Senin, 25 Maret 2019

Christmas Shortcuts

December 25, 2013


This twelvemonth nosotros hitting the 1 of the to a greater extent than traditional points inward our Christmas cycle, sharing luncheon amongst Michael's extended household unit of measurement on the Sunshine Coast. Everyone else tends to focus on chicken, ham too prawns too then nosotros ever brand certain to pick out a vego dish or two. This fourth dimension or too then nosotros streamlined a yoke of recipes from the archives, too then equally non to get got likewise much fourth dimension or exercise excessive mess inward mortal else's kitchen. 

Zucchini ribbons inward pesto are fifty-fifty quicker when yous purchase a tub of ready-made pesto - simply shred upwards the greens, pour over the pesto, add together a crush of lemon too toss it all together. It's calorie-free too refeshing, too lasts good into the adjacent 24-hour interval without getting wilted or slimey.

For something to a greater extent than substantial, nosotros revisited the Moroccan Soup Bar-inspired chickpea thing. Since nosotros were serving it at room temperature, nosotros entirely needed estrus to toast the almonds too tiddler some garlic, whisking together the yoghurt dressing too folding inward canned chickpeas inward a bowl. Rather than frying pita bread, I hatched the stance of substituting apparently corn chips. They had the correct crunchy, slightly grainy texture too were gluten-free equally a bonus. The salad gave our luncheon a footling heft, though the leftovers were notably soggier come upwards dinner time.

Catering for twenty-five, the tabular array also boasted mini pumpkin quiches, potatoes too a yoke to a greater extent than fresh greenish salads too then nosotros weren't left wanting for nutrient or company.

Caramel Nectarines On Fruit Toast

December 28, 2013


There's ane in conclusion calendar recipe for 2013 that I didn't larn to on time. It wasn't for lack of involvement - October's recipe looked similar a swell sweetness breakfast, but I couldn't reliably access the required nectarines until December.

So hither it is at in conclusion - fruit toast, vanilla yoghurt, as well as around lovely caramel-coated, cinnamon-spiked nectarines. I'll last using whatsoever excuse I tin to clit this fob on rock fruit for every bit long every bit they're available.


Caramel nectarines on fruit toast 
(seemingly sourced from the Woolworths website)

2 pocket-sized nectarines
1/2 loving cup Greek yoghurt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 loving cup castor sugar
20g butter
generous pinch of solid soil cinnamon
2 slices fruit bread

Cut a small, shallow cross inward the bottom of each nectarine, house them inward a bowl as well as pour boiling H2O over them. Allow the nectarines to sit down for ane infinitesimal earlier draining off the water. Let the nectarines cool.

Stir together the yoghurt as well as vanilla as well as educate them aside.

When the nectarines are cool plenty to handgrip peel off their skins, starting where it's pulled away at the cross. Slice the nectarines into viii wedges, discarding the stone.

Set a saucepan over medium rut as well as pour inward the sugar, it volition melt as well as plough golden. Add the butter as well as cinnamon, swirling the saucepan to combine the ingredients. Add the nectarine wedges, turning them to coat them inward the caramel as well as allowing them to attain as well as soften for a twosome of minutes.

Toast the breadstuff as well as acre the pieces diagonally, dividing them betwixt 2 plates. Pour over the nectarines as well as caramel, as well as dollop on the vanilla yoghurt.

Where's The Best Inwards 2013?

Another yr has passed, which agency it's fourth dimension for us to update our where's the best? page 1 time again. It's been a big yr - Cindy sampled all the Auckland had to offer, I binged on Glasgow's vegan pubs and enjoyed roughly to a greater extent than of Brisbane's veggie options. We've too moved house, as well as thence await a few to a greater extent than Brunswick posts as well as a few less Carlton posts inwards the years ahead.

can't-stop choc chip cookies as well as rosemary choc chip cookies), along amongst a suite of choc-peanut delights (peanut butter caramel slice, Reese's pretzels and sniggers bars). She too made a vegan version of an former solid unit of measurement favourite, bienenstich.

bacon 'n' egg muffins as well as tested out our novel oven amongst delicious walnut crusted tofu cutlets. We discovered that ribbons are the best way to bask zucchini amongst this pad Thai salad as well as zucchini ribbons inwards almond pesto. We impressed a potluck crew amongst pumpkin as well as kale harissa polenta patties, recipe-tested as well as roughshod inwards honey amongst pâté en croûte as well as warmed ourselves amongst chilli lime tamarind tofu as well as chipotle mac 'n' cheese amongst roasted brussel sprouts. Our crowning achievement? Probably the ridiculously skillful bbq pork bao.

  BBQ pork bao

In price of eating out, nosotros lost 2 of Melbourne's classic vegan-friendly eateries. The Gasometer (which we've reviewed one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten times) sadly unopen its doors, spell South's run at The People's Market was cutting short. Thankfully, the brains behind the menus at both these places helped brand The Sweetwater Inn an exciting Southside pub for vegans (also maintain an optic out for Smith & Daughters inwards Fitzroy inwards 2014).

 The pie floater at The Sweetwater Inn, South Yarra

A couplet of other former favourites accept morphed - Coco Loco is immediately the Mexican-themed very vegan friendly), spell L'atelier Monsieur Truffe has perish East Elevation, maintaining its past times breakfast excellence as well as provided us amongst a real fine dinner.

Fina's Vegetarian Cafe, A Caterpillar's Dream as well as Vegie Mum all serve fantabulous mock-meat dishes, spell Munsterhaus volition charge y'all upward amongst fresh as well as salubrious delights as well as Mister Nice Guy's Bakeshop volition ply y'all amongst vegan pastries.

Stovetop as well as Code Black every bit good every bit longer term success stories Small Victories, Acustico as well as Beatrix.

 Acustico, Brunswick

The Reverence Hotel, The Sporting Club as well as The Spotted Mallard accept joined our ever-growing listing of veg-friendly Melbourne pubs, spell Bayte as well as UAE both offering high lineament Middle Eastern meals amongst plenty of meat-free options.

Shu (twice) has in all likelihood been our almost exciting regain this yr - I can't recommend their Midweek black vegan nights highly enough. Shandong Mama as well as Dainty Sichuan render top notch Chinese eating theater experiences that are a fleck to a greater extent than conventional (if quite dissimilar to each other).

Wednesday black vegan degustation at Shu, Collingwood

We're behind the eight-ball dessert-wise (no visits to Helados Jauja as well as Berrissimo (two, three) accept impressed us amongst their vegan-friendly summery sweets.

Berrissimo, Fitzroy
  
Blog-wise nosotros had a busy year, amongst 207 posts including 132 reviews of restaurants, pubs as well as cafes (for those keeping rail - Cindy wrote 124, or 60% of our posts in conclusion year). Our top 10 almost pop posts published this yr are...
  1. Yong Green Food #5
  2. Thick golden dahl
  3. Lemon & sage white edible bean burgers
  4. Carnival cookies
  5. East Elevation
  6. Hello Aubergine (sadly closed, but replaced past times the fantabulous Good Freakin' Food)
  7. Spoon's Vegetarian Butcher (also closed unfortunately)
  8. Gong de Lin
  9. Tofu-ricotta cheesecake
  10. Fina's Vegetarian Cafe
Our 2008 vegan sausage rolls post remains the almost visited page on our spider web log every week.


We've too finally joined everyone else on Facebook - caput over as well as similar us at that topographic point if you're afterward a slightly to a greater extent than interactive where's the beef? experience. We perish on to encounter lovely people as well as brand neat novel friends via blogging - Melbourne has a wonderful veg*n blogging scene, as well as much of it is compiled on Planet VegMel. Thanks for hanging out amongst us inwards 2013 - we're looking forrard to roughly other big yr of eating inwards 2014.

Mango Basil Wraps

December 28, 2013


I know that non everyone is comfortable amongst fruit inward salads. It's 1 affair to sideslip unopen to dried fruit into the rice or couscous together with possibly non equally good far a stretch to pair a fig or quince amongst unopen to fancy cheese, but these practices tin progress to introducing apples, citrus fruits, grapes, strawberries together with fifty-fifty watermelon to the dinner table. Salad-wise, the syrupy sweetness mango is sure enough the in conclusion frontier. 

I convey crossed that frontier. I convey mixed mango amongst avocado, cucumber, herbs, sprouts together with kokosnoot inward a sub-tropical wind published inward Vegan Sandwiches Save The Day. And I'll do it in 1 lawsuit to a greater extent than together with again, for equally long equally I tin access mangos together with creamed coconut.


I picked upward this piddling box of creamed kokosnoot in conclusion twelvemonth for a duo of dollars at an Indian grocery, amongst piddling sentiment of what to do amongst it. It's a thick, obese glue that I assemble is mostly used to brand curries, soups together with South-east Asian desserts creamier; Steen together with Noyes repurpose it for condiments together with vegan cheese inward their sandwich book. In this wind they laid the savoury musical note yesteryear adding onion, garlic, chilli together with ginger to their creamy kokosnoot spread.

There's lot of the spread left afterwards all the wrapping's done. It sets to a firm, crumbly consistency inward the refrigerator but softens downwardly to something spreadable when it makes contact amongst a warm tortilla or spell of toast. I'll hold upward taking unopen to other tip from the already-evidently-brilliant Steen together with Noyes, together with endeavour melting unopen to to a greater extent than of it over steamed rice.



Mango basil wraps
(very slightly adapted from Celine Steen & Tamasin Noyes'
Vegan Sandwiches Save The Day)

coconut spread
200g creamed coconut
1 loving cup warm water
juice of 1 lemon
two teaspoons onion powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon chilli flakes
1 teaspoon soil ginger
1/2 teaspoon dark pepper

wraps
half dozen flour tortillas
1 cucumber, sliced into sparse circles
1 large mango, sliced into cubes
two avocados, sliced into cubes
24 fresh basil leaves
four tablespoons finely chopped coriander leaves
60g sprouts of your pick

To brand the spread, blend all the ingredients together inward a blender or nutrient processor until smooth. Refrigerate the spread for at to the lowest degree two hours, until firm.

Heat upward the tortillas inward a frypan until they're warm together with pliable. Spread two tablespoons of the kokosnoot spread over the centre of each tortilla, together with thence stack upward the cucumber, mango, avocado, basil, coriander together with sprouts. Wrap upward the tortillas tightly together with swallow them immediately.

Minggu, 24 Maret 2019

El Chino

Edit 03/01/2018: El Chino is instantly closed, as well as has been replaced past times Tootsie Roller.

January 2, 2014


We were both deeply impressed alongside El Chino - the staff were lovely, the nutrient fantastic as well as the whole sense actually summit notch. There are as well as thus many great places to become for breakfast inward this town - this is definitely ane worth your attention.
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Fitzroyalty's post position us onto El Chino, but nobody else seems to convey blogged it yet.
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El Chino
214 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North
9078 7974
veg dishes $4.50 - $12.50
http://www.elchino.com.au/

Accessibility: There's a small-scale footstep every bit you lot reckon as well as a clear corridor to the counter (that to a greater extent than or less other client did larn by to maneuver a two-seater pram through every bit nosotros ate), but the tables are quite crowded inside. We ordered at the tabular array as well as paid at a depression counter. We didn't explore the courtyard or catch the toilets.

Mad Cowgirls Vegan Grocery

August 8, 2015: Mad Cowgirls accept shut down

January 2, 2014


While those of us inwards Brunswick are mourning the recent closure of The Radical Grocery Store, Preston's vegan stocks accept risen alongside the Dec opening of Mad Cowgirls Vegan Grocery.


At the minute they're offering a wide withal selective arrive at of goods - fresh produce; tofu, tempeh as well as mock meats; non-dairy cheeses, milks as well as H2O ice creams; pre-made meals as well as pantry staples; cleaning products as well as toiletries.


We appreciated the baskets at the entry as well as took pocket-size samples across their grocery range. Once the Mad Cowgirls' EFTPOS motorcar is upwards as well as running (due later on this month) it'll live on fifty-fifty easier to pass upwards big.


It's exciting to run into the vegan grocery baton picked upwards as well as then swiftly on the northside. We've got The Cruelty Free Shop to await forrad to inwards Fitzroy this yr too.

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Mad Cowgirls Vegan Grocery
2/93 High St, Preston
9943 9184
facebook page

Accessibility: The entry is standard-width as well as flat. Interior shelves extend upwards to my shoulder peak as well as are surrounded yesteryear a lot of space. We paid at a depression counter.

Lentil Equally Anything

January 2, 2014


We made plans for i of our spare vacation weekdays to become exploring inward Preston. Stop i was Mad Cowgirls Vegan Grocery. Stop 2 (following a few op-shop visits) was meant to survive the relocated Discobeans. Sadly, they were nevertheless on summertime holidays. "No problems," nosotros thought, "we'll but caput downwardly to La Panella for pies." Another bust - shut until the 3rd. Luckily on our wanderings we'd stumbled across a newly opened branch of Lentil As Anything. Our failures left us amongst the perfect excuse to depository fiscal establishment check it out.


It's closer inward spirit to the St Kilda branch than the large i inward Abbotsford - there's a laid card amongst nigh a dozen dishes, a java automobile as well as homemade lemonade to drink. The overarching premise - not-for-profit as well as pay-what-you-feel - is the same, equally is the slightly hippyish vibe. The card covers the staples: a veggie burger, a few Indian as well as Thai curries, a vegge lasagne as well as hence forth. Gluten-free options are marked as well as but vegan ones aren't, hence double depository fiscal establishment check that when you're ordering.

Cindy tried the okonomiyaki - an already sliced upwards pancake dotted amongst mayo, sugariness soy sauce as well as pickled ginger surrounding a fresh salad.


The pancake was thin, but retained a soft centre. Flavour-wise, the pickled ginger was the star of the show, cutting through a pretty sugariness dressing.

I ordered the Vietnamese salad - shredded vegetables, marinated tofu, peanuts as well as crispy shallots dressed inward a soy chilli garlic dressing.


The salad was overnice as well as fresh amongst a decent sprinkling of peanuts as well as fried shallots for crunch. The marinated tofu was sweet, sparse as well as heavily marinated. The sauce was sugariness equally good - equally good sugariness actually - as well as lacking inward whatever form of chilli punch. The whole affair was a tiny chip disappointing - if they cutting downwardly the sugar/honey, added a chip of vinegar as well as a large whollop of chilli hence this would survive an fantabulous dish.

It feels a chip churlish to grumble nigh the character of the nutrient - Lentil As Anything is doing non bad travel based on wonderful values as well as is good worth our support. I prefer the Abbotsford version, where you lot larn a rotating alternative of dishes, but it's lovely to run across them expanding their operations northwards. 

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You tin read nigh our previous visits to the St Kilda as well as Abbotsford branches. Nobody else has blogged nigh this novel Preston branch yet.
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Lentil As Anything
288 High Street, Preston
9471 3307
pay whatever you lot want!
http://lentilasanything.com

Accessibility: There's a unmarried large stride equally you lot larn into as well as a reasonably spacious forepart room. We ordered at the tabular array as well as paid via i of the magic boxes installed quite high on the wall. We didn't explore the courtyard or view the toilets.

Red Pepper Ii

January 3, 2014


After a failed endeavour to tiffin at between posts as well as there've been some tike changes inwards that time. The eating seat has expanded into the infinite previously occupied past times Jaipur Curry Bar, as well as amongst wooden floors as well as a few framed photos on the wall, it feels marginally less similar a cafeteria than it used to. Prices convey risen but are however rattling reasonable - for every bit trivial every bit $12 you lot tin convey a curry amongst naans and/or rice, stretch to $14 as well as you're fix for a sum vegetarian thali.

The bill of fare doesn't include data on what's suitable for vegans or coeliacs, merely a disclaimer that they can't guarantee allergen-free nutrient inwards their kitchen, therefore you'd ask to consult the staff at the counter to ascertain what's probable to function for you.


We both went for all-naan options from the vegetarian menu. Michael chose a chole rassedar ($12.90), chickpeas inwards a gingery gravy that he enjoyed immensely. My palak paneer ($13.90) had a thick layer of turmeric-yellow oil, so-so spinach as well as delightfully soft, fresh paneer. The naans are too excellent, huge stretchy tear drops glistening amongst ghee amongst the strange crunchy browned flake.

Portions are generous - I didn't come upwardly merely about finishing my plateful as well as Michael was inwards no sort to assist. Maybe I should dabble across the chaat, stuffed naan as well as dessert options adjacent time.

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You tin read nearly our outset catch to Red Pepper here. Since therefore it's been praised past times immature homo veg blogger Nouveau Potato, won fans on Foodie Chatter, Sweet as well as Sour Fork as well as been enjoyed past times bloggers on Curious Charlie, Where Adles Eats, Arrow Foodie, the sydney tarts..., EAT AND BE MERRY, FOR TOMORROW WE DIE(T), Foodscrazy as well as Adaptive Radiation.

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Red Pepper
xiv Bourke St, Melbourne CBD
9654 5714
veg dishes $4-14
www.redpepperindianrestaurant.com

Accessibility: There's a pocket-sized lip on entry, reasonably spaced tables within as well as clear corridors. We ordered as well as paid at a high counter, therefore nutrient was brought to our table. We didn't seek out toilets.

Broccoli Gribiche

January 5, 2014


We had a rare non-vegan (but yet gluten-free!) potluck on the concluding twenty-four hours of our summertime vacation as well as a balcony garden sprouting both tarragon as well as chives. We trawled our recipe books for only about kind of sharable salad as well as Cindy spotted a recipe for broccoli gribiche inwards Heidi Swanson's Super Natural Every Day that used upwards our herbs as well as looked delicious. It's a fleck of a fancied upwards murphy salad - the broccoli provides only about vegetable variation as well as the really French dressing adds something new.

Making it is pretty uncomplicated really, although a fleck time-consuming. The dressing procedure was a fleck frustrating - every bit difficult every bit I whisked I couldn't actually brand the egg yolk as well as crude oil emulsify. I may convey over boiled my eggs slightly - the difficult yolk didn't squelch into a really smoothen paste. It didn't seem to brand much difference, the dressing was yet delicious - tangy from the vinegar, rich from the egg as well as crude oil as well as bursting amongst the flavor of the fresh herbs. 

It's likely non something we'd brand only for the 2 of us to eat, but it's a vivid improver to a potluck tiffin (which featured wonderful white edible bean soup, a haloumi as well as vegetable medley, patatas bravas, homemade baba ganoush, zucchini fritters, kokosnoot icecream as well as on as well as on as well as on - it was a lazy 5 hr lunch).


Broccoli gribiche
(very slightly adapted from Heidi Swanson's Super Natural Every Day)

700g pocket-size potatoes, scrubbed as well as chopped into large but bite-sized chunks
350g broccoli florets
three difficult boiled eggs
150ml olive oil
2 tablespoons carmine vino vinegar
1-2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons capers
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
1 tablespoon chopped tarragon
1 tablespoon chopped chives
salt

Preheat the oven to 200°C.

Toss the murphy pieces amongst a tablespoon of the olive crude oil as well as sprinkle them generously amongst salt. Tip them onto a baking tray as well as roast for thirty minutes, turning halfway through.

Toss the broccoli florets amongst only about other tablespoon of oil, add together tabular array salt as well as tip them onto a 2d baking tray. When the spuds are halfway along, popular the broccoli into the oven as well as produce for xv minutes - the veggies should complete at the same time.

While everything is roasting brand the dressing. Mash the yolk of 1 of the eggs as well as whisk it together amongst the remaining olive crude oil (tip the crude oil inwards very, really slowly). Beat it constantly as well as displace to larn the egg as well as crude oil to emulsify. Whisk inwards the vinegar as well as the mustard as well as and thus stir inwards the capers as well as herbs addition a decent milk shiver of salt. 

Chop upwards the 2 whole eggs as well as the remaining egg white (you tin include to a greater extent than difficult boiled eggs if you lot desire - the master recipe has 4 rather than 3) as well as crimp them into the dressing. 

Combine the spuds as well as broccoli as well as and thus gently toss the eggy dressing through. Season if required as well as serve.

Creamy Cashew-Coconut Slice

January 5, 2014


Since Michael was making a rich salad for this potluck, I figured I should choose to a greater extent than or less dessert. I (correctly) guessed that we'd all hold upwards pretty total in addition to non asset out for a multi-layered chocolate extravaganza, so I referred dorsum to a raw 'cheesecake' while recipe that I bookmarked on It Ain't Meat, Babe iii years ago.

It's cipher y'all haven't seen earlier - dates, kokosnoot in addition to macadamias for a fudgy base, so sweetened cashews in addition to lime juice for the 'cheesecake' topping. It's at the less strict halt of raw cuisine - there's agave nectar, dessicated coconut, melted kokosnoot crude oil in addition to vanilla involved - but too large quantities of soaked in addition to blended nuts, the cornerstone of raw desserts.

The base of operations didn't quite encounter my expectations. I did my ol' swap-soaked-dried-dates-for-fresh-ones play a joke on in addition to at that spot was barely plenty hither to actually bind together the dried kokosnoot in addition to macadamias. It was crumbly in addition to missing the caramel coloring in addition to season I was anticipating.

I was much to a greater extent than pleased alongside the 'cheesecake' top. Though my limes were comically dry out in addition to useless in addition to the topping so lacked a chip of bite, the vanilla enhanced the season in addition to the kokosnoot crude oil did wonders for the texture, creating a dense in addition to buttery texture that reminded me of white chocolate.

This while stores but equally good inwards the freezer equally it does inwards the fridge. Either way, I'd recommend serving it equally nosotros did above, alongside a large bowl of cherries in addition to strawberries for a refreshing halt to an extended meal.


Creamy cashew-coconut slice
(slightly adapted from It Ain't Meat, Babe,
who cites Vegetarian Times)

1 1/2 cups raw macadamias
1 1/2 cups raw cashews
1/2 loving cup dried dates
1/4 loving cup dessicated coconut
vi tablespoons kokosnoot oil, gently melted
1/4 loving cup agave nectar
juice in addition to zest of 1 lime
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

In iii split upwards bowls, soak the macadamias, cashews in addition to dates overnight.

Line a 22cm foursquare tray alongside baking paper. Drain the macadamias in addition to house them inwards a nutrient processing, whizzing them until they resemble crumbs. Drain the dates, adding them in addition to the dessicated kokosnoot in addition to blend farther until they're good mixed in addition to the dates firstly binding the crumbs together. Tip the mixture out into the baking tray in addition to role the dorsum of a spoon to press in addition to smoothen it out into an fifty-fifty layer.

Clean out the nutrient processor to role for the instant layer. Darin the cashews in addition to drib them in, blending them equally finely equally y'all can. Add the remaining ingredients in addition to blend rattling thoroughly, to obtain equally smoothen a mixture equally y'all can. Pour it over the base of operations layer, eve it out alongside the dorsum of a spoon. 

Freeze the while for at to the lowest degree a brace of hours, so shop it inwards the fridge. Slice it into squares to serve.

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While this recipe is non truly, 100% raw it is definitely inwards the spirit of so many raw recipes, so I'm contributing it to Catherine's Jan round-up, I Am Vegetarian - Hear Me Raw!.

Sabtu, 23 Maret 2019

Savoury Scones

January 6, 2014


I larn the occasional inexplicable hankering for scones, together with the latest episode struck when I stumbled across a savoury vegan scone recipe online final weekend. I nonchalantly offered to bake to a greater extent than or less on Mon nighttime afterward outset convincing Michael to railroad train tomato kokosnoot soup for dinner. 


I shied away from the expectation of 'cheesy', all the same non exclusively convinced that nooch could acquit it, together with I added to a greater extent than or less extra garlic together with onion powder. Actually they did a actually expert job, golden together with tender together with really savoury; definitely, arguably, cheesy. I convey other richer non-vegan scone recipes that I'm non railroad train to allow become of yet, but these convey earned a house beside them.



Savoury scones
(adapted slightly from a recipe on For Esme, With Love)

ii 1/2 cups obviously flour
five teaspoons baking powder
generous milk shiver of salt
ii teaspoons mustard powder
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
50g mutual frigidity margarine
1/2 loving cup nutritional yeast flakes
1 tablespoon fresh chives, finely chopped
1 loving cup soymilk

Preheat an overn to 230°C. Line a baking tray amongst paper.

In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, mustard powder, garlic pulverization together with onion powder. Rub the margarine into the flour mixture until in that place are no large lumps. Stir through the nutritional yeast flakes together with the chives.

Make a good inward the centre of the mixture together with pour inward the milk. Use a butter knife to combine the ingredients into a dough, cutting rather than stirring.

Turn the dough onto a build clean board together with gently knead it amongst your fingertips. Flatten it out to 2cm thick amongst your hands. Use a drinking glass or biscuit cutter to cutting out scones from the dough, together with adapt them on the baking tray. Gently reform whatever scraps into to a greater extent than or less other ball together with repeat (I had simply plenty for 1 to a greater extent than messy scone).

Brush the tops of the scones amongst a footling extra soymilk together with bake them for 10-12 minutes, until they're golden together with crusty on top.

Admiral Cheng-Ho

January 9, 2014


We were thrilled slow concluding yr when nosotros Monk Bodhi Dharma, would presently cause got a sibling cafe inwards the inner north-east. Admiral Cheng-Ho opened its doors to customers concluding Th morn in addition to nosotros were in that place to welcome it to the neighbourhood.

Though Admiral Cheng-Ho has its ain distinct theme, there's a clear household unit of measurement resemblance inwards the glossy lacquered upcycled timber, bare bulbs in addition to exposed bricks. They accept their java seriously in addition to Michael confirms that it's seriously good. The all hateful solar daytime breakfast menu follows closely inwards Monk's footsteps - the bircher, avocado on toast, granola in addition to umami mushrooms are all hither inwards nigh the same form, piece in that place await to last novel versions of the savoury fritters in addition to sweetness pancakes. 

At present, everything is vegan or vegan adaptable, in addition to marked equally such; to a greater extent than than one-half of the dishes are marked gluten complimentary in addition to ii are raw.


Michael was deeply impressed yesteryear The Admiral ($18.50) - ii thick gluten-free zucchini fritters overlaid alongside seasonal vegetables (lightly cooked asparagus, carrot in addition to kale), beetroot taste in addition to a basil cashew cream that he couldn't halt raving about.


I was similarly enamoured of the northside quinoa pancakes ($18.50), based on some other high-performing gluten-free batter. This i had the distinct nuttiness of quinoa without compromising whatsoever of the fluffiness most of us desire inwards a pancake. The sandy 'coffee soil' on peak didn't create much for me, but the sugar-free trinity of butterscotch sauce, raw vanilla icecream in addition to candied orangish was exquisite.


Admiral Cheng-Ho hasn't sprung whatsoever large surprises on those of us who've brunched at Monk Bodhi Dharma. Prices are at the higher cease of the brunch market, in addition to the dishes demo the thought, science in addition to imagination that warrants it. If anything it's a relief to run into in addition to thence much of what's wonderful almost Monk interpret to a instant kitchen, in addition to i I tin conceivably wheel to.


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Admiral Cheng-Ho
325 Johnston St, Abbotsford
9534 7250
veg breakfasts $8-18.50

Accessibility: There's a unmarried large measuring on entry, high density seating within in addition to a clear broad path through the middle. We ordered at the tabular array in addition to paid at a depression counter. We didn't take in the toilets.

The Cornish Arms Ii

January 9, 2014


We bring been occasionally hitting upwardly The Cornish Arms on Sydney Road for lazy junk-food dining together with decided nosotros should lastly weblog it again. They seem to tweak their carte du jour semi-regularly, but hold a substantial listing of vegan pub nutrient for those of us who are nostalgic for parmas or chicken burgers. It's heavy on the mock meat - there's dishes similar the mixed grill (faux duck, facon, meatballs together with pate with salad together with bread, $21), a mock chicken burrito ($19), a duck-based steak sandwich ($19) together with a banh mi (starring bbq pork seitan together with mushroom meatballs, $20) amongst a couplet of non-mock options (Massaman curry $17, portabello mushroom burger, $17). Let's live clear: this is non the house to become if you're afterward something fresh together with salubrious - your repast is going to live huge, it's going to live fried together with it's going to live salty. That's simply the agency things are at The Cornish.

I completely embraced the mock-meat subject together with ordered the double-down burger ($20, based on the KFC abomination of the same name). The uncomplicated (and horrifying) thought behind the double downwards is the replacement of the rule burger bun with chicken patties. So the Cornish double downwards is 2 gigantic crumbed pieces of mock chicken surrounding a piece of facon, unopen to Lycopersicon esculentum together with unopen to melted Cheezly. With sauce.


It's clearly a ridiculous meal, but non without its oily charms - the chicken pieces bring a tasty crumb together with are pretty decent gluten-based mock meat, the facon is first-class together with the whole sense is gleefully gluttonous. The cursory slaw doesn't add together much inward the agency of veggies, together with the wedges (while excellent) are simply to a greater extent than fried goodness. The double downwards won't live for everybody, but it definitely won itself a fan inward me.

Cindy decided to sample the fish together with chips, having heard that they'd worked on the batter since our Occupie Fitzroy together with first trip.


As yous tin see, they actually bring - these are at in 1 lawsuit to a greater extent than batter than fish. Crispy together with non also oily (while clearly having simply been deep-fried), the batter coats 3 biggish chunks of tofu-based fish, with most of the fishy flavor actually coming via the vegan tartare sauce. It was also much for Cindy to eat, but she looked pretty content when she gave up.

The Cornish is a trusty vegan-friendly pub inward Brunswick that volition tike yous upwardly unopen to mock meat together with assist yous recapture fond memories of one-time schoolhouse pub food. The prices are a combat steep, but it seems vegans volition pay proficient coin to places that await afterward them - it's almost ever full. There's a neat make of beer on tap, a prissy courtyard together with regular bands/entertainment (of varying lineament it must live said). Our sense of the service inward the past times has been upwardly together with down, but things ran pretty smoothly on this visit.
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Read virtually our previous see to The Cornish Arms Occupie Fitzroy together with here. Since then, it's been reviewed past times Occupie Fitzroy together with The Good Hearted (who both loved it) together with Chef John Smith (who admired the greasy vegan pub food, but wanted unopen to decent salubrious options). 
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The Cornish Arms
163A Sydney Rd, Brunswick
9380 8383 
vegan mains $17-$21

Accessibility: There's a apartment entryway together with a pretty spacious interior. Lighting is depression without beingness ludicrously dim. Ordering together with payment happens at the bar. The toilets are on the same degree together with are wheelchair accessible.

The Grain Store

January 11, 2014


Our entirely chore for Sabbatum was a trip to the markets and, amongst our go-to brekkie options Elceed together with Twenty & Six Espresso both on summertime break, nosotros branched out into the CBD to sample The Grain Store. I'd seen the strange yell of this house suggesting it would last a solid veg-friendly brunch choice, but it turns out The Grain Store is 1 of the most hyped cafes inward town (check out the link round-up at the bottom of this post). Luckily, everyone was withal at the beach on the weekend, together with then at that topographic point was no queuing for tables or feeling pressure level to consume chop-chop together with teach out.


It's an oddly sterile infinite - inward around ways reminding me of a cafe inward a concern hotel (the dreadful music existence piped over the speakers in all probability contributed to this impression). The service was slightly strong together with formal equally well, taking the whole experience a chip farther away from the casual brunch I was expecting. The carte is fascinating, particularly inward damage of sweets. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 twain of examples: you lot tin get a summertime fruit cocktail amongst golden flax seed dukkah, agave nectar buttermilk, watermelon mouse together with rooftop chocolate mint ($13) or cottage pancakes amongst passionfruit, almond butter, berry together with pistachio smoothie, strawberry puree together with honeycomb streusel ($17). It's to a greater extent than oft than non quite vegetarian friendly together with there's 1 clearly labelled vegan dish (cauliflower, quinoa together with goji berries amongst pumpkin hummus, celeriac together with nigella seeds, $17). I got the feeling a twain of the other dishes would last veganisable too, although nosotros didn't confirm it.

We stuck amongst the non-vegan carte options. For Cindy, buttermilk French toast together with poached peach amongst peppered caramel, lemon curd, sugariness basil together with oreo crumble ($17).


This was basically fine-dining for breakfast - at that topographic point were petty splotches of sugariness basil, a business of oreo crumble together with a chip swirl of peppered caramel. It was all real good executed (especially the lemon curd) together with the inventiveness together with idea behind it is impressive, but at that topographic point was something a chip fussy almost it equally a breakfast.

My repast was a chip to a greater extent than straightforward: portobello mushrooms amongst a raclette spud rösti, poached eggs together with a hazelnut hollandaise ($18).


These guys actually know how to poach an egg - they were both at but the correct degree of ooze. The mushrooms were fantabulous equally good together with the creamy hazelnut hollandaise was a prissy variation on a criterion breakfast sauce. The rösti was a chip of a letdown though, quite modest together with a chip undercooked for my tastes.


It's tardily to come across why The Grain Store has built such a big next together with then chop-chop - they produce a gain of fancy, innovative brunches, amongst dandy java inward a calorie-free high-ceilinged space. There was something almost the whole experience that left Cindy together with I a petty apartment though - I gauge we're but non that upward for high-end dining at breakfast time, preferring a to a greater extent than casual brunch experience. Still, The Grain Store wins points for having an impressive array of veggie dishes, existence opened upward inward the CBD on the weekend together with staying on top of dietary requirements (gluten-free options are widespread). Also: the petty sweets on the agency out looked incredible.
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The Grain Store
517 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
9972 6993 
veggie breakfasts $12-$23

Accessibility: There's a ramped entryway into a good lit together with pretty spacious interior. There's total tabular array service. We didn't catch the toilets.

Mankoushe Bakery Iii

January 11, 2014


We've been regular customers at Mankoushe since the Lebanese bakery opened on Lygon St three-and-a-bit years ago. Co-owner Jad ever recognises us as well as takes a instant to nation hi; somewhere along the business he figured out that we're those vego bloggers. We've consistently as well as happily paid our ain means during our frequent visits but latterly accepted an invitation to endeavour some of their novel bakery carte du jour on the house. So convey this rare freebie post inwards that context.

We took a spot out dorsum where it's shady, it's a lilliputian easier to discuss the soundtrack of Leonard Cohen as well as Zeppelin, as well as I could induce got a peek at their herb garden. The menu's a skillful i for veg*ns - classics such equally the herb staff of life ($3), my honey haloumi pie ($5.50) as well as Michael's favourite falafel roll ($8.50) are all the same available as well as there's a novel department of 8 fancier vegetarian pizzas that nudge into double-digit prices. Vegan options larn a (v) as well as comprehend almost one-half of the vegetarian menu. Spelt flour dough is available on request, but the bakery's belike best avoided yesteryear those eschewing gluten entirely.


There's also a salad ($7) as well as a dip ($6-9) on the menu; they'll shift roughly depending on what fresh arrive at takes the Choucair brothers' fancy each fortnight. We loved this summery dark-green salad amongst mint, pomegranate seeds as well as flaked almonds.


As for the the pizzas, nosotros get-go chose the fitir ($10), spread amongst love apple tree sauce as well as dotted amongst plump garlic mushrooms, baked to a crisp as well as therefore topped amongst dollops of chilli labneh as well as fresh mint leaves.


The earthy vegan-friendly laktin ($11) was only equally lovely - instead of love apple tree the base of operations has a charred oregano-sesame layer, generous chunks of cinnamon pumpkin as well as is finished amongst finely shredded fresh cabbage as well as a dizzle of pomegranate molasses. (In this flick you'll also spot the herby sweetness white patato dip currently on rotation.)


Jad insisted on packing us off amongst some dessert. He explained that this cinnamon semolina pudding ($7) is traditionally made to celebrate the nativity of a child. It's surprisingly shine as well as velvety, deeply spiced as well as topped amongst almonds, sultanas as well as dessicated coconut.

Mankoushe has built its reputation on its wood-fired oven as well as Lebanese heritage (not to advert their love for Bob Dylan at acme volume!), as well as they're developing a wonderful, seasonally responsive means amongst fresh local ingredients. Without a doubt, we'll last dorsum to endeavour the other half-dozen novel veg options out of our ain pocket. 

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You tin also read our previous Mankoushe Bakery (one, two) as well as Cafe (one, two) posts. Since my final collation I haven't spotted whatever novel weblog posts close either venue.
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Mankoushe Bakery
323 Lygon St, Brunswick East
9078 9223
veg items $5-14.50

Accessibility: There's a pocket-sized measurement upward through a narrow-ish entry as well as a chip of infinite inwards the forepart room. Toilets as well as courtyard are accessed via a yoke of steps as well as a narrow, bricked path. We unremarkably social club as well as pay at a depression counter.

Lemon & Huckleberry Loaf

January 11-12, 2014


Last weekend nosotros had another sewing day alongside Bec as well as Clamps - Michael made an entire shirt, as well as Bec as well as I at i time convey a pretty cool retro wearing clothing inwards the works. Bec prepared bread, Clamps fried seitan, as well as they seat us inwards accuse of snacks. So Michael as well as I collected shiny vegan treats from the Korean grocers surrounding the Queen Victoria Markets, as well as thus delved within for around cheapish blueberries as well as lemons.

The blueberries as well as lemons were for this loaf cake, from Isa Does It. It's a uncomplicated i bowl job, as well as I trialled a distich of tweaks to larn inwards simpler yet for my kitchen (all successful!). It took a lilliputian less fourth dimension than expected to bake through, as well as yous tin encounter higher upwards that the crust split, which I genuinely quite like. On tiptop is a simple, runny glaze of vanilla, lemon juice as well as icing saccharide (if you're non corking on those lilliputian flecks of white above, sifting the icing saccharide should cook that correct up). Isa Chandra Moskowitz deems it optional, but if yous similar a potent lemony season inwards your sweets I'd strongly recommend going for the glaze.

Even if yous produce skip it, yous tin endure certain of moist, cakey loaf - I had to spell mine thickly to avoid the cake crumbling nether the knife. Bec spread her get-go spell alongside margarine, as well as Clamps served i after alongside a spoonful of kokosnoot yoghurt on top, but I liked this loaf real much on its own.



Lemon as well as huckleberry loaf
(very slightly adapted from from Isa Chandra Moskowitz's Isa Does It)

cake
2/3 loving cup soymilk
iii tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest
1/4 loving cup vegetable fossil oil
3/4 loving cup caster sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
ii cups plainly flour
ii 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 loving cup blueberries

glaze
1/2 loving cup icing sugar
ii tablespoons lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat an oven to 180°C as well as describe a loaf tin alongside paper.

In a large bowl, whisk together the milk, lemon juice as well as zest. Add the oil, saccharide as well as vanilla as well as whisk around more. Sift inwards the flour, baking pulverization as well as salt, stirring everything together to shape a shine batter. Fold inwards the blueberries.

Spray the papered loaf tin alongside a lilliputian fossil oil as well as pour inwards the batter, smoothing over the top. Bake the loaf for 45-60 minutes, until it's golden brownish on tiptop as well as a skewer through the centre of the cake comes out clean. Leave the cake to cool inwards the tin for fifteen minutes, as well as thus exterior the tin for at to the lowest degree an hour.

To brand the glaze, whisk together the ingredients as well as spoon or pour them over the cake. The glaze is real runny, thus I picked my spots, dribbled the glaze slowly, as well as allowed around of it to puddle inwards the baking paper. Allow the glaze to cool as well as laid a lilliputian earlier serving.

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Vanilla Peach Frozen Yoghurt

January 13-14, 2014


Four of Michael's aunts together with uncles flew to Melbourne for a scorching few days of tennis, together with nosotros made certain to bring them over for a repast inward our chilled-out air-conditioned flat. Michael seat on a summery Mexican-inspired spread of refried beans, tofu chicharrones, corn salad, tortillas together with fresh veges, together with I churned upward this vanilla peach frozen yoghurt.

It's a surprisingly uncomplicated formula from the often-more-convoluted David Lebovitz. This fourth dimension it was me complicating things, adding inward orangish essence, vanilla together with a pinch of common salt where Lebovitz listed alone a uncomplicated dash of lemon juice. Thankfully I managed non to detract from the substitution feature: a pocketbook of white peaches. You tin meet that they don't add together much to the color of this dessert, but I hope that they lend enough of flavour.

The yoghurt is definitely secondary to the fruit - this comes off every bit equal parts refreshing sorbet together with creamy dairy-based dessert. I'd honey to endeavour making it amongst coconut yoghurt every bit a vegan alternative.





Vanilla peach frozen yoghurt
(adapted slightly from David Lebovitz's The Perfect Scoop)


700g (about 5) ripe peaches
1/2 loving cup water
3/4 loving cup caster sugar
1 loving cup natural yoghurt
a few drops of lemon juice
a few drops of orangish essence (optional)
pinch of salt
1/4 teaspoon vanilla

Slice the peaches into quarters, take away them from their stones, together with peel off their skins. Chop the peaches into chunks together with house them inward a large saucepan. Pour inward the H2O together with house the saucepan on medium heat, roofing it amongst a lid. Cook the peaches until tender, almost 10 minutes, removing the lid occasionally to stir them. Take the peaches off the heat, stir inward the saccharide (it should dissolve rapidly) together with refigerate the peaches overnight.

The adjacent day, transfer the peaches to a nutrient processor together with add together inward the yoghurt. Whizz the mixture until it's good mixed together with to a greater extent than frequently than non smooth. Add the lemon juice, orangish essence, common salt together with vanilla, whizz again, gustatory modality together with adjust the season every bit yous similar it.

Churn the mixture inward an icecream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions.

Ethos Swallow Drinkable Ii

January 15, 2014


Michael as well as I were drawn to MONA FOMA for the tertiary consecutive year, as well as managed to check a petty Hobart dining precisely about all the aaaaaart. We had extra fourth dimension for dinner on our outset nighttime as well as decided to pass it at Ethos.


Ethos has evolved a petty since our terminal visit. It hasn't backed off on its upcycled, home-grown, local, seasonal M.O.; genuinely it's stronger than always amongst an edible garden replacing the outdoor seating we'd previously known.


When nosotros outset inspected their carte du jour a yoke of years agone they were offering shared plates but forthwith Ethos convey shifted only to a degustation-style carte du jour of 6 ($70pp) or 8 ($90pp) courses. They offering a listing of their latest favourite ingredients hence you lot tin eliminate anything you lot can't or won't eat, as well as hence they brand upwards the residue from there.


We hadn't booked a table, since our innovation was precisely to wander inwards early a weeknight as well as portion a yoke of dishes, but the staff hinted that they prefer reservations as well as warnings almost particular dietary requirements. Nevertheless, they topographic point together a lovely banquet for us.

potato crisps & creme fraiche

a negroni (left) as well as a cocktail of passionfruit, mint, lime & rum ($18ea)

cauliflower & asparagus compressed amongst olive oil 
plus puffed rice & a preserved lemon dressing

almond milk & garlic sauce, tiresome roasted almonds, dark garlic, 
radishes, borage flowers

carrots (roasted, fresh & pickled inwards chardonnay vinegar & caraway seeds)
on a carrot purée amongst toasted breadcrumbs, Angelica flowers & garlic

roasted, fresh as well as pickled parsnips, 
daikon radish pickled inwards rice vino vinegar & coriander seed, 
roasted butternut pumpkin & summertime greens amongst a miso sauce

pickled hen egg, kohlrabi sous vide, courgette sautéed on i side, 
raw golden peas, infant basil, labne, as well as pickled rhubarb

apricots inwards mirin, nectarines inwards gin, plums inwards to a greater extent than unidentified alcohol, 
rhubarb champagne jelly, chocolate-brown butter shortbread, 
rum parfait & dark sesame meringue

Everything tasted equally adept equally it looks here, as well as nosotros couldn't aid noticing that a lot of it was vegan. The Ethos chefs are clearly having a pickling frenzy, as well as though nosotros enjoyed most of their preserved veges nosotros were overwhelmed past times vinegar flavours equally the savoury courses concluded. They definitely won us dorsum amongst dessert, a boozy shared hodge-podge of stonefruit, icecream, jelly as well as shortbread.

Ethos' dinner set-up has shifted a adept bargain closer to Garagistes' inwards the past times year, as well as thankfully the eating topographic point hasn't lost whatever of its past times charms inwards the process.
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You tin read almost our dinner at Ethos a twelvemonth agone here. Since as well as hence their vegetarian options convey got the tick on FeedMeUpScotty as well as Lynnnnn wasn't into it.

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Ethos Eat Drink
100 Elizabeth St, Hobart
6231 1165
6 courses $70pp, 8 courses $90pp
http://ethoseatdrink.com/


Accessibility: Looks cracking to my eyes - apartment all the agency through amongst relatively spacious tables as well as total tabular array service. There's a disability-access privy as well as all toilets are unisex.
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