Pictures of good vegan food you've eaten! (1)

[RainInStarlight]

started making pastry again this week, from scratch no frozen stuff for me (150g flour, 60g pure spread and 60ml water with a pinch of salt)
creamed spinach, onion, broccoli and sweetcorn pie



pasty with the same filling as above

Those look so cute!

[Enchantress]

From VCTOTW Golden Vanilla Cupcakes with Fluffy Buttercream Frosting.

[smallhelen]

I finally summoned up the courage (and collected the ingredients) to be able to make a lemon meringue pie!

The finished article



Finished article once I had taken out my piece.







The main ingredients, although I just kind of made it up as I went along. Tasted pretty good (not that I can remember what the real eggy version tasted like).
OH says 'mmmmmmm. That's alright.'

[Sluggie]

Ooh those cuocakes look gooood. And I didn't know vegan lemon meringue pie was even possible. Hm.

[Buddha Belly]

Foccacia Bread made this week.




Banoffee pie made on Weds eaten last night (and tonight)

[Mr Flibble]

Recent Cocktails:

Mulled Cognac (link):



Nougat Vodka (link):



Champagne Cocktails (link):



Strawberry Basil Cocktails (link):



Mojitos (link):



More here: http://lustrousmusings.blogspot.com/...label/Cocktail

[Mr Flibble]

Recent Food:

Rocky Road (link):



Chocolate Yule Log (link):



Stollen (link):



Chocolate Clementine Bread (link):



Smoked Tofu & Puy Lentils in Pear Cider (link):



More here: http://lustrousmusings.blogspot.com/search/label/food

[Mr Flibble]

Sluggie: Do you have a recipe?

Foccacia Bread made this week.

Yum! I love foccacia. I don't have the patience however to make it very often and the range of ones available in supermarkets at current is rather crap. Waitrose used to do an amazing trio of focaccia (1/3 sundried tomato, 1/3 olive, 1/3 herb), which they replaced by something uninspiring and unvegan.

[BlackCats]

OMG everything looks fantastic people.

[beanstew]

Vegetable lasagna fresh from the oven:



Generous portion with stringless beans (neatly presented as always ):

[Sluggie]

Mmm, I'm hungry now. Great photos too, Mr F. It always seems to be dark when I have food to photograph. Anyway, here's my florentine recipe:

5tbs caster sugar
75g margerine
3tbs plain flour
75g flaked almonds and chopped pecans
25g chopped mixed peel
25g sultanas, chopped
25g dried cherries (chopped)
100g chocolate

• Heat oven to gas mark 4 / 160c.
• Grease and flour a baking sheet.
• Heat margerine and sugar in a large saucepan until sugar is completely dissolved.
• Mix in the flour, then add the nuts, peel and fruit.
• Place teaspoonfuls of the mixture, widely spaced on the baking sheet and flatten slightly. (Make 2 batches unless you have a huge oven.)
• Bake for 10 minutes.
• Leave to cool on the tray for 2 - 3 minutes, then slide a knife under them to lift them off and put them on a cooling rack. They tend to stick to the tray, so don't leave them too long. It also helps to gently push the edges in with a knife as soon as they come out of the oven.
• Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a saucepan of boiling water.
• Spread the chocolate over the flat side of the florentines.

Traditional florentines use glace cherries, but all the ones I've seen have cochineal in them, so I used dried ones instead.

[Mr Flibble]

Thank you and thanks for the recipe - I'm not sure i've ever seen glace cherries with cochineal in The latest tesco list has their glace cherries down as being vegan.

I very rarely have the luxury of natural light in my photos. I have a 3-head studio lighting kit, but it's a pain in the ass to set up for kitchen snaps, so I rarely bother.

[Hemlock]

Rocky road? Cocktails? i'm on my way over to your house now

[Stig]

I just ate a meal but after looking at all these fantastic pictures i'm hungry again!

[Sluggie]

Thank you and thanks for the recipe - I'm not sure i've ever seen glace cherries with cochineal in The latest tesco list has their glace cherries down as being vegan.

I'll bear that in mind next time I visit Tesco. Whitworth's glace cherries have e120 listed.

[beanstew]

Fried brunch for Sunday:

[Mr Flibble]

Mint & Strawberry Sorbet:



Recipe: http://lustrousmusings.blogspot.com/...ry-sorbet.html

[Est]

Mr Flibble, will you marry me?

[beanstew]

Cottage Pie and greens tonight.

[Sunkist]

This looks good Beanstew good seasonal Wintery food !

[sandra]

I LOVE looking at this thread, everything looks so good!

I'm like Sluggie though, whenever I have anything to photograph it's always dark and when I take a photo the colour comes out wrong.

[RubyDuby]

How did I manage to miss a whole page? Wow, all these sweets look great! I'm also shocked by the meringue. very cool.


Why do I suddenly want a cocktail?

[Sunkist]

Root Vegetable ( swede ,carrots, onion) and Seaweed Soup,


I made this today,-it was very good - But probably tasted better than it looks !

[Risker]

Cottage Pie and greens tonight.

Those tomato slices look suspiciously blackened, you didn't cook them on top did you?

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk...burn_brothers/

[beanstew]

Those tomato slices look suspiciously blackened, you didn't cook them on top did you?

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk...burn_brothers/

at the solicitors debating what goes in/on a pie. My pies are normally topped with sliced tomato and sheese and filled with veggie mince, celery, mushrooms, carrots, tomato and anything else to hand.

[beanstew]

Sweet and sour Tofu and veg with noodles tonight.

[bradders]

I made a really indulgent (and scary) hot chocolate.
I used clipper drinking chocolate and sainsbury's sweetened soya milk. I also used a dorset naga chilli (1 million scoville heat unit chilli, the strongest chilli in the world)
So I heated a pan and added the chilli which I had chopped finely until the fumes become painful and then added a pint of soya milk (my mug is about a pint) and whisked it to a foam as it heated. I then carefully poured the fluid part of the milk into the mug (letting any chilli parts flow in of course) I then added about 8 spoons of the chocolate and couple of sugar and stirred it up, I topped it up with foam and stirred that so that chocolate mixed with it but it continued to float. Next I floated more foam on top of it and then sprinked more chocolate on top covering it an dusted with cinnamon.
Served myself with bourbons for dipping.
It was delicious but could easily be used as a form of torture or for making people be capable of consuming food that is quite hot as it burns quite a bit but is so delicious that I couldn't stop drinking it. Afterwards I felt quite happy indeed, I may have just had a years allowance of theobromine and capsaicin but it was worth it.



a slightly silly person eating a dorset naga on the christmas lectures
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[xwitchymagicx]

Trifle - my fave dessert along with cheesecake. lol

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2528/...5330628e_b.jpg

I'm trying to make more of an effort cooking/baking wise...as I am starting to look like a stir fry tbh. hahaha

[bringsMore]

beanstew, I must say I'm a fan of your pictures.

[beanstew]

beanstew, I must say I'm a fan of your pictures.

Thanks

[genisis]

Foccacia Bread made this week.




Banoffee pie made on Weds eaten last night (and tonight)

Banoffee pie mmmmmmmmmm
please share the recipe

[Mr Flibble]

Latest creation - Pistachio Macadamia White Chocolate Truffles:



Recipe here: http://lustrousmusings.blogspot.com/...chocolate.html

[cedarblue]

mmmm. that sweet n sour with noodles looks very good beanstew!

[beanstew]

mmmm. that sweet n sour with noodles looks very good beanstew!

Thanks! It was yum. It was an approximation of this recipe.

[beanstew]

Vegetable stew and dumplings tonight.

[bradders]

your food looks yummy beanstew.
planning on producing some atrocity tomorrow involving very strong ingredients, will update graphically on the outcome

[jennyfedei]

I'm kind of chuckling to myself tonight. I've only been a vegan now for a few months, but I can remember once asking a vegan many years ago if all they ate was vegetables? I didn't know any better back then. In the past few months I have picked up a gambit of recipe books and I'm going crazy in my kitchen coming up with the most amazing dishes of food I have ever eaten!! I can't even imagine eating meat ever again!! I've also been pouring over the recipes and photos on this forum for the past few months and have come to realize that if nothing else.. vegans LOVE to eat good food! NEVER stand between a vegan and their food or you may get run over!! haha! The cool thing is that I've lost weight and have never felt better. I no longer count calories, but just eat healthy and enjoy plenty of good food. This has been one of the most liberating experiences of my life!!

[Daffodil]

Butter bean concoction and cous-cous this evening.

lol, you're as bad as naming dishes as I am. I love concocting my own recipes but never know what to call them. You meal looks lush tho btw, I have a jar of butter beans there I dunno what to do with....

(I meant that in a nice way.....)

[cedarblue]

Vegetable stew and dumplings tonight.

sheesh, i luuuuurve stew and dumplings (the rest of th family aren't too keen on them!) - and this looks so good - just one thing, i like to add pot barley to stews to thicken and give it that savoury flavour!! good
stuff beany!


- today we are having leftover veg casserole from friday made into pasties!

[Marrers]

Cheezley pizza at Pizza Express recently.

[Marrers]

Double chocolate cake from Atlas Cafe in NYC. Divine!


US cherry ice cream.


Chocolates from Cocoa V, the vegan chocolate shop in NYC.

[bradders]

I want that cake and I want it now!

[Marrers]

At The V Spot in Brooklyn.


Appetizer Sampler (nachos with samples of buffalo chicken, empanadas & crispy nuggets)


Empanadas (fried flour tortillas packed with potato, carrot, onion, cilantro, corn & latin seasoned seitan, served with guacamole & salsa)


Bandeja Paisa (a 'typical colombian variety dish' served with chorizo, steak, brown rice, homemade black beans, avocado slices and plantain, served with arepa)


Tofu Thai Curry


Brownie and brownie cheesecake


Pumpkin cheesecake and mint chocolate chip ice cream

[Bluemew]

Now I'm hungry Marrers!!

Looks really yummy! I'm wondering when/ if Pizza Express will start using cheezely up here!

[Marrers]

It's not standard bluemew, we arranged it with them in advance and had to bring it ourselves, at our own expense.

[BlackCats]

It's been so long since I tasted mint choc ice cream! The food all looks delectable Marrers.

[Bluemew]

Ahh that's really interesting and had never been something that I would have thought of doing! I am still made very hungry by all of your pictures mind you! The ice cream and chocolates and chocolate cake look amazing!!

[beanstew]

sheesh, i luuuuurve stew and dumplings (the rest of th family aren't too keen on them!) - and this looks so good - just one thing, i like to add pot barley to stews to thicken and give it that savoury flavour!! good
stuff beany!

I normally add a handful of Holland and Barrett 'Quick Soup and Stew Mix' which has assorted lentils, split peas and barley.

[Sunkist]

I've also been pouring over the recipes and photos on this forum for the past few months and have come to realize that if nothing else.. vegans LOVE to eat good food! NEVER stand between a vegan and their food or you may get run over!! haha! The cool thing is that I've lost weight and have never felt better. I no longer count calories, but just eat healthy and enjoy plenty of good food. This has been one of the most liberating experiences of my life!!

Thats one of the best things about being vegan is the food!! I've learnt to cook a whole variety of things and I never get bored ! But I also love eating out and experiencing the cuisine of some of the talented vegan chefs around!

[beanstew]

lol, you're as bad as naming dishes as I am. I love concocting my own recipes but never know what to call them. You meal looks lush tho btw, I have a jar of butter beans there I dunno what to do with....

(I meant that in a nice way.....)

Heh. I have lots of soups, stews and curries that don't really have names.