Vegan Food Pimp Cook Book

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Every time someone chooses a vegan meal, they’re choosing a better world. And that’s the one I’m fighting for,” Nicholson stated.

Great chatting with you Lynn – after trying out your super hamper we are looking forward to finding out more about you….. So let’s start with how did your catering career begin? We’re presented with a typically beautiful dish, a vegetable chilli piled high with riotous colour. Alongside homemade tortilla strips, there’s potato, tomato, sweetcorn, kidney beans and peas, all lightly bathed in a rich and spicy sauce. Individually everything retains its distinctiveness, which is further boosted by delicate seasonings. The potatoes are emboldened by turmeric and soy sauce, while the tomatoes benefit from the overall flavour of the dish. It’s honestly the tastiest meal I’ve eaten for weeks.

Plant Pioneers Spicy No Meat Pizza – Sainsbury’s

Nicholson, a trained nutritionist, previously worked as a vegan chef in South Africa for the Vervet Monkey Foundation. The chef, who hails from Brighton, is driven by a passion to change people’s minds about plant-based food. My friend Jacqui (who I did a Q&A with about becoming vegan last year) spent a week volunteering at Jacob’s Ridge (better known as The Pig Village) and you can read all about it here. Thanks, Jacqui! Plenty of interesting things have happened through her travels around the world, but cooking and animal welfare are her main passions. “When I became vegan, it became obvious there were hardly any vegan chefs,” she tells me. “So, I wanted to take the food people eat on a daily basis and veganise it.” A trained holistic nutritionist, she shies away from ‘plastic meat and fake fish’, as they have little place in a truly healthy lifestyle. “I went to loads of vegan restaurants and everything was bland. So I worked on new menus all the time. It was so lovely to see people go: ‘This is amazing!’ I love it…”

My week at Jacob’s Ridge (or Excuse me Miss, but there appears to be a pig trying to get in my tent) Lynn Nicholson, aka the “Vegan Food Pimp,” is a chef and animals rights activist on a quest to change the nature of British menus. ElectroLyfe Juice Bar is the perfect place to satisfy your craving for a good, cold-pressed juice, smoothie, salad, wrap, and even electro-shots. Owner Quavisa Henderson has outdone herself with the veggie wrap, Sunrise Electro-Juice, and Tropical Sensation Electro-Smoothie. For an extra boost to your smoothie, make sure you add on plant-based protein and chia seeds! You can visit daily, noon to 4pm on Sundays and 9am to 5pm Monday through Saturday. Well food has always been a part of my life. My Nan was an excellent pastry chef and my Mum always cooked everything from scratch. Meal times were always important, we sat at a table, we talked, we shared our day, our positives and discussed anything that was on our minds. Food was always exciting, we looked forward to meal times, which, I feel is important, nothing worse than looking down at a plate and thinking, yawn! We hear you have lived in Spain and South Africa – what were these countries like for you vegan wise and how have they influenced your recipes now?Now of course we have tried one of your hampers and it was fantastic. What can we expect to see hamper wise from you in the coming months? VeggieVisionTV catches up with vegan chef Lynn Nicholson and finds out what inspires and fuels her passion for creating show stopping recipes.