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By Rachel M Posted on April 10, 2021April 10, 2021

Pastries, broccoli, tartan skirt, and carrot lox

Foodstory Café in Aberdeen have started making sourdough pastry. Their sourdough bread is already well-known in Aberdeen for its deliciousness so we decided to sample the sourdough pastry, strictly for … Continue reading Pastries, broccoli, tartan skirt, and carrot lox

Categories: JournalTags: carrot lox, eBay, Foodstory, photos, skirt, sourdough, tartan, Vegan
By Rachel M Posted on March 30, 2021

Milk deliveries, mung beans, and AstraZeneca

We’ve been getting oat milk delivered in glass bottles to our home twice a week for a month now and we love it. The milk is made by Oato, a … Continue reading Milk deliveries, mung beans, and AstraZeneca

Categories: JournalTags: AstraZeneca, gardening, mung beans, Oato, vaccines, Vegan
By Rachel M Posted on March 18, 2021March 19, 2021

Pancake Sunday

It’s still lockdown here. We’ve been in lockdown since Christmas. I was sure back then that restrictions would be relaxed in January. How wrong was I? We have had to … Continue reading Pancake Sunday

Categories: Journal, VeganTags: allotment, cows, dairy, pancakes, pandemic, philosophy, plant-based, Vegan
By Rachel M Posted on March 1, 2021

The milkman returns!

When I was a child we had milk delivered in glass bottles to our front door. The milkman would come each morning, collect the empty bottles we left out, and … Continue reading The milkman returns!

Categories: JournalTags: milkman, oat milk, plants, recycling, sustainable, Vegan
By Rachel M Posted on January 30, 2021January 30, 2021

Burns supper 2021

It was Robert Burns’ birthday on January 25th and Scots celebrate it with a Burns supper. This is fast becoming one of my favourite annual events, perhaps because it doesn’t … Continue reading Burns supper 2021

Categories: JournalTags: Burns Supper, cranachan, haggis, poetry, Robert Burns, Vegan
By Rachel M Posted on December 22, 2020

My awesome bike and veggie Chinese takeaway

The best thing about these dark days is how awesome my bike looks. If you’re looking for a good Christmas present for someone who likes to eat a lot of … Continue reading My awesome bike and veggie Chinese takeaway

Categories: JournalTags: bike, Chinese takeaway, Christmas, cycling, Hoss, lights, Vegan, vegetarian
By Rachel M Posted on December 21, 2020

Lorry queues, supermarket queues, food production, and Christmas dinner

Victoria helped me wrap some presents today. Actually, she was a right nuisance and ended up tearing the paper. I went to the shops early this morning to beat the … Continue reading Lorry queues, supermarket queues, food production, and Christmas dinner

Categories: JournalTags: Brexit, Calais, Christmas, Dover, lorries queuing, pandemic, Vegan, virus
By Rachel M Posted on October 8, 2020

You have to murder to call it a burger

The Dutch comedian Arjen Lubach launched this satirical marketing video for the meat industry this week to highlight an upcoming EU parliament vote on whether to ban meat-related names for … Continue reading You have to murder to call it a burger

Categories: JournalTags: Arjen Lubach, comedian, EU, EU vote, funny, murder to call it a burger, plant-based, Vegan
By Rachel M Posted on September 16, 2020September 16, 2020

Half my life

I’m 45 today. If I’m lucky enough to live to 90 then I have lived half my life. I hope I’m still riding my bike at 90. You’re only as … Continue reading Half my life

Categories: JournalTags: Aberdeen, ageing, birthday, dress, food, photos, street art, Vegan, vintage
By Rachel M Posted on June 28, 2020June 28, 2020

Roots Catering, science experiments, and my crochet fox

We splashed out and ordered the three-course meal from Roots Catering on Friday night. Roots is an Aberdeen vegan food business. In normal times they sell vegan burgers by the … Continue reading Roots Catering, science experiments, and my crochet fox

Categories: JournalTags: crochet, education, fox, online school, Roots Catering, science, Vegan
By Rachel M Posted on May 30, 2020

Piling on the pounds

I’ve put on a kilogram of weight over the past couple of months. I would like to say it’s extra muscle from doing Joe Wicks’s PE class every day – … Continue reading Piling on the pounds

Categories: JournalTags: babka, diet, exercise, food, health, lockdown, magnum, Vegan, weight
By Rachel M Posted on May 22, 2020

Chocolate almond cake recipe

I’ve had a request for my chocolate cake recipe. This is what I make with the almond pulp which is leftover from making almond milk. You can use any flour … Continue reading Chocolate almond cake recipe

Categories: JournalTags: almond pulp, cake, chocolate cake, recipe, Vegan
By Rachel M Posted on May 17, 2020May 17, 2020

Doing nothing

I’m not very good at doing nothing. All my life I’ve dashed around in a frantic state of constant busy-ness. Work fills the weekdays, kid stuff the evenings, and weekends … Continue reading Doing nothing

Categories: JournalTags: activity, almonds, baking, cake, doing nothing, plant-based milk, Vegan
By Rachel M Posted on May 17, 2020

Eating weeds

When everyone was panic-buying in March I saw some stinging nettle springing up in our backyard and decided to leave it there rather than weed it out. Stinging nettle is … Continue reading Eating weeds

Categories: JournalTags: cycling, food, gardening, nettle, Pashley, soup, stinging nettle, Vegan, weeds
By Rachel M Posted on May 16, 2020

Ramblings on cycling, the pandemic, and climate change

I had such a busy week this week that I haven’t had the chance to write since last weekend. It has been mostly work-related busy but also some cycling advocacy … Continue reading Ramblings on cycling, the pandemic, and climate change

Categories: JournalTags: climate, covid, cycling, Derek Parfitt, ethis, pandemic, philosophy, transport, Vegan
By Rachel M Posted on May 9, 2020

The Dirty Vegan and a momentous announcement from the government today

I found a new vegan cookbook today. When I first went vegan they were hard to find but they started breeding a few years ago and now you can find … Continue reading The Dirty Vegan and a momentous announcement from the government today

Categories: JournalTags: cookbook, cycling, Dirty Vegan, green recovery, Matt Pritchard, transport, Vegan
By Rachel M Posted on May 6, 2020May 6, 2020

The future of meat

Eating animals poses a major global health risk and the costs are enormous and they’re not borne only by the meat-eaters themselves nor by the animals but by everybody on … Continue reading The future of meat

Categories: JournalTags: animals, covid-19, epidemics, ethics, meat, pandemics, peter singer, Vegan, vegetarian, virus
By Rachel M Posted on April 29, 2020

Testing capacity in the UK and cruciferous vegetables

The UK seems to be finally catching up to Germany in terms of testing capacity, albeit a couple of months late. I’m not 100% sure why it has taken so … Continue reading Testing capacity in the UK and cruciferous vegetables

Categories: JournalTags: cancer, cauliflower, covid-19, cruciferous vegetables, health, pandemic, Vegan, vegetables
By Rachel M Posted on April 22, 2020April 22, 2020

May you live through interesting times

There’s a Chinese curse, may you live through interesting times. On a personal level, the Christchurch earthquakes make this pandemic seem like a walk in the park because that was … Continue reading May you live through interesting times

Categories: JournalTags: Chinese curse, ebola, education, farming, Foodstory, pandemic, school, Vegan, virus
By Rachel M Posted on April 11, 2020

There’s no escaping the trade-off

It was kind of surreal to see headlines this week like, “Prime Minister is breathing on his own” and “Prime Minster able to take short walks“. No one could ever … Continue reading There’s no escaping the trade-off

Categories: JournalTags: covid19, economy, pandemic, Vegan, virus

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