Ooo! I've never had Welsh cakes before! What are they like? And how do you make them?![]()
Ooo! I've never had Welsh cakes before! What are they like? And how do you make them?![]()
It's a while ago, but this is what I made for my mom on Mother's Day (here in Norway) + Valentine's Day! Aren't they cute?!
It's raw heart-sandwiches, filled with strawberry-coconut cream! They were gobbled up in a matter of seconds![]()
Here's the recipe I used but i also sprinkled a bit of sugar over them as they were cooking - thought they tasted better
you'llneed:
2cups/9 oz plain flour
1tsp baking powder
1/2
cup/3 1/2 oz vegan margarine
1/2cup/3 oz caster sugar
1/2
cup/2 oz sultanas/currants
1tsp mixed spice
1tsp cinnamon
alittle soy milk
Sieve
the flour, baking powder, spice and cinnamon into a bowl. Add the
margarine and rub together until you've got little crumbies.
Add
the sultanas and sugar and stir thoroughly. Now start adding a little
soy milk at a time, you want it to be a combined lump, a bit wetter
than a dough but not sloppy...
Cut
a chunk off and put it onto a floured surface. Flour up your rolling
pin and roll that sucker out until it's about 1cm thick.
If
you've got a griddle pan, it's perfect for these. If you haven't, a
frying pan would do the job too. If it's non-stick, just put it over
a low-medium heat and leave it to heat up. If it's not non-stick, put
a TINY bit of margarine in, just to lubricate it. The cakes have
their own fat so they won't stick and we don't want to fry them, just
heat them.
So
cut out shapes like you would cookies. The traditional shape is a
circle:,
but
you can do any shape you want! Each cake takes about 2-3 minutes to
cook on each side. Once the underneath is browned, flip it over and
leave it to cook.
They sound good! Hmm, maybe I'll try someThanks for the recipe!!
Here I am again! This time with both a dinner and a dessert picture!
Indian bean dish with spicy tomato sauce
Soudoughbread PB&banana sandwich, dates and banana with PB and caloriefree chocolate sauce! YUM!
Think I'm gonna have to move lunch an hour forward, all these pictures are making my mouth water!!
A few things from the past week:
Chikin Foo Yung (Kind of) with spring rolls and veg:
Hearty breakfast bowl (for dinner) - Pan fried potatoes, tofu scramble, home made fakon bits & salsa:
Pasta with Mushroom soup sauce, home made fake bacon bits, Sheese & veg (excuse the awful photo):
Porridge with blueberries, maple syrup and white chocolate hazelnut butter:
Strawberry Chocolate Overnight Oats:
Seitan sausages:
Scone (ready to be filled with Black cherry and Turkish Vanilla jam):
I did have a few more things but I can only post 7 photo's at a time.
OMG, I NEED those oats... NOW! So pretty!
How do you make the fake bacon bits, please, Firestorm? I remember I sometimes used to buy them in a jar until they started being labelled "GM" :/
This is based loosishly on a recipe in Hearty vegan meals:
to make about 5 big servings I used 25 ml reduced sodium soya sauce, 25 ml liquid smoke, 15 grams Dijon mustard, garlic granules (1-2 tsp depending upon taste), onion granules (1-2 tsp depending upon taste) and a dash of smoked paprika.
I then defrosted 200 grams of soya mince and marinated it in the mixture, then grilled until crispy. You could pan fry them or use tempeh/tofu instead of the mince.
Thank you Firestorm, I must give that a try. Can one buy Liquid Smoke over here these days? I seem to remember finding something similar in a supermarket once.
Great cooking, Firestorm!! *impressed*
Salivating Firestorm!![]()
Leftover Panang Tofu and Kapow Jae on brown rice. When I posted this pic on facebook, my sister asked me if I took the pic before or after I ate it.
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Sweet and sour tofu with rice and satay veg noodles with some chocolate cupcakes for pudding! Twas yummy!
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^ oooooooooooh yum
Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate orange buttercream icing:
Chocolate and coffee cake with chocolate buttercream icing and dark chocolate shards:
EDIT: I did not EAT all of this. I did make it, though...
LouiseAbel them cupcakes in particular look INCREDIBLE. !!!
I love the chocolate shards! How did you do that?
Cool idea - thanks a lot for sharing.
Banoffee Pie, recipe from Vegan Pie in the sky, topped with the Coconut Whipped Cream...
Pictures not great, but if you have the book MAKE THIS!! it is divine!
Last edited by Poison Ivy; Mar 11th, 2012 at 08:53 PM.
^ god that pie looks extremely delicious Poison, and LouiseAbels cakes too
French Onion Soup:
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What's in the middle?
Baguette with melted Mozzarella Teese.
lol Malcolm ?
Chikinless noodle soup:
Lentil & "Bacon" stew (HVMFMA), houmous, half a Goodlife wedge, salad, cassava crisps:
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Mmmm, looks good Firestorm, the soup especially!
I made this last week and it is FANTASTIC!
Vegan Mac and "Cheeze" from Vegweb.com
Flashback Mac and Cheese
Ingredients (use vegan versions):
1 pound macaroni
1 cup water
1 cup unsweetened nondairy milk
3 tablespoons mild-tasting oil (such as corn oil)
1/2 cup flour (I use all-purpose)
3/4 cup nutritional yeast
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
Directions:
1. Cook macaroni (or other shaped pasta) according to package directions. While your mac is cooking, let's make the special secret "cheese" sauce.
2. In a bowl or large measuring cup, combine the water, milk, and oil and whisk briefly. In another bowl, combine all of the dry ingredients together.
3. Heat a medium saucepan. Add the dry ingredients to the saucepan, and slowly add the wet ingredients, continuously whisking over medium heat. Once all of the ingredients are incorporated, turn up the heat until the mixture begins to bubble and thicken.
4. Keep whisking as the mixture thickens and bubbles; do this for 1-2 minutes, and then turn the heat down. Keep whisking. After a spell, your "cheese" sauce should be nice and thick. Turn the heat off, and cover your saucepan.
5. Drain pasta well when done, and return noodles to the pot. Add all of your "cheese" sauce to the noodles, and stir well.
If, after your first trepidacious couple of forkfuls, you find that this recipe doesn't beat the pants off of the dairy mac and cheese with which most of us are familiar, you must have done something wrong. Come over to my house. I'll show you how it's done.
Serves: 2-4, Preparation time: 15-20 minutes
^ Must try mac n cheese, looks good.
Stuffed mushrooms, with Tesco garlic n herb cream cheese, breadcrumbs and tomato, black pepper.
Redwoods mushroom pate on toast, I liked this pate a lot.
Same pate, this time with tomatoes
Cashews with broccoli, onions and hoisin sauce
Red lentil soup/dhal on rice with banana
Salad with olives and nuts, and homemade bread
Meatballs (LMc sausages chopped up) and peas in tomato sauce with whole wheat spaghetti
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That toast with tomatoes looks so delicious and fresh. I can imagine it in my mouth right now.
Ethiopian Chickpea Stew:
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Red pepper stuffed with chickpea and smoked paprika curry/stew, with broccoli and carrots on the side:
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Just had to share this picture I took of my dinner last night.
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Enchilada w/soya-free Cheezly sauce & Old El Paso fajita sauce. It was my first time making enchiladas, they turned out really well!
They look so good..
My meals are gettin too boring. This thread provides excellent inspiration.![]()
That sushi looks really nice
Blueberries, the enchilada looks very tasty, can you tell me how you made it?
Yes, enchilada recipe please!!
Yeah the enchiladas look great!
Warburton's square (ish) wraps used as a quick and easy pizza base - topped with Pizza Express passatta sauce which I warmed up and added a tsp sugar, fresh basil, oregano, salt and pepper, then on the pizza I put chorizo, cheezly, olives, pepper, mushroom and onion, a drizzle of olive oil, some dried herbs and seasoning. Very nice indeed it was!
Made with the same wraps, with houmous, sweet chilli sauce, lettuce, smoked tofu, tomato, cucumber and pepper:
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Yum!! Oh my goodness, is it lunchtime yet? Stomach rumbling with all this food!
God that pizza looks delicious, my tummy's rumbling too, got to get some lunch..
I copied someone else earlier on this post because it looked so delicious. Sourdough toast with homemade mushroom and garlic pate and tomatoes:
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I love the pics of the wraps and the toasts!
Speaking of the toasts, I had never heard of eating beans on toast until I became vegan. Now I do it a lot. When I tell others this, they look at me like I'm some kind of weirdo. Is this a British thing, beans on toast? Or more of a vegan thing?
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