I'm back! Well sorta!

I'm so bad about keeping track of things. And I let things get me down real,real easy.  The sunshine in jolly old England let's me down quite a bit. But never fear, I'm gonna try my best, despite horrific photos to update this site a tiny bit more. I'm not a fishy eater anymore and I'm trying to eat a lot more mexican foods so I'm gonna tell you ALL about that. But until later. Happy Sunshine! And I'll show you all about delicious foods next week! See ya later!

Black eyed bean stew and Spiced Pumpkin

notice the cute list of stuff? that comes later...

On Monday me and the mister had some really lovely friends of our over for dinner. My good lady friend Jayne calls herself one of them vegans. So I wanted to make something neat and tasty and special that hopefully involved black eyed peas/beans.

On the weekend we purchased this adorable culinary punkin' from our pals over at Lidl! It broke the bank at £1!  So on the Sunday before we cooked up some dried black eyed beans preparing for this amazing RECIPE!

So let's talk about recipe one :The Stew

I went to the supermarket to get all the buddies I needed to make this special meal. We didn't need too much,but unfortunately we lacked the amount of black eyed beans for this awesome stew.  Sadly I could get everything on that list above EXCEPT the black eyed peas!  But I did manage to get that glittery ass skull right there sweet potatoes and black "turtle"beans and A really good bottle of wine!

So what does a gal do with a serious lack of black eyed peas in her life? Improvise! So here is all the component of a really good Black Eyed Pea stew with some Borlotti beans thrown in there!

4 tbsp Peanut Oil
1 red pepper
1 large onion
2 large carrots
2 cloves garlic (not bulbs! don't know why I put TWO BULBS there!)
1tsp dried thyme
1tsp paprika
1/2 tsp mixed spice
1 1/2 cups veg stock
2 400g/14 oz cans of black eyed peas (or borlotti or something)

Here's the part where you expect pictures. Here's also the part where I tell you I only got pictures of cutting up the punkin cause it got dark real quick like and the pictures woulda looked crap. 

Method:

Cut all that business up. Then you are gonna saute' the crap outta all that business,well all of it but them beans, in that peanut oil. After 5 minutes you needa pour up that good stock and let that puppy start boiling. After it starts to bubblin' add the beans and let it hang out for 15 minutes or until they are super duper tender! Season it with salt and pepper AND Tabasco (if ya nasty!)

Now onto the Spiced Pumpkin.

yeah you kinda don't need those carrots

Okay here it is Cute and Delicious stuffs to make that punkin'all spicy like

1 culinary punkin' (these are smaller obviously!)
3 red and beautiful tomatoes. these are from a green house in the back yard of my mother in law. they are better than the shit you are gonna get in the super market. (jus' sayin') Skin and chop those pups.
not those carrots
1 medium onion
2 cloves garlic
1tsp cinammon
2 tsps curry powder
pinch of nutmeg
1 1/2 cups water
salt and pepper to taste

Now you need to chop him up! I find it's easy to cut the skin off a punkin with a vegetable peeler! You don't waste much punkins that way!

Method:

Melt the margarine in the sauce pan.  Now when that's all melty and right you need to add all those ingredients together and stir 'em and let 'em simmer for 15 minutes or until the punkin is soft!

You are ready to plate up that pup!

The recipe said to plate the stew on one side and the pumpkin on the other with some rice. But there isn't really any point cause you are gonna mix 'em together and they are gonna taste mighty fine!  I mean look at Jayne!

This meal is so easy and so delicious. Seriously ,the only pain is the pumpkin! Hope you guys have a great weekend! And if you are in England get your punkins now! Those bastards ain't gonna be around too long! 

Seriously most Halloween meal eva! (sorta)

 p.s. the hubs had it for lunch the next day and said it was MUCH better with cous-cous! I'll be the judge of that! :)

Print  recipe here!

Lazy Tuesday.

This is kinda what my afternoon has looked like.  But that doesn't mean a gal does not get hungry! But what to make? I mean seriously guys I'm STUPID LAZY!  So I'm having this for lunch!

That's right friends I'm eating slices of cheddar cheese on a bbq rice cake and it's amazing!

I'm gonna blog about a pumpkin recipe later. But I really need to catch up on that Jumpstreet and study for my Living in the UK test!

p.s. I'm going to Martin Parr's lecture at the MShed  tonight and we're having dinner out! Man! What did a gal do to deserve!!

Fake Chik'n Pot Pie

 Sometimes certain foods kinda linger heavily in your brain. When I was a kid my mom used to hoard boxes of chicken pot pie  in the freezer.  I remember loving the pie tin and picking out the weird cubes of chicken meat and eating them  first.  But honestly the best part was the crust! Sadly I am no pastry chef. Shit I seriously only baked a cake from scratch last year. But I do know how to make shit taste good.!

So here's a fool proof,super easy and super delicious recipe for an old favorite! Don't fret pets any ol' schmo can make it AND it doesn't take too terribly long to make! Also this recipe can be altered slightly and become a peach cobbler! But that's another day!

keep reading...

Hi there!

My name is Lori and I am hungry! Seriously all the time freakin' hungry as shit. When I was a wee little nipper of 2 weeks old my mother had to start adding cereal to my diet of breast milk! Seriously I LOVE TO EAT!

look at that sumo crotch in the background.

I also come from the south,where let's face it people don't skimp on the fat, deep fry EVERYTHING and put large pieces of meat into most vegetables rendering them unhealthier than any green thing should be.

So it is no surprise that when I decided to become a vegetarian (well more pesky-tarian really) I had to figure out ways to incorporate all my southern ways and not feel guilty about hurting little baby animals in the process.

And to add difficulty to my silly existence I moved to England and then had no restaurants or supermarkets to cater to my insatiable  food addiction.

So this is a blog about that. I'm gonna show you all the various and sundry ways I keep my girlish figure up and hopefully give you the confidence to cook really amazing veggie meals and not worry about the flava or difficulty. My theory on recipes and cooking is, any meat recipe can be made veggie! ANY!

So sit back and enjoy my food journey! It should be fun. I'll even show you around my lil' house, brag about my thrifty charity shop finds, bore you about my neat little shop  ,go on about all the crafty crap I'm up too and bug some of my pals to show you some of their favorite recipes as well! I'll even throw in some vegan stuff too!

Happy eating!

Lori