Well, not quite vegan.
When I first met my partner, James, I spent almost the whole of our first date asking him about his veganism. He said that most people tended to do that when they first met him, so he didn't mind me quizzing him.
As a teenager, I'd been a vegetarian, but this had been due to a home economics class focusing on fish. We had a chef come in to cook up a number of dishes and the class were basically forced to eat what the chef had cooked up. I despised fish. So of course, a simple 'sorry, but I'm a vegetarian' was enough to get me out of that pickle! Somehow I kept up the charade for 4 years, before a friend's chicken chow mein whilst at college was enough to send me back to being an omni.
I've also tried being vegan. But this was a month long test at University I'd set myself just to see if it was possible! And of course, it was! I'd always said since how I'd never eaten better in my whole life than during that month. But as a self-confessed cheese lover, it was not to continue.
Mine and James' first few dates were a real eye-opener; when I cooked for him, I'd scour the internet looking for interesting recipes for the two of us, and when he cooked, I'd get to try things that I never would have considered for one reason or another (the puy lentil soup was amazing; then he admitted it was straight out of a tub from the supermarket!).
2 months later, we found ourselves living together!!! (Yes, quick work!) And the fridge became stocked with soya milk (sooo much better than cow's milk on your cereal!); the cupboards dwindled of any animal-derived products; and the spices... well, there were certainly more jars of these than you could shake a wooden spoon at!
Having lived by myself for a number of years, I was so excited to finally be able to cook for someone else, and even moreso at the prospect that I'd fallen for someone that loved his food so much! I'm told that most vegans are big eaters; but not having come across too many, I have yet to prove this... although the number of yummy recipes I've come across in the last few months have certainly gone some way to proving the point!
So, I should note here that I have not (yet) made the decision to cut out animal products from my diet; but perhaps in the future, this may well be the direction for me. At home, I am pretty much entirely vegan (although a bit of cheese occasionally finds its way into my shopping basket!), and hence, to give it a name, I have become a default vegan.
I decided today to start sharing some of the recipes I come across. Why today? Well, I purchased some tofutti the other day to give it a try and decided that I should try making some cheesecake. We also had some over-ripe bananas. I figured therefore that I should attempt a banoffee cheesecake! It seems so far to be getting on well. But as they say... the proof of the pudding!!
So, if it does turn out as hoped.... my first recipe to be featured here will be CHEESECAKE!!! (with no cheese of course!!!)
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