Vegetarian Foods Archive

I am not a lazy person when it comes to making pastry from scratch . I make pies all the time, but I wanted to make a different style of pastry this time, both easier and perhaps lighter. I've been enjoying making sweet Galettes with homegrown fruit , so a savoury one was just waiting to be eagerly made. Its my first time baking with spelt flour, and I thought it would be a lot more sturdy to hold the filling,, but the recipe I followed from a blog that I hadn't previously used a recipe from, sadly the pastry just collapsed and crumbled.  Despite the spelt pastry falling apart, the pastry was crisp and biscuity in texture and this balanced well with the sweetness coming from the roasted sweet potatoes. As I had really enjoyed  VPud 'Black Pudding' last time , I was very keen to get my hands on some more to make this particular galette as I have been imagining this combo would work well together. And it did, the vegan Black Pudding surprising spice  kick offsets...

I do love the superman red vibrating from this dish naturally.   Red from the tomatoes (and yes, tomatoes are a fruit) and red from the peppers.  I actually made this dish around the same time as the Portuguese Potatoes, but got distracted by the pointy red peppers  and fabulous fat tomatoes caressing each other in my bowl, that i had to throw them in the pot together - not to have done so would have just been plain wrong.   These days I always seem to have some Ramiro pepper and Black Bean Chilli  last month,  I had originally planned to make these Portuguese Potatoes, but got distracted by the pointy red peppers  and fabulous fat tomatoes caressing each other in my bowl, that i had to throw them in the pot together - not to have done so would have just been plain wrong.   These days I always seem to have some vegan VPud Black Pudding in my fridge too.  Every time I go into the city of Cardiff I pick some up.  I decided just...

Its been a while since I have cooked with polenta .   Its often Polenta Chips or my favourite Mexican style  Tamale Pie , and then other times  maybe  a gluten free Polenta Pizza , or simply as polenta bites a sort of free-style rough gnocchi.  I wanted to be creative with this time round and decided to make a Savoury Polenta loaf studded with diced red, green and orange pepper.  Then I remembered having picked up a vegan Black Pudding and decided to incorporate that into the loaf and this was the result.      It looks just like a gold churned butter slab or Mexican style cheese, but wait ....  Slowly slice into it and surprise. D loved it and said I could even try these with the vegan chorizo  I make at home.  Or if you must other sausages would work too I am sure; or not, you can make this Savoury Mosaic loaf without the vegan black pudding.  Just experiment that is what I do. Sometimes they work, sometimes ...