Vegetarian Foods Archive

I made this soup last week, or was it the weekend before...I can't remember now.  What I do remember is wanting to make French Onion Soup for a long while.  I think the idea had been planted in my head during Vegan Mofo when I saw a good looking vegan variation of French Onion soup that got me drooling.   This one is not vegan though it could easily be by replacing the butter with vegan margarine and vegan 'cheese'. Previous to making this soup, I have only ever had French Onion soup once in my life.  No it was not when I was in  Paris, France  for my honeymoon; or when I was in Brittany visiting friends . No it wasn't even when we went to Marseille quite recently, no I had my first ever French Onion Soup in  Loch Lomond , when I lived in Scotland.   We had friends visiting us from America and we went to the shores of Loch Lomond.  It was the only dish on the menu, other than Ploughman's Lunch that was marked as suitable for vege...

I've featured vegan Welsh Faggots on my blog i n the past, but have always wanted to enhance them textually and visually.  I was able to do this a few days ago for our homely St Davids Day Welsh Vegan Menu with the addition of another Welsh delicacy Laverbread.   For those of you not  from Wales and not familiar with Welsh faggots, well in a nutshell  Faggots were traditionally made with the innards of pigs. The pate like mixture was then wrapped in the lacy casing of the animals caul and oven roasted slowly.    I remember reading a while back, that the Welsh faggots is what haggis is to the Scots and is often referred to as Welsh Haggis in some par ts of Wales.   There may be some truth in this as  The Scotsman  also make reference to haggis being popular in the Welsh Valleys of Wales, but they still credit the Scots for the haggis jokingly writing that a Scottish haggis escaping to Wales in 1690, hence its popularity in Wales. ...