No recipe in this post I am afraid! Just an update on where I am in my cooking journey. We have relocated to the UK. I did a few posts from our temporary residence in a flat in London. Earlier this year (in April) we moved to Wiltshire where we have bought a boat! It …
Low Carb Bread
This Low Carb Bread is really delicious, tasty and filling and is so easy to make. Recipe thanks to My New Roots. Recipe exactly as in their blog – Ingredients: 1 cup / 135g sunflower seeds ½ cup / 90g flax seeds ½ cup / 65g hazelnuts or almonds 1 ½ cups / 145g rolled …
Vegan quiche variation
I have posted vegan quiches before – see here and here. Quiches can be complicated or easy, and this vegan quiche variation came about from a need to use up some veggies, and a desire to brush up my pastry making skills. For the pastry I used this recipe but only made a half batch …
Vegan Short Crust Pastry
I much prefer making my own pastry, and this vegan short crust pastry is easy – and the recipe works. I found it here. Thanks to Veganlovlie. Check out their blog and website. I have just used this recipe to make a quiche. Ingredients: 2 ¼ C flour (I used wholewheat flour – nice nutty …
Madame Renoir’s Sauted Chicken
This vegan version of Madame Renoir’s Sauted Chicken was just what I needed to hone my seitan making skills. And as we are stuck in lockdown at the moment I am trying all sorts of recipes. I had never heard of Madame Renoir and her chicken till it popped up in one of Rick Stein’s …
Vegan Steak Bake
A while ago one of the UK fast food chains (Greggs) came up with a Vegan Steak Bake. I thought I would try making my version. I cheated a bit and used a bought puff pastry. For the filling I simply sauted some finely chopped onion and garlic, added some TVP (Textured Vegetable Protein) along …
Seitan Steaks
This Seitan Steaks post is going to be really short! There are 2 things I find rather annoying about finding recipes on line – One is having to scroll through pages and pages about the bloggers dogs or cats or walks in the mountain or whatever. The other is recipes that don’t actually work! So …
Chocolate Salami
I just love this Chocolate Salami – thanks to Sophie and Paul from Veganonboard. I normally like to make e recipe a couple of times before I post it but this one was relatively easy and worked perfectly first time. This is my version – main difference is I have not dusted the final product …
Buckwheat Crepes
Buckwheat crepes are extremely nutritious, high in fibre and gluten free as well. They can be made both sweet or savoury. There are loads of recipes for buckwheat crepes online – using an array of different ingredients. I have found this one simple and it seems to work every time. The basic ingredients are the …
Mushroom Duxelles
I included this mushroom duxelles recipe in by Beet Wellington post, but thought I would make it stand alone post as well. Ingredients: 300 grms mushrooms 1 large shallot or medium onion 2 x 1T vegan butter 1 t dried thyme salt and pepper 1/4 C white wine or vermouth What to do: Coarse chop …