"It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"
If you missed last month's post, find it here: "Food, Friends and Festivities."
If we could sum up December in one word, it would be BUSY! December is usually a busy month, no matter where we have lived, but this year, it was exceptionally busy.
We started off our month like any other with a Birmingham Vegans pizza meet up.
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Huge turn out this month. Photo Credit: Thom Milner. |
The Wellington Real Ale Pub has a cat that hangs out upstairs.
We had a wonderful time at the pizza night, as we do every pizza night. We ate good food, and hung out with great people.
We bought an Amazon Fire tablet to help with our blogging, and to skype with our families better. We got it for 34.99 GBP in a Boxing Day sale.
We spent the next few days getting ready for our up coming trips.
On December 4th, a couple of our friends and us went on a road trip to the Vegfest in Glasgow for the weekend. We had an excellent time, and it was great to see Glasgow again. To see our Glasgow weekend click here.
We were back in Birmingham for 2 days and then we went to our friend Plantbased Nurse's house for a potluck style dinner with a few of our friends from Birmingham Vegans. We all lived near Bearwood so we decided to meet up.
December 9th, we flew to Dublin, Ireland with a couple of our friends for 8 days. We took the coach bus to other cities, and tried to see as much of Ireland in the time that we had there. To see our trip to Ireland click here.
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Waiting for our flight to Ireland |
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The sun rising waiting for the bus to work. |
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Starter: Sweet potato, sweet corn and chilli soup with warm foccacia |
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Mains: Luxury nut and cranberry roast with seasonal vegetables |
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Dessert: Sticky toffee pudding with custard |
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Chameleon Bar |
We got to city centre and met our friends at the Birmingham Cruelty free fair.
We got a NY cheese cake and an amazing tofu sandwich from Unless Hardcore Vegan Catering. They travel around the UK going to different events.
There was a great turn out to the event.
We left the cruelty free fair with a couple friends and headed to Costco. Rumor has it they sell 700g Hoummous. We bought one.
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Costco! |
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On our way to Tamworth, the car started to feel funny. We pulled over and checked it out. We had run over a screw. Since the screw still had a washer on it the tire didn't deflate.
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Screw in the tire (tyre). |
10 minutes later we were on our way again. We still ended up arriving on time to our friends for dinner.
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Starter: Mushrooms and Garlic with a bun |
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Main: Schnitzel, mash, stuffing, brusselsprouts, carrots and corn |
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Dessert: Chocolate mousse with a ginger base, coconut, raspberries, with raspberry nice cream |
The next day we went to Plant Based Nurses's house and made some falafel wraps together.
He made us some chocolate frozen banana ice cream with peanut butter which was excellent.
Later that day we went to see the new Star Wars film which was decent. No spoilers. If you're a Star Wars fan you have to see it.
We worked for the next few days and then we got ready for our Christmas weekend away in Lincolnshire. Our friends welcomed us into their home with open arms. We had a lovely time during our first British Christmas. To see out blog post on our British Christmas click here.
On New Year we went over to a friends place and he made us curry for dinner. He made a spicy lentil curry and a mock chicken korma. Both of them were delicious. Now we are awaiting our invitation back over for more of his fabulous curry.
We hung around his house with a bunch of our friends, drinking and bringing in the new year together. We went to The Church around 1130 so we could do the countdown with lots of people. It was a really good night.
We left The Church around 2 am and headed to another friends for some sweet potato wedges. It was a really good night, and a great way to bring in the new year in England.
For our New Years resolution we have decided to commit to posting a new blog post every Wednesday starting in January. We are very excited to take our blog to this next step. We will have posts on veganism, travel, our trips and inspirational posts. For these monthly updates, they will be posted on the first Wednesday of every month.
To see what we are up to next month, find it here: "Veganuary"
Later that day we went to see the new Star Wars film which was decent. No spoilers. If you're a Star Wars fan you have to see it.
The next day we went to the Church pub in the Jewellery Quarter with some of our friends from the Birmingham Vegans group. The Church have a meat free Monday deal where all veggie and vegan food is 50% off. We even managed to get our non-vegan flat mate to hang out with vegans.
Afterward we went to an improv show that one of our friends was performing in. Aside from a drunk girl ruining parts of the show it went really well and our friend did a good job.
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Brazilian Vegetable Moqueca |
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Shia No-Beouf Burger |
On New Year we went over to a friends place and he made us curry for dinner. He made a spicy lentil curry and a mock chicken korma. Both of them were delicious. Now we are awaiting our invitation back over for more of his fabulous curry.
We hung around his house with a bunch of our friends, drinking and bringing in the new year together. We went to The Church around 1130 so we could do the countdown with lots of people. It was a really good night.
Party at The Church |
For our New Years resolution we have decided to commit to posting a new blog post every Wednesday starting in January. We are very excited to take our blog to this next step. We will have posts on veganism, travel, our trips and inspirational posts. For these monthly updates, they will be posted on the first Wednesday of every month.
To see what we are up to next month, find it here: "Veganuary"
It sounds like you guys had so much fun! I need to make sure I post more this year, too.
ReplyDeleteWe did. and we managed to post more!
DeleteIt sounds like you had a great holiday season! I also resolved to stick to a regular blogging schedule and I'm doing pretty well so far.
ReplyDeleteWe managed to stick to it. :)
DeleteYou always seem to have the best time! All the food looks delicious.
ReplyDeleteWe love Star Wars too!
The food was delicious. Life is what you make it. It is best to have a positive outlook on life.
DeleteThat sounds like lots of fun. Being with family and friends over the holidays is the best ever.
ReplyDeleteYeah it is. We were lucky enough to have some friends around.
DeleteThis is why we love the festive season... food family and festivities!
ReplyDeleteYeah, except we were missing the family part this year. :(
DeleteOh my goodness as a vegetarian I heartily approve of this three course meal. I am especially living for the luxury nut and cranberry roast yum x
ReplyDeleteAwesome! I hope your mouth it watering. haha
DeleteSounds like you had a great time! Such a wondeful time to be with family!
ReplyDeleteWe did. Too bad we didn't have family with us.
DeleteLooks like you had a spectacular time. The food looks out of this world amazing!
ReplyDeleteIt was a pretty amazing spread.
DeleteSounds like your British Christmas was a whole lot of fun. I love pizza and I am sure I would have loved the Vegan Pizza.
ReplyDeleteoh that pizza is soooo good!
DeleteYou are so lucky to go to Ireland. I have always wanted to go. Maybe soon and maybe I can run into some of the Game of Thrones cast while I am there too!!
ReplyDeleteHope you get there! It is a beautiful country.
DeleteIt looks like you had a busy month but yet a fun one indeed. December is the most wonderful time of year and the most busiest for most people. Thanks for sharing your wonderful experiences.
ReplyDeleteThank you for reading. We had to keep busy to not miss our families so much.
DeleteThat's a lot of fun, and make the most out of it. Cheers for.more exciting post every Wednesdays!
ReplyDeleteCheers! We succeeded on our goals.
DeleteYou should have a warning for pregnant women if you're going to show pictures of chocolate banana ice cream with peanut butter! I'm always impressed with how much variety you find in your food, it seems like it could be so hard to find vegan everywhere. Looks like you had a great holiday.
ReplyDeleteHahaha, I am so sorry about that! Next time!
DeleteMy goodness! That was a busy december! I got tired just reading it. But it sounded so fun.
ReplyDeleteThe food looked delicious too. I'm not a vegan but i think i might be tempted to be one because the vegan cuisines you showed all looked amazing
So many delicious meals we had. It was great.
DeleteSounds like you had a blast over the holiday season. I see from the photos lots of good food was had too :D
ReplyDeleteWe had a wonderful time. So full.
DeleteSo much good food and so many fab events with friends, you've been busy this year already! Hope you have a great 2017!
ReplyDeleteWe hope you do too!
DeleteAnything with food is good with me! I wish we had more events and festivals near us. I sure do love to eat and try out new foods at these events.
ReplyDeleteBirmingham was surprisingly busy during the holiday seasons.
DeleteWow! That was busy month indeed! I wouldn't be able to handle all of those events. I'd probably skip a day and just stay home. Lol. Glad you had an amazing December!
ReplyDeleteWe may have skipped a day. lol We only blog about the exciting things
DeleteIt sounds like a crazy busy December for you guys! I'm sure it was worth it though because you had so much fun as well.
ReplyDeleteIt went by fast. The whole year did.
DeleteWow. It looks like you all had a great time in December. It was busy, but looks like you all enjoyed yourselves to much. I am a big fan of pizza nights ;)
ReplyDeleteWe did. That pizza is great! We loved our pizza nights.
DeleteWOW! Such a busy December and I bet you also had a lot of fun with friends and family.
ReplyDeleteWe had a great time with our friends. Shame our family didn't visit us in England!
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