I may have had a bit too much to drink last night while “testing” out my birthday present from the boy; see beautiful decanter and glasses in the photo below – LOVE.

For the record that £7.99 bottle of pinot tasted like it set me back at least £17! I’m pretty sure the “too much” came when we decided to try the 2nd bottle, but that’s besides the point. The actual point is that my head felt a bit rough this morning and par for course all I wanted was pizza… pizza and cola. There is something about me and hangovers and bad food – normally I’m not a junk food type person but the day after a good night it is all I crave.

Problem is since going vegan a few months ago I can no longer just hop on the internet in the middle of the day and get a hot, greasy, pizza delivered to my door. Which in reality is probably not so much of a problem. I’m actually working on perfecting my dough so then I can keep a few on hand in the freezer for occasions like this. I’ve got a decent liquid “cheese” recipe I’ve been using and it tastes remarkably like actual pizza once you load on some yummy, home made tomato sauce and lots of toppings.

Here’s proof:

Recipes for all coming soon – once I perfect that damned dough! Actually trying out a new harder “cheese” that I can then shred on lasagne this week as well so it’s definitely still a work in progress but certainly does the trick.

But, I digress, point is today I was hungover which meant I was craving naughty food and I can’t have naughty food so I had to substitute. Not that we had that much to work with, today is also our local vegbox delivery day so it’s all a bit bare in the kitchen. We did have a half a can of mixed beans in the fridge, some of my very own salsa in the cupboard, 2 small avocados ripening in a paper bag and some soft corn tortillas in the freezer. I’ve taken to keeping some of those lovelies on hand as of late. Due to health issues I am no longer eating anything with vegetable oil or deep fried so no more store bought tortilla chips for me. But I’ve found a solution – simply cut the soft corn tortillas into triangles and pop them under the grill for 2 minutes, sprinkle with a bit of salt and voila!

So I made myself some tortilla chips because a taco didn’t seem naughty enough :) I also put the beans in a pot on the stove with a spoon of salsa and a sprinkle each of cayenne pepper, garlic salt & cumin – squashing them a bit as they warmed up into some lovely chunky refried beans. The avocados I mashed into guacamole with a sprinkle of salt, a spoon of salsa, and a couple drops of lemon juice from the handy plastic lemon I keep in the fridge.

BOOM! Lunch is served:

Tortilla chips, salsa, guacamole & refried beans – see it feels naughty when you eat it – but it’s not! Protein – check, healthy fat – check, some spice to clean the haze from my hungover head – check. Oh and it’s delicious and took about 5 minutes to prepare.