I am not sure what brownie recipe I used for these little fellas. All I know is they were pretty rad with chocolate glaze and pecans!
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Brownie Bites
I am not sure what brownie recipe I used for these little fellas. All I know is they were pretty rad with chocolate glaze and pecans!
Sensational Sushi
I started adding food posts to my work/life blog and neglected this one for quite awhile. I'm doing my best to fill in the gaps! I was sushi crazy for awhile and made endless batches. My favourite combo has been smoked tofu, avocado and red pepper. Best when paired with pickled ginger (not the pink kind, bleh).
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Fauxstess
For a uni party I made these gems. The fauxstess. My goodness they were mighty tasty. They were gobbled up in minutes.
Scot style
I fell in love with Scotland when my friend Hussain and I went on a visit to Edinburgh this summer. While we were there, we had to eat some of the national dish - Haggis. I'm sure everyone knows the notoriously disgusting contents.
Hendersons in Edinburgh had a vegan version on the menu. I enjoyed it so much I came home and recreated it. They have the recipe on the website! I made my own version of their red wine gravy and smashed potatoes. Mmm.
Hendersons in Edinburgh had a vegan version on the menu. I enjoyed it so much I came home and recreated it. They have the recipe on the website! I made my own version of their red wine gravy and smashed potatoes. Mmm.
GAZPACHO!
This is one of my new fave recipes. I am trying to incorporate some more raw recipes into my diet. Back home there is a lovely french bistro that makes a terrific gazpacho with homemade bread. My version is a little south-western with sweetcorn and avocado. It taste wicked with parmesan crusted croutons.
CATCH UP
I have been a lazy blogger! I also kind of lost my culinary curiosity for awhile. It has since been back in full force. So here are a few experiments I got into.
Shake-away style soy-almond shakes (with HOMEMADE almond milk).
Simple chickpea salad. Thrown together with whatever was left in the fridge. Squish of lemon juice and olive oil. Pinches of cumin, salt and pepper.
The first time I had miso soup was out of an instant packet. It was awful. I purchased some sweet white miso and used it for the first time in this mean-ass version of miso soup sans tofu. Phenom + easy. Kale, carrots and shrooms were the additives of choice.
Call me the cupcake queen. I have been obsessed with cupcake ideas this year. The gem below was the genius idea to combo lemon cupcakes with blueberry cream cheese icing. However I forgot to get the blueberries. So they were iced with strawberry cream cheese. Still uber tasty. I also tried to make some raw ice cream using frozen bananas. I sprinkled some coconut in there but it wasn't that great. At least the pecans helped.
My cravings for cheesecake overcame me on this particular day. I haven't had graham crackers since moving to England, and for the first time I attempted to bake my own. They weren't all that spectacular, but made a decent (but not quite sweet enough) crust on this fellow. Tsk tsk for not bothering to measure ingredients.
A juicer had been on my list of appliances to buy for awhile. My housemates mum had one she never used and so he brought it to London for us to use. We were both juice crazy for the first week or so. I couldn't get over how pretty the pulp left over was.
We both love to play with our food, so he decided to make a brain for the hallows eve skull we have sitting in our kitchen.
Another one of those leftover ingredient dishes. I made cajun-shroom salad. My memory is a bit hazy, as I made this quite awhile ago, but it looks like grilled cajun-spiced shrooms, carrots, avocado, tomatoes, green peppers and crumbled soy-cheese. I assume it was mozzarella. It was a delish-dish.
Cashew cheese was a bit sketchy. It didn't taste all that great as a cheese. But it certainly made a nice spread for the leftover plane bun from my return flight from Canadia.
This was the product of another nagging dessert idea. I wanted to make a 2-tiered chocolate/strawberry cake with some coconut whipped cream. I lemoned the coconut cream and it ended up being a sauce. It was a bit gnarly. The cake was supremo with the fresh strawberry 'icing' and some Swedish Glaze ice cream.
Shake-away style soy-almond shakes (with HOMEMADE almond milk).
Simple chickpea salad. Thrown together with whatever was left in the fridge. Squish of lemon juice and olive oil. Pinches of cumin, salt and pepper.
The first time I had miso soup was out of an instant packet. It was awful. I purchased some sweet white miso and used it for the first time in this mean-ass version of miso soup sans tofu. Phenom + easy. Kale, carrots and shrooms were the additives of choice.
Call me the cupcake queen. I have been obsessed with cupcake ideas this year. The gem below was the genius idea to combo lemon cupcakes with blueberry cream cheese icing. However I forgot to get the blueberries. So they were iced with strawberry cream cheese. Still uber tasty. I also tried to make some raw ice cream using frozen bananas. I sprinkled some coconut in there but it wasn't that great. At least the pecans helped.
My cravings for cheesecake overcame me on this particular day. I haven't had graham crackers since moving to England, and for the first time I attempted to bake my own. They weren't all that spectacular, but made a decent (but not quite sweet enough) crust on this fellow. Tsk tsk for not bothering to measure ingredients.
A juicer had been on my list of appliances to buy for awhile. My housemates mum had one she never used and so he brought it to London for us to use. We were both juice crazy for the first week or so. I couldn't get over how pretty the pulp left over was.
We both love to play with our food, so he decided to make a brain for the hallows eve skull we have sitting in our kitchen.
Another one of those leftover ingredient dishes. I made cajun-shroom salad. My memory is a bit hazy, as I made this quite awhile ago, but it looks like grilled cajun-spiced shrooms, carrots, avocado, tomatoes, green peppers and crumbled soy-cheese. I assume it was mozzarella. It was a delish-dish.
Cashew cheese was a bit sketchy. It didn't taste all that great as a cheese. But it certainly made a nice spread for the leftover plane bun from my return flight from Canadia.
This was the product of another nagging dessert idea. I wanted to make a 2-tiered chocolate/strawberry cake with some coconut whipped cream. I lemoned the coconut cream and it ended up being a sauce. It was a bit gnarly. The cake was supremo with the fresh strawberry 'icing' and some Swedish Glaze ice cream.
