Vegetarian Foods Archive

In anticipation of St David's Day, I made this Welsh Cawl Hot Pot yesterday afternoon. Most people in the U.K are  familiar with Lancashire Hot Pot made more famous by a barmaid called Betty (now deceased) in a popular British soap drama called Coronation Street.  It was Betty's signature dish at the Rovers Return Inn - a English pub.    Hot Pot is a slow cooked recipe traditionally made with lamb and vegetables, but as this is a vegetarian blog I made mine with some vegan mock 'lamb' meat pieces.  I also decided to give this Hot Pot a Welsh touch with the addition of leeks and good Welsh cheese.   Actually this can easily be a vegan Welsh Cawl Hot Pot, if you omit the cheese, but as I had some Dragon Welsh Caerphilly and Colliers Welsh Cheddar I opted to use them.   Although not authentic in any way, I enjoyed my vegetarian Welsh Hot Pot alternative.  It delivered on flavour, texture and substance.  there was also some gravy j...

The Welsh Laverbread Diaries continue... These Welsh Rarebit Laverbread Scones were with a capital A - Amazing.  D scoffed down two and would have easily gone for a third had I not given him the beady eye.   The mustard seeds give it pop and warmth, the Welsh laverbread a little colour and saltiness. and of course the cheddar cheese metled on top gives it that golden Blonde hue, gorgeous just on the cusp of almost burnt, but not quite.   To give the scones additional oomf , I've used both self raising flour and baking powder , but you can just leave out the baking powder if you wish.  Most of my recipes are easy to veganize, and this one is no different, just make a vegan savoury scone, then add vegan alternative non dairy milk and cheese. As I said earlier, D loved these.  We had finished of the remaining  scones in the following coming day, but gave them about 30 second in the nuker (microwave)  for a bit of warmth, but they are at their...

Nothing supernatural about this quiche, its really just a Broccoli Quiche on a green pastry base.  The shortcrust pasty is naturally dyed green with the addition of spirulina powder to the dough; and the eggy filling.  Well I steamed some broccoli and blitzed half of it with the milk, then poured it into a bowl and whisked it with the eggs and poured it over the pastry case that had been lined with the remaining broccoli heads and doused with some Welsh cheddar cheese.  At one point during the cooking process, I actually panicked and thought the quiche was not going to set but fortunately it did.  This Broccoli quiche was packed with lots of flavours.  Even the spirulina powder in the shortcrust pastry imparted its sea earth flavours.  Its just a  shame the photograph here doesn't pick up the green in pastry, though I must admit it is a little scorched here and there.  Here's a song by the Jamaican Reggae Band The Dread & Terrible called...

One of the aims of  Refugee Week  is to promote positive encounters between asylum seekers and refugees and members of the receiving communities, as well as raising awareness.    The theme for Refugee Week for 2016 is  Welcome.    As my blog is a vegetarian food blog  my Simple Act  is to  Cook A Dish from Another Country  and try and raise some awareness that way among some of my readers. Today I will share a vegetarian Zimbabwean Butternut Squash recipe.   But before I share the recipe, I would like to shine a little light on Zimbabwe.  Since 2000, the scale of state violence, the political instability and economic deprivation  in Zimbabwe has seen the UK receive refugees from there.  A refugee is someone whose asylum application has been successful and who is allowed to stay in another country having proved they would face persecution in their homeland. Zimbabwe's human rights record under Robert Mugab...

This is not bread 'bread'.  It is not one that is kneaded.   It is more cake form but even then its not a cake, its a savoury loaf. We have had it a few times, over the weekend and then twice in the evening, early on in the working week as a light snack in the evening.  It is perfect as a portable savoury snack too.     This Zucchini and Cheese Bread  reminded me of  Johanna's Australian Zucchini slice  and Clotilde Dusoulier of Chocolate and Zucchini fame  Cake Tomate, Pistache et Chorizo  translated as Sun dried Tomato, Pistachio and Savoury Loaf  . I am sharing it with Recipe of the Week hosted by A Mummy Too.  Zucchini and Cheese Bread 1 x 2lb Loaf Ingredients 85g butter, melted and set aside 225g self raising flour 1/2 teaspoon fine salt 14 teaspoon paprika 110grams cheddar cheese,grated 3 egg, beaten 55ml milk 200grams zucchini, grated Method Preheat oven to gas mark 4/180oc. Grease and line ...

I made this Marrow, Manchego Cheese, White Beans and Sage Bake of the Week  hosted by  Casa Costello.  and Tuma's Tongue Treats who is hosting Pithivier with some of the marrow that was left over from the Bake of the Week  hosted by  Casa Costello.  and Tuma's Tongue Treats who is hosting Marrow Conserve recipe (featured in the photograph) next to the jars . I have to admit, I was not overly impressed with the filling whilst I was making it.  It looked a bit simple and boring.  I was also unsure what cheese to use and still had some remnants of Manchego cheese left over from  Bake of the Week  hosted by  Casa Costello.  and Tuma's Tongue Treats who is hosting Griddled Summer Vegetable Tart with  Manchego  Cheese Tart and added that to the mixture when it had cooled down. The puff pastry was filled, folded into pasties and then baked to taken into work the following day for lunch.  Well surprising  th...

I have lots of flavoured cheddar cheese in the fridge from Christmas and the New Year.  We have been snacking on them in the evening with crackers, but I have also decided to incorporate some of it into our cooked meals. This is a Smoked Cheddar Cheese Nut Roast that I made to accompany Sunday Veggie Roast Dinner.  D is never excited by nut roasts.  So to please him I told him he would also get some mock meat slices on his plate (left over from a previous meal).   This Smoked Cheese Nut Roast  recipe comes from Green Gourmet Giraffe.  Johanna's version is vegan.  Wow this was a flavourful nut roast.   It was very textual too. I changed it just a little, but they are not worth mentioning really.  Adding a red pepper for colour and upping the smoked paprika and Smoked cheddar cheese and finally because it just seemed right, I had to use the  Outback Spirit Tasmanian Pepper Salt seasoning  that Johanna sent me ...

So apparently its World Pasta Day and it is truly by coincidence that today I blog this pasta dish.  Black food or dark coloured food continues to dominate my blog in the run up to Halloween and today I have a whopper. I thought surely someone must have made a Black Garlic Macaroni Cheese recipe .  I googled and there was no recipe for black garlic pasta, yeah a little grated like parmesan - but not drowned in black garlic dyed cheese - no doubt, now there will be some more now.  Here is my Black Garlic Pasta Macaroni Cheese before going into the oven for the final bake.  I promise you it gets much darker on baking; and you will have to take my work for it as I didn't take a picture of it, blame it on the dark evenings. I adore my husband for allowing me to experiment in the kitchen and eating whatever I present to him.  We have rarely ever thrown a dish in the bin, not always delicious, but always edible.  This was a really rich and quite tasty actu...