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Junk Food Forever: Vegan Mofo Day 2

On By ClareIn Plymouth, Veganmofo1710 Comments

Although Samphire kinda sounds like your average quiche and lentils 70’s vegetarian joint. Instead it’s pretty much the best vegan fast food place ever. I’ve snuck in here once before but all Kate got was a take away piece of cake. Time to visit together.

After a warm welcome we were sat next to the record player. It was playing Sinatra and we would have changed it if we could only decide on the same music.

‘Abba?’

‘God no.’

‘Simon and Garfunkle?’

‘No way in hell. Oh look, Madness!’

‘No.’

Is being sat next to the record player the leading cause of divorce? Not with Samphire’s excellent menu to distract us. Samphire sell all sorts of awesome. Crepes, pizzas, buckets of chicken, and burgers. You know I can’t resist a good burger.

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I went for the Deep South. Two pieces of my new favourite fired chicken (with apologies to V-Rev. I still love you) a whole mountain of slaw, a slice of tomato and some of that lettuce that’s absolutely perfectly sized for a burger. There was some deconstruction involved before I could slap that top bun on and get the thing in my mouth. I removed the tomato, because I think it’s gross, and went the colourful veggie packed slaw. I only have three words to describe it. They are all nom.

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On the side of my giant burger I had some dirty fries. Technically they were ordered for us to share. Hosin Poison: fries with crispy duck, hosin sauce and spring onion on top. Unfortunately Kate decided she didn’t like hosin sauce so I had to eat them all by myself. I had to take a few of them home in a box but I’m proud to say that at the end of the day I’d ate the lot of them.

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Kate ordered the burger I had last time: Meatball Mania. Pretzel bun, meatballs, marinara sauce, pesto and a topping of their sharp cheddar. Other vegan meatballs go to sleep at night wishing they were these vegan meatballs. Perfect.

We were so full from our feast that we didn’t need to eat dinner. Well except for the two whoopie pies we bought to go. Samphire is THE place to go for vegan fast food in South Devon.

Reinventing The Veggie Option: Vegan Mofo Day 1

On By ClareIn Veganmofo171 Comment

I went away for a multi day event this summer. It was fully catered and to be fair they did a great job. Only it got a little repetitive. Lunch on day one was a jalapeño hummus roll. I liked that I didn’t get standard sliced white bread and that the hummus had a little extra flavour. The second day my hummus came on white bread but had some roasted red pepper flavour. On the last day I got chopped raw onion on my hummus sandwich. 

So after that crash course in hummus sandwiches I developed a few opinions about how to do it right.

  1. No sliced white bread. I love a good Warburtons Toastie as much as the next person but when filling your sandwich with chickpea spread you want to use something with a bit more bite. Something crusty. At least something with seeds.
  2. Use veggies to add texture. Also they are nutritious or something. Unless you have access to a tooth brush you might want to stay away from raw onions. You might want to go for greens, sprouts, greated carrot, red pepper… crunchy is good.
  3. Flavoured hummus makes life less monotonous. Plain hummus is great but when you get given the same thing for every meal ever you start to feel like you never want to see it again. Today’s modern supermarket stock all kinds of flavours. Use them to keep from going mad.


Today’s hummus sandwich is on a crusty seedy roll, comes with baby spinach and has a spicy jalapeño flavour. 

It’s Almost Mofo

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2009. That was the first time I took part in Vegan Mofo on the old blog. I’ve done it ever since, though for the last two years it’s only been on Instagram. This will be the first year we’re doing vegan mofo on this blog and the first year we’re actually vegan for it. Yay! 31 days of posting about vegan food start on Sunday. See you then.

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In the meantime I’m off to do my roots.