March 31, 2008: Tempeh Amongst A Lil' Less Buffalo

Buffalo tempeh "wings" in addition to nosotros were keen to plough over them a go. However, getting to a greater extent than or less fly sauce going hither inwards Commonwealth of Australia proved to hold upwards a chip of a challenge. It's composed of exclusively 3 ingredients - Louisana-style hot sauce, ketchup in addition to butter - in addition to hence it seemed of import to instruct all the components right. However, I've never seen such hot sauce on sale in addition to a chip of meshing question indicated that it wouldn't hold upwards realistic to endeavour to arrive myself. Instead I decided to brand our favourite Chinese manner barbeque sauce - it looked similar having the necessary consistency in addition to zing, if non the correct ingredients or origin.

Tempeh is a funny one. It has a substantial, nearly meaty, density to it but it's a chip dry. I had high hopes hither but fifty-fifty the sauce didn't furnish sufficient wet for me. We were rather taken yesteryear the crumbing though, in addition to Michael suggested that nosotros could endeavour it amongst tofu - afterward all, it plant corking for the 'fish' fingers. I'm foreseeing a sauce squabble too, amongst Michael voting Chinese-style in addition to me on Team Tartare.

If you'd straightaway at these wings (no buffalo or birds require hold upwards harmed!), caput over to 28 Cooks.

April 1, 2008: Spicy Cauliflower Soup In Addition To Braised Mushrooms

spicy cauliflower soup too braised lobster mushrooms, provided past times the here.

April 2, 2008: Stuffed White Nut Roast

last year alongside i of Johanna's recipes hence it seemed most sensible to bring together inwards her electrical current spider web log event, A Neb at Nutroast, as well as attempt a novel recipe. Or, fifty-fifty to a greater extent than daringly, an former recipe.

As I mentioned inwards passing last time, my root nut roast sense a twosome of years agone was non a rattling pleasant one. I had flora the recipe on the website of the Vegetarian/Vegan Society of Queensland as well as decided to laid upwardly it for dinner piece Michael was off playing sport. Grinding the breadcrumbs as well as nuts, zesting as well as chopping as well as frying took an awfully long fourth dimension inwards our poky trivial kitchen, as well as hence the roast had to bake for an hour! I barely had the unloosen energy to describe together about side veges as well as I was only virtually laid upwardly to yell when the golden, aromatic loaf came out of the oven as well as hence would non form from the baking paper. I knew, equally I chewed as well as picked newspaper fragments out of my mouth, that the roast tasted great, but much fourth dimension would induce got to overstep earlier I attempted that again.

By straight off I felt virtually laid upwardly to conquer the stuffed white nut roast, as well as it proved much easier alongside Michael at domicile to assist. He chopped as well as sauteed piece I operated the nutrient processor, as well as nosotros both mixed as well as layered as well as patted it all down. I took extra attention to grease the baking newspaper well, as well as the roast slid out of it beautifully. It's a rattling nutty roast indeed, non also stodgy when sliced thinly, brightened alongside flavours of parsley as well as lemon. The golden, chewy crust is delicious when it's fresh from the oven but it softens later. Although it doesn't resemble meat at all, the crust as well as stuffing both reminded me of long distant roast chickens.

We ate this roast on that root nighttime alongside fresh spinach, sauteed mushrooms as well as capsicum, as well as a generous splash of gravy. Since hence I've been enjoying it on sandwiches alongside to a greater extent than spinach leaves as well as a dab of mayonnaise.

Stuffed white nut roast
(taken from the Vegetarian/Vegan Society of Queensland website, attributed at that spot to Vegan Feasts past times Rose Elliot)

3 onions, finely chopped
6 tablespoons olive oil
4 tablespoons manifestly flour
300mL water
450g of cashews, blanched almonds and/or macadamias, Earth coarsely inwards a nutrient processor
400g breadcrumbs
4 tablespoons lemon juice
grated zest of the lemon
salt as well as pepper
freshly grated nutmeg
1 teaspoon mixed dried herbs
a handful of fresh parsley, chopped

Preheat the oven to 190 degrees C. You volition involve a huge breadstuff loaf tin or 2 smallish loaf tins. Line alongside baking newspaper as well as grease thoroughly.

Heat 2 tablespoons of the olive petroleum inwards a large saucepan as well as nipper 2 of the onions, covered, over depression rut for virtually 10 minutes. Stir them occasionally. The recipe emphasises non allowing the onions to brownish at all, but I can't run across the harm! I intend it's virtually keeping the roast white. Stir inwards the flour as well as then, in i lawsuit it's evenly distributed, the water. Keep cooking as well as stirring until the mixture thickens.

Take the mixture off the heat. Add the nuts, 225g of the breadcrumbs, lemon juice, salt, pepper as well as nutmeg.

In a form bowl, mix together the remaining ingredients: oil, onion, breadcrumbs, lemon zest, dried herbs as well as fresh parsley.

Pat virtually one-half of the nut mixture into the loaf tin(s) as well as shine over the surface. Next, spoon over all of the stuffing mixture from the bowl. Finally, layer on the remaining nut mixture as well as flatten the elevation gently alongside the dorsum of a spoon.

Bake the nut roast for virtually an hour, until lightly browned on the exterior as well as theatre inwards the middle.

April 6, 2008: Leftover Makeover - Mocha Cupcakes

chocolate raspberry sandwich cookies was every bit a thank-you gift to Tracy in addition to Lee for lending us camping ground gear for Golden Plains. But a lot of the cookies were only also difficult in addition to crunchy, in addition to I left the gift-giving a niggling also late. Thankfully I did intend fast plenty to freeze the leftover cookies in addition to icing to recycle them into mocha cupcakes.

The java cake is from Nigella's recipe for cappuccino cupcakes, topped amongst the leftover chocolate icing in addition to sprinkled amongst cookie crumbs, which were soil upwards inwards the nutrient processor. Up early on in addition to unadjusted to a Blue Planet without daylight saving, I had plenty of fourth dimension to bake in addition to decorate these earlier coming together upwards amongst Tracy in addition to Lee for a 9:30 breakfast!

A quick pre-breakfast gustation test.

April 7, 2008: Tofu Inwards Lemongrass Broth

Pad Thai coming out of our kitchen. Luckily, every minute presently every minute I mentioned this to Cindy, she pointed me inwards the administration this recipe from Nourish Me.

April 30, 2008: Rosemary Too Cheese Bites

dip too crackers too flora fourth dimension left over to endeavour baking these rosemary too cheese biscuits anyway! The recipe is from Anna at Morsels & Musings.

May 3, 2008: Quinoa Alongside Dark Beans In Addition To Sweetness Potato

Yeah, That "Vegan" Shit. There it's credited to the Post Punk Kitchen forum, in addition to from PPK dorsum to Women's Health Magazine. It seems that everyone's been charmed past times it but me, in addition to thus don't permit my indifference deter you lot from making it. It's the Beirut of quinoa salads.

May 11, 2008: Leftover Makeover - Colcannon

knishes too bangers too crush yielded extra shredded cabbage too mashed potato. I figured that they could easily travel transformed into some variety of patty, too a wander some the network produced mushroom paprikash, it was a fine, warming wintertime meal.

May 25, 2008: Nutty Carrot'n'cumin Roast

cumin, carrot together with cashew nut roast from Wendy of A Wee Bit of Cooking. I starting fourth dimension caught sight of it when Johanna presented her Neb at Nut Roast spider web log effect final month. Since I soil my ain cashews together with breadcrumbs they took a loooong fourth dimension from pantry to plate, the 4 serves actually are a fleck on the pocket-size side, together with I seriously overestimated the sum of cumin I was supposed to add. Nevertheless they were tasty together with substantial, earning high praise from Michael.

We topped them with a trivial mayonnaise together with ate them amongst mixed greenish leaves together with baked fennel. The baked fennel was a trivial experiment on my business office - though the segments ended upwards looking a fleck dry, they were tender with chewy caramelised edges. This has operate past times away my favourite means to larn to know unfamiliar vegetables - a fleck of olive oil, tabular array salt together with pepper together with xx minutes inwards the oven seems to select out their best.

If you'd similar to attempt this cute together with comforting carrot'n'cumin roast for yourself, caput on over for A Wee Bit of Cooking.

May 28, 2008: Chickpea Cutlets

baked tomatillo salsa. Their powers combined degree a burger that non exclusively tastes fantastic, but tastes similar you're doing your trunk a favour.

Chickpea cutlets
(the recipe is everywhere, but appears to bring been posted to Chow.com yesteryear the authors themselves)

1 loving cup cooked chickpeas (I used a 400g can, drained)
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 loving cup wheat gluten (I used Lotus 'gluten flour' from Allergy Block)
1/2 loving cup breadcrumbs
1/4 loving cup vege stock or water
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 cloves garlic, minced (I truly used the dry out powdered stuff)
1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1/2 teaspoon Hungarian paprika
1/4 teaspoon dried rubbed sage
extra stone oil for frying or greasing

Mash the chickpeas too stone oil together inwards a bowl until smooth. Add the remaining ingredients too combine to degree a dough. Knead the dough for nigh three minutes, until gluten strings form. Divide the dough into iv pieces too degree them into patties, no to a greater extent than than 1.5 cm thick.

Now y'all tin bake or shaver them. I did a combination of both: frying inwards a petty stone oil until golden on both sides, too therefore baking for a farther xv minutes to produce through.

June 1, 2008: Pumpkin Spelt Muffins Ii

pumpkin in addition to spelt muffins. And I made roughly changes:

• I had a bottle of pear juice concentrate at the induce to substitute for the deadening hr in addition to a one-half taken to trim back a litre of apple tree juice to syrup;
• Since the pear juice immediately lacked an chance to travel infused amongst peppercorns, cinnamon sticks in addition to coriander seeds, I blended inwards 1/4 teaspoon of each of these spices, ground;
• I folded inwards chopped 86% cocoa chocolate.

Adding minimally-sweetened chocolate to these soft, gluey muffins had simply the upshot I had hoped for. These muffins experience completely indulgent, pause upward my workday afternoon, in addition to are a superior pick to the overpriced chocolate bars inwards the neighbouring nutrient court.

June 3, 2008: Caramelised Onion As Well As Fennel Tart

I'm non certain that the motion painting inwards a higher house does jurist to this savoury tart, though caramelised onions are rarely pretty things. However, I've learned what a mellow delicacy they are as well as am no longer repelled past times their appearance. Nor should you lot hold upwardly - this tart is a perfect lite tumble repast alongside a curt listing of ingredients as well as straight-forward preparation. Just toss together a salad of light-green leaves piece it's inwards the oven as well as you're done!

The recipe belongs to Dayna, alongside her perpetual Vegan Visitors, as well as you lot tin banking concern stand upwardly for it out on her blog. Though she recommends that it tin hold upwardly served warm or chilled, I'd urge you lot to to bask it fresh. Puff pastry is never quite the same at whatever other time, though I must acknowledge that the onions took on the near intriguing bluish tinge a twenty-four hours later!

June 11, 2008: Spaghetti Together With Bombballs

soy bombs - we've made together with enjoyed the repeatedly. Each time, Cindy has made some muttered comment almost using the soy bombs equally meatballs inwards a spaghetti 'n' meatball agency dish. We decided it was worth giving the reckon a crack, together with Cindy drummed upward this bolognese recipe from here. Basically I followed all the steps upward until the frying, together with baked them inwards a preheated (180 degree) oven instead of plopping them inwards the frypan. They likely had almost one-half an hr all up, amongst numerous stops to rotate them about. Baking them likely leaves yous amongst slightly drier bombs than frying does, but you're too saving yourself a decent sum of oil. It's your selection really.

Then it was fourth dimension for the bolognese - I followed Buttons' directions to the missive of the alphabet - solely substituting some chilli flakes for the fresh chillies she'd used (and dropping the tempeh of shape - its house existence taken hither past times the soy bombs). It's a pretty neat sauce recipe - the sun-dried tomato, chilli together with artichokes struggle it out for flavor dominance, but they destination upward sharing themselves around inwards a delicious gustatory modality compromise. All that was left to produce was some speedily-boiled spaghetti together with nosotros were practiced to go. Pour the bolognese over the soy bombs (or delicately submerge them inwards the sauce, depending on how many pots yous desire to use), together with scoop them upward onto a pile of spaghetti. Gold!

June 15, 2008: Satay Burger Sauce

those chickpea cutlets again, here's a satay burger sauce recipe. It's ultra-thick for minimum drippage, sugariness as well as crunchy. However, ours came upwards brusque on the oestrus degree - I simply didn't add together plenty ruby-red chilli flakes. I intend a 'lil fresh ruby-red chilli would actually liven this upwards side yesteryear side time.

The recipe comes from a listing of Yeah, That "Vegan" Shit). That's a recipe listing we'd create good to operate our means through, isn't it? Maybe it'll educate into a serial of themed posts. It'll move hard to tear myself away from those chickpea cutlets, though - this fourth dimension I tried 1 of Lisa's adaptations, using crushed Vita Brits instead of breadcrumbs. I didn't honor whatever divergence inwards the patties as well as this is the to a greater extent than convenient approach inwards this solid - when Michael's non sampling Melbourne's cafe-poached eggs he's inhaling a bucketful of Vita Brits as well as muesli, therefore they're always, e'er on hand.

Satay Burger Sauce

Finely dice/mince 1 pocket-size onion, 1 clove of garlic as well as 1 ruby-red chilli. Heat 2 teaspoons of sesame oil inwards a saucepan as well as saute the onion, garlic as well as chilli until the onion is translucent. Stir inwards 1 loving cup of natural crunchy peanut butter until it has melted. Add 1/4 loving cup teriyaki sauce (we simply used soy sauce as well as a splash of rice vino vinegar), 2 teaspoons chocolate-brown sugar, 1/4 loving cup water, 1 teaspoon love apple tree paste, 1 teaspoon tahini as well as salt as well as pepper, to taste. Simmer for x minutes, as well as then serve over your favourite burger recipe.

July 20, 2008: Quick Light-Green Soup

Chattanooga, in addition to then I planned to furnish her alongside something good for you lot to crusade to redress the balance. She likewise had to adapt to the conditions - I'd come upward dorsum to a flare-up of unseasonable warmth, but Cindy got off the airplane into a to a greater extent than typical wintertime day: wet, windy in addition to cold. Luckily, The Age had caught my oculus alongside this recipe (I won't reproduce it hither - I followed their directions to the letter). It looked warming, good for you lot in addition to hearty - the perfect welcome abode meal. Especially alongside a delicious Indian breadstuff to accompany it.

With all the spices included inwards the ingredients, I expected something alongside a rich in addition to complex flavour - it didn't quite mensurate upward to what I'd imagined, but it was notwithstanding a pretty satisfying dinner. I'd upward the chilli to a few pinches, in addition to likely amp upward the ginger every bit well. For around argue it performed much improve every bit a reheated luncheon afterwards inwards the calendar week - peradventure the spices needed a few days to actually infuse.

July 26, 2008: Celeriac Salad

soy bombs are on regular rotation inwards this kitchen, but nosotros endeavour to mix 'em upward a bit. This fourth dimension I pulled a seasonal accompanying side out of my bookmarked recipes: celeriac salad from stonesoup. It's a quaternary generation descendant of the French celeriac remoulade, using creme fraiche or sour cream instead of mayonnaise together with a diversity of acidic substances (two mustards, ii vinegars together with lemon juice) to maintain that fast-browning celeriac fresh. Though it gradually loses a flake of crunch, nosotros happily continued to munch the leftovers for several days. Even better, this tart together with abundant dressing meant that the soy bombs didn't remove whatever extra condiments.

July 28, 2008: Oaty Rhubarb Muffins

Meatless Blog Meet over lunch. Though oaty rhubarb muffins that I peculiarly bought the rhubarb for!

This muffins are prime number afternoon snack fabric - wholesome in addition to filling, amongst pinkish fruity bursts providing the sweetness I'm typically craving at that time. They're also no besides taxing to seat together on a weeknight - no softening of butter is required!

Oaty Rhubarb Muffins
(I got xiv standard-sized muffins out of this quantity)

2 cups rhubarb, sliced into 3-4 cm segments
3 tablespoons raw sugar
1 loving cup buttermilk
1 egg
1/2 loving cup vegetable oil
1 loving cup brownish sugar
2 1/2 cups wholemeal flour
5 teaspoons baking powder
1 loving cup rolled oats
2 teaspoons of spice - I used a mix of ginger, cinnamon in addition to Chinese 5 spice powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
40g candied orange, diced

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C in addition to lightly grease a muffin tray.

In a saucepan on gentle heat, stir together the rhubarb in addition to raw saccharide until the saccharide has melted in addition to the rhubarb softens only slightly.

Whisk together the buttermilk, egg, fossil oil in addition to brownish sugar. When the rhubarb's cooled downwards a little, stir it into this mix.

In a large bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, oats, spices in addition to salt. Toss through the candied orangish in addition to ensure the pieces are separated in addition to lightly coated inward flour.

Pour the moisture ingredients into the dry out ones in addition to stir until only combined. Spoon the mixture into the muffin tray in addition to bake it for near xx minutes - I intend I baked mine for a piffling less time, in addition to then piece of occupation along an midpoint on them in addition to purpose the skewer test.

August 1, 2008: Brussels Sprouts

former children seem close to rejoice inwards their hate of it. I suspect that my mum was ane of their pose out together with hence never cooked them for me - I in all probability reached adulthood without fifty-fifty knowing exactly what a Brussels sprout looked like.

I suppose their greenish leafy layers together with relation to the cabbage are non nifty selling points to the corn-and-carrots crowd, but I intend these compact niggling bundles are genuinely quite cute. I count myself lucky that I'm exclusively simply getting to know them now, afterward a corporation decade of developing a existent appreciation for vegetables. This agency I tin say easily together with without prejudice that I similar Brussels sprouts simply fine!

I'm non on whatsoever one-person induce to heighten awareness of the Brussels sprout. Plenty of other keen cooks bring been enjoying it for years. It was genuinely a collaborator at operate who kickoff extolled to me the virtues of lightly steamed sprouts, fried inwards butter. Others swallow them alongside Great Big Vegetable Challenge (even making the listing of vegetables Freddie unequivocally likes!). In many recipes, caramelisation seems to hold upwards the key. So I started yesteryear frying them alongside saccharide - fifty-fifty Attica.

Is the Brussels sprout my novel French fry? Not yesteryear a long shot, but there's enough of room for the sprout to create its ain unique affair inwards my kitchen.

May 23, 2009: Spicy Sugariness White Patato Pie

eggplant lasagne rolls in addition to roasted beetroot salad for dinner, piece I happily prepared dessert. Keen for some other installment inward my serial of autumn-appropriate recipes, I idea wistfully of the sweetness white patato pie that I saw on vanesscipes almost a twelvemonth ago, earlier the blog's demise. Thankfully, every bit alongside her cocoa cookies, I was able to rail downwards Vanessa's recipe on some other site alongside a google search.

Pumpkin in addition to sweetness white patato pies nail me every bit beingness distinctively American - I've non encountered anything similar their starchy, shine in addition to mild filling elsewhere. This 1 is livened upwards alongside ginger, both mixed into the filling in addition to via the role of gingernut biscuit crumbs inward the buttery crust. After a tentative gustation of the filling, I added extra spices in addition to saccharide in addition to include these novel quantities below. This recipe is most definitely non vegan inward its electrical flow form, in addition to I'm a trivial surprised since thus many vanesscipes were. As I chewed meditatively on my 2d piece (for breakfast on Sunday!), I wondered whether soil cashews or silken tofu mightiness supercede the cream in addition to eggs inward the filling... perchance alongside an extra binding agent (egg replacer? arrowroot? agar agar?).

This sweetness white patato pie actually is different anything else I've baked earlier - closest perchance to a baked cheesecake, though without the acidic twang. I'm non sure that it volition endure loved past times everyone, but I reckon it volition delight most. It for sure pleased us.

Spicy sweetness white patato pie
(based on a recipe from defunct weblog vanesscipes, all the same viewable at the cooking channel)

filling:
700g sweetness potatoes
2 eggs
3/4 loving cup cream
1/3 loving cup dark-brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons soil cinnamon
1 teaspoon soil nutmeg
3 teaspoons soil ginger
1 teaspoon vanilla

crust:
oil spray
flour, for dusting
3/4 loving cup almonds
150g ginger nut biscuits
2 tablespoons dark-brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
90g butter, melted

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Line a baking tray alongside foil in addition to house the whole, unpeeled sweetness potatoes on it. Prick them alongside a fork in addition to bake them until tender, almost an hour. Allow them to cool.

Spray a pie dish lightly alongside oil, in addition to and then whorl a modest sum of flour (a tablespoon or two) around the within of the dish until it is completely but lightly coated.

Grind the almonds inward a nutrient processor, in addition to then add together the ginger nut biscuits in addition to blend until they're coarse crumbs. Add the saccharide in addition to salt, pulsing briefly, in addition to then the melted butter, blending until but combined. Press the mixture into the pie dish to flat the crust, in addition to chill it inward the refrigerator until the filling is ready.

Once the sweetness potatoes are cool plenty to handle, peel away the peel in addition to roughly chop the flesh. Put them inward a blender alongside the remaining filling ingredients in addition to blend the lot until real smooth.

Pour the filling into the crust in addition to bake for 45 minutes, or until the filling has laid in addition to is but starting to crack. Cool the pie for an sixty minutes earlier serving, alongside an extra dollop of cream.

May 28, 2009: Vegan Sausages

fancy dinner out for his birthday, I offered to laid upward him his pick of dinner as well as dessert at home. Michael ummed as well as ahhhed for days as well as eventually I began tossing out ideas to him. The starting fourth dimension 1 to actually stick was hot dogs, smothered inwards sauce as well as fried onions. I must acknowledge to having a modest ulterior motive - I'd noticed Alex discover a recipe for home-made vegan sausages on Martha Stewart's apple tree pie.

Vegan sausages
(a near-exact re-create of a recipe past times Alex of v-plates)

400g tin Woolworths Select refried beans
2 teaspoons gravy powder
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 1/4 cups gluten flour
1 loving cup chickpea flour
1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon dark pepper
1/2 teaspoon celery seeds
2 teaspoons dry reason coriander
2 teaspoons dry reason cumin
1 loving cup water
more vegetable oil, for frying

Combine all the ingredients inwards a bowl, adding the H2O concluding to form an almost sloppy dough.

Take hunks of the mixture (about a 1/4 loving cup each?) as well as gently gyre them into sausages. Place each sausage on a modest foursquare of the foil, rolling it to embrace as well as folding over or twisting the ends.

Steam the sausages for 40-45 minutes, rotating them periodically for fifty-fifty cooking.

Fry the sausages upward inwards a petty crude until they accept a golden crispy exterior.