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chocolate banana cookies and stuffed mushrooms
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!
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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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