White-fleshed nectarines shipped from South Africa are in season now in your supermarket, for it is summer in the Southern hemisphere during our winter. I got a crate of them and have created several recipes that would be good during the holidays, even though we do not, in the Northern hemisphere, usually associate peaches and…
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The Aquafaba revolution and a Vegan Lemon Meringue pie recipe
My book V is for Vegan came out in April this year. Just as it went to print in late 2014, I started to hear about a new vegan technique referred to as aquafaba, a term coined by American software engineer Goose Wohlt. It entails using bean water as an egg white replacement – you can, for…
Vegan Thai Green Curry recipe
Thai green curry with fragrant rice (vegan) To make a proper green curry you need the right ingredients. Look in your local Asian supermarket which might have ingredients such as holy basil, kaffir lime, pea aubergines, bunches of coriander with the roots, fresh lime leaves, galangal and tiny Asian shallots. Tofu, lemon grass, palm sugar,…
Mexican adventures and a recipe for Chipotle en adobo
Chipotle en adobo is one of my go-to ingredients for an authentic Mexican flavour in my cooking. But it’s also good for anything else you fancy… in lasagne, on toast, in baked beans, in salsa. I absolutely love Mexican food, I think it is vastly underrated as a cuisine. What we call Mexican is mostly…
Recipe: cauliflower and almond curry
Cauliflower is very fashionable nowadays, in fact one amazon ‘reviewer’ of my book V is for Vegan said he judges all cookbooks by whether they had a cauliflower recipe in it! Apparently my book failed the cauliflower test. Oh well. If I’d known it was a criteria… Some people don’t like cruciferous vegetables like cauliflower, so…
London’s best vegan restaurants and cafés
Food at Manna vegan restaurant, Primrose Hill Burger at Black Cat Café, Clapton, London Dishes at Vanilla Black, London I wrote this piece for The Londonist on the best vegan places to eat in London. I’ve probably missed some out so do feel free to comment below if you know any good ones. Let me…
Where to buy vegan products in London
Top Ten vegan shops in London When one of America’s top vegan cook book authors, Terry Hope Romero, came over to do a supper club with me, she was very impressed by the selection of vegan products sold in the UK, particularly the range of vegan cheeses. The United States takes veganism very seriously and every…
30 minute Vegan Pho recipe
Pho is basically about the beef consommé so it’s hard to understand what all the fuss is about this soup if you don’t eat meat. Every single time I’ve had it at a Vietnamese restaurant, it tastes like dishwater, a watery bland broth with some noodles and a few veggies floating in it. So I…
15 minute Pad Thai recipe (vegan, gluten free and not vegan)
This vegan Pad Thai is as good as the non-vegan version. It only takes 15 minutes max to make, including the ten minutes necessary to soak the noodles. Using soft tofu to replace the egg really works well, giving a similar texture and consistency, I actually prefer it to the eggy version. My hack for…
How to be a Portland hipster; 9 things to do, eat and drink
Keep Portland weird What to do in Portland? This Pacific North West city has so much to do, it’s hard to know where to start. If you are a food and drink fiend like myself, you will be in seventh heaven for it is virtually impossible to eat badly. At the same time the people…