June 14, 2009: Baked Beans As Well As Hushpuppies

home-made vegan sausages, retrieved from the freezer, cooked inward alongside the beans towards the terminate of the oven time, together with so sliced into small-scale chunks in ane lawsuit tender. Highly recommended.

Hushpuppies. I'd never heard of hushpuppies before, but I got caught upward inward Lindyloo's nostalgia together with enthusiasm together with gave them a go. By contrast, Michael was distraught at having to swallow anything with 'puppies' inward the name. These piffling balls of crunchy corn eventually won his reluctant approval, beingness perfect for dipping into those saucy baked beans. Though they went downwards a treat, I'll in all probability revert to my commons cornbread recipe side past times side fourth dimension I'm inward the mood for such a thing.

Sauteed mushrooms. I simply finished these fungi off with a twain of teaspoons of vegetarian oyster sauce together with loved the salty-sweet effect.

Sauteed spinach. Much-needed greens.

Multi-grain toast spread with Nuttelex. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 cook-up staple, bright with the mushrooms.


It's rare that I gear upward a repast with so many variety components, but they were all good appreciated. The quantity of beans together with hushpuppies made for a twain of envy-inducing workday lunches too.




Baked beans
(based on the Cheater Baked Beans inward Yeah, That "Vegan" Shit, where it's credited to VegCooking)

March 9, 2009: Lime Mayonnaise

a weekend of (over)indulgence, nosotros needed to scale dorsum a flake in addition to I decided to squad this lime mayonnaise amongst oven-baked tofu 'fish' bites. The freshest one-half of the plate features mixed greenish leaves in addition to a coleslaw recipe from Veganomicon amongst bonus radishes.

As if lime juice in addition to zest aren't plenty pep, this condiment also includes horseradish in addition to mustard. Fresh horseradish root isn't quite inward flavour in addition to thence nosotros took the minute alternative listed in addition to bought horseradish cream from the supermarket. I've non tried horseradish earlier but it's inward the same found identify unit of measurement every bit mustard in addition to wasabi - it has that same acidic oestrus that punches y'all inward the nose. The alone other modification I made to this recipe was downsizing - the master copy part listing added upward to over a litre of mayo!


Lime mayonnaise

1/2 loving cup mayonnaise
1/2 loving cup calorie-free sour cream
juice in addition to zest of 1 lime
1 teaspoon horseradish cream
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

Whisk all the ingredients together in addition to refrigerate until serving.

April 4, 2009: Greenish Pumpkin-Seed Mole

been well this post, together with I added something new: light-green pumpkin-seed mole.

This is about other Veganomicon recipe, together with is every bit uncomplicated every bit the ii linked to higher upwardly - the entirely cooking required is a fighting of pepitas toasting together with hence it's everything inward a nutrient processor. It did demand a brief jaunt to Casa Iberica for canned tomatillos, but everything else was pretty straightforward. And it turned out a care for - entirely a footling fighting spicy, amongst the flavours coming to a greater extent than from the fresh herbs together with onions, it was a overnice cooling sauce to become amongst the to a greater extent than firey chipotle-based option.

Green pumpkin-seed mole

1 loving cup pepitas
4 dark peppercorns
1 loving cup fresh coriander
1 loving cup fresh parsley
1 x 250ml tin can tomatillos
1 chilli, seeded together with chopped
2 shallots, chopped coarsely
2 lettuce leaves, torn into pieces (although it's worth noting that I didn't uncovering the influence of the lettuce leaves, together with you're likely amend off but skipping this gene if you lot don't convey whatsoever greens inward the fridge)
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1/4 loving cup olive oil

Heat a frying pan over medium rut together with toast the pumpkin seeds, turning regularly. It took me virtually 10 minutes, but it tin can likely live on done inward less if you lot crank the rut upwardly a bit.

Put the toasted pepitas together with the peppercorns inward a nutrient processor together with blend into a coarse powder.

Add everything else except the fossil oil together with blend it all together. Throw inward the fossil oil together with laissez passer on it a terminal whizz together with voila, you're done.

April 25, 2009: Cryptic Cookies

This is my outset endeavor at something from the sweeter side of Veganomicon. For all their Plain Jane looks, I've dubbed these cryptic cookies for a argue - they convey a lot to a greater extent than going on than they allow on at outset glance. The initial hint for the non-scoffer is the curious aroma. The outset seize amongst teeth confirms it to hold upwardly rose water; together with so there's sourness earlier sweetness together with equally chewing continues, a golden roastedness together with hint of tabular array salt to circular out the flavour.

The rose water's backed upwardly amongst an all-star line-up of vanilla, lime, cardamom together with sesame seeds. These are truly supposed to hold upwardly decorated amongst chopped pistachios (hence their master name, pistachio-rosewater cookies) but designated shopper Michael lamented that at that topographic point wasn't a pistachio to hold upwardly had inwards Fitzroy, together with I took a risk on the sesame seeds inwards the pantry. I wasn't similar a shot convinced, all the same they snuck their agency into my favour over the course of report of a few cookies.

Isa together with Terry hope cookies "pretty equally a picture" together with I'm certain they'd hold upwardly a fiddling to a greater extent than eye-catching if studded amongst the recommended pistachios. However, my dough was far also runny to whorl into balls so they seemed doomed to this blobbly shape. I tin imagine, though, how lovely they'd expect if the dough was piped into thick due south shapes using a star-shaped nozzle. Warm from the oven, the cookies had the perfect repose of crisp outer together with chewy centre; in ane trial cool they were uniformly crunchy, a fine candidate for dunking inwards tea.

Cryptic cookies
(based on the pistachio-rose H2O cookies inwards Veganomicon, past times Isa Moskowitz & Terry Romero)

1 1/4 cups dark-brown sugar
1/2 loving cup canola oil
3 tablespoons oat milk
1 tablespoon rose water
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
juice together with zest of 1 lime
1/4 loving cup cornflour
1 3/4 cups patently flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon reason cardamom
1/4 loving cup sesame seeds

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a baking tray or ii amongst paper.

Whisk together the sugar, oil, milk, rose water, vanilla, lime juice together with zest inwards a bowl. Whisk inwards the cornflour until the mixture is smooth. Thoroughly mix through the flour, baking powder, tabular array salt together with cardamom.

Drop large teaspoons of the dough onto the baking sheet, leaving enough of infinite betwixt cookies. Sprinkle the blobs amongst sesames seeds, together with so bake them for 10-13 minutes (mine needed no to a greater extent than than 10 minutes). Allow them to cool together with theater upwardly on the tray for five minutes earlier transferring them to a rack.

October 28, 2009: Spicy Tempeh As Well As Broccolini Pasta

blog reviews, nosotros picked out some frozen pasta packages for hereafter meals. The eggplant in addition to roasted capsicum ravioli made its means into this slight adaptation of Isa Chandra Moskowitz's spicy tempeh in addition to broccoli rabe with rotelle. While the recipe's rotelle isn't a filled pasta, I tin highly recommend the complexity in addition to comfort that ravioli add together to this dish. In particular, Maria's pasta is the most enjoyable store-bought ravioli I've eaten - it genuinely tastes of roasted capsicum!

Otherwise the dish has an Italian sausage theme, featuring tempeh chunks cooked inwards a spicy love apple tree broth - they've a rigid yet pleasant aftertaste of fennel seeds. I don't know that I've come upward across Isa's preferred broccoli rabe, in addition to later some meshwork browsing came to the determination that broccolini would brand an adequate, if different, substitute. And fifty-fifty though I overcooked those greens, this was i fine meal. Michael loved it, in addition to ended upward torn betwixt eating seconds in addition to saving leftovers for tiffin (he managed to create both).

My i difficulty with this recipe was that it demanded the tempeh, greens in addition to pasta live on cooked inwards form out pots. It made for a messy, busy kitchen in addition to I didn't schedule things well. Next round, I'll live on experimenting with cooking the tempeh in addition to greenish veges inwards a unmarried pan piece the pasta bubbles inwards the background.

(Vegans beware: The ravioli nosotros used on this nighttime isn't vegan, though I believe some of Maria's other products mightiness be. I've appended the vegan or vegan-friendly tag because this recipe is probable to create brilliantly using whatever let out of other pastas.)

Spicy tempeh in addition to broccolini pasta
(based on spicy tempeh in addition to broccoli rabe with rotelle inwards Veganomicon)

600g tempeh, diced
1 loving cup stock
3 tablespoons soy sauce
3 tablespoons love apple tree paste
10 cloves garlic, minced
1 1/2 tablespoons fennel seeds
2 teaspoons chilli flakes
2 teaspoons oregano
4 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
1/3 loving cup olive oil
2 modest bunches broccolini, chopped coarsely
500g pasta
salt in addition to pepper

Place the tempeh inwards a large frypan over medium heat. Whisk together the stock, soy sauce, love apple tree paste, 2 of the garlic cloves, the fennel seeds, chilli flakes, in addition to oregano. Pour the mixture over the tempeh, stir it through, in addition to let the tempeh to laid upward for 8-10 minutes. Isa recommends roofing the frypan during this time, but I establish that I had every bit good much liquid left at the halt - instead I'd propose allowing some of the liquid to evaporate away past times cooking the tempeh uncovered.

When most of the liquid is gone in addition to the tempeh is tender, transfer the tempeh to a bowl in addition to smush it briefly with a wooden spoon, in addition to therefore that it's one-half cubes in addition to one-half mush. Give the frypan a quick build clean in addition to oestrus upward close 2 tablespoons of petroleum inwards it. Drop the tempeh dorsum in, stir-frying it for 4-5 minutes, until it begins to brown. Sprinkle over a teaspoon of the balsamic vinegar.

Bring a pot of H2O to the boil in addition to laid upward the pasta until tender (time required volition vary a lot with types).

In some other frypan, oestrus the remaining petroleum in addition to add together the remaining garlic, cooking it for merely a infinitesimal or two. Add the broccolini, toss them to a greater extent than or less to coat them inwards oil, in addition to sprinkle over a footling salt. Sprinkle over the remaining balsamic vinegar. Cook the broccolini for 5-8 minutes, until it's merely tender in addition to even in addition to therefore vivid greenish (I overcooked ours).

Drain the pasta in addition to gently toss everything together inwards the dry out pot. Season to gustatory modality in addition to serve.

May 30, 2011: Gleegan Crepe Bake

bloody proficient crepes, I dared to experiment amongst a vegan, gluten-free version... on a weeknight. I figured it was worth a shot: later on all, I knew that French galettes used buckwheat flour together with I've enough of sense making 'cheesy' vegan sauces.

Actually most of the buckwheat crepe recipes that the meshing turned upwards used at to the lowest degree equally much plainly wheat flour equally buckwheat hence at that topographic point was nonetheless some substituting required. My smasher charge per unit of measurement wasn't quite equally impressive equally concluding fourth dimension (now 2 duds of nine crepes) but I was nonetheless satisfied - these crepes were tasty together with pliable. I merely establish that they needed to a greater extent than stone oil than their gluteny counterparts for fail-safe flipping.

Veganomicon's cashew ricotta to wearing clothing it up. It ended upwards merely a smidge astringent; side past times side fourth dimension I'd cut back the quantity of lemon juice. We had leftover filling, together with it was delish on toasted sandwiches amongst merely a driblet of agave nectar to residual the flavour.

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crepe batter (inspired past times Veganomicon)
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 bunch spinach, chopped
1/2 loving cup raw cashews
juice of 1 lemon (I'd recommend halving this)
300g medium-firm tofu
1/4 teaspoon dry soil nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt

sauce
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 tablespoon cornflour
1 1/4 cups soy milk

Start past times making the crepes. Sift together the flours into a medium-large bowl. Gradually pour the milk together with stone oil over the flours, whisking equally yous go, until it makes a polish batter. Cover the bowl together with allow the batter to correspond 1-2 hours.

Heat upwards a fry-pan together with hand it a spraying of oil. Pour a 1/4 loving cup of crepe batter into the centre of the pan, using the dorsum of a spoon to gently spread it out into a circle of merely a dyad of millimetres thickness. When the crepe's visibly dried out around the edges, carefully flip it over. After roughly some other infinitesimal it should endure cooked; transfer the crepe to a plate together with repeat the procedure amongst the ease of the batter.

Use a nutrient processor for the crunchy topping. Grind the cashews to a coarse powder, together with then add together the remaining ingredients together with blend until good combined.

Next, ready the filling. Heat the stone oil inwards the fry-pan together with sauté the garlic together with spinach until the spinach has wilted - this volition alone accept a few minutes. Take them off the oestrus together with allow them to cool a little. In a nutrient processor, grind the raw cashews to a coarse powder. Add the spinach together with remaining filling ingredients together with whiz everything together until it's nicely combined.

This is in all likelihood a proficient fourth dimension to initiatory off preheating the oven - 180°C. Then instruct rolling! Place merely a tablespoon or 2 of filling along the centre of each crepe, scroll them upwards together with house them inwards a baking dish.

In a small-medium saucepan, brand the sauce. Start past times heating the oil, together with then mix inwards the cornflour to brand a polish paste. After it's been cooking a minute, gradually whisk inwards the milk, doing your best to avoid lumps (I added the milk inwards real small-scale batches to laid out with). Bring the sauce to the boil and, in 1 lawsuit it's thickened, accept it off the oestrus together with pour it over the crepes.

Sprinkle the crunchy topping over the sauce-slathered crepes. Bake them for close xxx minutes, or until the overstep is crisp together with golden.

June 16, 2011: Apple Tree Peanut Butter Crumble Slice

a version of it on Get Sconed! earlier I had the book. With baked apples inward the middle together with peanut butter caramel on top, it's something that appeals greatly to both Michael together with I (look, no chocolate!). Even so, I truly planned it for sharing with my workmates. We've a novel wheat-intolerant individual who's joined our squad together with I reckoned I could adapt this - the small-scale amounts of evidently flour are easily replaced with the Orgran equivalent together with I knew I'd respect some gluten-free biscuits to sub for the graham cracker crumbs that aren't widely available inward Commonwealth of Australia anyway.

Of course, one-for-one substitutions don't ever piece of work when de-glutenising recipes. The crust mixture looked truly soggy together with didn't spread nearly equally far equally it was supposed to. I transferred it to a tray one-half the master copy size, together with thus gear upwardly nearly halving the quantities of everything else together with worrying nearly whether there'd hold upwardly plenty to become around. Nothing else was quite the texture I anticipated either. The apples had a lot of liquid running off them, which I drained through my fingers equally I arranged them on the crust. The crumble topping was mushy with margarine, together with the highly anticipated peanut butter caramel gave me the biggest problem of all. It was supposed to melt to an elegant drizzling texture inward minutes but mine remained thick together with muddy. I whisked inward some soy milk but this but rendered it lumpy, forcing me to commencement again. I never got those silky ribbons I sought, together with dolefully spooned it onto the acre inward large globs.

The globs were but an unflattering complete to what looked similar a disaster slice. The crumble tasted similar chalk, equally gluten-free flours sometimes can, the apples were leaking liquid everywhere together with the crust did non hold off set. I'd decided that at that spot was no means I could portion this with my colleagues, hid it nether some foil together with shoved it to the dorsum of the fridge. I couldn't truly blame Veganomicon for my problems given the alterations I'd made. This was but my ain stupid over-confident de-glutenising fault.

Almost a twenty-four hr catamenia afterward I returned to it, hungry together with headachey together with craving sugar. I dug a spoon inward together with could barely believe the theater golden crust it unearthed! The apples had gear upwardly nicely together with the peanut butter caramel was damn tasty, if non glamorous. It was besides belatedly to portion it with my colleagues, but but inward fourth dimension to acquaint a generous slab to an eager Michael over the weekend.

This recipe needs work, but it's piece of work good worth doing.

Apple peanut butter crumble slice
(based on a recipe from Veganomicon, past times Isa Chandra Moskowitz together with Terry Hope Romero)

crust
125g bundle evidently gluten-free biscuits/cookies
1/3 loving cup margarine, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla
iii tablespoons soy milk

apple filling
2 large Fuji apples
1 tablespoon apple tree cider vinegar
2 teaspoons vegetable oil
2 tablespoons brownish sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons evidently gluten-free flour
pinches of footing cinnamon, footing ginger together with star anise

crumble topping
1/4 loving cup evidently gluten-free flour
1 1/2 tablespoons brownish sugar
pinches of footing cinnamon, footing ginger together with star anise
1 tablespoon margarine

peanut butter caramel
1/3 loving cup peanut butter
iii tablespoons maple syrup

Preheat an oven to 180°C. Line a baking tray (mine was 22cm square) with paper.

Begin with the crust. Crush the biscuits inward a bowl; I used a pestle for the job. Stir inward the melted margarine, vanilla together with soy milk. Pour the crust mixture into the baking tray together with run the dorsum of a spoon to flatten it out evenly across the bottom.

For the apple tree filling, pare together with take the cores of the apples. Slice them thinly, transfer them to a bowl, together with stir through the apple tree cider vinegar to foreclose them from browning. Next stir through the oil, sugar, flour together with spices. Spread the apples over the crust - y'all could layer them prettily but I but piled them inward together with shook them around a picayune to fifty-fifty out.

To brand the crumble topping, stir together the flour, saccharide together with spices inward a small-scale bowl. Use a fork to thoroughly mix inward the margarine. Use your fingers to crumble it into chunks together with sprinkle them over the slice.

Bake the acre for 40-45 minutes, until the apples are tender. I was worried nearly how my acre looked at this indicate - the apples had leaked a lot of H2O together with the base of operations didn't hold off set. This was fine after a black inward the fridge.

When the acre has been inward the oven for 20-30 minutes, melt together the peanut butter together with maple syrup inward a small-scale saucepan. Whisk them until they're good combined, hot together with liquidy. When the acre comes out of the oven, drizzle the peanut butter mixture over inward stripes or blobs.

Allow the acre to cool (again, the refrigerator truly helped for me!) together with cutting it into squares to serve.

December 11, 2008: My Edible Birthday

On turning 28, my friend, colleague together with beau maths-nerd Alana reminded me that my novel historic menstruum is a chickpea cutlet. Michael picked it out afterwards a petty network research, together with offered to laid me my selection of dinner from it on Fri night. I can't hold off to popular off my teeth into to a greater extent than of these cruelty-free recipes inwards the coming weeks together with months.

fabulous food-themed gift on its agency to me. During the planning together with parties of these few weeks, I'm looking frontward to my plough to produce the giving.

December 12, 2008: Po' Boys

Casa Iberica). Finely chop i pepper, as well as stir it into 1/4 loving cup vegan mayonnaise; additionally, stir inwards nigh 1/2 teaspoon of the adobo sauce. Taste as well as add together to a greater extent than adobo sauce if you lot desire spicier mayo.


Cornmeal-crusted tofu
You tin mail away bake or youngster these. Michael fried them every bit a birthday process but we'll in all likelihood bake them inwards the future; we've previously had crunchy-crust baking success amongst 'fish' fingers. The master copy recipe calls for ii tablespoons of chilli pulverization but ours is actually potent, hence I nagged Michael into reducing it to a measly teaspoon.

vegetable petroleum for frying
500g theatre tofu
1 loving cup rice milk
2 tablespoons cornflour
1 loving cup cornmeal (usually called 'polenta' here)
1 teaspoon chilli powder
1 teaspoon soil cumin
1/4 teaspoon cayenne
1 tablespoon grated lime zest
1 1/2 teaspoons salt

Stir together the milk as well as cornflour inwards a shallow bowl. In a assort shallow bowl, stir together the cornmeal, chilli powder, cumin, cayenne, lime zest as well as salt.

Slice the tofu lengthways into1.5cm-thick slabs, as well as then spell the slabs diagonally into triangles.

To youngster the tofu: Liberally coat the base of operations of a frypan amongst petroleum as well as plough it upward to medium heat. Once it's ready, dip a tofu spell into the milk until all sides are coated, as well as then into the cornmeal for the same treatment. If you're a smartie, you lot tin mail away endeavour having i 'wet' mitt as well as i 'dry' mitt to trim down mess. Place the crumbed tofu into the frypan, as well as repeat amongst the other tofu slices until the frypan's full. Fry the tofu for a couplet of minutes on each side, as well as then plonk it onto approximately absorbent newspaper as well as repeat amongst whatsoever remaining tofu.

To bake the tofu: Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C as well as lightly petroleum a baking dish. Dip the tofu slices into the milk, as well as then the cornmeal every bit above, as well as house them inwards the baking dish - no overlapping as well as preferrably no pieces touching! Bake the tofu for nigh fifteen minutes, turning once.

Coleslaw
Finely shred iii cups-worth of cabbage (ours was purple!) as well as grate a carrot. In a large bowl, whisk together 1/4 loving cup vegan mayonnaise, ii tablespoons rice milk, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, as well as a pinch each of pepper as well as mustard powder. Add the cabbage as well as carrot, as well as toss them to distribute the dressing through.

For the finally assembly:
sandwich pickles
2 loaves of French baguette

Cut the baguettes into half-lengths, as well as then spell them lengthways into sandwiches. Spread the bottom of each sandwich amongst the chipotle mayo, as well as then stack it amongst tofu as well as coleslaw. Slice the pickles as well as residue them on top, as well as circular it all off amongst the pinnacle spell of bread. Eat, eat, eat.

Spinach, Mushroom & Poblano Enchiladas Inward A Tomatillo Sauce

April 1, 2012

salsa verde.

last Mexican cook-up.

It's a real uncomplicated recipe - specially when you've pre-made the tomatillo sauce together with purpose store-bought tortillas rather than making your ain corn ones. Some quick frying of the filling together with one-half an hr inward the oven together with you've got a tangy, spicy together with immensely satisfying serve of enchiladas. Both the tomatillo salsa together with the poblanos select an interesting spiciness - there's a rich warmth, without whatever of the burn downwardly that yous tin teach from chilli-heavy meals. Pretty damn excellent.

Salsa Verde

(courtesy of In the Mood for Noodles, originally from Veganomicon)

8 tomatillos, roughly diced
1 tablespoon olive oil
four garlic cloves, minced
H5N1 forkful of pickled jalapeno pieces
1.5 cups of Massel 'chicken' stock
Juice of a lime
1 bunch of coriander, roughly chopped

In a pocket-size pot, oestrus the fossil oil together with gear upwardly the jalapeno together with garlic for a few minutes, until fragrant. Add the tomatillos together with gear upwardly for virtually 8 minutes, until they soften. Pour inward the stock together with convey the mix to the boil. Simmer for xx minutes, stirring occasionally. Leave the sauce to cool downwardly together with and hence add together the lime juice together with coriander. Blend, until everything is combined inward a saucy liquid.  


Spinach, mushroom together with poblano enchiladas
(adapted from For the Love of Cooking)

About one-half of the salsa verde from the higher upwardly recipe
1 tablespoon olive oil
H5N1 dozen push clit mushrooms, roughly chopped
1 pocket-size dark-brown onion, chopped 1 poblano pepper (from a can, courtesy of Casa Iberica)
1 garlic clove, minced
ii cups spinach leaves
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon dry reason coriander seeds
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
v tortillas
2/3 loving cup grated cheddar

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

Heat the fossil oil inward a frying pan together with and hence add together the mushrooms. Cook for virtually 10 minutes, stirring periodically, until they're nicely browned. Add the onion together with poblano together with cook, stirring regularly, for merely about other few minutes. Add the garlic, the spinach, spices, common salt together with pepper together with cook, stirring constantly, for merely about other brace of minutes. Kill the oestrus together with allow the filling cool for 10 minutes or so.

Next, materials the tortillas - sprinkle grated cheese downwardly the middle of each ane together with spoon the filling on top. Wrap together with house them (seam down) inward a greased baking tray. Slather the tortillas amongst the salsa verde together with embrace the baking tray inward foil. Bake for xx minutes together with serve.

I'm certain these would live nifty amongst a side salad or merely about refried beans, but nosotros merely ate them on their ain together with had no complaints at all.