The UK 100

October 30, 2009 · Filed under Questions Answered · Tagged

mofoSorry, I fell off the MoFo wagon.  I’ve not been in the best mental space for a week or so, although I’m pulling myself out of the black hole I’ve been in and am starting to feel a lot better.

As I’ve not cooked anything worth photographing I will give you this limp MoFo post and see if I can find anything else to post to see the end of MoFo month out.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

1) Copy this list into your own blog, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Post a comment here once you’ve finished and link your post back to this one. (whoops, I can’t remember where I found this so I can’t link back to it, sory…)
5) Pass it on!

Hampshire watercress
Haggis
Montezumas chocolate
Melting mozarella Cheezly
Tartex
Granose Mock Duck
Sosmix
Churros at Terre a Terre
Yorkshire pudding
Beans on toast
Crumpets
Mushy peas
Aldi croissants
Bourbon biscuits
Holland and Barrett fruit flapjacks
Linda McCartney sausages and chips
Marmite on toast
Kent black cherries
Marmite breadsticks
Beanfeast
Sunday roast at The George
Anything at Birmingham’s curry mile
Rhubarb crumble with Swedish Glace
Paskin’s full breakfast
Jersey Royal potatoes swimming in butter
Evesham asparagus
Potato farls
Bubble and Squeak
Sticky toffee pudding
Irn Bru
Bacon buttie with tomato sauce
Marigold bouillon powder
Booja Booja truffles
Scones and jam
Bird’s custard
Anything at Dandelion and Burdock
White chocolate
A bought pizza with cheese in the UK
Hot cross buns
Staffordshire oatcakes
Bread and butter pudding
Summer pudding
Pickled onions
Potato from the Baked Potato Shop in Edinburgh – although I wasn’t vegan at the time so it wasn’t a vegan meal!
Wetherspoons curry
Irish stew with dumplings
Mashed carrot and swede
Pease pudding
Christmas pudding
Cranachan
Blue Sheese
Faggots
English muffins
Pringles
Scotch broth
Walker’s prawn cocktail crisps
Mildred’s mushroom and ale pie
Masala dosa
Realeat fishcakes
Worcestershire sauce
Mushroom ketchup
Pickled walnuts
Ribena
Anything at Vbites
Co-op donuts
Picalilli
Ryvita
Anything at Saf
Chip shop curry sauce and chips
Parmezano
Warehouse Café bangers and mash
Innocent Smoothie
Vimto
Eccles cake
Semolina pudding with jam
Linda McCartney country pie
Scallop (potato fritter)
Elderflower cordial
Spotted dick
Victoria plum
Marigold braised tofu
Clive’s pie
Wagamama Yasai Chilli Men
Sarsaparilla
Spring cabbage
Holland and Barrett Porkless Pie
Henderson’s relish
Scottish raspberries
Scouse
Colcannon
Fry’s Peppermint Cream
Hobnobs
Roast parsnips
Booja Booja ice cream
Champ
Pimms
Rice pudding
Nuttolene
Beef and Tomato Pot Noodle
Sesame Snaps

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Beefy Seitan Roast

October 19, 2009 · Filed under Cooking With PETA, veganmofo 2009 · Tagged

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Someone else cooked this for MoFo, I can’t remember the name of the blog now, but having never used my copy of Cooking With PETA I decided to give it a go for a Sunday roast dinner.

It’s pretty easy to make, just mix it all together, cover it with the stock and then put it in the oven for an hour and a half.  I didn’t lower the temperature of the oven like the instructions said as 300 degrees would have been too low to get decent roast potatoes so I left it at 350 for the entire cooking time.  I’m not convinced that it actually would have cooked fully at the lower temperature either as it was only just done at the higher one.

After it was done I put it in another dish without any stock and stuck it back in the over for 20 minutes to dry it off and brown it a little bit.

I didn’t add the browning to the roast or the stock as I didn’t like the idea of putting some chemical thing into my food so I used liquid aminos (or is that animos, I can never remember and I’m too lazy to get up and check the bottle!) instead and the taste and colour were fine.

Jim really enjoyed his and ate almost all of the 2 slices I cut for him.  Piggle liked the taste but it was a bit too chewy for him as he doesn’t have a full set of teeth yet.  I thought the taste was really nice but the outside was a bit spongy, the inside was nice and firm though.

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That’s what we have left (minus a slice I had for lunch today) so I will be making something else with seitan in it this week.

I will definitely try it again in the future, I’m not sure what to change to get rid of the sponginess though.  The recipe says that you can cook it in the slow cooker but it takes 10 hours.  That would mean either putting it on really early in the morning (we try to eat at 6 at the latest as the boys are only 6 and 2 years old) or put it on right before bed and reheat it later.

Anyway, it was a nice change as we don’t normally eat seitan plain like that and I don’t do gravy very often!  The carrots were also roasted so I didn’t have to tend to anything while dinner was cooking which was nice too!

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Creamy Sweet Potato Bake

October 18, 2009 · Filed under Vegan Yum Yum, veganmofo 2009 · Tagged

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Another winner from Vegan Yum Yum, be impressed please with how much mine looks like the picture in the book (allowing for the fact that I take crap pictures!).  I didn’t use my white casserole dish to copy the picture but because it was the only one big enough to hold everything, I wanted to use my favourite casserole but it was just a bit too small. What?  Doesn’t everyone have a favourite casserole dish?!?!

I went flicking through the book to look for a recipe that matched up with the vegetables I had in the house and came across this.  I had a bag of kale from the organic box we got on Friday and a lovely huge organic sweet potato that my sister got for me so decided to give this a go.  We love a pasta bake in this house and mixing vegetables with pasta is a good way to get the kids to eat them, it worked especially well with the sweet potato as it fell apart as they are prone to do and coated the pasta so they weren’t really aware that they were eating something healthy!

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The sauce is really creamy and my blender did a lot better with the cashews than I thought it would do, it was entirely smooth after I blended it for a few minutes.  I think it must have been the paprika but there was a slight heat to the dish too, I worried that the boys wouldn’t eat it because of it but they seemed to cope fine with it and I really liked it.

The kale was very nice with the sauce and the bits that stuck out the top went crispy giving me a little understanding of what people are going on about when the talk about kale chips, I must try those at some point.

So, two meals and two winners from the book, I want to try some of the tofu dishes from it soon as the rice bowl is fast becoming my favourite type of meal and it seems like the book is really geared towards that way of eating.  I like cooking a meal like this one that has everything in one dish.  I’m really not very good at planning side dishes beyond potatoes and a vegetable but something like this gives everything in one pot and was really simple to put together which is my kind of cooking!  Again, quite a lot of dirty dishes were created whilst cooking it but nothing my dishwasher can’t handle!

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The Vegan 100

October 17, 2009 · Filed under Questions Answered, veganmofo 2009 · Tagged

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I’ve got no food to show you today so I will take my turn with this list!  This is a pretty US-centric list so I will post comments along with my replies!

Rules:
1) Copy this list into your blog or social networking site profile, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out or italicize any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment on this post linking to your results.

1. Molasses

2. Cactus/Nopales – not something you see over here

3. Scrambled Tofu

4. Grilled Portobella Caps

5. Fresh Ground Horseradish

6. Sweet Potato Biscuits – haven’t tried this yet but it sounds nice

7. Arepas – don’t know what this is!

8. Vegan Coleslaw

9. Ginger Carrot Soup

10. Fiddlehead Ferns

11. Roasted Elephant Garlic

12. Umeboshi – I have paste in my fridge and it’s pretty nice.

13. Almond Butter Toast – Almond Butter costs an arm and a leg over here so I’ve not tried it.  I do like Sunflower Butter though.

14. Aloe Vera

15. H and H Bagel NYC – I’ve not been to NYC since I was 9 so no…

16. Slow Roasted Butternut Squash

17. White truffle

18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes

19. Freshly ground wasabi

20. Coconut Milk Ice Cream – I’ve never seen this over here and I don’t have an icecream maker yet.

21. Heirloom Tomtoes

22. Orchard fresh-pressed apple cider – cider over here is alcoholic and I can never figure out the difference between apple juice and apple cider in US terms.

23. Organic California Mango – I wouldn’t buy a mango that had travelled all the way from California!

24. Quinoa

25. Papaya Smoothie

26. Raw Scotch Bonnet or Habanero Pepper – I know I would hate that amount of heat so I doubt I ever will!

27. Goji Berry Tea

28. Fennel – I am not a fan of the fennel seed flavour so I won’t eat the vegetable.

29. Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

30. Radishes and Vegan Buttery Spread – I’ve never been a fan of radishes.

31. Starfruit

32. Oven fresh Sourdough bread

33. Sangria made with premium fruit and juices

34. Sauerkraut – I really want to try this sometime but I never remember to look for it in the shops!

35. Acai Smoothie

36. Blue Foot Mushrooms

37. Vegan Cupcake from Babycakes NYC – it would be a rather long journey for a cupcake…  The cookbook is on my wishlist though.

38. Sweet Potatoes and Tempeh combo – I’m not a tempeh fan so I won’t be ruining my sweet potatoes with it.

39. Falafel - store bought and home made, I love falafel!

40. Spelt Crust Pizza – I bought some crusts made of spelt and made my own pizzas.

41. Salt and Pepper Oyster Mushrooms

42. Jicama Slaw – I have never seen a Jicama, I don’t know anywhere in the UK that stocks them.

43. Pumpkin Edamame Ginger Dumplings

44. Hemp Milk

45. Rose Champagne – I don’t like champagne, it’s too dry for me.

46. Fuyu (aka persimmons)

47. Raw Avocado-Coconut Soup – I have to say that doesn’t sound very nice…

48. Tofu Pesto Sandwich

49. Apple-Lemon-Ginger-Cayenne fresh-pressed juice – I don’t like the type of heat cayenne adds to things so I won’t be trying this.

50. Grilled Seitan – I’ve stewed it, fried it, battered it and several other ways but I’ve yet to grill it.

51. Prickly pear – when I was a kid living in CA, it was really nice!

52. Fresh Pressed Almond Milk – I’ve had shop bought stuff.

53. Concord Grapes off the vine

54. Ramps – don’t know what a ramp is…

55. Coconut Water fresh from a young coconut – I’ve had it store bought, another thing I’ve never seen over here.

56. Organic Arugula – I grew some one year, it was nice.

57. Vidalia Onion- we have red onions or white onions over here, beyond that and shallots you don’t see varieties posted very often…

58. Sampler of organic produce from Diamond Organics – I’ve never heard of Diamond Organics.

59. Honeycrisp Apple – This isn’t a variety I’ve ever seen, I’m thinking it would have to be imported from the States which would mean I’d not buy it.

60. Poi – never heard of this…

61. Vegan Campfire-toasted S’mores

62. Grape seed Oil – I usually have some in my cupboard.

63. Farm Fresh Peach – peaches don’t grow in the UK.

64. Freshly-made pita bread with freshly-made hummus

65. Chestnut Snack Packs

66. Fresh Guava

67. Mint Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies – that sounds like an odd combination.

68. Raw Mallomar from One Lucky Duck, NYC – again, too far too travel

69. Fried Plantains

70. Mache – what’s mache?

71. Golden Beets

72. Barrel-Fresh Pickles

73. Liquid Smoke – I have 2 bottles in the cupboard.

74. Meyer Lemon – I’ve never seen one for sale, I’m thinking again they’d have to be imported from the States and I try not to buy things that have travelled that far.

75. Veggie Paella – I have a couple of recipes but I’ve yet to try to make it.

76. Vegan Lasagna

77. Kombucha – is this a type of squash?  I have odd sqash in my fridge that I don’t know the name of so I may have eaten this and just not known it!

78. Homemade Soy Milk

79. Lapsang souchong – not a fan

80. Lychee Bellini – not a fan of lychees

81. Tempeh Bacon – it was ok but as I said, I’m not a tempeh fan.

82. Sprouted Grain Bread -again not something you see over here

83. Lemon Pepper Tempeh

84. Vanilla Bean – although not too often as they’re expensive.  I have one in a jar of sugar to use for baking.

85. Watercress – don’t like it

86. Carrot you pulled out of the ground yourself – I could never get carrots to grow!

87. Vegan In-Season Fruit Pie

88. Flowers

89. Corn Chowder

90. High Quality Vegan Raw Chocolate

91. Yellow fuzz-free Kiwi – I’ve never seen one of these

92. White Flesh Grapefruit – again, never seen one

93. Harissa – there’s a jar in my fridge

94. Coconut Oil – very expensive for organic so I don’t buy very much of it

95. Jackfruit – never seen one

96. Homemade Risotto

97. Spirulina – I keep looking for it but the organic stuff is mega expensive

98. Seedless ‘Pixie’ Tangerine – never seen one

99. Gourmet Sorbet

100. Fresh Plucked English Peas - we got these in our organic box during the summer.

I think this is an odd list of things really, I don’t know if a lot of non-vegans would have eaten a whole bunch of the stuff on this list and I don’t think it represents the variety of the vegan diet, it just looks like all we eat is strange stuff.  Anyway, there it is, my list.  See you tomorrow!

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Indian Wraps Unwrapped

October 16, 2009 · Filed under The Candle Cafe Cookbook, veganmofo 2009 · Tagged

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I’ve written briefly about the Indian Wraps from The Candle Cafe Cookbook before.  They’re a really nice meal made up of 4 components; tofu that’s been marinated in a curry marinade, fried peppers, greens and black eye beans in the curry marinade.  The meal is served in a tortilla with brown basmati rice.  This meal was kind of based on that but without the wraps.  Instead of doing the peppers and greens separately I just sauted them together and I didn’t bother mixing the black eye beans with the marinade, I just heated them up.  To top the rice bowl I added some cornstarch to the marinade to thicken it and used it as a sauce.  I also baked the tofu rather than griddling it as I couldn’t be bothered to get out my huge cast iron griddle.

I love this marinade, be warned that the recipe makes a ton of it though so I only ever make half now.  Also it calls for water to be added to it which I omit as I don’t want to water down the coconut milk (I used creamed coconut blended with some water this time as I had no other plans for the half a tin of coconut milk that would have been left).

It made enough for me to have a portion for lunch the next day and it was just as nice reheated.  The boys ate it well, although Jim asked why we were having the same meal again so soon, referring to the rice bowl we’d had the week before!

It’s home made pizza night tonight.  I save mine for after the boys are in bed so I can savour it in peace.  Tonight I have peppers, onions and mushrooms which I sauted (I hate half cooked or soggy vegetables on pizza so I always cook mine first), sweetcorn, pineapple and Scheese mozzarella style cheese.  I usually use the Super Melting Cheezly but the shop was out of it when I went, the Sheese isn’t bad tasting but it goes kind of crunchy rather than melting which is a shame.  The boys will be off to bed soon so I will get mine in the oven, I’m really looking forward to it!

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Red and White Cauliflower Bake

October 15, 2009 · Filed under How It All Vegan, Vegan Yum Yum, veganmofo 2009 · Tagged

mofoAfter flicking through Vegan Yum Yum and seeing that there were quite a few things I’d love to try I managed to match up a recipe to thing that I had on hand and made this dish last night.

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It’s a layered casserole with ricotta tofu at the bottom (you add cornstarch so that layer sets solid), a layer of cauliflower with a cheesy sauce, a layer of simple marinara sauce and then breadcrumbs on top.

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As you can see my dish was a little bit small so it overflowed slightly in the oven but the layers remained as layers which was fun.  When I served it they didn’t stay layered though, I either didn’t leave it to sit long enough or I’m just a bit rubbish with my serving (probably the latter!).

I thought this was very tasty, the layers are very strong in flavour but they work well together.  The only thing I will change next time I make it is to add less herbs to the tofu layer.  The instructions call for ‘1 package extra firm tofu’ but there’s no indication of how big the package is.  Cauldron organic tofu comes in 8oz blocks and I think that is probably smaller than the amount of the ‘block’ the recipe means (most US vegan cookbooks using tofu call for 1lb of tofu) as the herbs were a bit too much.

I had the leftovers for lunch today and they reheated very well.  Both boys ate this with some encouragement.  I just told Jim it had ‘vegetables in a cheesy sauce’ rather than cauliflower or he wouldn’t have touched it!

So I’m very happy with my first outing for this book. There are tons of tofu dishes in it that I want to try but I can’t get away with serving tofu more than once or twice a week or Jim complains so I’ll have to work my way through them over time.  There’s another casserole that I may try over the weekend, I’m getting backed up with stuff I want to make from reading the MoFo posts and being inspired!

Before I made the dinner last night I made a double batch of the granola from How It All Vegan.  I love that recipe and hadn’t made any in ages.  I didn’t have any dried cranberries so I put a little extra of the coconut, dates and raisins in which worked out fine.  I had a bowl this morning with a banana on top and some rice milk and it was lovely.  When I finally get around to doing things like this I wonder why I don’t make the effort more often.  Mind you if I cooked half as much as I think about cooking I would have a lot more weight to loose than I do so perhaps my laziness is a good thing!

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Living My Life

October 14, 2009 · Filed under The Ultimate Uncheese Cookbook, veganmofo 2009 · Tagged

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So, recently I’ve been trying to get back to doing stuff with my life rather than spending it all in this chair looking at the computer.  This means that I’m WAY behind on reading MoFo posts and I haven’t had time to post blog entries either…  I’m going to try and keep blogging each day until the end of MoFo and that should give me enough entries as we’re not required to post on weekends, sorry for the blog silence though!

This was my dinner on Saturday night as the boys were away at their Dad’s and I really fancied nachos!  I used a can of refried beans, made some guacamole and used the Nacho Cheese recipe from The Ultimate Uncheese Cookbook along with some jarred salsa.  It was incredibly tasty and I really enjoyed it!

I am a bit of a purist when it comes to guacamole.  I don’t agree that tomatoes are a necessary ingredient and I can’t understand shop bought guacamole that has sour cream in it, what are they trying to achieve with that?  I think that guacamole should contain avocado, garlic, salt and either lemon or lime juice (I prefer the lime myself) and that’s all.  I feel sort of the same way about humus, I don’t think you can just blend any bean with whatever seasonings you want and declare that it’s humus, it’s bean dip or spread, humus has chickpeas, tahini, garlic, oil and salt in it, end of story for me!

I got a copy of Vegan Yum Yum in the post today.  I had wanted to get it for a while but it’s a bit expensive.  However, after seeing some of the stuff made from it popping up in MoFo posts I went ahead and snagged myself a copy and I’m glad I did.  There are several things in it I’m planning to make soon as I can and one dish that will be made for our dinner tonight.  I can see why the price tag was so high for it, lots of glossy photographs and colours which makes it very pretty to look through (although I don’t think these things are always necessary and I hate to think of the environmental impact of glossy paper and glossy photographs).  I added it to my Library Thing list and according to that I am the proud owner of 174 cookbooks, I was estimating around 150 so I’m obviously behind in my counting!

I have also been thinking about why I didn’t cook very much over the summer and have come to the realisation that I am just not much of a fan of summer food.  Well, that’s not true, I like a good huge salad with the best of them but that kind of meal doesn’t mix too well with small children unfortunately.  I really prefer fall and winter cooking, casseroles, stews, pasta dishes etc.  That is my kind of cooking and the type of meal that I like to eat but it often isn’t suitable for warmer weather so I tend to get a bit stumped as to what to make.  Now that the weather is cooler and we can start enjoying the heartier meals I’m looking forward to more time in the kitchen!

I made this years apple butter yesterday and it came out really well, I then went to make apple jelly for Jim as it’s his favourite and we used the last jar up a few months back, only to discover that the apples that my sister gave me had gone rotten.  My Mum is collecting some more for me today so I will get on with that jam this weekend and make a little boy happy!

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What the Hell Are We Having For Dinner?

October 8, 2009 · Filed under Made It Up Myself, vegan products, veganmofo 2009

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I think we all have those days, days when we have no idea what to make for dinner.  It can be harder when you’re a parent as you can’t really just pull out some crisps and hummus and leave it at that, you’re supposed to provide a decent hot meal for your kids and if there’s nothing you fancy eating they still have to have something.  Being a single parent sucks when you feel like this too as you can’t pass the responsibility and carry on reading the MoFo entries in Google Reader while someone else struggles to figure out what to cook…

Last night was one of those nights, I wasn’t all that hungry and I couldn’t figure out what to make from the assortment of vegetables in the fridge.  I finally settled on Thai Green Curry with noodles and pulled out 2 courgettes, 3 small carrots, a cauliflower (because I’m sure they eat a lot of cauli in Thailand…), an onion and this lot

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The Geo Organic Thai Green Curry Paste is really tasty but a little bit hot for my boys (it says on the jar to use half of it for a curry but I use about 1 1/2 tablespoons and that is still a tiny bit hot for them).  I didn’t have any coconut milk so I chopped up some of the creamed coconut and put it in with some water.

The first time I used this paste I thought the curry was a bit runny but I added the lime juice like it told me to on the jar and low and behold it thickened the curry right up, I guess it is a bit like adding lime juice to soya milk, I was very impressed (little things pleasing my little mind yet again!).

I realised after taking the photo that I actually had some Thai Rice Noodles in the cupboard so I put away the soba noodles and pulled them out as so:

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Sorry it’s sideways, I forgot to flip it around before I uploaded it.

So, I made the curry with lots of coconut in it and boiled the noodles, mixed them together and came out with this

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And it’s not going to win me any prizes for most photogenic dish.  However, it tasted nice and there was enough left for me to have for lunch today so it was a winner in my book.

Tonight we had spaghetti with pasta sauce that I’d made sometime in the past and frozen.  I realised as we were eating that we’ve had noodles 3 nights in a row now so I promised Jim that we would try something different next week.  Maybe penne….

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Do You Kugel?

October 7, 2009 · Filed under Veganomicon, veganmofo 2009 · Tagged

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I don’t think I’d ever seen a recipe for kugel until I got Veganomicon and I have to admit I had no idea what kugel was, what might be in it or how it was made.  One day, having more spinach in the organic vegetable box than I knew what to do with, I followed the index in Vcon to the recipe and gave it a go.

I’ve made this three times or more now and have made a couple of small adjustments to suit our tastes, the first adjustment is that I only make half of the recipe as it’s more than enough to feed 1 adult and 2 young kids.

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Vintage Pyrex dish is optional, this one I got from my Mum, I have no idea where she got it from but I love it!

And because it actually works I like to turn out the kugel for that ‘aren’t I a fabulous cook?’ feeling!

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I always use fresh spinach in this (although the one above is actually kale, green and leafy, close enough) rather than the frozen that the recipe calls for (I’ve never bought frozen spinach in my life, I don’t even know if I could get it in the supermarket) so I cook it before putting it in.  I also cook the onion as I found it was still a little bit too raw for me the first time I made it.  Matzos are on the shelf in Sainsburys and they never fail to amuse me by how big they are (they’re the same size as the box, little things please little minds…) and they’re very nice with humus if you have them left over.  Making half only uses 2 crackers and I (or rather Jim) pureed the tofu etc in the mini food processor so there wasn’t much washing up.

I served this with frozen peas, the recipe suggests potato pancakes but I just can’t imagine the carb overload that would give.  I told Jim we were having frozen peas and he got quite irate telling me that it wouldn’t taste very nice and surely it would be better if we cooked them first…  These kids never fail to make me laugh!

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Backyard BBQ Chilli and Skillet Cornbread

October 6, 2009 · Filed under Vegan Planet, veganmofo 2009 · Tagged

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This Chilli is something I’ve made so often that I can’t believe that I’ve never blogged it before!  It’s from Vegan Planet with bbq sauce from either GOV or HIAV, I can’t remember now and can’t be bothered to go and look it up, sorry!

This chilli is actually leftover from when we went camping in August, I made up a batch and froze it in 2 containers and took half of it with us for an easy meal.  I threw in some courgettes and peppers as I had them in the fridge and used half black beans and half kidney beans.

I don’t add too much chilli powder to it so it’s spicy but not hot heat wise otherwise the boys won’t eat it.

The cornbread was a new recipe for me, I usually make one from La Dolce Vegan but it calls for curdling soya milk and since we’ve changed to rice milk I’ve discovered that it doesn’t curdle at all!  The cornbread has chipotles in it and as you can’t buy them tinned over here I soaked half a teaspoon of chopped dried ones in hot water for a few minutes before adding them.  It gave it a nice smoky flavour, but again didn’t add too much heat.  The boys wolfed it down so it must have been ok!

I’m really looking forward to 1000 Vegan Recipes being released soon.  I’ve got it preordered and can’t wait to see what Robin Robertson has come up with this time.

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