Peanut Butter & Huckleberry Pie

October 17, 2015

Michael as well as I unintentionally went over-the-top on peanuts inwards our contributions to birthday picnic, doubling downward on roasted peanuts as well as peanut butter inwards both dishes. While Michael's dressed a kale as well as quinoa salad, mine formed the base of operations season for a sweetness piffling pie.

My starting fourth dimension contact amongst this pie was every bit a recipe tester for Leigh Drew's Wrapped inwards Pastry. The peanut butter caramel filling was ever destined to win me over, but it was the fresh huckleberry topping that proved to live the clincher. Instead of the depth as well as richness of a to a greater extent than predictable chocolate/peanut butter pairing, blueberries actually lighten upward the caramel as well as lend a hint of tartness. It makes for a actually dainty springtime dessert.

The shortcrust pastry was non my best effort. I mean value I added also piffling liquid, rendering it crumbly as well as hard to ringlet (yet thence really slow to swear at). By contrast, the peanut butter caramel was uncomplicated as well as completed inwards perchance v minutes. I enjoyed taking a piffling longer over the topping, alternating decorative circles of blueberries as well as roasted peanuts to pretty, homely effect.

This isn't the sort of recipe that volition ever come inwards our weekly rotation but I tin dismiss run across myself enjoying it all the to a greater extent than for pulling it out i time a year, when blueberries are cheap-ish as well as in that place are friends to feed.

Peanut butter & huckleberry pie
(a recipe from Leigh Drew's Wrapped inwards Pastry,
made available online through her blog)

pastry
2 cups patently flour
1/4 loving cup icing sugar
1/2 loving cup margarine
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/4 loving cup almond milk

caramel filling
1 1/2 cups shine peanut butter
1 loving cup almond milk
1 loving cup icing sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla

topping
1 loving cup fresh blueberries
2/3 loving cup salted roasted peanuts

To brand the pastry, identify the flour as well as icing saccharide inwards a nutrient processor as well as pulse them briefly to combine. Add the margarine as well as blend until it's thoroughly mixed through the flour. With the blades withal rotating, pour inwards the lemon juice. Drip inwards the almond milk a tablespoon at a fourth dimension as well as operate on blending until the ingredients are good mixed; they powerfulness fifty-fifty line together into a dough ball. Turn the dough onto a sail of plastic wrap, force it together into a dough ball amongst your hands, roll it upward inwards the plastic as well as refrigerate the dough for 2 hours.

Preheat an oven to 180°C as well as lightly spray a pie dish amongst oil. Retrieve the dough ball from the fridge, as well as disclose it, leaving the spread out glad roll betwixt the ball as well as the bench. Arrange some other slice of plastic roll on pinnacle of the dough, as well as ringlet the ball out betwixt the ii plastic sheets to check the pie dish. When it looks similar a practiced fit, take the plastic on pinnacle as well as repose the pastry into the dish opened upward side down. Pull off the 2d layer of plastic as well as check the pastry into the dish, trimming as well as patching where needed. Poke some holes inwards the base of operations amongst a fork as well as bake the pastry until it's lightly browned, close xx minutes. Allow the pastry to cool on the bench.

To brand the filling, identify the peanut butter as well as almond milk inwards a saucepan over medium heat. Stir them regularly until they're well-mixed as well as smooth, thence accept them off the heat. Sift inwards the icing saccharide as well as add together the vanilla, whisking everything together until it's really smooth. Pour the caramel into the pastry illustration as well as shine over the pinnacle to fifty-fifty it out. Decorate the pinnacle of the pie amongst alternating concentric circles of blueberries as well as peanuts. Refrigerate the pie for some 2 hours earlier slicing as well as serving.

Peach & Semolina Custard Tart

July 27, 2014

There was an opened upwards plastic appall of peaches inwards our refrigerator for the entirety of our overseas travels. The decease appointment was all the same many months off, as well as they looked as well as smelled only fine, but I all the same hesitated to dip a fork inwards as well as consume them every bit they were. Within a calendar week Haalo was posting most a peach as well as semolina custard tart as well as I knew what to do.

I was completely unfamiliar amongst semolina custard, but the premise seems pretty uncomplicated - semolina thickens milk only similar eggs do! That had me thinking that I actually should only larn ahead as well as veganise the tart. I looked upwards Wrapped inwards Pastry for tips on sweetness vegan shortcrust as well as blended it together amongst my commons nutrient processor method. The pastry didn't brownish every bit rapidly every bit a butter-based version, but amongst a lilliputian extra baking it was crisp as well as comforting.

This tart is non quite every bit elegant every bit an almond frangipane, but it has its ain casual charm. We didn't fifty-fifty bother amongst an (ice) cream garnish.

Peach & semolina custard tart
(pastry adapted from Leigh Drew's Wrapped inwards Pastry,
tart adapted from Cook (Almost) Anything)

shortcrust pastry
2 cups apparently flour
a generous tablespoon of icing sugar
pinch of tabular array salt
1/2 loving cup margarine
1/4 loving cup almond milk
ane tablespoon lemon juice

semolina custard
2 tablespoons semolina
2 1/2 tablespoons kokosnoot sugar
3/4 loving cup almond milk

8 peaches sliced into eighths, or an equivalent book of canned peaches

Place the flour, icing saccharide as well as tabular array salt inwards a nutrient processor, pulsing briefly to mix them together. Add the margarine inwards small-scale spoons as well as blend it all together until the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Add the almond milk as well as lemon juice, blending farther until the pastry dough only starts coming together. Tip the dough onto a large spell of plastic roll as well as trace it together into a ball amongst your hands. Wrap it upwards inwards the plastic as well as refrigerate the pastry for at to the lowest degree an hour.

Stir the custard ingredients together inwards a small-scale saucepan. Set the saucepan over medium oestrus as well as proceed stirring regularly every bit the custard cooks, turning off the oestrus when it has thickened. Let it residue for x minutes, as well as then house a spell of plastic roll straight against the surface of the custard to foreclose it from forming a skin. Allow the custard to cool to room temperature.

Retrieve the pastry from the refrigerator as well as curlicue it out betwixt ii sheets of plastic roll - aim for a circle that's a flake bigger than your pie dish. Ease the pastry into the dish (without the plastic attached to the bottom!).  Remove the plastic from the custard as well as give the custard a brisk stir; spoon it onto the pastry base of operations as well as spread it out evenly. Arrange the peach wedges over the custard, as well as plication the pastry edges down, pinching it at intervals.

Bake the tart until the pastry begins to larn golden - this took mine most 50 minutes.

Potato Waffles

September 1, 2014

I worked from dwelling identify on Monday, too it gave me a fiddling extra fourth dimension for housekeeping to a greater extent than or less my report-writing; tiresome cooking a large batch of stock, picking upwards a few groceries, too preparing dinner inwards stages. It was a overnice chance to clit out my re-create of Veganissimo, mixing too matching dishes amongst the vestiges of our vege box.

Look, it was to a greater extent than oftentimes than non an excuse to brand the white patato waffles again. I intend they're terrific - crisp to a greater extent than or less the edges too fluffy inside, but non greasy similar a hash brown. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of parsley too a fiddling chickpea flour laid the savoury tone. I'd highly recommend them to anyone amongst a waffle atomic issue 26 (and advise that anyone without endeavor frying this batter every bit pancakes too study back).

To circular out the repast too role upwards my veges, I whipped upwards modest batches of Veganissimo's chunky beet dip too chive too cashew creme cheese. I couldn't believe how slowly it was to cause got pre-baked beetroots compared to peeling too grating raw ones, too their sweetness actually gets to polish hither - there's no filler, merely some onion too garlic sauteed amongst cerise vino vinegar too a piquant dose of white pepper to add together some complexity.

The chive too cashew creme cheese took me yesteryear surprise too. I've been to a greater extent than or less the mock-cheese block a few times, too this i uses ingredients I'm familiar with, but there's something deeply correct virtually the quantities that Leigh Drew sets out inwards this recipe. I'm non going to give it (or the beetroot dip recipe) away hither - select cause got of the majority too endeavor 'em for yourself.

I'll part the white patato waffle recipe (very slightly adapted below) every bit a taster. We previously ate these waffles amongst the Veganissimo scrambled tofu, yet some other tasty argue to larn this cookbook for yourself.

Potato waffles
(slightly adapted from Leigh Drew's Veganissimo!)

ii medium potatoes
1/4 loving cup parsley, finely chopped
ii tablespoons chickpea flour
3/4 loving cup apparently flour
three 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 loving cup vegetable oil
2/3 loving cup soy milk

Scrub the potatoes too identify them inwards a medium-sized saucepan. Cover them amongst H2O too boil them until they're cooked through but nevertheless reasonably firm, virtually 8-10 minutes. Drain the potatoes too laid them aside to cool. 

When the potatoes are cool plenty to handle, grate them into a large bowl. It's fine to permit the skins in, though I fished out a span of larger pieces. Stir inwards the parsley, chickpea flour, apparently flour too baking powder. Once the white patato is good coated inwards the dry out ingredients, add together the crude oil too milk too stir good to combine.

Heat upwards a waffle atomic issue 26 too grease it every bit necessary. Pour inwards too fix the white patato batter inwards batches, until the waffles are golden too crispy on the outside.

Ginger Cheesecake Slice

November 1-2, 2014

This recipe has been on my dessert wish-list since I received a review re-create of Veganissimo a twelvemonth ago. The cookbook's helpful icons reminded me that it's both gluten-free together with soy-free, together with was therefore an ideal dessert for our pizza party.

I've petty to study when it comes to the making of this cheesecake - everything came together every bit instructed without whatever angst or uncertainty. The base of operations is a slightly sandy mix of flours spiked amongst soil ginger, but its principal utilisation is to back upwardly a major dose of crystallised ginger. Over the meridian goes a cashew-based cheesecake mixture, together with inwards a refreshing divergence from the now-ubiquitous raw cakes this 1 gets baked.

The final result is theatre together with dense rather than fluffy, creamy amongst a sugariness heat. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 minor while brings large satisfaction (...particularly when one's belly is already total of pizza).

Ginger cheesecake slice
(from Leigh Drew's Veganissimo!)

base
3/4 loving cup buckwheat flour
1/3 loving cup kokosnoot flour
1/3 loving cup almond meal
1/4 loving cup kokosnoot sugar
1 tablespoon soil ginger
1/2-1/3 loving cup olive oil

200g crystallised ginger, roughly chopped

cashew cheesecake
two cups raw cashews
1 loving cup almond milk
2.5cm while fresh ginger, peeled together with coarsely sliced
1/4 loving cup agave nectar
1/4 loving cup maple syrup
two tablespoons lemon juice
two tablespoons cornflour
1 teaspoon vanilla

Cover the cashews for the cheesecake inwards H2O together with soak them overnight.

Preaheat an oven to 160°C. Line a 20cm foursquare cake tin strength out amongst baking paper.

In a large bowl, stir together all the dry out ingredients (buckwheat flour through to soil ginger). Pour over 1/2 loving cup of the stone oil together with mix it through amongst a spoon or build clean hands. If needed, add together to a greater extent than stone oil a tablespoon at a fourth dimension until the mixture resembles moisture sand. When the texture is right, pour the base of operations mixture into the baking tray together with spread it out evenly, smoothing it downwards amongst the dorsum of a spoon. Bake the base of operations until it is golden at the edges together with get-go to dry out out, 10-15 minutes.

While the base of operations is baking, house the almond milk inwards a minor saucepan amongst the fresh ginger pieces. Simmer the milk over depression estrus for 10 minutes, together with then plough off the estrus together with allow the ginger to infuse into the milk every bit it cools for a farther 10 minutes.

When the milk is cool enough, take away the ginger pieces together with pour it into a nutrient processor or blender. Drain the cashews together with add together them too. Add the remaining cheesecake ingredients together with blend them thoroughly until every bit smoothen every bit possible.

Sprinkle the crystallised ginger pieces over the base. Pour over the cheesecake mixture together with smoothen over the top. Bake the cheesecake until it is golden on meridian together with theatre but about the edges, 40-50 minutes. Allow the while to cool completely earlier slicing together with serving.

Wrapped Inward Pastry

available now

Here inwards Melbourne, straightaway is the perfect fourth dimension to preheat the oven in addition to bake some pastry! And if you're seeking some inspiration, nosotros tin happily recommend the newly released Wrapped inwards Pastry past times Leigh Drew. This fourth dimension final twelvemonth I acted every bit a recipe tester for this majority (including team-testing a publish of recipes amongst K), in addition to I was lucky to have my re-create of Wrapped inwards Pastry every bit a thank-you gift from Leigh.

Inside are eighteen fillings, sweetness in addition to savoury, every bit good every bit several start-from-scratch shortcrust recipes. Everything is totally vegan, in addition to at that spot are gluten-free in addition to soy-free options on every. single. recipe. Here's some nosotros prepared earlier!

This tartlet is filled amongst a tangy edible bean pate in addition to topped amongst caramelised onions.

The Aussie picnic pie is pure theatre, filled amongst legume-based "egg whites" in addition to "yolks" in addition to marinated vege "bacon".

The cherry strudel may last the ultimate wintertime afternoon tea.

Michael's favourite was the Pate En Croute - at that spot are no photos for you lot hither since I accidentally filled this within out in addition to it flare-up a seam, but the loaf of lentil pate in addition to mushroom mousse is photographed inwards all its refined glory inwards the book. Don't fifty-fifty attempt to resist it.

My recommendation is the peanut caramel huckleberry pie, an oddball tally made inwards heaven. The corking word is that Leigh has released this recipe to promote the book. Try it for yourself to larn a gustatory modality of what this book's about! On the savoury side, Leigh has every bit good released her recipe for party sausage rolls - nosotros haven't tried it out nevertheless in addition to can't help wondering whether it rivals our ain recipe. (Please study dorsum if you lot e'er play them off!)

Not entirely produce these recipes conform a diverseness of specialised diets; Leigh has every bit good gone to some endeavour to focus on ingredients that are widely available in addition to non excessively processed - piece a footling fighting of nooch in addition to dark common salt sneak in, there's no telephone telephone for mock meat or faux cream cheese. Instead these pies in addition to tarts are bursting amongst fruits, vegetables in addition to nuts.

My i alert is that the recipes are rather involved, most requiring hours some fifty-fifty days from get-go to finish. They're non weeknight fabric for most of us but they're the materials of some lovely wintertime evenings, working in addition to waiting past times a warm oven.

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Look out for Wrapped inwards Pastry at your local bookshop, or order it online from aduki. I received my re-create of this cookbook inwards telephone commutation for recipe testing in addition to am nether no obligation to review it, favourably or at all - I simply desire to promote an Aussie veg*n cookbook in addition to the deliciousness of pastry!