Vegetarian Foods Archive

Oh can it be true? Yes indeed!  Two of my favourite dishes on one big bowl: South Asian style spicy Dal and deep fried triangles of delicious Samosa. Today it is World Vegan Day and the start of Vegan Mofo.    I have no set theme for the month of November, so I will probably follow some of the  Vegan Mofo themes  and prompts. The theme today is what is your favourite food?  I am of South Asian heritage and very fond of my Dals and deep fried snacks including the pakora aka onion bhaji .  I consider both these dishes to be comfort food in my eyes, so you can imagine my delight when I stumbled across the recipe a few years back.  Inspired by a Burmese  Samusa Thouk  they had at   San Francisco's Burma Superstar   in 2007, the food blogger NCJay went back home and re-created a version.  And g uess what Samusa Thouk is still featured today at the Burma Superstar restaurant.    Burma Superstar  assert that...

Drum roll please.... Here are some awesome homemade vegan Corn Dogs. I had seen vegan corn dogs a couple of years back on a fellow bloggers blog and was mighty curious about them. I had thought it was literally sweetcorn deep fried in batter, then told it was a hot dog sausage covered in golden corn batter and then deep fried.  Very popular in parts of America.  I have been waiting for an excuse to make them and a little while back when I had a full house of guests the opportunity to make these vegan Corn Dogs were presented to me.  had not int I do have have a deep fat fryer, I do but i don't cook in it often to merit it taking up valuable space in the kitchen.  So made these vegan corn dogs in a deep wide pan, three at a time .  My guests all stood around me and watched me in amazement as I made these vegan corn dogs and took pictures.    These pictures belong to them, as my hands were busy.   Vegan Corn Dog drowning in  yel...

I've made tempura before , many times - but the one and only time it has featured on my blog was in my first proper year of blogging 2009.    I like to try recipes from cookbooks on my shelf, but there are some books I return to more than others.   I had originally planned to make peixinhos da horta which I saw Sarah Beattie tweet and found in her cookbook  vegan Japanese restaurant in Shrewsbury recently, D made me change my mind as he wanted us to make the most of the vegetables we had in the house, as well as those coming from the garden and suggested tempura instead,  so I plucked for her tempura recipe instead.  Sarah's tempura is made with asparagus, mine are made with  Assorted vegetables. From the garden we have: green beans and courgettes, the yellow and green variety; and from the vegetable basket: cauliflower, red onion and some mild green chilies known as Padron .   Delicious. Since I was gifted  Meat ...

I do somewhat seem to attract people who think they are in influential and powerful positions and somehow I should bow down to them because they think they can make things happen.  When truth is they have very little power and abuse it.  I'd even go down as saying, perhaps there is an element of class and racism coming into play as well, but its hard to tell when people hide behind a fascade of being people led, when really its a few dominant people really in charge who are pulling their puppet strings. The problem people have with me is, I don't tolerate this nonsense and confront them, and tell them as I experience it - then they are clever and are able to twist things, so it appears that I am the one with the issue, but then I learn from others like me - that they have also been treated the same way. This cannot continue.  Anyway, onto something really delicious.  I have only ever had  KFC once in my life, it was in my early teens.  My father took us o...