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Healthy Vegan Fast Food In San Francisco

August 26, 2015 by India Leigh

Healthy Vegan Fast Food In San Francisco.

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I was on a road trip recently with my new husband. Yes, for those of you that follow my blog.I got married in July to a wonderful American man!! We had a blissful wedding day in Ojai, California. Magical!

We were road tripping up to Oregon to my first nerve wracking meeting with some of his siblings and their children, and for my husband to enter a 13 mile uphill race. (Swoon). We stopped off in my much loved city, San Francisco in order to track down some healthy vegan fast food in San Francisco. Time pushed and road weary (7 hours driving…just to here) I was pulling him around the Mission excitedly showing him cafes where I had spent many hours writing..dragging him up Bernal Heights for a night view of the city and picking up morsels of vegan food along the way.

Project Juice has been raved about by me in the past. Situated midway up Valencia Street it is a filling and stop for healthy fast food and the antithesis of our unregulated in car crunchy snacking! We ordered the Macro Bowl, with ginger, sesame kale and roasted butternut squash, and the Spiced Lentil Wrap with a cashew-turmeric aioli which honestly was so incredible I could have eaten a bowl of the stuff with a spoon! Our food was incredible. Happy making. I like it when my intense love of food is shared! We washed it all down (so incredibly full now) with an Espresso smoothie, with super foods and fresh young coconut. It was good. Husband enjoyed it. But not being a coffee girl I must say my heart is still true to the Chocoholic smoothie! Project juice are in several Northern and SoCal locations. Recommended.

790 Valencia Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

Though I’ve spent many months of my life in San Francisco in recent years..I felt like a tourist with my husband by my side! We had to take photo’s with murals..it just wouldn’t be right not to!

It was not easy to pick only two vegan restaurants to feast in San Francisco. We only had a few hours and I had to narrow it down. My second pick was Seed & Salt. A personal favourite. I had attended their opening in winter 2014. Their menu is original, organic, vegan and totally gluten free and even processed sugar free. A dream!

We deliberated a while then settled for the chopped cobb salad with chickpea frittata and the beet burger. ONE of the wonderful benefits to having a husband is that you do not have to decide on one item from the menu. You can order two and SHARE. I know. Such a bonus. So we also plumped for the beet burger, made with beets, walnuts and mushrooms. Both came with a cashew ranch dressing. Both were good and filling.

2240 Chestnut Street

San Francisco, 94123

Despite our stomachs feeling fit to burst after our eating spree, and to sort of balance out all the healthy (though very delicious) food. We also devoured a bag of Wholesome Bakery spiced oat, cream filled whoopee pies. They are soft, chewy, cinnamony, creamy and jump and and down good. I once walked past their little catering kitchen in the Mission and stood at the closed door just inhaling. Yes, I did that.

Sorry. No pics!

I am hoping another trip up to San Francisco will not be too far away. I have many, many more restaurants for my new (and oh so lovely) husband to try with me.

Which is your favourite vegan place to eat in San Francisco?

Get Creative And You May Win a Day at River Cottage HQ

November 26, 2013 by India Leigh

Remember I review the gluten free wraps from BFree recently? Well, the people from BFree have just got in touch with me to let me know about their latest competition. They are inviting you to get creative with our multigrain wraps and you and a friend could win a day at the River Cottage HQ plus overnight stay at a nearby hotel worth over £400!

Plus there’s some fantastic weekly prizes up for grabs that include the River Cottage cook book, Phil Vickery’s gluten-free baking book, a subscription to Slimming World and a BFree goodie bag!
To enter, click here: http://a.pgtb.me/nZsG54

Do you like my effort? Be nice! It is a Marilyn meets Warhol meets Picasso wrap, which after I read the competition instructions properly morphed into Hawkgirl from DC Comics. This is because each week until 15th December you have to decorate your wrap to a particular theme. This week it is super heroes.

Have a go..You may just win a day at River Cottage (and convince Hugh to go vegan again). The worst that can happen is you have a little art therapy and get to eat your efforts.

Let us know if you enter. Share your link in the comments below.

good luck xx

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Dessert Wrapped. Sticky, Sweet Banana, Chilli Carob & Mint Tortillas.

September 11, 2013 by India Leigh

Surprise! I’ve decided to run the Friday Giveaway early..on Wednesday. Because? Well, this week is a little different because i’m participating in Vegan MoFo (Day 11). This week, we need to work as a team. I’ve decided we (yes, me and you) are going to take on a simple challenge to see if WE can win a Grand Prize from Cooklet.

The folks at Cooklet are all about social cooking. With more and more of us food blogging and also sourcing recipes from blogs, Cooklet are launching a groovy yellow button that will allow food bloggers and cooks to be far more interactive. Exciting? Yes!

The deal is this. I’m trying out their new feature, where you try my recipes, and then we all get to see YOUR version of my creation, by clicking on a button and uploading what YOU made. LOVE! There is a prize of $200 to the winner (woohoo) and 2 sets of 2 cookbooks. So, how about if we try and win it together?! If my blog and your recipe wins (the blog with the most entries grabs the prize), I give YOU $100 and I give myself $100 and you also get 2 hot-off-the-press cookbooks.

The Jewelled Kitchen by Bethany Kehdy

I love Toscana by Giulia Scarpaleggia

The second prize (if we win) will bag the other set of two cook books.

Please note these are NOT vegan cookbooks. I wish they were. (I didn’t choose the books to be won) but they do contain vegan recipes and well, you are so inventive…ANYTHING can be veganised!

I posted about these gluten free vegan wraps in a delicious tofu scramble recipe yesterday. It was such a treat to have gluten free wraps! So I decided I’d have dessert for dinner and make these hand held pockets of sweet dreaminess. Get this list of ingredients. Peanut Butter. Banana. Carob (posing as chocolate). Mint. That would bring a smile to anyones face (unless you have a peanut allergy..then that last statement wouldn’t apply….you could use seed butter, tahini, or vegan caramel sauce..or, perhaps even vegan cream cheese).

So how do you get to have a chance at winning 2 cookbooks AND $100? Make my recipe and then rate it and post your picture. Simples!

Sticky Sweet Banana, Chilli Carob, Mint Tortillas.

This recipe makes one wrap

(whether you share it or make more is up to you!)

Organic peanut butter without sugar or sweeteners (my local store didn’t have palm oil free..think of the Orang-utans…but yours might)

Carob spread. You can make chocolate spread if you like but too much chocolate gives me the jitters and I intended to eat too much! (recipe below)

1 large banana

4 mint leaves

pinch or two of chilli flakes

Carob spread

1/4 cup carob or cacao powder

1 tsp of chicory coffee or instant coffee powder (optional)

2 tbs agave syrup

1 tbs walnut oil (for flavour) or coconut oil (for flavour & health)

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

1/8 tsp pink salt

To make. Just mix it all up until smooth and glossy.

To assemble

On one side of the wrap. Spread the PB. Slice the banana and place on top of the PB. Drizzle (or slather.up to you) over carob (or chocolate) sauce. Chiffonade (I love that word, don’t you?!) the mint and distribute over the PBBananaCarob. Carefully fold the filled side on the wrap to the other edge then pull it back to lightly squidge the filling under the roof you’ve just made. Tuck and fold in the right edge, to create a seal, and then roll up. Then cut in half. Drizzle with MORE sauce and then scatter a pinch or two of chilli flakes.

I also used the wraps to (attempt) to make a quick and easy recipe rendition of cinnamon rolls. I used ground xylitol and water to make a sugar syrup, soaked raisins in hot mint tea to plump and rehydrate. Spooned the sugar mix over the surface of the wrap, scattered the raisins, dusted over powdered cinnamon and a teensy pinch of salt. Rolled up. Cut into bite size rolls and then drizzled with more icing sugar syrup. I tried and few and they were ok (I’m comparing them to the real, spongy, yeasty, deal). A brain wave struck and I then proceeded to spoon over copious amounts of the remaining carob sauce. Ha ha! I then ate them all.

When you have tried my recipe, click on the button below. You will link to the Cook’d website and be asked to add a photo. All entries will be visible on the Cooked.it site. You can link it on Facebook & Twitter, too.

Good luck! Can’t wait to see your entries! Please submit by end of day 15.9.13
UPDATE!! I’ve now been informed you can submit up until the end of 23rd September. 2013. Let’s get in those last minute entries!!

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