The Vegan Thread

Hah, yep... really enjoyed that, but made me well hungry. Have found a recipe for this evening

http://maunikagowardhan.co.uk/cook-in-a-curry/punjabi-dal-makhani/

...gonna leave out the dairy stuff tho

I talked to I am Nut OK! at the Victoria Park Market today (which turns out to be quite a large market with three vegan food stalls at the end amidst the purveyors of corpse) and they're now also at Broadway Market and in the Fauxmagerie in Brixton (linked to above), where the stock they supplied apparently sold out in one day. The problem for quite a few of these vegan cheesemakers is making enough cheese, as it's very popular despite the (still) high prices.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-47176759/i-went-vegan-to-hide-my-eating-disorder

Been listening to Ceris this morning? 😂

Yes :)

I ate the black dal at Dishoom before I went vegan and it is excellent. I'm going to make this vegan once I get some black beluga lentils.

http://iamafoodblog.com/dishooms-black-dal-and-garlic-naan/

@not4sale Knew it haha.

Thanks for the tip, will try that in our slow cooker soon.

I think our found recipes are variants of the same dish! I spent ages looking for black beluga lentils earlier. I found and left urid dal and it's the same thing.. FFS. Haha

Spicebox in E17, went on Friday, food was great. Bit nippy in the actual restaurant though.

Really want to know their keema mushroom recipe..

Been cooking things out of a £2 BBC Good Food veggie/vegan cookbook that they had in Lidl. Best discovery was this - I made a loaf and changed some of the ingredients slightly but I couldn't believe how good it was considering the main ingredient is mayonnaise...

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/vegan-banana-peanut-butter-cupcakes
might try it with aquafaba mayo next time

They look well good! Anyone got any other suggestions for recipes for a treat for a group of vegans that will spend all day being active? Sweet or savoury.

I also made these the other day:
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/made-over-millionaires-bars
but you should use less oil and don't do the topping, just melt normal vegan chocolate instead

I've made this a few times in the past, really good:
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chocolate-avocado-cake
you can easily do cupcakes instead (I accidentally doubled the recipe once and made about 50 of them). I like it because if you use gluten-free flour it's nut-free, vegan, gluten-free, etc. so worked well in my office where we had a bizarre number of weird allergies.

Homemade whole food snickers bars

150 g dates
100 g salted peanuts
3 spoonful peanutbutter

topping:
60 g dark chocolate
1 spoonful coconut oil

Blend the filling, melt chocolate with coconut oil and pour over. Put in fridge and cut into bars.
Done

Edit: not my pictures and not entirely whole food, but very simple and you can omit the oil :)

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Protein balls using dates. Can't remember which recipe my other half has used but probably something like this..

https://deliciouslyella.com/2012/12/11/the-ultimate-energy-bites-vegan-gluten-free-dairy-free/

Found rolling them in shredded coconut at the end improves them and they hold shape better.

These all sound good, particularly that snickers bar! I don't have a blender though. I wonder if I could just mash the shit out of it.

What spinnout said + sea salt for added minerals.
Mixed in crushed Oreos once (they stay crunchy surprisingly) - mega munch.
Cheap food processor is totally worth it for these things.

The recipe in Scott Jurek's Eat and Run is boss.

That whole book is amazing for recipes

You can easily chop and smash the dates, it’s those and the peanut butter that binds it together. Peanuts can just be smashed or chopped

Any recommendations for restaurants for Saturday night, fancy meal for me and my OH in central?

Apologises if this has already been mentioned here but I found that if you add a very small pinch of bicarbonate of soda to your coffee it prevents the soy milk from curdling. It is even effective after the curdling has happened. I believe it is due to the bicarb neutralising the acid of the coffee.
You know when you've put too much in as you'll taste it. I hope this helps some of you enjoy a curdle-free vegan coffee.

I got some kimchi made by Penhaligon Pickles, based in E9, the other day, and that was very good. You can find it in Hackney food shops. (I got mine from a shop on Lower Clapton Road.) They seem to be a completely vegan company, and I think they were at the Hackney Downs Vegan Market a couple of times, too, although I think I missed them. (I may be imagining this.) I was less impressed by their 'Hackney Hummus'. Their (vegan) tzatziki was alright, but not sensational.

If you're ever up north then love kimchi make some lovely kimchi and Korean street food, always have a lot of vegan options.

Also, as someone who travels to various houses to fix bikes I've been a bit worried about the "would you like a brew" question, at least in that I'd mainly be drinking black tea, which is fine tbh. I've not been doing too many mobile jobs so far this year, but have been offered a brew 4 times, all 4 have had some kind of vegan milk, I had a choice of 3 kinds earlier, which seemed excessive.

Can you pass on the recipe?

https://minimalistbaker.com/easy-vegan-mayo-with-aquafaba/

Vaguely based on this, think I put some olive oil in at the end and I never really measure stuff too properly. The important thing seems to a half decent immersion blender (the £25 argos one I got is infinitely better than the old one I had) and wizz up the aquafaba lots first then pour in the oil.