Paige ╳ Parchment // 17 // Italy // Scorpio // Vegan // Fitness, Health and Lifestyle Blogger. // Looking to make a difference in the world. // Be nice to and inspire others // Appreciate life.
Vegan pancakes!!! Best vegan pancakes I’ve ever made, and it took me a few times to find the right ingredients. Turns out they’re made best when you add a mashed banana. (I’ll try to be more precise this time! I didn’t measure everything though, so I’ll estimate!)
Ingredients:
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1 mashed banana
- 1/4 to 1/2 cup of non-dairy milk
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- Around 1/4 tsp vanilla, maybe 1/8 of a tsp
- A dash of cinnamon
- 1/4 cup maybe a little less of brown or coconut sugar (or other)
- A little bit of agave syrup because hey I thought it would work and it did
(Toppings: Chocolate sauce [just mix some syrup with cacao powder] and cacao nibs [usually too bitter but tasted nice here! They were absolutely disgusting when I tried them the first time but really you don’t taste the bitterness here!] and a banana on the side)
Instructions:
Pretty basic really, just mash the banana then mix everything together! No particular order or anything here, just go with it! Flip the pancakes when they’re kind of bubbling.
I have my days where I wish I could just live in the wild. Those days are everyday. 😂But in all seriousness I can’t wait until I’m 18+ to be able to travel by myself or with a couple friends or even my future partner. Until then I have the memories of the beautiful Jamaican mountains to keep with me!
Sidenote: If you prefer this kind of thing to my usual food posts (which are going to become more scarce, I didn’t start this blog to make it a food blog!) then check out “savethepaige” on instagram!! My other account is “paigeofparchment” for the foodie stuff.
Ok, I’ll be honest with you. I wasn’t planning on posting this picture on my tumblr, but then I realized: This is actually a REALLY good recipe and I use it SO OFTEN. And so here you go; an extremely delicious way to cook your tofu or seitan!
Ingredients for the sauce:
- Ketchup
- Soy sauce
- Garlic powder
Optional/add-ins (when cooking):
- Spring onion
- Regular onion
- Bell pepper/capsicum
- Other spices or maybe asian-style herbs
- Spinach or other leafy greens
Instructions:
1. Prepare your sauce
2. If you are adding onions, start sautéing them now on a medium/high.
3. Sauté your tofu or seitan in a little bit of olive oil, vegetable broth or water, depending on which you use until the tofu/seitan crisps up a little and turns a golden shade. When golden shade reached, turn down the flame to a medium/low.
4. Add your sauce and stir until everything thickens a little
(If you’re adding leafy greens)
5. Take the tofu/seitan out of the pan
6. Add a little water (maybe 1/4 cup, if you need more you can always add it!) or veggie broth to the pan
7. Put in your spinach/kale/other leafy greens and just let them cook with the occasional stir until they’re nice and soft!
This tastes great with some rice or if you put them in a burrito/fajita kind of wrap with or without the rice. Just absolutely phenomenal and I can promise you I make these all the time! Worth the share :)
Sometimes it’s nice to just take some time to relax and listen to some music. If you have a similar cover to this then just lay it on the floor, add some pillows, then play some reggae jams! If you’re feeling it you can even make a cup of tea for more relaxation. This also makes a great place to meditate.
Quick recipe today for these little “brownie bites” and OH MAN they really taste like little brownies!! So good!
Really easy, you just need:
- 1 or 2 Tbsp of peanut butter
- 1 Tbsp of cacao powder (I use a different one for sauces and these “brownie bites” than I do for nicecream, this one is a darker cacao powder vs raw cacao powder for nicecream. It’s your choice but I find I need less cacao powder for a chocolatey taste and it’s also less bitter with this darker one)
- Non-dairy milk of choice (I used soy because it was the only one we had but I would’ve used almond if I had it)
- Sweetener of choice (I was out of maple syrup so I used sugar according to my taste. I would recommend coconut sugar if you do use sugar but I don’t have any :( need to buy some! But you can also use agave or other)
Basically you just need to melt the peanut butter then mix everything together!
(Also, sorry I’ve been gone for a few days, I’ve been going through some stuff, I mean I’m human too. I have my bad days but I am back today!)
Perfect to eat when you’re craving something chocolatey or just use it to top off your nicecream with some agave!
Before I start this post, I’d just like to take a second to welcome all my new followers! I appreciate you all taking the time to check out my blog and click that follow button! The only thing is, I feel some of you may have followed me thinking I am a food blogger. I am not, I am a lifestyle blogger. That said, here we go:
The importance of raw food
Eating fruit (even in the form of smoothies, juice or nicecream) is very important in order to stay healthy - whether that’s mentally or physically. I find that days where I don’t have something raw are always horrible days. I lack energy and I just feel so much heavier the whole day long.
Fruit improves your mood by so much and you will definitely notice the difference once you start to incorporate more fruits and veggies into your diet! Another thing, many vegans (myself included sometimes) forget the importance of veggies. So many vegan youtubers and such always show the fruit they eat and they stress the fact that bananas are a miracle food. They are, but if you’re only eating bananas with no diversity then your body will crave junk it shouldn’t. Maybe you’ll crave non-vegan foods or just vegan junk food. Try to keep your meals balanced with raw fruits and veggies, and healthy cooked carbs like rice and potatoes.
Who am I? Who is this “Paige” girl? What is my message? Why did I create this blog? Am I another one of those vegan food blogs?
I’ve been asking myself this a lot recently. My name is Hannah Paige, but I have always wished my parents had just named me Paige. They didn’t since my last name is Parchment; they thought kids in school would tease me by calling me “Paige of Parchment”. Well, we don’t really use parchment anymore, do we? :P Which brings me to the second focus of this post.
In light of recent events, you might be looking at this photo thinking “Wow, this was obviously posed” (or you might not, who knows). Especially after Essena O’neill came out with how “fake” social media is. Well, I think the contrary. Social media can be fake, but hear me out. This is why it’s not all as bad as she claims, and not as bad as you think (and I promise this has to do with introducing myself, please read, it’ll be worth it!) :
The degree as to how fake your social media is, depends solely on you, and the way you display yourself and your beliefs. It was Essena’s own fault that she decided to promote brands and companies she didn’t know anything about or didn’t completely agree with. Nobody forced her to do any of that, yet she still comes back around saying that she felt the pressure to be perfect. She put that pressure on herself.
The reality of it is that if you can’t handle some criticism and pressure you shouldn’t be putting yourself out there. Don’t set yourself up for failure. It will only come back to bite you in the ass. Too many teenagers these days want to be “social media famous” just so that others can want to look like them, tell them how beautiful they are, how genetically blessed they are. I’ll tell you right now that is selfish. That is greedy. That is what’s considered fake.
Maybe I did dress a certain way for this “photo shoot” I did with my friends, but that was just for fun, and I’m the only one who came with an outfit like this. I wanted to do a photo with this raw sort of feeling where you could see the emotion on my face like in this photo and I’ll admit I’m not photogenic like 80% of the time so I’m so happy we got this photo! But is it fake that I wore clothes I don’t usually wear because my friends and I wanted to play model for a day? No. Why? Because we did it for ourselves (or at least I did, I don’t know about the others). We didn’t do it for the approval of others, we didn’t do it to promote anything, it was just for fun. When you get to the point where you are doing photoshoots to make money and you don’t believe in what you’re promoting, that’s when it becomes fake.
People get social media famous because they are blessed with good genes, but they don’t do anything with their platform at the end of the day aside from celebrate themselves. And it’s really been bothering me lately.
So if you’re social media famous and you’re reading this: Step up. Make a change. Be different. Be controversial, unique. Nobody should be telling you “Oh you know your feed is similar to _____’s!” No. Don’t go stealing someone else’s message and promoting it as your own. Make your own message.
Too many vegan, social media famous people are telling other, younger vegans to spread the message. But how will that help if there is no real purpose behind their channel? I see too many teens with great potential wither away and burn out under the flames of someone “prettier” who doesn’t have anything to say but “buy this product, I’ll give you 10% off!”.
Keep your product. I don’t want to buy it.
So this is where the part about me comes in:
I’m not here to tell everyone my life is perfect. It is very much far from it. But I am here to show you that if you live a certain way and maintain a certain mindset, it does get better. I may not be a mental health professional, but I’ve been through enough to tell you that when life knocks you down you shouldn’t give in to others’ opinions.
I want to show others, especially young girls, that it’s positive to stand up for yourself and what you believe in. You don’t have to try and be like other, social media famous girls. I’ve always been the girl that doesn’t quite fit in one group perfectly. I talk to everyone, I treat others the way I would like to be treated, and I don’t change according to who I’m with. I am myself with everyone.
I want to send out the message of truly being yourself while still being myself if that makes sense. I want to show young girls and those that are already social media famous that if you need to practice what you preach.
And so, finally and therefore, I will continue doing what I love, which is 1. Promoting a healthy lifestyle and helping others to live ethically 2. Taking photos of people, nature, and animals and choosing to upload the photos that weren’t as posed or staged (with occasionally the posed one I took because I wanted to, not to promote something) 3. Posting original content that doesn’t go with the conventional way of thinking and 4. Encouraging others to practice what they preach and stand up for what they believe in.
Be yourself, don’t value yourself based on the opinions of others.
Confidence. Is. Key.
Integrity. Is. Key.
Don’t let yourself fall down the rabbit hole, it’s dark down there.
My name is Paige, and I climbed out of the rabbit hole.
And here it is! The recipe for vegan mac and cheese! I’ll try to be a little more accurate this time, but to be honest I always eyeball everything in the kitchen. So here you go:
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of cashews (soaked overnight or for 4 hours minimum in water)
- 2 potatoes
- 1/2 onion
- 2 medium carrots
- Onion and garlic powder
- Nutritional Yeast
- Salt (Optional)
- Black pepper
Instructions:
1. Soak cashews overnight or for 4 hours
2. Boil your potatoes for 2 minutes
3. Add in the carrots and boil for 5 minutes, start cooking pasta (I use corn pasta because it doesn’t bloat me)
4. Add the onion to the mix and boil for 7 minutes, save the broth
5. Blend cashews for around a minute or two on pulse in a food processor or high speed blender (ex. vitamix)
6. Use one of the spoons with holes in it to take the veggies out of the pot, and add it to the mix with some broth. Blend again.
7. When reached desired texture, add your spices
8. Pour the finished “cheese” onto your pasta
Unfortunately I couldn’t get any nutritional yeast because it isn’t really available to me where I am, but I added a little mustard powder and cumin to try and get a cheesier flavour. Careful, though, because you don’t want the “cheese” to taste like mustard if you try that alternative.
Alright, here is the recipe for homemade, vegan reese’s!! (warning, they’ll taste different according to the cacao powder you use so I’d recommend a dark, unsweetened one. Works better than the lighter from my experience). Made completely from experimentation and I encourage you to do the same in the kitchen!
Ingredients:
- Cacao powder (unsweetened)
- Almond milk (or other non-dairy milk of choice)
- Syrup/Agave
- Peanut butter
Instructions:
1. Mix your cacao powder with some syrup. The mixture should not be perfectly mixed together so you can still see cacao powder.
2. When that’s mixed, add the almond milk (or whatever non-dairy milk you choose) so that it mixes properly and you don’t have any un-mixed cacao powder.
3. Melt your peanut butter in the microwave for around 30 seconds (I’d use around 2 tablespoons maybe. I didn’t measure mine but I’d say 2-3 tablespoons is good).
4. Pour in the chocolate into some kind of cupcake holder (you can use paper or aluminum but I wouldn’t recommend an actual baking tray or anything like that).
5. Add the peanut butter then cover with chocolate.
6. Place in the freezer overnight (I’d say if not overnight you’ll need minimum 6 hours).
When serving, they melt a little quickly but don’t freak out because they’ll still be solid on the inside; they won’t be runny but you’ll get some chocolate on your fingers.
Preview for a recipe coming tomorrow! I want to post a picture where you can actually properly see the reese’s so I’ll post all the information about it then. But they’re completely 100% vegan and also completely 100% DELICIOUS. And you know what? They even taste like the real thing!! Can’t wait to share the info!
If you’re wondering about the size of this breakfast btw it was 3 bananas (my stomach can’t handle more yet, used to be able to have 5 but it’s a long story) and I have to have higher calorie breakfasts because they fuel me so much more efficiently for the rest of the day!
It feels so much better to actually have energy and be able to go for a run or a bike ride and not feel completely drained to the point of exhaustion afterwards!
I knew from the moment I started this whole blogger/instagrammer thing that I didn’t just want to post about food, so this is the start of a new kind of segment, I guess.
This is a picture I took of my brother.
It’s funny because we went out that day to take pictures of me in an animal rights t-shirt I got online, but I ended up hating all the pictures of myself and loving the ones he asked me to take of him in his pj’s (he wanted to see what he looked like).
But I just like the rawness of this picture. The fact that his hair is all tousled, his pjs are on even if he’s outside. There is nothing edited or modified in this picture, no planning, no thinking it through. Nothing. Just “Ok go stand in front of the wall.” He’s hardly even posing, too.
I miss this natural feeling in the real world. We’ve got so many touch screens now but we’re losing touch. And that’s the point of this new segment. It’s called: “In Touch”. I want to post about things that keep me in touch with reality and make me not forget what it means to be human; what it means to maintain my humanity.
Let’s stay in touch.
It can’t just be me, the whole world has to stay in touch with reality. We can change this world it we try hard enough, and undo our mistakes in a progressive way.
Can’t sleep so I’m going to post this nicecream pic instead! :) Not much to say about it, it’s just a berry nicecream topped with goji berries, cacao nibs and peanut butter. The only thing though: the cacao nibs are SO GROSS! I’m never going to order them again, it’s like chewing on solid, unsweetened, bitter cacao powder. I get the shivers just thinking about it! But I still enjoyed this, definitely will be making this again but without the nibs!
If you don’t know how to make nicecream, I’ll put some instructions below!
1. Freeze anywhere from 2-10 bananas, depending on how much you’re used to eating, overnight
2. When you’re ready for them, let them thaw for around 5-10 minutes, then pop them in a high-speed blender or food processor with a tiny dash of almond or other dairy-free milk to help the blending process
3. Blend until you have no more lumps and flavors like: blueberries, mixed berries, cacao powder, vanilla extract, etc. get creative! Then blend that in.
4. Serve it up and top with anything you want and you’re ready to go!
Ever heard of avocado toast? Well, if you’re a part of the health and fitness community on instagram, youtube, tumblr, or other social media then I’m sure you have! Avocado toast is exactly what it sounds like: mash up some avocado and put it on some toast, top it with some chili powder if you want (that’s what I did here) and you’re ready to go!
If you’re a cereal lover, you’ll love this breakfast!
It’s really just chocolate muesli and soy milk, topped with a banana and some chia seeds. I didn’t actually make any of these ingredients, but this is great for a quick breakfast in the morning!
Actually this is my first smoothie in a LONG time. My blender broke over the summer so I haven’t had a smoothie since then. However, I just used my food processor to make this.
Ingredients:
- 1 Frozen banana
- 1 Non-frozen banana
- Almond milk
- Water (just a teeny bit)
- Orange juice
- Blueberries (I used frozen)
So I was really craving some curry for lunch after realizing we had no ripe bananas for a smoothie and I decided to wing a curry recipe! I didn’t measure anything but that’s because I believe in cooking according to your taste. My preferences are different from yours so don’t be afraid to wing it! Have fun in the kitchen! That’s what cooking is about! (Baking is different, I wouldn’t recommend someone who has little experience in the kitchen to experiment with baking).
Ingredients:
- Chili powder
- Curry powder
- Thyme
- Onion/Garlic
- Veggies of choice
- Potatoes
- Lentils
- Coconut milk
- Water (instead of oil)
- Tiny bit of sugar
Optional:
- Salt
- Olive oil
Instructions:
1. Chop up all of your veggies and cook your rice and your lentils (prep)
2. Put the onions, garlic, potatoes and veggies (if they are fresh) into your Sauté pan and cover with the lid. Let it sauté for a few minutes in a little water on a medium heat.
3. Add the garlic, curry powder and coconut milk, and let it sauté some more.
4. When the potatoes start to soften add the lentils (and more water or coconut milk according to flavor and consistency). ** If you’re using frozen veggies, add those now too. **
5. Turn the heat down to low and let everything soak and absorb the flavors for a few more minutes, add the rest of the spices (Thyme, Chili powder).
6. Serve on a nice, fluffy bed of rice!
Side tip:
Try adding a couple basil leaves! I didn’t but it seems like it would taste good!
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