Sweetcorn Fritters
Sweetcorn Fritters Been trying for a while to make good sweetcorn fritters. The ones you get at restaurants are great, but they are deep fried. And deep frying is something we try to avoid. Found this recipe on Domestic Gothess and it is great! Lovely served with a...
Lemon Merangue Pies
Lemon Merangue Pie Been wanting to make lemon merangue pies for ages now. Finally got round to it. I basically used the recipe from Lazy Cat Kitchen. Thank you Ania! I love her recipes as they always actually work!! Lemon merangue pies – before grilling I wont...
Chocolate Cupcakes
Chocolate Cupcakes These Chocolate Cupcakes are part of my getting to grips with baking while carrying on trying recipes from the Rouxbe Essential Desserts course my wife Karen did a while ago. There is so much more to baking – understanding flours and yeasts and...
Chicken Seitan Skewers
I made theses Chicken Seitan Skewers a while ago but never got round to posting the recipe. The original inspiration for this came from this recipe from Sam at “itdoesnttastelikechicken”. Just to make sure, I made them again yesterday. The original recipe...
Hot Cross Buns
Hot Cross Buns I have never done much baking, let alone vegan hot cross buns. Take my hat off to people who bake. It is never as easy as it looks. I took me 3 attempts to get these right. The first attempt I managed to kill off the yeast, and in the second I...
Gluten Free Bread
Gluten Free Bread I am not sure why, but I have never made bread before – let alone Gluten Free Vegan Bread!! Karen made this one recently for one of our Green and Vegan pop up dinners. I thought I would also give it a try. The recipe came from Elavegan. Thank...
Choc Chip Cookies
Choc Chip Cookies Found this recipe for Choc Chip Cookies on the Plant Based Chefs FB site. Some really good recipes here! At time of writing this we are in the Corona Virus lockdown – so spending my time in the kitchen trying recipes, and working through the...
Arancini
Arancini?? I had never heard of this till Karen came up with it for an idea for one of our pop-ups. Sounded wonderful – but needed to learn how to make it. So, what are they? – Basically, deep fried risotto rice balls. Which of course was immediately a problem because...
Crème Caramel
Crème Caramel Crème Caramel is another of these classic French desserts. Having perfected Crème Brulee, I thought this would be easy. Not so – had a few unsuccessful attempts but finally came up with this one. Check out the notes at the end of the post. Here at Green...
Vegan Rice Paper Bacon
Rice Paper Bacon This Vegan Rice Paper Bacon makes a great tasty snack. And pretty easy to make. I found several videos on You Tube with vegan bacon recipes, and my recipe is based on the one by Brett Cobley. Check out his video. Vegan Rice Paper Bacon ingredients A...