Musaca is a dish that every Romanian knows about. The traditional dish is made with meat, but I took that out and made a vegan version. In UK, you might have seen variations of this dish in Eastern European and Greek restaurants, like Moussaka. The recipes are quite similar, with potatoes and aubergines being used,
I’ve seen many times the word Polenta being used in a wrong way, including in cookbooks by well known chefs. It can be quite puzzling because you can use polenta to create other dishes with it. So, I’ve decided to talk about it today. When it comes to ingredients, I’m going to use the names
From my recent holiday in Scotland I brought back a lot of vegan haggis. Initially we bought some to eat while cooking in the caravan. But I loved it so much, that on the day we left, I bought a few packages of haggis and frozen them at home, to enjoy in the next few
I’ve made this Almond Dark Chocolate Berries Pie for two reasons. One was because I wanted to try a cocoa pastry that was also made with hot water pastry with oil. The other reason was to make a pie as a “prop” for taking photos of a book on statistics. The pastry was great and
I make stuffed aubergines from time to time, but I haven’t shared the recipe for them until now. This time I’ve made stuffed aubergines with oriental spices, served on a bed of basmati rice. Recently I’ve read a recipe and it changed the way I’m making the aubergines. The aubergines are twice baked. It sounds
I’ve made Mushroom Ketchup recently and I loved it. Here is the recipe for the ketchup. This recipe, for mushroom pate is very similar, only a few spices are different, and, of course, so is the texture. I’ve used the same kind of mushrooms because those are the dried mushrooms I still have at home.
I was thinking of using vegan spread instead of butter in the standard biscuit recipe that I’ve made many times, to see how they turn out. There isn’t any difference between the biscuits with butter and these dairy free chocolate biscuits when it comes to taste and texture. I was very pleased and I will
