It’s chocolate day for Vegan Mofo, so here’s some chocolate chip banana bread, veganised from Green & Black’s Ultimate Chocolate Recipes: The New Collection by replacing the butter with vegetable oil, the milk with water, and the eggs with soy yoghurt. It’s always popular with my workmates. Look out for the recipe in a future post.
We don’t drink so instead of following today’s boozy prompt I’m going to tell you all about the awesome that came in our Vegan Kind box.
Biona Cool Cola Bottles
My preferences for cola bottles lean towards the fizzy variety. I did enjoy these though. Cola taste, lovely jelly consistency.
Good for a sweet snack.
Harpers Candles Little Black Cat Candle
We’ve just finished burning our last Harpers Candle so the timing on this is perfect. It smells sweet and delicious, like Halloween.
I could bankrupt myself with these candles.
MyProtein Chocolate Baked Cookie
Kate stole this one. She said it was delicious but a little proteiny.
Perfect breakfast cookie.
Geo Organics Chickpea and Lentil Dahl
Filling and flavourful. we enjoyed this with brown rice and potato curry. Really handy to have around for an emergency curry night.
Delicious.
Eat Vive Peanut Butter Jelly Bar
Sweet, delicious and peanutty. Great snack, it’s lovely and filling.
Perfect evening snack.
ALO Comfort Watermelon and Peach Drink
I loved the taste of this one the watermelon and peach combo was spot on but… I just couldn’t stand the texture. It’s got bits.
Might drink it again, with a sieve.
Retrocorn Lemon and Line Sherbet Popcorn
Okay, wow, this was something special. Tooth achingly sweet with an unbeatable taste.
Yes please, and I might need to get some of the other flavours too.
As I woke up to a mustard yellow sky this morning so this is a rather good day to write about food we could eat in an apocalypse. Yesterday I put on my foraging boots on and went out to grab some rose hips. Actually I managed to do it all in flats. I got 500g of hips no more than five minutes away from my front door.
So what to do with my newly acquired hips? Well for that we’re going to go back in time to a trip to Ikea when I needed a post shopping pick me up and found a rather promising looking bottle of Rosehip Drink.
As I was enjoying it I though about all of the rose hip recipes I haven’t tried yet. I thought that I would pick a bunch the first chance I got. Though I probably wouldn’t have bothered if it wasn’t for this prompt. As I was forced into action by mofo I made rosehip cordial following this recipe. It’s yum. I’m planning on serving it with lemonade for bonus sugar.
I have a large and varied spice collection but there are two that stand out for me. I like to think of them as siblings, or best mates. They appear together around the globe: from India, across the Middle East, to the Americas. It’s coriander and cumin.
Just like I love all sorts of spices I love all sorts of food cooked with them. I’ve already paired these together chilli this mofo. It’s time to use it on potatoes. The following recipy serves 2.
Crispy Oven Baked Chips
1 large baking potato
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon coriander
1/2 salt, smoked if you have it
1 tablespoon nutral oil, such as vegetable
Pre heat the oven to 200°c
Slice the chips, try not to leave many thicker than 1.5cm. As for skins you can leave them on or off, your choice.
Place the spices in a large bowl, place the chips on top and drizzle the oil on. Shake everything around until fully coated.
Bake in the oven for 45 mins. Flip the chips over half way through.
Coastal Vegans 