Stir Fry with Cashew Nuts

This stir fry has fast become another favourite. The bulk of it is cabbage chopped up finely and then the rest is pepper, mushrooms, quorn pieces and lots of lovely beansprouts. 

Saturday Stir Fry

Friday Saturday after getting stuck in traffic on the way back from the supermarket we needed something quick and tasty because I had lost my mind! We had stir fry with quorn pieces and toasted cashew nuts. It went down pretty well!

Stir fry with Noodles

Quick stir fry veggies with noodles, cashew nuts and quorn chicken style pieces. Nearly had a disaster as there wasn't much soy sauce left, still tasty though. 

Stir fry with Cashew Nuts and Noodles

Mr VST and I went to see the final Harry Potter film on Wednesday and so needed something quick to eat before we went out. I went for another stir fry, it was full of goodness and is one of Mr VST's favourite's so it did the trick. 

The film was much like the others, it was OK, I didn't have a clue what was going on as I haven't read the books in years but as with all books turned into films, it wasn't as good as the book. 

Stir-Fry Vegetables with Noodles

It was great to realise that some of the meals that we normally eat were very much dairy free anyway. We haven't had stir fry in ages and as it is naturally dairy free this was the perfect time to re-introduce it. I had half a cabbage left over from the pink coleslaw that I made yesterday so I bought a bag of 'spring greens' and a bag of beansprouts and added them to it. I also added some red pepper, mushrooms, toasted cashew nuts and quorn chicken style pieces and then lots of soy sauce on top of it all. Lovely!

I seem to have made enough for a family of five!

Weekend catch up

I left off on Friday having eating my veggie sausage pizza at the in-laws looking forward to an action packed Saturday and my first barbeque of the year. We set off from Lelant Saltings train station and made our way along the coastline towards St Ives. We stopped at Porthminster Beach where Mr VST's parents had set up a barbeque in anticipation of our arrival and cooked a vast quantity of sausages for the meat eaters. We were very lucky with the mild January weather which was very accommodating! Mr VST and I had a Quorn burger and Linda McCartney sausage each.

The afternoon continued with games on the beach, a visit to a spa and then a rock and roll dancing lesson. In the evening we went to the Zen Noodle Bar in Truro where Mr VST and I had some vegetable tempura to start followed by a bowl of soup, noodles, tofu and vegetables for Mr VST and vegetables, tofu and noodles that were supposed to be in a black bean sauce for me but there wasn't much black bean sauce.

Both the barbeque and the noodles were followed by birthday cake - mmm! The cake that followed the barbeque had been especially made by a friend of the birthday girl to be lactose free so that she could eat it. It was a delicious lactose free carrot cake that could only have been bettered by an accompaniment of tea!

We drove home after the meal and after breakfast this morning headed off to the supermarket to refill our empty cupboards and had our lunch plans scuppered as the bakery had run out of fresh cheese and onion pasties. I felt like some comfort food so we bought a fresh loaf of bread and a tin of soup each instead. I went for the ultimate comfort soup - Heinz Cream of Tomato and it was delicious.

After that we grazed on quite a lot of chocolate (diet went out of the window) including a proper home made hot chocolate and I didn't feel like eating supper after that. Mr VST made himself some fried eggs on toast.