April 2026 Blog Posts (5)

Sydney Vegan. Abolitionist. Welcome to my edition of Vegan Verve. This is a celebration of conscious eating and an empowerment of vegan products, producers and manufacturers. Vegan Verve hails all those who empower plant-based culture and we support you with our minds, our hearts and our bucks. We can create something special together for the animals, our health, the environment and all that is planet-friendly. This are a vegan run one page space.  It's also logical to support local…

This is a 5-day vegan meal plan as devised by myself.

Day 1.

Breakfast: 2 slices of wholemeal toast and a vegan spread which is Nooch (nutritional yeast)

Snack: 1 medium mango, 4 strawberries

Lunch: 1 large salad with lemon and olive oil dressing. One skillet flatbread with Spanish black olives and dried crushed chillies

Snack: 1 large bunch of grapes

Dinner: Air-ovened 3 blistered baby capsicums (red, orange and yellow) in olive oil stuffed with…

Spanish Gazpacho is a speciality cocktail drink that’s been drunk through-out the decades by a variety of well-known supporters of ‘Gazpacho’ itself. It is a regional spicy peppery tomato cocktail – different regions have their take on it. It’s iced for those sweltering hot days at the golf club etc. Ingredients include: fresh tomatoes; skinned and seeded, pepper, shallots, garlic, spring onions; chopped, choose a hot sauce from a diabolical heat range right through to a smokey heat range, a…

What I Eat – 3 Word Mantras. What's Yours?

1 big bowl of roast organic vegetables in picante sauce

Rhubarb and Strawberry Shortcake – New Zealand style

Loaded Jackfruit Bourguignon with carrots and mashed potatoes

Epic jacket potatoes with chilli con carne and all the trimmings

Leek and Silverbeet tart with Vegalomi

Plant-based sausage-rolls in puff pastry, harissa flavour

Zucchini and Cauliflower Risotto

Shitake mushrooms in a black…

The Vinegars:

Red Wine vinegar, Rice Vinegar, RAW apple cidar vinegar, Sherry vinegar

The Seasonings:

Salt and Pepper

Paprika

Sumac

The Oils:

Olive oil

Grapeseed oil

Canola oil

Safflower oil

Sunflower oil

All-purpose oil

The Olives:

Spanish black

Kalamata

Spanish green stuffed pimiento olives

mixed platter herbed olives

The Chillies:

a fresh long red…