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Hi everyone, I'm so happy to be back with some more fun, vegan recipe's that you can try at home. In this video myself and my pal Joe Keogh make jackfruit taco's. Hope you enjoy! If you try this recipe please send me your creations using the #FoodwithFriends hashtag. Enjoy! Gabrielle x 

Ingredients:

1 can of jackfruit in water (seeds removed and chopped) Soft tacos or wraps 3 radishes Bunch Coriander 2 limes 1 cup red cabbage shredded 2 tsps smoked paprika 1 tsp chilli powder 1 tablespoon tomato puree 1/4 cup water 1 tsp onion powder 1 tsp garlic powder vegan mayo sriracha  sauce  a pinch of cayenne pepper

Method:

1. Chop the red cabbage into thin slices (please be careful of your fingers!)

2. Add the juice of 2 limes to the cabbage & add some sea salt. Leave this to the side

3. Add some olive oil or oil of your choice to a hot pan & add the drained jackfruit. Cook the jackfruit for a couple of minutes, making sure to keep breaking apart and mushing the jackfruit a little bit

4. Add the spices to give the jackfruit flavour: smoked paprika, chilli powder, tomato puree, onion powder, garlic powder & 1/4 of a cup of water.

5. Chop some radishes into thin slices. This is optional but adds some lovely colour to  the tacos.

6. For the sauce: add some fresh lime juice to some vegan mayonnaise. You can also add some sriracha  sauce (or sweet chilli sauce would do!) to this which turns it pink & amazing.

7. Add the radishes, cabbage, jackfruit mixture and the sauce to a taco or wrap & enjoy!

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Watch how Joe and I made them here: 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳

A lot of people, young people in particular, that commit suicide do it because they believe life has no meaning. They don't realize they're meant to give it meaning. The point is to add life to your years, not add years to your life or subtract years from your life. You don't find meaning in life, you create it for yourself. I want someone to create a TV show where the focus is on first experiences throughout several people's entire lives and documenting how different they are. Sort of like Boyhood but as a TV show and from several different perspectives, showing that life only has meaning when we give it one. When we create a meaning for ourselves. That will hit hard for anyone thinking of committing suicide better than 13 Reasons Why did anyway.

See, the thing is so many people confuse life with reality. They literally think it's the exact same thing. They're similar, I will say that. But only because our consciousness creates our reality. It’s a different viewpoint for every individual. Therefore it can only have meaning when that individual gives it one. When they put meaning into it.  Life is you. Reality is just what you’re taught and told to see, hear, feel and think. But you make it your own by thinking about something you’re passionate about and interpreting it your own way. It's all we ever really do and we don’t realize we’re doing it. Science will tell you no two pairs of eyes see reality in exactly the same way. And a TV show documenting different people's perspectives of reality will show that. Someone needs to get on the script for that TV show as soon as possible. 13 Reasons Why did well in showing us what the consequences of taking our life would be.  Now let's have a TV show showing us what individual life experiences there could be if we DON'T take our life. 

Do you know why a child acts like it loves life? Because it makes it their own. They put meaning into it so naturally. It makes them happy. And also first experiences. Your first experiences are that of when you were a child. The physical world was entirely new to you. It was such a wonder. So big and bright and beautiful and you opened your eyes on that world for the very first time and you were in complete awe. What happened? Nothing happened. You just grew up and you lost the point to it all. Life didn't become meaningless. Reality just made you believe it did. Bad experiences outweighed the good experiences. But if you keep experiencing something, you'll realize it all leads up to who you are. Therefore none of it is either bad or good. It's just experience. And you're living that experience. Isn't that enough for you? When I say life is a beautiful thing, I'm saying you're a beautiful thing. And you are.

There's a song I listen to a lot. It's a self-written song by quite a well known artist in the UK called Gabrielle Aplin. It's called ‘Lying To The Mirror’. Please listen to it and come to know what I know. That life is only what you make of it and if you take your life, you’re taking away a perspective of the Universe that gives meaning, value and importance to it.