As a child I was never really a fan of omelette but I love the way they are simple and can taste so different with what you add in to it. I recently saw another blog who had tried this recipe out from Chocolate and Beyond (a great blog to read; absolutely divine recipes) and decided I had to try it too. The recipe can be found here under number 5.
I didn't quite have all the ingredients- no chillies or curry powder- but I made up for this by having it with sweet chilli sauce (which went with it very well). The mushrooms with it were excellent int texture and taste and the spring onions added the perfect oniony taste without being too overpowering. The texture of the omelette was very similar to actual egg omelette (as far as I remember) and was very satisfying to eat and filling. The pictures on Chocolate and Beyond look amazing but I am sooo bad at frying things which stay in shape (pancakes never turn out well!) so my omelette turned into more of a scramble. I didn't take any pictures- take a look at the photos on Chocolate and Beyond!
This recipe makes and excellent meal at anytime of the day and would be great to serve to guests. I would love to see what non-vegans thought of it! I will be trying it out on my other half soon!
Monday 26 November 2012
Monday 19 November 2012
Mexican Hot Chocolate Snickerdoodles
I hadn't made any cookies from "Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar" (by Isa Chandra Moskowitz & Terry Hope Romero) for a while and even the ones I had made were some of the more simple and usual flavour cookies in the book. As I was going to a family gathering at my Aunt's I decided to take over some cookies for everyone to try and chose these ones as with the spice in them they are a bit more "adult". You can actually find the recipe online from the Post Punk Kitchen here.The teaspoon of cayenne pepper did not seem like it would be very spicy at all but these cookies definitely had a kick and the cinnamon complimented them perfectly. I also loved how the cookies look and I definitely made an effort to make them perfectly round and uniform so they looked very professional when I brought them out at the party. I had many comments about how good they were and where I got the recipe from them. These are a must bake recipe!
Tuesday 13 November 2012
Easy lunch for guests!
Well, as you may have guessed, I am now a mummy! It is still sinking in even though our little one is over 3 weeks old now. Even though I thought I would be much more tired I still haven't had much time to cook, let alone try things out for the blog. Even the few things I have made which are worth writing about I forgot to take pictures of but I will tell you about a couple anyway and direct you to the recipes as they were delicious! And hopefully as we get into more of a routine here I will manage a few more recipes and remember to take photos.
As we had my boyfriend's brother and his new girlfriend coming round to meet our new addition I decided to make a nice lunch. The only instruction I was given was that he didn't like cheese which wasn't a problem! I had an idea to do stuffed peppers as they look great and most people I know love peppers. My boyfriend is not a massive fan of rice so that was out for the stuffing so I set about searching the internet for other options. I came across this recipe from Fat Free Vegan Kitchen for Chilli-Stuffed Peppers which seemed perfect and full of flavour. I followed this recipe as closely as I could but there were a few changes due to cupboard ingredients- I used pickled jalapenos as I had half a jar which really needed using and I also used red kidney beans because there weren't any black beans in the shop. I also added some chopped courgette into the mix. Another slight change I made was that I just cut a lid off the peppers instead of slicing them in half as I really like the look of this.
These peppers were super delicious and perfect for an impressive but easy lunch/dinner. In fact we have decided to make this a regular meal at ours. The chilli mixture was such a good change to the usual rice or couscous stuffed peppers I am used to. I really enjoyed how full of vegetables this dish is while being super filling.
On the side we had potato salad made with vegan garlic mayo and some paprika and also a fresh green salad. I think there were probably about 3 portions of vegetables in this meal!
For dessert I made a lemon drizzle cake from this recipe from food.com. I added the zest of an extra lemon to make sure it was very flavourful. This cake went down a treat with everyone and my boyfriend already wants me to bake another!
I really wish I had taken pictures of this food as it did look really good and is perfect for guests but hopefully you will try these out anyway!
***UPDATE*** I made the peppers again with the addition of some veggie mince (I actually preferred the original version without the mince though) and remembered to take photos! So here they are:
As we had my boyfriend's brother and his new girlfriend coming round to meet our new addition I decided to make a nice lunch. The only instruction I was given was that he didn't like cheese which wasn't a problem! I had an idea to do stuffed peppers as they look great and most people I know love peppers. My boyfriend is not a massive fan of rice so that was out for the stuffing so I set about searching the internet for other options. I came across this recipe from Fat Free Vegan Kitchen for Chilli-Stuffed Peppers which seemed perfect and full of flavour. I followed this recipe as closely as I could but there were a few changes due to cupboard ingredients- I used pickled jalapenos as I had half a jar which really needed using and I also used red kidney beans because there weren't any black beans in the shop. I also added some chopped courgette into the mix. Another slight change I made was that I just cut a lid off the peppers instead of slicing them in half as I really like the look of this.
These peppers were super delicious and perfect for an impressive but easy lunch/dinner. In fact we have decided to make this a regular meal at ours. The chilli mixture was such a good change to the usual rice or couscous stuffed peppers I am used to. I really enjoyed how full of vegetables this dish is while being super filling.
On the side we had potato salad made with vegan garlic mayo and some paprika and also a fresh green salad. I think there were probably about 3 portions of vegetables in this meal!
For dessert I made a lemon drizzle cake from this recipe from food.com. I added the zest of an extra lemon to make sure it was very flavourful. This cake went down a treat with everyone and my boyfriend already wants me to bake another!
I really wish I had taken pictures of this food as it did look really good and is perfect for guests but hopefully you will try these out anyway!
***UPDATE*** I made the peppers again with the addition of some veggie mince (I actually preferred the original version without the mince though) and remembered to take photos! So here they are:
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