I found that hazelnut had quite a prominent hazelnut flavour, which, if you like hazelnut, probably isn’t a bad thing. Unfortunately, I do not like hazelnut. In my opinion Nutella is the worst possible item to put on your toast, even more so than marmite. That said, I do really enjoy a hazelnut latte and I did think that the hazelnut milk worked well in my coffee, I just didn’t like it much on it’s own. 

Rice milk seems to me to be a little bit to thin and watery for my liking, but the flavour isn’t particularly offensive. I probably wouldn’t go out of my way to buy some, but it would do if my options were limited. 

Luckily, as I have discovered this month, they are not. Oat still remains my primary choice, as it’s a good all rounder. Almond is very much up there too. Coconut is great for everything except hot drinks in my personal opinion (well, actually I would expect it to taste good in a hot chocolate). 

 

Whoopsie. No further comment.

One of the main, overlooked talents of ketchup is how good it is when cooked. Like fry something in ketchup and it brings out a the smokier, tastier flavour of the sauce. Unfortunately there are many people who cannot comprehend what they believe is a heinous crime in the culinary world. I beg to differ and I will go down with this ship. 

I fried some onions and peppers and then added my leftover rice and ketchup. A little bit of soy sauce too for good measure. This is essentially how you would make the filling for omurice. But omurice requires an omelette, which I did not have for obvious reasons. 

My delicacy was met with a mix of horror and appreciation by the internet when I uploaded a picture and poll on my personal Instagram. Nonetheless, I enjoyed it and it’s my food, so that’s what matters. 

For dinner my aunt was making a roast. I found a recipe for a pistachio and cranberry stuffed mushroom which I thought would go well, so I made that. But we didn’t have enough pistachios and it’s been rainy so I skipped the shop and opted for crushing up a bag of mixed nuts. 

It was a little boring but with a load of extra cranberry sauce and some gravy it did the job. The rest of the roast was pretty standard, and there’s nothing to be faulted about a roast. 

It was a little late by the time I got to breakfast so I had four slices of toast, with various things on top. This included a very thin layer of miso paste (I was interested to see if it worked – and it did) and strawberries and yoghurt. Of course, the miso was separate to the strawberries and yoghurt. 

For lunch I ate the rest of the black rice and some of the chickpea curry. As mentioned before, I wasn’t a huge fan of the curry and it had not grown on me over time. Still, black rice is great. 

This was a meal that I had quite fancied the sound of, as I quite like brazil nuts and artichoke. But for some reason, whenever I like the sound of a Mindful Chef meal, it ends up not being as nice as the ones that I think sound a bit weird. 

It did feel incredibly healthy to eat though and was still pretty good. 

To be honest with you, more than anything, right now I just feel relieved to have finished up writing all the posts that I was falling behind with. Also, it is getting to be a bit of a drag writing all these Veganuary posts and I’m feeling like I can’t quite be bothered to write up anything else, so I’ll be relieved to get to the end and start writing normal content again.