May 10, 2009: Believe-It-Or-Not Broccoli Burgers

a positive review as well as pic of a crispy-golden patty from Johanna is the sort of affair that tin give notice convey me around. They didn't larn off to a rollicking start; I temporarily forgot the breadcrumbs, as well as and hence fifty-fifty when they were stirred through, the patty mix Would. Not. Hold. Together. I persevered, as well as was happy to uncovering that afterwards xx minutes inwards the oven these patties were developing a handsome golden crust as well as were alone flippable.

May 11, 2009: Shredded Brussels Sprouts Together With Smoked Tofu Salad

Cindy has a pocket-size stash of recipes she's tagged every bit somehow autumn-y, as well as thus amongst the warmth good as well as really gone for the year, she's started pulling them out. This calendar week it was tofu as well as brussels sprout salad courtesy of Heidi from 101 Cookbooks.

We used merely about smoked tofu (amazingly available from the novel Coles on Johnston Street) every bit the centrepiece of ours, as well as were both pretty impressed yesteryear its texture as well as flavor (we'd never tried it before). Once you've shredded the sprouts, this whole dish comes together pretty quickly. It was all tasty but I was a footling underwhelmed. I intend our sprouts were yesteryear their best, as well as this dish is all close the sprouts - the other flavours (tofu, maple syrup, apple tree as well as pino nuts) are fine but without awesome sprouts you're going to halt upwardly a chip disappointed. We've enjoyed sprout-centric dishes before, as well as thus nosotros may stimulate this in ane lawsuit again when nosotros tin selection upwardly our sprouts from somewhere other than the supermarket.


Shredded brussels sprouts as well as smoked tofu salad
(based on a dish at 101 Cookbooks)

2 fuji apples, cutting into bite-sized wedges
juice of ane lemon
200 smoked tofu, chopped into pocket-size cubes
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/3 loving cup pino nuts, toasted as well as chopped
1 tablespoon golden syrup
350 grams brussels sprouts, shredded
salt
olive oil

In a bowl, embrace the apple tree slices amongst H2O as well as the lemon juice.

Heat the fossil oil inwards a pan, as well as nipper the tofu amongst a pinch of common salt for a few minutes, until it starts to dark-brown up. Stir inwards the garlic as well as maple syrup as well as ready for a infinitesimal or two.

Drain the apples as well as add together them to the pan, cooking for a brace of minutes. Once they're done, scrape the mixture out into a bowl as well as laid aside.

Add a chip to a greater extent than fossil oil as well as a pinch of common salt to the pan as well as nipper the brussels sprouts for a brace of minutes, stirring constantly. When the sprouts are going a footling chip golden, add together inwards the apple/tofu mix as well as the pino nuts, stir it all together as well as serve at in ane lawsuit away.

May 13, 2009: The Cheesy Tuna Bake That Isn't

her ain take on the vegan tuna bake. The matter almost this tuna bake is that it requires mock tuna, together with that's hard to come upwards by. Enter Kristy - she together with I would likely never induce got met if it weren't for our respective nutrient blogs. Kristy invited me on a weekend expedition to Footscray, together with Vincent Vegetarian Food Mart inwards particular, where I picked upwards about real orangish but very tasty mock tuna:

The 3rd ready of contributors are fifty-fifty to a greater extent than unlikely - a Helsinki-based vegan couple that I've never fifty-fifty met. Their lasagne recipe ranks amid the best that Michael together with I induce got always eaten, together with its white sauce was my selection for this bake. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 terminal nod is due to Lolo of her ain take on the vegan tuna bake. The matter almost this tuna bake is that it requires mock tuna, together with that's hard to come upwards by. Enter Kristy - she together with I would likely never induce got met if it weren't for our respective nutrient blogs. Kristy invited me on a weekend expedition to Footscray, together with Vincent Vegetarian Food Mart inwards particular, where I picked upwards about real orangish but very tasty mock tuna:

The 3rd ready of contributors are fifty-fifty to a greater extent than unlikely - a Helsinki-based vegan couple that I've never fifty-fifty met. Their terrific lasagne rolls of late convinced me that a vegan-friendly crunchy breadcrumb topping tin sack survive at to the lowest degree equally skillful equally melted cheese.

I don't intend I tin sack print on you lot also forcefully but how groovy the resulting cheesy tuna bake is. The 'tuna' is perfectly squidgy together with salty. This dish volition happily adapt your lamentable leftover vegetables (broccoli together with tomato, inwards our case), cooking them until tender together with surrounding them inwards a sauce hence smooth, creamy together with savoury that the absence of cheese is hard to believe. Some grated Cheezly adds to the effect, but isn't necessary inwards my opinion. What's to a greater extent than of import is a generous sprinkling of breadcrumbs, baked until golden together with crisp.

I don't intend comfort food, or community food, gets much meliorate than this.

The cheesy tuna pasta bake that isn't
(a spectacular together with unwitting collaboration from vegan melbourne, kblog, Tofu for Two together with VeganYumYum)

375g pasta spirals
1/2 loving cup breadcrumbs
small caput of broccoli, chopped into chunks
1 tomato, diced
1 modest cherry capsicum, diced
200g vegan tuna (from Vincent Vegetarian Food Mart)
100g Edam manner super melting Cheezly, grated (optional)

creamy cashew sauce:
2/3 loving cup cashews
2 2/3 cups oat milk
2 tablespoons Nuttelex
1/6 loving cup manifestly flour
1/6 loving cup savoury yeast flakes
2/3 teaspoon solid set down pepper
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2/3 teaspoon salt

Bring a large pot of salted H2O to the boil, add together the pasta, together with produce until done to your liking.

Meanwhile blend upwards the breadcrumbs, chop the veges together with larn going on the cashew cream sauce. Put the cashews inwards a nutrient processor, blending them to powder, together with then add together 1/4 loving cup of the oat milk together with blend to a polish paste.

In a smallish saucepan, melt the Nuttelex together with and then whisk inwards the flour. Whisk together with youngster for a few minutes, together with then gradually whisk inwards the remaining oat milk. Get equally polish a sauce equally you lot can. Bring the sauce to the boil together with simmer it until thickened. Stir through the cashew glue together with yeast flakes, together with then flavor the sauce together with stir inwards the lemon juice.

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Once the pasta is cooked together with drained, tip it into a large casserole dish. Scatter the broccoli, tomato plant together with capsicum over the top. Tear the tuna into modest chunks together with scatter them over the top, too. Gently combine the pasta, veges together with tuna together until they're all evenly distributed, together with then crease through the creamy cashew sauce. Sprinkle over the grated Cheezly together with the breadcrumbs. Bake until the operate past times is crisp together with golden, almost twenty minutes.

May 15, 2009: Leftover Makeover - Paprikash Pies

mushroom paprikash. Not fifty-fifty bothering to crusade those disastrous dumplings as well as skipping the Sanitarium seitan, I decided this fourth dimension to augment the mushrooms as well as onion amongst around zucchini as well as capsicum. Spooned over couscous, Michael as well as I liked this version fifty-fifty to a greater extent than than nosotros remembered enjoying it the starting fourth dimension time around. The porcini mushroom stock may bring helped!

There was a lot of leftovers as well as I sealed around of them upwards inward lilliputian puff pastry pies, served amongst a side of Brussels sprouts. While I know they don't expect especially pretty or impressive, they are remarkably tasty. My tip is that you'll honor mushroom paprikash as well as paprikash pies appearing on Old Favourites We're Eating This Week a dyad of times to a greater extent than earlier winter's done.

May 17, 2009: Buddha's Hateful Solar Daytime & Multicultural Festival

blogged the festival food. Last twelvemonth Michael too I were out of town when the festival rolled merely about too I enviously read to a greater extent than almost the nutrient from Kristy too Buttons. Finally, this year, Michael too I got ourselves to the festival too having skipped breakfast, nosotros couldn't hold off to striking the stalls. Though they're operated past times exclusively 2 or 3 organisations, the book of deep-fried too faux-meaty goodness is pretty amazing - barbecued corn, turnip cakes, deep-fried sushi too bread, curry puffs too saltation rolls, veg oysters too squid, steamed buns, noodles, soup too mucilaginous rice... these are the things nosotros ultimately didn't detect room for!

Las Vegan crew, or larn how to brand roti too simulated meats past times hand, similar the ones nosotros enjoyed from the stalls. How almost some East Asian Buddhist cooking?

Overall I thoroughly enjoyed our outing to the Buddha's Day too Multicultural Festival; I'll hold off frontward to stopping past times for a lunchtime feast side past times side year. In the meantime, I'll hold out thankful for the many Melbourne cafes too restaurants who know their materials too tin sell me a vivid vegetarian repast whatever fourth dimension I desire it.

May 17, 2009: 'Tuna' Patties Too Tropical 'Slaw

the cheesy tuna bake that wasn't. However, equally the baking dish filled upwards amongst ingredients, I was really happy to reserve the 2d one-half of the bundle for around other recipe: Kristy's 'tuna' patties. She made these, to groovy acclaim, for a potluck that I was unable to attend as well as I was keen to gustation them for myself. I made a duo of substitutions - using chopped jump onions, mint as well as a lilliputian grated carrot for the vegetable component, as well as seasoning my white sauce amongst solely the chicken-style stock powder. Though the white sauce was a lilliputian pasty inwards texture, I loved its flavour! I volition accept to notice other ways to brand purpose of it.

I institute the patty mixture besides moist to roll, exactly, but somehow I managed to instruct those globs into the breadcrumbs (rice crumbs, actually!) as well as so a hot, oily frypan. Though a lilliputian fragile, these patties were a groovy success inwards this kitchen too, earning high praise from Michael.

The patties' salady side is around other blog-sourced recipe that features an unusal ingredient: coconut oil. I previously baked a couple of biscuit recipes that suggested its use, though I resorted to option fats. I'll hold upwards interested to brand them in i trial to a greater extent than amongst the recommended kokosnoot oil. It lends a fantastic gustation as well as texture to the dressing of this 'slaw (which I institute at a few great 'slaw recipes nether my belt, I'm a lot to a greater extent than enthusiastic. The solely affair that could amend this i is the purpose of around spunky cherry-red cabbage, equally suggested inwards the master recipe.

'Tuna' patties
(based on a recipe at kblog)

1 tablespoon Nuttelex
1 tablespoon evidently flour
1 teaspoon chicken-style stock powder
3/4 loving cup oat milk
150g vege tuna, coarsely shredded
1/2 loving cup grated carrot
4 jump onions, finely chopped
a dozen torn mint leaves
100g 28 Cooks, which itself is based on a recipe at Daily Raw Cafe)

1/2 loving cup almonds
1/4 loving cup kokosnoot oil
1 tablespoon golden syrup
zest as well as juice of i lime
1 teaspoon minced ginger
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 tablespoon chilli flakes
1/4 teaspoon salt
5 cups cabbage, finely shredded
1 loving cup grated carrot
1 tablespoon fresh mint, minced
1 tablespoon fresh coriander, minced

Grind the almonds to repast inwards a nutrient processor. Add the kokosnoot oil, syrup, lime zest as well as juice, ginger, garlic, chilli as well as salt, so procedure the lot until yous accept a smoothen dressing.

Fold together the remaining ingredients inwards a large bowl, so stir through the dressing. Allow the 'slaw to remainder inwards the refrigerator as well as allow the flavours develop, for anywhere betwixt an sixty minutes as well as a day.

March 4, 2007: Indian-Style Lemonade

my Indian dinner as well as for reasons that volition popular off apparent afterwards my adjacent post, I wasn't upward for making dessert. Instead I pulled out this recipe for Indian-style lemonade, which I outset tried a few years ago. The authenticity of it is questionable: the a super-b*tch amongst diarrhoea for its duration.

Indian-style lemonade
makes four pocket-size cups

Combine

• 1 L water
• 1/4 loving cup fresh lime juice
• 1/3 loving cup fresh lemon juice
• 2/3 loving cup maple syrup (or a syrup of 1/3 loving cup brownish carbohydrate as well as 1/3 loving cup water)
• a generous sprinkle of solid soil ginger
• the tiniest milk shiver of cayenne pepper

in a bowl amongst an easy-pouring lip, or a jug. Pour into spectacles as well as garnish amongst H2O ice as well as lemon as well as lime slices.