Hey thanks for the mention over at http://blog.petaasiapacific.com/.
Everyone else, they have a great site over there, (a lot more posts coming out than over here…) Looks like some great recipes and news.
Will start reading it more often!
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 Really good, polished & professional documentary on the origins of our food and the danger that food manufacture brings. With the increased amounts of food being manufactured in factories with ever increasing technology it would be natural to think that our food safety has gone up. To the contrary, people are more at risk of food poisoning it would seem. The cost of our low cost food is ever increasing and exploiting those who have nothing. Check out the trailer  Here is an excellent chocolate cake recipe. It is hands-down the best home baked cake I have tried! I found the original recipe in The New Becoming Vegetarian Book which I recommend if you are thinking of making a change to a vegetarian or vegan diet. It contains advice on nutrition, with plenty of tips and a few recipes.
Angel Food provide a brilliant pack for making your own vegan marshmallows and they are great!
The instructions are simple provided you have the required cooking gear:
I have put coconut on mine as I much prefer that to corn starch.
The pack makes quiet a few and they will last up to a week, well that is if I don’t eat them all before then. I found them at Common Sense Organics in Wellington, but I think you can buy online too. I also got the Meringue Cookie Mix, will post when I make that one up and give you the results. I found this recipe online and then modified it a little to suit my personal taste and the ingredients that I had on hand. In my head it was going to taste exactly like the Mock Chicken Laksa at Aunty Mena’s. I am glad to say: Mission Accomplished! This may be the tastiest thing that I have ever cooked!
I used Fry’s Chicken Strips for the veggie protein and made up 500mls of the veggie stock with water and an OXO cube. I will post a photo in a few days when I cook it again. Enjoy!
- Henry Beston, The Outermost House, 1928 The “carbon footprint” for New Zealand lamb eaten in Britain has been estimated as equivalent to 1.9kg of carbon dioxide, for each 100gm serving of lamb – 80 percent of that generated by farmers and their livestock on-farm. Just 3 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions came from processing, and 5 percent from transport, with the remaining 12 percent down to retailers and consumers. Read the full article here. Well, it has been awhile since the last post!!! In a few months it will be a year since I made the switch to give up animal based products for a guilt free lifestyle. This now includes, not only food, but also consumer goods. I am proud to say my climbing shoes are made from artificial leather! It has been an interesting journey thus far. In the first few weeks of vegan life I lost weight as I became paranoid that every meal had to be balanced perfectly nutritionally. But I then realised that my previous diet was hit and miss at best so now I am less pedantic and the weight has come back. At first, I also went out of my way to eat new and interesting foods like avocado, lentils, eggplant, pita bread and tofu. Yes, I led a sheltered life! Now that I am more comfortable with my new diet I have become too reliant on the same meals; developing a routine similar to before I was vegan. Previously I would alternate between meat and 3 veg (usually schnitzel, potatoes, carrot, and broccoli) and a chicken stir-fry. Now I have gotten into the habit of vegetarian sausages with the same 3 veg and, occasionally vegan nachos (which are really easy and tasty!). So I need to branch out again. I will post new recipes that I try and see if I can refine them as I go. Weakness strikes! There is an open packet of fruit mince pies on the bench. I stood in the supermarket for about 5 full minutes staring at fruit mince pies about two weeks ago. Took a lot of mental encouragement to walk further down the isle. Now they sit on the bench (not from my purchase, mothers). I knew that I could not spend 5 minutes staring at them this time because it would get the better of me. I quickly ran and got the diary free ice-cream from the fridge, threw on some soy-yogurt and popped in-front of some trashy Christmas television program. Nice, myth-busters is on the other channel. I had considered being vegetarian for Christmas but as with all my similar thoughts it didn’t happen. Vegan I stayed! For Christmas brunch it was mushrooms, hash brown “buttons”, fried tomatoes, fresh toast, vegan sausages and vegan burger patties. Plus glass after glass of alcohol. I nearly took a scoop of scrambled egg but was able to convince myself that the taste would be a severe disappointment. Turns out since becoming Vegan I have lost some weight too. Score! Now to add some running to the mix and I’ll be one healthy coder. |
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