Vegetarian Foods Archive

Have you noted my absence?!   I haven't had Internet since Friday thanks to BT, until this evening when I got in from work.   I made these vegan coconut macaroons at the weekend.  With St Patricks day nearing us, I decided to add a teaspoon of  spirulina   to half of the mixture. Although they turned out looking good and held well, they lacked sweetness. Of course, you could make these with matcha too.   I promise to share the recipe in not too long, just need a little more tweaking before I am happy with it.  

The weather in Wales is so strange at the moment.  For the past two days its been heavily foggy, only to clear and then smack us in the face with a mini heatwave.  It does make a change from the rain though, so I better not complain.   I made this Golden Mushroom Loaf a couple of weeks back at the weekend when D brought home a lot of mushrooms.  It is golden partly from being baked, but also from the addition of smoked paprika.   I garnished the mushroom loaf with homemade smoky coconut flakes aka 'coconut 'bacon'.   We enjoyed this Mushroom Loaf as a Nut Roast with one meal, the others with a side of salad. It was tasty.  It was firm and crunchy on the outside, and soft on the inside, but not a claggy soft. It made a nice change from the occasional mock 'meat' sausages we pick up for  during the working week for easy meals.   If you do make this allow to cool in tin before attempting to remove.  This savoury loaf c an be r...

Today I thought I would share some of my Naked Violet Coconut Bars too - Is it a fudge, is it a 'Bounty' bar, is it a cake....it indeed is a sweet treat.  These are just a variation of my  Coconut  Ladoos  aka Bliss Balls  from last month generously coated in edible violet crystals.     As Dr Oetker have confirmed that the violet crystals are suitable for vegans. I also want to share something amazing whilst we were gardening today.  A swarm of bees elegantly, yet loudly buzzed over us on their way somewhere, it was a little thrilling, exciting and a little magical.  It is with this reason, that I am sharing this picture once again on my blog.  D my husband took a while back.  It a fuzzy bee bumbling and buzzing in our garden around a purple  allium .   Naked Violet Coconut Bars You will need some silicon moulds Makes Lots  Ingredients 4 tablespoons violet crystals 180grams dessicated coconut 125...

I know this looks like smoked wood chippings, but I assure you this is coconut 'bacon', albeit a little dark from being in the oven a minute too long; or perhaps I was a little heavy handed with the tamari. Vegan Mof o prompt today is Treat Yourself.   In the last year or so Avocado and Coconut 'Bacon' Bread Butty has become my go to treat.  Do some of you ever have crisp butty, a bread rolled filled with crisps or chips? Yes, No - Is it just me?! Yikes.  Well now you know of my guilty pleasure too. So what is a bread butty?  A butty is a British term for a stuffed sandwich usually comprising of one slice of bread stuffed with either egg, bacon or sausage and then doused in sauce.  It can also be a bread roll.  The only difference between a English Bread Butty and a Welsh bread Butty  is the pronunciation, of course we in Wales say butty buttie  byti with a Welsh accent.   In Wales, the word butty byti also takes on a different...

I have so many bookmarked banana recipes, but when it comes to finding them - Can I find them, of course not, then I find  myself making another Banana Bread. This time with the addition of dessicated Coconut and Coconut Sugar and guess what it happens to be vegan too.  D thought the bread looked dry and suggested that he may want put some jam or sunflower spread on it,  but I had to disagree with him. I thought it was plenty moist and to prove my point even further, I took some into work for some colleagues to try and they sided with me, but he wasn't haven't any of it - we agreed to differ.  I think the coconut sugar gave the banana bread a caramel colouring as it looks like it is made with wholemeal flour.  I assure you it is not, the coconut sugar also imparted a little caramel flavour, or maybe I was just imagining that.  This Banana and Coconut Bread is adapted from a recipe by  the original recipe here.    I made some little tw...

Last month I mentioned that I have a thing for fudge at the moment.  I have made  vegetarian fudge ,  vegan fudge  and even  raw fudg e.  Well here are some more that I have dubbed as Quadruple Coconut Fudge as its made with coconut flour, coconut blossom syrup, coconut oil and dessicated coconut.  For a long while, I have been dilly dallying what to do with my stash of coconut flour...  By the way, Is coconut flour the same as coconut milk powder ????? I cannot seem to get a definitive answer on this question on any of the website, or maybe I am just not cooking in the right places. Anyway, this recipe for Coconut Flour Fudge is much of an on-going experiment with coconut flour being treated a little like milk powder for Indian style Burfi's .  This Coconut Flour and coconut Blossom Syrup Fudge is good for up to 3 weeks as long as its kept in the fridge. I preferred this a few days later when the texture changed.  It firmed up ev...