Miss Marmalade

November 6, 2011

Coffeearn, Quick, select care of your camera, Fashion Rebel, Carla.

Despite non looking (or in all likelihood smelling) my best inward my post-run glory, I snuck into the window topographic point land I waited for Cindy in addition to kicked dorsum amongst the newspaper in addition to a pretty decent soy apartment white. The staff are friendly in addition to efficient (although they to a greater extent than ofttimes than non steered clear of me until Cindy arrived) in addition to the cafe itself is charmingly fitted out, amongst a tram scroll on the wall the highlight.

Once Cindy arrived nosotros got stuck into the menu. There are a proficient mix of sweetness in addition to savoury options, amongst vegetarian dishes good represented (less in addition to then vegan, although given Carla's recommendation they must locomote a fleck flexible). There wasn't anything inward the agency of gluten-free information on the menu, in addition to then coeliacs should in all likelihood telephone shout out upwardly ahead to brand certain they've got options. I couldn't resist the farmers marketplace breakfast (home made corn bread, hash potatoes, cherry tomatoes, the pick of marketplace vegetables amongst a poached egg, crushed avocado in addition to micro-herbs, $15.50).

This was a dainty change-up from the green brekkie options - lots of jump veggies (broad beans, peas, capsicum, cherry tomatoes, light-green beans, sweetness potato), fresh herbs, piddling crunch fried Irish Gaelic patato hash pieces in addition to a perfectly poached egg all burying a pocket-size but dense chunk of cornbread slathered inward delicious avocado. An splendid in addition to refreshingly good for you lot kickoff to the day.

Cindy wavered over a few options earlier settling on something from the specials board: Jack's cheddar on sour dough amongst pesto, caramelised onion in addition to tomatoes ($10.90).

Unsurprisingly, this was pretty cheesy. How much you lot similar it volition depend on your cheese tolerance - I was a fan (especially ane time Cindy picked the love apple tree off!) - but the remainder of the ingredients did their locomote every bit well. It's uncomplicated but effective, in addition to pretty sizable for $10.

Miss Marmalade hitting the grade pretty good for us - proficient service, decent java in addition to an interesting bill of fare executed effectively.

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Miss Marmalade
126 Union Street, Brunswick
9388 8202
veg dishes $6 - $16.50
http://missmarmaladecafe.com/

Accessibility: The entryway is apartment in addition to the interior is relatively spacious. Ordering happens at the tabular array land payment takes identify at a lowish counter. We didn't see the loos, but a few reviewers conduct maintain specially noted the Coffeearn, Quick, select care of your camera, Fashion Rebel, baby-friendliness of the facilities.

Carrot Fritters

November 7, 2011

carrot fritter recipe turned upwards on Delicieux. Perfect!

I subbed parsley inwards for the fresh coriander, since that turned upwards inwards the box too, but otherwise stayed faithful to the master recipe. There's non actually a batter here, only plenty eggs as well as flour to cling to the grated carrot. I was worried almost these patties asset together, but in ane trial inwards the pan the fritters developed a dainty crust as well as flipped pretty easily. They are a teensy flake delicate, though, therefore process them gently.

We ate our carrot fritters amongst a mash of lemon as well as only about stir-fried bok choy inwards vegetarian oyster sauce. They're surprisingly sweet, as well as non nearly every bit starchy every bit most other root vegetables.

Carrot fritters
(adapted slightly from Delicieux)

seven small-medium carrots, grated
six saltation onions, finely chopped
1 teaspoon lay down cumin
1 teaspoon lay down coriander
1/2 loving cup fresh parsley, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 loving cup evidently flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
ii eggs, lightly beaten
ii tablespoons oil

In a large bowl, stir together the carrots, saltation onion, cumin, coriander, parsley, garlic, flour as well as salt. Stir through the beaten eggs until everything is thoroughly combined.

Heat the stone oil inwards a large frying pan, as well as trouble a plate or tray amongst absorbent paper. Spoon the mixture into the pan a brace tablespoonfuls at a time, flattening each component subdivision into a disc. Fry these fritters for a brace of minutes on each side, until lightly browned, as well as therefore transfer them to the absorbent newspaper to balance earlier serving.

Spicy Peruvian 'Cheese' Sauce

November 8, 2011

Here nosotros pretty much vanquished what remained of the vege box. We had vi potatoes, which reminded me of a side dish inward Viva Vegan, in addition to and hence decided to roast upward our broccoli in addition to lastly carrots with them in addition to telephone telephone it a main.

[As an aside: produce you lot pronounce 'broccoli' equally broccol-ee or broccol-eye? And where did you lot grow up? I am losing this battle with my friends, with Michael fifty-fifty changing teams. H5N1 weblog poll seems similar the appropriate terminal humiliation.]

The Viva Vegan dish is Peruvian potatoes with spicy "cheezy" sauce, a vegan accept on Papa a la Huancaina. The sauce gets its spice from aji amarillo paste, which Michael tracked downwardly at Casa Iberica. An orangish puree, aji amarillo is rattling dissimilar to the other Central American chillis we've tried. It's rather hot, in addition to sour too, but it all hits the natural language has no comport on on the pharynx at all! It adds a terrific spark to this silky sauce, but I'd recommend starting pocket-size in addition to increasingly the dose to taste.

My exclusively reservation with this recipe is that it used cream substitute, which was interesting to endeavor but neither convenient nor a SOLE food. I reckon the sauce powerfulness produce OK with evidently ol' soy milk instead.

Spicy Peruvian 'cheese' sauce
(adapted slightly from Viva Vegan)

four 1/2 tablespoons chickpea flour
1 teaspoon 'chicken' stock powder
two cups hot water
two tablespoons aji amarillo paste
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
two cloves garlic, minced
1 pocket-size onion, finely chopped
1 teaspoon salt
2/3 loving cup savoury yeast flakes
300mL carton vegan cooking cream (will endeavor soymilk instead adjacent time)
juice of i lemon
1/2 loving cup cracker crumbs

In a medium bowl, stir together the chickpea flour in addition to stock powder. Gradually add together the water, stirring constantly to cast a shine glue in addition to and hence a shine liquid. Whisk inward the aji amarillo paste, adjusting the dose to taste.

Heat the fossil oil inward a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the garlic, cooking in addition to stirring for thirty seconds, in addition to hence the onion. Cook the onion until soft, close four minutes. Pour inward the bowl of chickpea flour liquid, stirring it into the onions until thickened, close five minutes. Add the salt, yeast flakes, cream, lemon juice in addition to cracker crumbs, stirring until everything is good combined in addition to the cracker crumbs direct maintain softened.

Remove the sauce from the estrus in addition to carefully pulse it with a hand-held blender until shine (we had a few spatters). To serve, pour the sauce over steamed or roasted vegetables or equally a dip.

Cafe Lua

Update 27/1/2019: Cafe Lua has permanently closed.

Somehow, without us actually noticing, the cafe on the corner of Elgin together with Drummond Streets inward Carlton has transformed itself from i of Carlton's many uninspiring eateries to a friendly cafe amongst a bright bill of fare together with fantabulous coffee. Welcome Cafe Lua! I intend they've been going for a piece but it was alone late that I bothered to read the bill of fare on my agency past. Cindy together with I stopped inward on a Th morning time to abide by them doing a brisk merchandise inward both takeaway coffees together with late-starting breakfasters similar us.

The bill of fare is bright - lots of interesting ideas similar pumpkin together with chia seed pancakes amongst yoghurt, lentil together with spinach salad ($13.50), quinoa, broccolini together with asparagus salad ($13.50) together with house-baked olive staff of life amongst baba ganoush, tomato, basil together with goat's cheese ($13.50). Plenty of things for us to come upward dorsum to try.

I was feeling similar a good for you lot brekkie, together with then I took wages of the vegan, gluten-free quinoa porridge (organic quinoa together with soymilk porridge amongst chia seeds, fresh strawberries, granny smith apples amongst hazelnuts: $12.50).

This was an fantabulous meal, generous amounts of fruit, a petty side-bowl of hazelnuts (not pictured) together with a corking porridgey mix of quinoa together with seeds. Delicious.

Cindy went savoury, amongst the grilled haloumi together with cherry tomato plant on cashew-pesto toast served amongst dressed rocket ($11).

Another success - thick together with perfectly fried haloumi chunks on toast smeared amongst fantabulous pesto. If anything the toast was a fleck likewise chewy, but that's a tyke final result when everything else worked together with then well.

Throw inward friendly service, skillful java together with a place mere blocks from our house, together with Cafe Lua has moved correct onto our listing of local favourites. We'll endure back!

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Cafe Lua
Cnr Elgin together with Drummond Streets, Carlton
9348 1118
veg dishes $6 - $15
http://www.cafelua.com

Accessibility: There's no pace equally you lot come upward inward together with the cafe is spacious together with well-lit. Ordering takes house at the table, amongst payment at a lowish counter. We didn't depository fiscal establishment fit out the toilets.

Mushroom, Lemon & Tarragon Tagliatelle

November 10, 2011

November's calendar recipe had a fairly wintry experience which was a fleck out of identify on a humid Nov evening. Still, it was unproblematic to throw together (20 minutes from outset to complete I reckon) as well as a fairly tasty form of comfort food. It's heavy on the butter as well as cheese, giving the whole dish a squeamish creamy feel, offset past times the chunky mushroom pieces throughout. The tarragon as well as vino gave it all a subtle flavour, although sadly the lemon got a fleck lost.

We used fresh pasta from Donnini's, which gives whatsoever pasta-based repast a helping hand, although I catch this would withal come upwards out okay using supermarket stuff. The recipe makes to a greater extent than than plenty for 4 people as well as gave us around delicious leftovers at operate on Friday.

Mushroom, lemon & tarragon tagliatelle
(a recipe available from Delicious journal here)

two tablespoons olive oil
50g butter
4 cloves garlic, sliced
8 apartment mushrooms, sliced
1/2 loving cup white wine
two tablespoons chopped tarragon leaves (plus a few inward reserve for garnishing)
500g fresh tagliatelle
Zest as well as juice of i lemon
50g grated parmesan cheese
tabular array salt as well as pepper

Heat one-half the butter as well as the olive crude oil inward a frying pan.

When it's heated up, add together the garlic as well as stir-fry for a infinitesimal or as well as hence until it has softened.

Add inward the wine, tarragon as well as mushrooms along amongst generous sprinkles of tabular array salt as well as pepper. Stir thoroughly as well as simmer for a duad of minutes, until the vino has reduced a bit.

Cover the pan as well as decease along simmering for around other 10 minutes or so, until the mushrooms are squeamish as well as soft.

While the mushrooms are simmering, create your pasta (our fresh tagliatelle took almost 5 minutes inward a pot of boiling H2O to live on perfect).

Drain the pasta as well as combine amongst the mushroom mix inward whichever container volition friction match the whole mix in. Stir inward the lemon juice as well as zest along amongst what's left of the butter. Fold through the parmesan cheese as well as serve, garnished amongst the spare tarragon leaves.

Mao's

5/5/2015: Words as well as Flavours, Feed me, darling, The Indolent Cook amongst but Foodgasm disappointed past times their experience.

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Mao's Restaurant
263 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
9419 1919
veg entrees $4.80 - $9.80, mains $9.80 - $17.80

Accessibility: Mao's has a modest stride inwards the entryway, but the interior is relatively spacious. All service takes house at the table. We didn't catch the loos.

I Honey Pho 264

November 12, 2011

Thanh Nga Nine too Tom Phat.

Thanh Nga Nine downwards the street.

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Under its electrical current name, this eating seat convey received positive reviews on Sweet too Sour Fork, Barley Restaurant Reviews too Foodie About Town. That Jess Ho covers the drama too intrigue surrounding a recent cite change, too is disappointed amongst the novel incarnation.

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I Love Pho 264
264 Victoria St, Richmond
veg fare $5-15
facebook page

Accessibility: There's a ramp on entry; the interior is densely crowded amongst tables. We ordered at the tabular array too paid at the counter. We didn't see the toilets.

Black Pepper Tofu

November 12, 2011

Carla together with K veganised it together with offered their thoughts - the most of import 1 existence that the master copy recipe uses to a greater extent than pepper than anyone tin stand!

The master copy element listing is sure packed amongst pungency: v tablespoons of dark pepper, viii chillies, 12 shallots, 12 cloves of garlic together with sixteen leap onions. Admittedly nosotros cutting a few quantities down, but most of the subduing together with sweetening is performed yesteryear a long, gentle modest inwards lots of butter. Our tofu was deeply savoury, amongst a rut degree I could happily handle.

Ottolenghi's recipes are rarely curt or simple, together with the other notable procedure hither is shallow-frying cornflour-coated tofu cubes. They railroad train a prissy golden crust, all the ameliorate for the sauce to cling to. That said, I'd also survive tempted to endeavour apace stir-frying the tofu sans cornflour.

The dark pepper tofu was loved yesteryear all who ate it. We served a fancy Ottolenghi salad on the side but it was completely upstaged. This dish needs cypher to a greater extent than than steamed greens together with rice to back upwards it.

Black pepper tofu
(adapted from a recipe inwards Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty,
recipe available online)

1/2 loving cup vegetable oil, for frying
1kg describe solid tofu
1/3 loving cup cornflour
120g butter
12 shallots, thinly sliced
six mild ruby-red chillis, thinly sliced
12 cloves garlic, minced
iii tablespoons ginger, minced
v tablespoons kecap manis
v tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons castor sugar
iii tablespoons coarsely solid soil dark pepper
viii leap onions, cutting into 3cm segments

Pour fossil oil into a frypan until it's 5mm deep together with convey it to medium-high heat. Chop the tofu into 2cm cubes, tossing each cube inwards cornflour together with placing it inwards the hot oil. Cook the tofu cubes for a infinitesimal or 2 summit together with bottom, until lightly browned, together with thus transfer them to absorbent paper. It took me almost four batches to modest all the tofu.

Remove all the fossil oil from the pan together with construct clean whatever sediment from the bottom. Return the pan to low-medium rut together with melt the butter inwards it. Add the shallots, chilli, garlic together with ginger, sautéing gently until rattling soft, almost xv minutes. Add the kecap manis, soy sauce, saccharide together with pepper, combining everything thoroughly.

Add the tofu dorsum into the frypan, stirring it through to coat it inwards the sauce. Stir inwards the leap onions, together with thus serve it all amongst steamed greens together with rice.

Eat Pizza Ii

Queen Margaret or The Moor's Head, but I was inward the mood for something less refined. With Plush Pizza directly simply a wistful memory, I convinced Michael that nosotros should revisit Eat Pizza - it offers the suburban Aussie toppings I had a hankering for.

Eat Pizza's basic carte is pretty typical - Hawaiian, Capricciosa too Meat lovers pizzas, gourmet chicken, meat too seafood options, garlic bread, a few pastas, salads too desserts. So's the decor - toppings too oven visible from the counter, plastic slice of furniture for those choosing to swallow in, too the TV inward the corner was blaring a fawning celebrity interview on threescore Minutes. The big draws for us pesky-tarians are the gluten gratis bases (which K gives a coeliac thumbs-up), vegan cheese, vegan salami too vegan ham that tin give the sack live substituted for a few extra dollars. Despite the veg*n bent of online reviews, it would seem that nosotros don't shape the mass of Eat Pizza's customers. Our friendly cashier looked unpractised at entering our veg-adapted orders into the register, eventually correcting the dockets past times hand.

The "Fresh too Healthier Way!" tagline is curious. While they previously advertised wholemeal bases, there's no hint of them on the electrical flow Eat Pizza menu. (We're non certain whether wholemeal is directly the solely base of operations offered or it's instead disappeared.) An Emma & Tom's advertizing was perched inward the dining area, even thus the refrigerator was stocked amongst sugar-laden sodas, 'vitamin waters' too icecream.

Never mind. We were hither for pizza. Michael's Vegie Delight (medium $12) amongst vegan salami ($2.50 extra), was a niggling charred too laden amongst Lycopersicon esculentum sauce, eggplant, pumpkin cubes, roast capsicum, semi dried tomatoes too fetta. He loved it inward all its semi-gourmet glory.

My pocket-sized Hawaiian pizza ($8 + $2 for vegan ham) took a niggling longer to arrive. Worse, it arrived amongst real ham. Once nosotros cleared upwards the misunderstanding the staff were real apologetic too whipped upwards a replacement promptly, serving it amongst a garnish of rocket too a minute sincere apology.

This pizza was everything I wanted - sweet, juicy canned pineapple, salty 'ham' too judiciously portioned mozzarella and  Lycopersicon esculentum sauce on a medium-thick not-too-oily base. The materials of an Aussie childhood.

It's awesome that Eat Pizza extend that Aussie-style pizza sense to veg*ns too the gluten-intolerant. Just live careful to double-check your club up-front!

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You tin give the sack read close our kickoff sense amongst Eat Pizza here; that same eventide was also blogged on The Fairest Feed. Since too then they've impressed to a greater extent than of the veg community, including Vicki Vegan (who visited the Glenroy store), In the Mood for Noodles (twice), too Eat More Vegies.

The solely omni review I institute is on Footscray Food Blog; approximately other rave.

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Eat Pizza
44 Raleigh Rd, Maribyrnong (other stores inward Footscray too Glenroy)
9317 7977
veg pizzas $6-15, amongst extras $2-3 each
http://www.eatpizza.com.au/

Accessibility: There's a pocket-sized pace on entry but enough of room inside. It's real loud, fifty-fifty inward the absence of other customers. Ordering too payment takes house at a depression counter. Toilets are gendered but apartment too roomy.

Le Traiteur

Update 27/1/2019: Le Traiteur is permanently closed.


24 November, 2011

I'm living a temporarily luxurious life whereby I basically receive got Wednesdays as well as Thursdays to produce equally I delight (which, hence far, has meant reading a whole bunch of books as well as watching an awful lot of Deadwood). Occasionally I convince Cindy to bring together me inwards a breakfast somewhere nearby on her means to work. Months agone Le Traiteur was recommended to us (most probable past times essjayeff) as well as nosotros endure decided to banking concern tally it out.

Le Traiteur is (as the cite suggests) a French-inspired lilliputian cafe, pumping out breakfasts as well as lunches for metropolis workers at the legal goal of town. We turned upward at close 8:30 as well as had no problem finding a tabular array - at that fourth dimension of twenty-four hr menstruation they seem to generally produce takeaway traffic. The breakfast card is non i for the vegans: savoury dishes are all eggy, as well as the sweets don't skimp on the dairy. The exclusively possible pick is the i that Cindy ordered: semolina porridge alongside quatre épices (a French spice mix of pepper, cloves, nutmeg as well as ginger) as well as poached fruit ($8.50).

This was equally proficient equally it looked - the semolina had the texture of semi-set polenta as well as was drowning inwards delicious poaching juices. The fruit was first-class equally good (although a lilliputian challenging to eat). Very impressive at the price.

I, equally always, ordered something savoury: poached eggs, silverbeet, plain mushrooms as well as bernaise on brioche ($15).

This was existent heart-attack material, which is non to nation it wasn't delicious - it merely all got a flake much past times the end. Given the bernaise as well as the eggs, I would receive got been happy to swap the brioche for approximately regular toast. Still, everything was cooked to perfection as well as it was a generous as well as filling foremost to the day.

Coffees were proficient as well as service was friendly as well as prompt, but I'm non certain we'll live hurrying dorsum - if exclusively because of the fairly express arrive at of vegetarian options. Although evidently the pastries are pretty good, which mightiness live plenty to lure me in.

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Le Traiteur
552 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
9670 0039
breakfasts $5.50 - $15
www.letraiteur.com.au

Accessibility: Le Traiteur has a pocket-size pace on entry but is fairly spacious inside. Ordering happens at the tables, but nosotros paid at a high counter. We didn't banking concern tally out the toilets.

Vegan Parmesan

24 November, 2011

here, here in addition to here). I assumed that the wheaty, buttery, cheesiness of our November pasta would essay a duo every bit good far but, nether Cindy's instructions, it turned out to hold upwardly relatively simple. All it took were 3 fairly uncomplicated substitutions: 1) the pasta (courtesy of the fresh pasta stall at the Queen Vic Markets), 2) the butter (Nuttelex of course), in addition to 3) the parmesan.

The parmesan seemed trickiest to me, but Wanting Kneading had the answer. It's a really uncomplicated recipe that takes all of ninety seconds to throw together. You don't halt upwardly amongst a specially parmesan-y flavour, but a one-half a loving cup stirred through our pasta added a garlicky cheesiness that was non at all out of place. Our vegan gf version of this pasta was a really passable faux of the basic recipe - the pasta wasn't quite every bit squeamish (and wasn't specially cheap), but otherwise everything hitting the spot.


Vegan parmesan cheese
(slightly modified version of wanting kneading's recipe)

1/4 loving cup nutritional yeast flakes
1/3 loving cup raw cashews
i teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon order down dark pepper
i tablespoon olive oil

Combine all your ingredients inward a nutrient processor (we used the fiddling spice-grinding attachment on ours) in addition to whizz them together.

Cherry Ripe Cupcakes

November 28, 2011

We spent much of concluding Sat hanging out alongside friends, inwards our abode in addition to inwards others'. To ensure nosotros had something to nibble at alongside those cups of tea in addition to spectacles of wine, I was inspired to bake for the outset fourth dimension inwards a while. These cupcakes sprang almost only from pantry supplies - merely the almond milk was bought especially - in addition to from a brace of the basic recipes inwards Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World. 

With 2 kinds of cherries cluttering the closet I went for a Cherry Ripe kinda vibe, folding dried cherries into the chocolate cake batter, supplementing the flour alongside shredded kokosnoot in addition to popping a glace cherry on top of each ganache-spread cupcake. The ganache is thus tardily to brand (no double boiler for the chocolate!) in addition to thus tardily to spread thickly in addition to smoothly. (I've used in addition to raved well-nigh it in i lawsuit before; it actually is something.) I besides made a straight-forward switcheroo betwixt wheat in addition to gluten-free flour.

These were really squeamish indeed! I erred merely on the side of under-baking them to operate along them moist, in addition to for a gluten-free recipe they had enough of springy-ness. I only want I'd had dessicated rather than shredded kokosnoot on hand. The kokosnoot was strangely crunchy, in addition to I've flora that a finer grind tends to meld into the batter better.

Cherry ripe cupcakes
(adapted from the basic chocolate cupcake in addition to chocolate ganache
inwards Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World
past times Isa Chandra Moskowitz & Terry Hope Romero)

cake
1 loving cup almond milk
1 teaspoon apple tree cider vinegar
3/4 loving cup brownish sugar
1/3 loving cup sunflower oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3/4 loving cup gluten gratis manifestly flour
1/3 loving cup cocoa
3/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 loving cup shredded coconut
1/2 loving cup dried cherries

chocolate ganache
four tablespoons almond milk
75g nighttime chocolate
three tablespoons maple syrup

12 glace cherries, to garnish

Preheat oven to 180 C. Line muffin pan alongside cupcake papers.

In a large bowl, whisk together the milk in addition to vinegar, thus give them a few minutes to curdle. Add the sugar, fossil oil in addition to vanilla, beating until frothy.

In a sort bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa, soda, baking pulverisation in addition to salt; stir through the coconut. Gradually add together these dry out ingredients to the milk mixture, beating equally you lot go. Fold inwards the dried cherries.

Spoon the mixture into the cupcake liners in addition to bake for 15-20 minutes, until they exceed the skewer test. Allow the cupcakes to cool completely.

To brand the ganache, choose the milk to the boil inwards a small-medium saucepan in addition to thus conduct maintain it off the heat. Stir inwards the chocolate in addition to maple syrup immediately, until the chocolate is completely melted in addition to the mixture is smooth.

Spoon the ganache onto each cupcake, using the dorsum of a spoon to spread it out. Pop a glace cherry onto the middle of each cupcake to garnish.

Linzer Cupcakes

November 26, 2011

lots of cupcakes! This 2nd recipe is a slightly to a greater extent than faithful rendition of a Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World recipe: the Linzer cupcake is a recommended adaptation on the hazelnut cupcakes.

They're a fiddling combat fancy without requiring cut-outs or piping or fifty-fifty buttercream. Well, technically the raspberry jam is supposed to hold out piped into the centre of the hazelnut cake, but I establish that slathering a combat on altitude was much easier, in addition to the nighttime chocolate ganache glided across the altitude of the jam but fine. H5N1 few extra chopped hazelnuts sprinkled over them add together a combat of squeeze in addition to shroud whatever bumps.

These were a lovely interruption from the chocolatechocolateCHOCOLATE rut I tin move teach into amongst desserts. Admittedly the cupcakes create involve ganache, but it's the moist hazelnut cake in addition to sweetness raspberry jam that are the existent charmers here.


Linzer cupcakes
(adapted slightly from a recipe in
Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World
yesteryear Isa Chandra Moskovitz & Terry Hope Romero)

cake
2/3 loving cup almond milk
ane tablespoon solid soil flaxseeds
ane loving cup plainly flour
1/2 loving cup solid soil hazelnuts
ane teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon solid soil cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon solid soil nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 loving cup sunflower oil
1/4 loving cup maple syrup
1/2 loving cup dark-brown sugar
ane teaspoon vanilla essence
ane tablespoon Frangelico

toppings
1/2 loving cup raspberry jam
iv tablespoons almond milk
75g nighttime chocolate
three tablespoons maple syrup
1/2 loving cup some chopped hazelnuts

Preheat an oven to 180 C in addition to trouble a muffin pan amongst cupcake papers.

In a small-medium bowl, whisk together the milk in addition to flaxseeds. In a medium-large bowl, stir together the flour, solid soil hazelnuts, baking pulverization in addition to soda, cinnamon, nutmeg in addition to salt.

Return to the smaller bowl in addition to whisk inwards the oil, maple syrup, sugar, vanilla in addition to Frangelico. Gradually pour these moisture ingredients into the bowl of flour, stirring equally you lot become in addition to continuing until to a greater extent than oftentimes than non smooth.

Pour the batter into the cupcake papers, near two-thirds full, in addition to bake for near xx minutes, until they overstep the skewer test.

You tin move altitude them amongst jam field they're all the same warm! Use a teaspoon in addition to brand certain the jam is a combat stirred upward in addition to loose, non ready similar jelly. Spread near 2 teaspoons of jam on altitude of each cupcake, smoothing it equally best you lot tin move amongst the dorsum of a spoon.

Set the cupcakes aside to cool equally you lot brand the ganache. Bring the milk to the boil inwards a small-medium saucepan in addition to and then cause got it off the heat. Stir inwards the chocolate in addition to maple syrup immediately, until the chocolate is completely melted in addition to the mixture is smooth.

Spoon the ganache onto each cupcake, using the dorsum of a spoon to spread it out. Sprinkle hazelnuts over the cupcakes field the ganache is all the same warm.

Milkwood

27 November, 2011

Sunday somehow became i of our laziest days of the year. We got upwards tardily together with had enough of fourth dimension to crusade out somewhere novel for brekkie. By the fourth dimension nosotros pulled ourselves together together with pedalled lazily northwards, nosotros were sitting downwards to consume afterwards 11. Luxury.

New Day Rising, together with then had our pick of Milkwood, A Minor Place's classic Henry's beans: hearty elementary together with perfectly seasoned - I actually involve to crusade to brand something similar this at home. The toast was cripsy but soft inwards all the correct places- I didn't inquire where the breadstuff they piece of job comes from, but it was excellent. The avo was perfect equally good - ripe without beingness squishy together with gross. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 actually fantastic meal.

Cindy went savoury equally good (I was actually hoping she would club the porridge together with then I could sneak a taste), going alongside i of the specials: toasted baguette alongside scrambled eggs, roasted ruby capsicum, feta, dressed greens together with basil ($13.50). She also grabbed i of the sides for us to share: smashed spud alongside lemon zest, feta together with chives ($4).

I stole a expert chunk of the spuds, which were soft together with lemony together with completely unnecessary (seriously, the regular meals hither are a full-sized breakfast). Cindy's baguette was a success equally good - nicely scrambled eggs, divine feta together with to a greater extent than or less colourful together with tasty vegies to liven things up. It comes wrapped upwards together with cook to larn - certainly i of the best takeaway breakfast options inwards town.

We'd spent at to the lowest degree one-half of the repast eyeing off the glorious sweets cabinet at the front end of Milkwood.

By the fourth dimension nosotros were cook to larn out our resistance was gone - nosotros took abode a distich of treats, which were the perfect means to accompany the residual of our lazy Sunday.

We had friendly together with efficient service together with I enjoyed the soy apartment whites they served upwards - Milkwood ticked a lot of boxes for us. We'll hold out dorsum to sample to a greater extent than inwards the real most future.

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Lots of dearest for Milkwood from slow equally vegan pie, Temasek, The Chronicles of Ms I-Hua, om-nom-nom.com, The f-word, The Quince Poacher, Eat This. Little lady liked the food, but wasn't impressed past times the service.

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Milkwood
120 Nicholson Street, Brunswick East
9380 4062
breakfasts $4.50 - $15.50

Accessibility: There's a biggish footstep on the means in, together with things are quite crowded inside. Ordering happens at the tables, but nosotros paid at a high counter. We didn't cheque out the toilets.

Date, Rum & Pecan Icecream

November 27-28, 2011

two batches of cupcakes in addition to and then this icecream. I was looking for an actual chocolate-less dessert equally I browsed through The Perfect Scoop, in addition to I picked this 1 because Michael's rather partial to rum in addition to raisin flavoured sweets. He pitched inwards past times bringing abode a modest bottle of Bundy Rum, a liquor best characterised past times Rich Hall, in addition to trashily appropriate since nosotros ended upward sharing the icecream alongside a bunch of Queenslanders.

Michael didn't convey abode equally much cream equally the recipe required, nonetheless I didn't endeavour whatever substitutes for it, thence this was a pretty intense dessert (the 3-scoop serving pictured higher upward would satisfy 2-3 people!). In item it was real boozy - if that's non your affair I'd advise soaking the dates equally directed (or replacing only about of the rum alongside water, perhaps) in addition to omitting the extra rum that goes into the custard. On this occasion it was my thing; I loved the agency the nighttime rum stretched into the rich caramel of the dates in addition to the yolk-heavy custard.

Date, rum & pecan icecream
(adapted slightly from a recipe inwards The Perfect Scoop past times David Lebovitz)

80g dried dates
1/4 loving cup + 2 tablespoons nighttime rum
115g pecans
200mL heavy cream
six egg yolks
1 loving cup milk
2/3 loving cup castor sugar
large pinch salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Chop the dates into chunks in addition to house them inwards a modest saucepan. Pour over 1/4 loving cup of nighttime rum. Bring to the boil, in addition to then accept the saucepan off the rut in addition to gear upward the dates aside at room temperature for at to the lowest degree four hours.

Roughly chop the pecans in addition to gently toast them (I did this inwards the oven).

In a large bowl (ideally 1 alongside a lid!), pour inwards the cream in addition to gear upward a sieve over the top.

Place the egg yolks inwards a small-medium bowl, whisking them to smoothness.

In a medium saucepan over medium heat, mix together the milk, carbohydrate in addition to salt. Stir them together until everything's warm in addition to the carbohydrate is dissolved. Gradually pour the warmed milk into the egg yolks, whisking equally you lot go. When it's all good mixed, transfer it dorsum into the saucepan on medium heat. Stir the mixture constantly, scraping the bottom in addition to sides of the saucepan to avoid burning in addition to sticking, until the custard thickens.

Pour the custard through the sieve onto the cream. Whisk inwards the remaining 2 tablespoons of rum in addition to the vanilla. Refrigerate the mixture for several hours, until thoroughly chilled.

Churn the icecream mixture inwards an icecream machine, according to the manufacturer's instructions. In the terminal few minutes of churning, add together the dates in addition to pecans to mix the through. Freeze the icecream for several hours, until theater in addition to scoopable.

L'atelier De Monsieur Truffe Ii

07/03/2013: The management squad hither has changed together with the cafe is forthwith known equally East Elevation.

December 2, 2011

first fourth dimension nosotros went together with were both happy to start our workdays a chip piece of cake to mash inwards brekkie at 8am.

The card has changed substantially since nosotros showtime visited - neither of the dishes nosotros had the showtime fourth dimension remained. I decided to drive out something sugariness this time, the apricot together with nectarine parcel, amongst baked leatherwood honey together with ricotta together with pistachios ($15).

I was expecting the bundle to hold upwards about kind out of pastry-based treat, but instead it was truly a bundle - fruit wrapped inwards newspaper together with (I guess) lightly poached. The apricots together with nectarines were soft together with ripe, swimming inwards a big pool of juice. The footling baked ricotta together with honey piece was delicious, peculiarly inwards combination amongst the pistachio pieces on top. I didn't truly discovery a skillful means to combine the ii parts of this dish, although I intend that they'd operate pretty good together. So this was a chip awkward to consume - delicious, but non quite what I hoped for.

Cindy ordered the hotcakes (with Queensland strawberries, lemon syrup together with almond & hazelnut praline, $15).

She raved virtually them - citrusy syrup, crunchy candied nuts together with fresh strawberries all combined amongst perfect fluffy pancakes. They were then skillful that I didn't fifty-fifty larn a bite.

L'atelier de Monsieur Truffe hitting the score ane time to a greater extent than for us. The service was unsurprisingly skillful at 8am on a Fri (we were the solely tabular array at that spot for the showtime one-half an hr or so), the coffees together with teas were delicious together with the takeaway hurting au chocolat that I took amongst me was equally wonderful equally ever.

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Read virtually our showtime view to L'atelier de Monsieur Truffe here. In the few months since nosotros visited, green been food, dear melbourne together with Little thoughts get got given it the thumbs up, piece Everything is Edible, mmmays nutrient blog together with Miss Adriennely were less impressed.

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L'atelier de Monsieur Truffe
351 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
9380 4915
veg brekkies $6-16
http://monsieurtruffe.wordpress.com/

Accessibility: Excellent. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 ramp on entry, cracking light, lots of infinite together with a dedicated disabled toilet. Ordering happens at the tabular array together with payment at a reasonably depression counter.

Snag Stand

January, 2016: We noticed from the tram the other twenty-four hours that Snag Stand appears to convey closed, replaced yesteryear a Mr Burger outlet.
 
December 3, 2011

Melbourne Central's Swanston St side has been nether much inconvenient structure inward the yesteryear few months. Tram stops convey been shifted, shops shut, pathways narrowed, in addition to access for cyclists pretty much denied. At final it's all been resolved amongst a novel to a greater extent than accessible tram halt in addition to heaps of room for pedestrians. Bike lanes are good marked, though cyclists volition no uncertainty live on dodging and/or abusing wandering shoppers for a land yet. And Snag Stand has opened upwards on the corner.

I similar me a vege dawg, but I didn't dare promise for to a greater extent than than a mo that this grill-in-the-wall would sell me one. Oh, how incorrect I was! Among Snag Stand's 'haute dogs' (a pun I mightily approve of) is a meatless sausage of potato, smoked apple tree in addition to sage, served on a brioche scroll amongst sautéed onions, rosemary mushrooms in addition to truffle aioli ($9.90). While the brioche in addition to truffle are affectations to a greater extent than than real  contributing components, this was darn good! Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 hearty snag, neither rubbery nor crumbly, amongst a lovely savoury flavour.

Michael took the build-your-own route, ordering his vege sausage wrapped inward a 'rustic roll' in addition to topped amongst sautéed onions in addition to bbq sauce ($8.90); he would've liked to a greater extent than onions but was otherwise satisfied. We couldn't check inward chips, but they looked pretty good.

Snag Stand is happily extending Lord of the Fries offers to a greater extent than various veg*n fast nutrient circular the corner, but Snag Stand volition in all likelihood tempt us away on occasion.

*After farther enquiry from Mandee, it turns out that the veg sausages aren't genuinely gluten-free. The gluten-free buns are vegan, but there's a lack of gluten-free materials to position inward them. The operations director mentioned plans for novel vegetarian sausages, in addition to then fingers crossed they're coeliac-friendly!

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new international students weren't wowed yesteryear the Snag Stand freebies they scored when it showtime opened. The bloggers at We Dare Food in addition to Muddy Thrills are much bigger fans.

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Snag Stand
corner Latrobe in addition to Swanston Sts
vegetarian hot dogs $6.90-9.90
http://snagstand.com.au/

Accessibility: Snag Stand opens lead onto the Swanston St footpath, which is reasonably apartment in addition to without besides many obstructions. Ordering in addition to pick-up occurs at a low-ish counter. The few tables available are high set.

Lemon Posset

December 3, 2011

po' boys on Sabbatum night. It was all planned slow in addition to I didn't accept fourth dimension to brand in addition to freeze icecream, but this lemon posset recipe from Stonesoup looked similar a overnice alternative. It is maddeningly unproblematic - dissolve saccharide inwards cream, stir inwards lemon juice in addition to chill inwards cups. I could solely mash inwards 5 of the vi instructed hours of refrigeration, but didn't imagine that would alter the texture likewise much. As I shared the posset cups around, I offered mango, orangish in addition to cherries for dunking.

The pinnacle of the dessert had the same thick custardy texture every bit Jules' seemed to accept in her picture. But every bit I dug down, I noticed it was much to a greater extent than watery at the bottom. When I mixed it all upwards it had the same texture every bit the heavy cream I used - lovely for submerging fruit in, though I kinda wished it was custardy all the means through. If I made this again, I mean value I'd experiment amongst a footling cornflour or an egg yolk for but about setting power. Either way, it's an elegant time-saving option to icecream.

Lemon posset
(adapted slightly from a recipe at Stonesoup)

600mL heavy cream
150g castor sugar
juice of two lemons
fresh fruit, to garnish

In a small-medium saucepan over medium heat, stir together the cream in addition to sugar. Keep cooking them until the cream but starts to bubble in addition to the saccharide is completely dissolved. Remove the mixture from the rut in addition to stir inwards the lemon juice. Divide the mixture betwixt 5 pocket-size bowls or cups. Refrigerate for 6 hours, in addition to thence serve amongst fresh fruit.