MK
Vegan beer fans, some news for you.
A new brewery has popped up in Milton Keynes and their gorgeous unfiltered and unfined artisan beer is made with organic grains.
You can like Bucks Star on Facebook and follow them on Twitter.
Have you visited this new microbrewery and beer garden? What did you think of the brews?
Vegan comfort on another level
This blog post contains some of the most explicit comfort food photos you will have seen in a long time.
The photos are heavy going and some people will find them quite confronting. Sit down, take a few deep breaths and then scroll down for the visual g(l)ory.
Vegan-friendly store closed
Apologies for being the postal service of bad news lately, but it appears extremely tough work is required to keep a business open in this day and age.
Remember when I wrote about the vegan-friendly grocery and health store in Manchester called Win Naturally?
The store, owned by Julie and Phil Neville, was located inside the Arndale centre in Manchester city centre. They store was packed with mostly vegan toiletries, groceries, healthy snacks, supplements and more. It was kind of like a supersized Holland & Barrett.
During my trip to Manchester a few weeks back, I stopped by the store to pick up a few things and was greeted by the following vision.
Manchester has it
Manchester has a lot of fab vegan things going for it and right up there on that list is the plant-based menu at Ning.
Ning is a Malaysian cuisine eatery situated next door to the current location of V Revolution. Even though I’ve written about Ning in the past, my recent trip there was so outstanding I wanted to share the food photos with you all.
Check this out.
Best crumble
How often do you find a vegan crumble with custard in a London pub?
If you answered, “Never FGV, never!” I would believe you and act extremely sympathetic. The lack of vegan pub desserts in the capital is close to a disgrace. An emergency, if you will.
Thankfully, the Old Ship W6 is here to elevate our compassionate pudding experience.
Not only is this pub serving up one of the items on my ‘top 13 vegan things to consume in London list’, they are also offering this seasonal dessert that would surely satisfy most anyone.
What do you think? Do you like the sound of that crumble?
Check out the current vegan menu on offer at the Old Ship W6 here.
Seaweed burger in Netherlands
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As we’re on our Dutch odyssey, let’s take a quick break from bustling Amsterdam and swing by Dordrecht, a nice little town that we visited partly (ahem, mainly) due to the presence of a new vegan café called Daantje there that we wanted to try.
And we were so glad we did! Dordrecht is a very pretty town, and Daantje was a lovely café, bright and cheerful, on a postcard-perfect old Dutch street.
So the ambience was spot-on, you’ll be glad to hear the food was excellent too. I had a “Dutch Weed Burger” (which may be named provocatively but is just a play on words, it’s named after the seaweed it contains) which had been recommended to me by almost every Dutch person I spoke to (or so it seemed). It was huge and delicious!
Jess had a brie, walnut and maple syrup wrap, which was also great. The vegan brie is apparently made on the premises, and was really creamy and full of flavour. Had we been served this in a non-vegan place, I’d have been suspicious of dairy infiltration! But the friendly owner is definitely 100% vegan.
So should you fancy visiting the Netherlands but having a break from Amsterdam, then I can recommend a day in Dordrecht, including a visit to Daantje.