VEGAN CHALLENGE DAY 10: No brainer focaccia with tomatoes

This recipe is from http://www.chefkoch.de and it’s easy to memorize. What’s brilliant about this recipe is that you just mix up the following ingredients: 450g white flour 450g lukewarm water 2 packets of dried yeast 2 tsp salt 1 pinch of sugar Leave this very wet mixture to stand for about 5 hours at room … Continue reading →

Lazy teacher’s mushroom sauce for pasta (vegan/Thermomix)

Another recipe from the German Thermomix recipe site. It’s nothing spectacular, just something you can get on the table quickly during the week. I veganised the recipe by using olive oil (but on hindsight I prefer butter) and soya cream. Oh, and I added a LOT more pepper to my plate and used more than … Continue reading →

Schrat’s wild garlic pesto in the Thermomix (ovo-lacto vegetarian)

This recipe is from http://www.chefkoch.de and was submitted by Schrat, a chef. He posts some wonderful recipes which always have rave reviews. Early this morning I posted this recipe for wild garlic pesto on my blog and my conscience kicked me all day for posting something that I hadn’t tried before publishing. Luckily, I found … Continue reading →

Vegan potato-mushroom goulash with caraway-scented rye bread: Review of recipe by Roland Rauter

Yet another review of a vegan recipe developed by Roland Rauter and published on his website under ttp://rolandrauter.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/kartoffelgulasch-mit-pilzen-und-hausgemachtem-kummelbrot/ (Photo of my finished dish follows!) I’m married to a Hungarian and I was a bit apprehensive about serving a meatless goulash (really it’s a pörkelt because gulyás in Hungary is the soup, pörkelt is the stew), especially … Continue reading →

Broccoli and red pepper quiche (ovo lacto vegetarian)

This recipe is taken from http://www.chefkoch.de and is enough for a baking tray’s worth of quiche. If you can get your hands on quark, then the pastry is really easy to make. Ingredients for the pastry: 300g flour (your choice, I mixed wholewheat and white flour) 3 tsp baking powder 200g quark 105ml milk 6 … Continue reading →

Carrot bread with linseed and wild garlic (Bread machine)

This recipe is loosely adapted from one published in Bread Machine Magic by Linda Rehberg and Lois Conway that I bought to accompany my bread machine. Ingredients for a 1 1/2 lb loaf: 1/2 cup water 3/8 cup soya milk or similar 2 cups of wholewheat flour (grind whole grain 1 min/sp10 before starting recipe) … Continue reading →