Happy Wednesday everyone! I hope you’ve had a great day so far!
We’ve just got back from a great day out in Bristol City. The sun was shining, it was warm, and we had lots of exercise walking up and down the hilly city. We even decided to ditch the car for the day, and instead walked the 2.5 miles into Bath city centre and hopped on a train. It was all good fun
As is customary on a Wednesday, I’m going to head over to Jenn’s WIAW party, check out all the delicious eats and get inspired! But before I head off there, let me share what we ate today:
Breakfast
Delicious North Staffordshire oatcakes with a sprinkling of ground linseed and a big dollop of cherry & berry preserve. These oatcakes take more prep than regular pancakes, but they’re so worth it.
Lunch
On the way to Bristol, I sent a tweet asking for recommendations of a great place to eat a vegan lunch in the city. The first tweet back recommended Falafel King on Cotham Hill… so that’s where we went
By the time we’d walked across the city, stopping along the way to admire the graffiti art…
walked up the Christmas Steps
walked up St Michael’s Hill and down Cotham Hill, we were definitely ready for some lunch! Lil’ L and I chose to have the humous platter, which came with four falafels, chickpeas and a soft, warm, wholemeal pitta.
M chose to have falafel in a laffa. This included six falafel and your choice of salad fillings and dressings. M pretty much included everything in his laffa. It looked so delicious. My photo really doesn’t do it justice.
I can’t wait to have a try at re-creating one of these at home.
Falafel King is a great cafe/restaurant. It has a beautiful seating area downstairs. I didn’t take a photo as I didn’t want to put people off their falafel
but here’s a bit of footage from the Guide2Bristol site.
We had a great time at the restaurant and we’ll definitely be back
Drinks
Hot water and lemon
1 small black coffee
1 soy cappuccino
water (not enough!)
1 Clipper Organic Sleep Easy tea. Last week, Tesco substituted my usual Nettle tea with this one. I’m glad they did as I’ve now discovered another herbal tea that I love. This one contains cinnamon, chamomile, rooibos, lemon balm, valerian and natural orange flavouring. I love its beautiful, delicate flavour so I’ll definitely buy it again
Snacks
raw cashews & dried raisin mix (shared on the train)
piece of home made zucchini brownie. This was too dry, so I need to do some work on the recipe.
Dinner
Home made pizza left over from Monday night. Lil’ L and I had great fun making this pizza. We made the base with half wholemeal and half white flour, then covered it with a generous layer of home made pesto (which included a cup of spinach and lots of ground cashews). We then packed on as many veggies as we could! We used courgette, red pepper, yellow pepper, red onion and mushroom, all cut finely and a sprinkling of pine nuts.
I think we’ll have to name this one the ’confetti pizza’!
The pesto and veggies were so delicious that we didn’t feel the need to add any cheese on. We certainly didn’t miss it!
Dessert
Banana, blueberry & chocolate ‘thickie’
Well, that’s me done for another WIAW. Time to head over to the lovely Jenn’s and get inspired. Hope to see you there! xx
p.s. Don’t forget to enter my giveaway to win some home made raw chocolates. The closing date is Friday 17th Feb, 9pm GMT.











