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[27 Feb 2008|09:36pm] |
Woah! I need to update this!
My partner's daughter asked me to bake her birthday cake! Hurrah! She specifically asked for it to be vegan too. *well chuffed*.
Now I need to BAKE BAKE BAKE and make something extra special for her.
photos soon!
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[14 Oct 2006|05:51am] |
AND my stomach hurts. I shouldn't be posting that in a baking journal really. *whinge whinge whinge*
On the plus side, my hair is nicely pink.
To make this more baking related: my US flatmate loves peanut butter and I was thinking of doing a cake with peanut buttery type icing for her birthday. The cake'll definitely be chocolate, but I was wondering if I should aim for a banana-y chocolate cake. Or would that be too many flavours? Ach, decisions decisions. She was going on about liking banana-y baked goods the other day you see.
Hmm.
I can't do anything where peanut butter predominates though, as apparently our peanut butter is inferior to the American variety... Hmm.
Just want to make something she'd like really, as she's really nice.
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[14 Oct 2006|05:34am] |
Grah. I've got insomnia. And I'm so geeky I tried to get to sleep again by doing course reading. Obviously I'm just being geeky in a different way now, by updating this. I'll try and do it more regularly, honest.
Ok. I've been giving veganism a bad name recently by basically eating hippy food. However, it's still all totally lush, so here are a couple of lovely winter-y soup/stew type things I've knocked up recently.
( butternut squash and lentil soup )
And another, along similar lines.
( sweet potato stew )
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| spinach, carrot and mediterranean salads |
[12 Sep 2006|11:21pm] |
hello!
Haven't used this for so, so long. This update's a bit boring too, promise to put more funstuff up asap.
Anyway, made loads of lush salads for Mum and I this evening and wanted to remember!
( Read more... )
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| vegan cook-fest type thing |
[25 May 2006|09:36pm] |
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) eggy is going back to Seattle soon :(
And we decided another vegan cooking marathon some of our mates who go to the vegan kitchen at the Holyrood.
I'll stick up some recipes and that later, but here's a vague idea of what we made:
We started off with salsa, guacamole and hummus (I like making dips) and lots of people brought crisps to dip.
Then we served up:
Falafel burgers in homemade Lebanese style thyme bread with salad.
Twice baked potatoes (crispy potato skins with mashed potato/tofutti/margariney goodness) - I need to get the recipe for these John!
Tabulleh (Lebanese bulgar wheat salad - lots of mint, flat parsley, lemon juice etc)
Roasted veg couscous salad.
Peanut noodle salad.
(Plus all the dips and stuff left over.)
And for pudding (everyone was stuffed by this point)
Pumpkin crack (lovely pumpkiny stuff with crumbly cinnamon topping) again, I need the recipe!
Fruit salad (mango, blueberries, strawberries, banana).
Chocolate-banana Star cookies.
And soy cream!
Honourable mentions have got to go to the lovely people who came along: __whitetrash__, year_x, superbagelboy, Nicola, dedletteroffice, stygia, Liam and, of course the 'lovely' cr4k.
Ace evening, thanks John, will miss you! :)
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| sweet potato and leek soup |
[20 May 2006|02:32pm] |
Matt bought a leek and didn't know what to do with it!
So we made soup.
The obvious thing to do would be leek and potato, but I'm in love with sweet potatoes (they're nutritious and gorgeous and release energy slowly too, so are the ultimate food in my book!).
Anyway, it was lush and really easy to do, so here's the recipe.
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It was so, so yummy :)
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| carrot and tomato soup with basil and coriander |
[12 May 2006|10:31pm] |
Rar, I wanted a quick, cheap, tasty dinner. Carrots and onion = cheap. I wanted to make carrot and coriander soup, but the shop had run out of the latter and I had dried but kind of wanted fresh, as I think fresh is what makes it really!
They did have basil though, so I decided to combine the two classic soup combinations and make tomato and carrot soup with basil and coriander.
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| what I've eaten |
[10 May 2006|06:34pm] |
I'm going to make this into a bit of a food diary too! I won't necessarily do every day, but it'll be useful for me to have a vaguely public record of what I'm eating and stuff.
( Read more... )
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| chocolate banana cookies and stuffed mushrooms |
[06 May 2006|11:07am] |
The best cookbook I have in the world is the Usborne First Cookbook. It's old, it's tatty, it has a burn mark on it from when Arran and I left a hot saucepan on it... and it's certainly not vegan... but it's got lots of happy memories attached to it (I've had it since I was six) and some of it's veganizable.
Anyway. It was mavdog's birthday, so I decided to make psychedelic star cookies for him. I was going to look for a good vegan cookie recipe online but ended up just heavily modifying a recipe from the book instead.
It was based on a recipe called 'Iced Spice Biscuits' which I thought was totally magical when I was a kid.
I heavily modified it and made Double Chocolate Banana Star cookies!
( Read more... )
Oh yeah, and I made stuffed mushrooms for dinner yesterday too. They were ok, needed a bit of a kick though.
1)Chop up a small leek and a stick of celery, cover with a little boiling water, add a tsp stock powder and 2tsp ground cumin, then simmer until veggies are soft. Add 30g couscous, cover and keep simmering until most of the water's soaked up. Put to one side and cover until water's soaked up.
2) Chop up a tomato into chunks and a load of flat leaf parsley. Add to couscous mix. Stir in a tbsp lemon juice.
3) Mash up 1/2 block smoked tofu, add mashed tofu to mix and stir together.
4) Pile stuffing on top of two large, destalked, portabello mushrooms. Bake in the oven at 180 C for about 20 minutes or so, until the mushrooms are cooked through.
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| salads, stews and rice-y things |
[02 May 2006|10:47pm] |
Arg, I'm so, so behind on this...
Anyway. Today I made a nice 'egg' fried rice type thing, only it wasn't that fried and the egg was tofu. It was good though! ( recipe )
I've been making salads for lunch, as I find whenever I eat anything with carbohydrate in it, it kind of makes me feel all heavy and sleepy and disinclined to work. I've been making sure it's a balanced salad though, with lots of different proteins and textures. I also want to fend off illness/fatigue as exam time = high stress and I don't want to fuck up my immune system by getting run down. Last year I got shingles, which was not good.
Stuff I've been doing:
- basing salads around chopped raw spinach instead of lettuce, as it has more nutritional value and loads of iron which is released due to...
- dressing involving vitamin c related things! I usually make mine by mixing equal measures of lemon and orange juices and apple juice concentrate plus some carroway seeds and grated fresh ginger (which is incidentally another ace immune system booster).
- OR, dressing involving flax seed oil, which gives me my omega 3s and 6s. The nicest one involves that, apple cider vinger, apple juice concentrate, oregano and tomato puree. Yum yum yum.
- Adding seeds/nuts/dried fruit. I don't add many (because of fattiness) but if they're chopped up a little goes a long way and makes the salad taste lush. I normally use 3 walnut halves and two dates if I'm using those, and a couple of teaspoons of pumpkin seeds if I'm using them. All good fats and other virtues! Some protein too.
- If I don't get protein from nuts/seeds I use beans/pulses of some sort. Usually kidney beans, black-eye beans, chickpeas etc. Normally they're leftovers from the night before!
- Failing all that protein-wise, there's always tofu! Marinated, smoked, hazelnut or basil tofus are all really good in salad.
- If I haven't had much for breakfast I might make a couscous based salad.
- Other ingredients I use can be all or a selection of: grated carrot, celery, sweetcorn, cucumber, peppers, lettuce... all that sort of good stuff.
Finally, I've got a fledgeling idea for a stew/casserole type thing but it didn't quite work last night...
It will involve sweet potato and leeks in a sort of sweetcorn and tomato sauce... I was going to type out what I did and get suggestions for amendments but I'm knackered, so I'll do it tomorrow. Night night xox
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| Jamaican Black Bean Pot |
[20 Apr 2006|06:46pm] |
I got this little vegan cookery book for Christmas from my Grandma, and it's ace and colourful and has lots of good photos. Anyway, this sounded interesting (I'd never eaten black beans before, apart from in Chinese sauces and stuff) and I fancied something new and sweet/spicy.
Also, my food of the month is butternut squash, so I felt like I *had* to make it after reading through the recipe properly. For once I managed to get peppers that weren't manky too, woop! (I've had some bad/bitter experiences pepper-wise of late.)
It was really good! I should have probably had rice with it to soak up the sauce, but ach well, you live and learn.
( Read more... )
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| cake cake cake |
[17 Mar 2006|08:45pm] |
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Cake I baked for dee_ and gibberling's birthday. I know this is probably perpetuating gender stereotypes, but I decided to do a boy/girl cake. Half pink and girly, the other chocolaty and, er, less girly. One layer was raspberry, the other chocolate and the icing's half chocolate, half raspberry to match.
( more cake and various other things )
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| spicy bean burgers |
[01 Mar 2006|09:56pm] |
hehe, ok I know that sounds like a totally generic title, but if I do make a cookzine I want to start off with basic recipes then go on to more interesting variations. I wanted a basic bean burger recipe, so decided to invent one the other night. ( Read more... )
I can't remember if I stuck more vegetables in the mix... you totally could do though.
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| sweet potato hummus, cous cous and chocolaty stuff |
[01 Mar 2006|09:47pm] |
I had to go down to Nottingham the other week and needed to make myself a packed lunch as it was going to be a long day (5am-10.30pm), so I wanted enough food to keep me going!
I wanted something nice in a roll and I'd read about someone making sweet potato hummus on ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) veganlunchbox so decided to have a go myself. I couldn't find a recipe so made one up, based on my usual hummus recipe (er, which is a bit improvised in itself). Anyway.
( sweet potato hummus )
I ate the hummus in a roll along with some of the veg from the salad.
You can add whatever you want to this salad really, but I use it as a good chance to roast lots of seasonal vegetables and add to it. The dressing's really light tasting.
( couscous salad )
And finally (because I'm greedy) I made these mini chocolate flapjack things. I didn't want to make a whole tray, so just made tiny amounts and used a bun tin to make a couple of bun shaped flapjacks (not a very economical use of the oven, admittedly *guilt*).
( chocolate )
I also had some separate carrot sticks and cranberries to munch on, so was a very happy bunny.
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[05 Jan 2006|06:05pm] |
rar! ingredients for ace curry lauramaya made me (before I lose the bit of paper with them on...)
tin coconut milk
cinnamon stick
chili
curry leaves
bay leaves
ginger (grated)
2 cloves garlic (finely chopped)
1/2 onion
1 tsp turmeric
black pepper
soy sauce
vegetables!
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| vegetable shepherd's pie type thing |
[15 Dec 2005|12:51am] |
Matt: So, are you cooking tomorrow night?
Eva: What?
Matt: When Katarina comes to visit are you cooking?
Eva: I hadn't really thought... oh. Do you *want* me to cook something Matt?
Matt: Yes.
Eva: Oh, alright then.
Anyway.
( potatoes and vegetables yumyumyum )
I really, really enjoyed making this too, and it was a totally immense meal for winter :)
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| chickpea-aubergine-tomatoey-mushroomy-couscousy goodness |
[28 Nov 2005|12:31pm] |
Rar
Made this last night and it might not be the most exciting thing in the world but the flavour was lovely. Fantastic comfort food.
Anyway.
ingredients
1/2 large aubergine (cubed)
1/2 tin chopped tomatoes
1/2 red pepper (chopped)
onion (chopped)
few spring onions (sliced)
few mushrooms (sliced)
rosemary, basil, marajaram, oregano
soysauce
dash maple syrup
some cous cous
1/2 tin chickpeas
Heat a little olive oil in a saucepan, add aubergine and onion. Stir, then cover and leave to cook on a moderate heat, stirring occasionally. Add herbs. Add pepper after a few minutes, then add mushrooms a bit after that. After a couple of minutes add a little hot water to stop everything from sticking. Add tomatoes and a dash of soysauce, the chickpeas and the spring onions. Leave to cook for a bit. Add some cous cous and add a bit more water if there's not enough liquid. The cous cous absorbs a load of the tomatoey sauce. Leave for a few minutes until the cous cous is cooked. It's immense.
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| muffins! |
[25 Nov 2005|08:43pm] |
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Arg! I got invited to dinner the other day so decided to bring cupcakes, only Sainsbury's didn't have any cake cases so I popped into Lakeland to grab some..and came home with a muffin tin. Arg. A fecking muffin tin. All well and good, but should I really be wasting money on stuff like that? Answer = no, no I shouldn't. I'm such an idiot sometimes.
Anyway: I was struck with inspiration and decided to invent apple and blackberry crumble cupcakes (to be seasonal) only there weren't any blackberries to be found. So they were apple and raspberry crumble instead.
I just used the vanilla cake recipe from How It All Vegan (cheers Nicola!) made a few substitutions and added detritus to it.
( recipe )
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[26 Oct 2005|09:02pm] |
Hmm...I've just made a list of all the recipes I've invented (some of which aren't on here) and I reckon I've got enough to make some sort of vegan cookzine...
I'll try and put something together when I get a bit of time, woop woop!
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| sweet & spicy pumpkin burgers |
[26 Oct 2005|01:04pm] |
Arg! Have to write this down quickly: I invented it for my lunch today and it was immense so I need to get it down before I forget it.
I made it due to buying a pumpkin by mistake (don't ask).
Anyway: apart from the (mini) pumpkin it's really cheap too, as the rest of it was pretty much made of leftovers.
( pumpkiny goodness )
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