The Vegan Thread

Non-vegan but one year I bought a couple of cheap supermarket cakes, stacked them, then decorated them with icing, sweets and chocolate. Very easy to make a very instagrammy-ridiculous mega-cake with a few bags of goodies. Should be possible vegan too?

Not a bad idea for the future. It looks like it'll just be the 2 of us this year though, don't want to end up binning a load of uneaten cake!

Chocolate vegan cakes are piss easy to make. I struggle with vanilla sponge as you need bicarb and a little vinegar to get a rise, which gives a dodgy taste, but cocoa powder takes care of that. I'll try and get my wife's recipe that I use when I bake with the kids..

Not a cake but made these brownies yesterday and they're pretty easy to make and pretty damn good!

https://www.happypearcourses.com/easy-vegan-brownie

Oh god, so hungry for brownies now. Might have to make them.

Phwoar, that looks banging!

Meh - I have none of those ingredients. If anyone has a good brownie recipe which uses mainly toilet roll and tinned tomatoes, please share.

Made vegan pastel de nata. The recipe (vegan food & living mag) called for sprinkling 2 tablespoons of cinnamon on rolled out out pastry. I'm pretty sure this is a typo and it should be teaspoons, other than that bloody lovely.

https://www.chowhound.com/food-news/257105/vegan-portuguese-tarts-recipe-gaz-oakley-plants-only-kitchen-table-talk/

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Kebabs! Would be better if I was shitfaced rather than just tipsy, but were otherwise very good.

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Vivera? Love that stuff

It's pretty good, got my daughter to help with the bread and she tipped shitloads of pepper in, was nice.

Made these rascals yesterday, so good! Thanks for sharing.

I didn't know there was an International Vegan Film Festival, but I suppose there has to be.

They've put most of the short films they wanted to show around the world in a free video here, the 'World Tour' having become impossible, so in case you want to watch:

http://www.theivff.com/covid-freeview.html

There's a also a photography contest--details in FGV's post, in which I saw it, here:

http://fatgayvegan.com/2020/04/22/vegan-international-film-festival/

Anyone experimented with making their own oat milk?

Oatly sets the standard for me but my consumption of the stuff is costing me a pretty penny.

I looked up their manufacturing process and there’s an enzyme stage where the oat starch is broken down into maltose which is what makes it naturally sweet.

CBA with experimenting with amylase, temperatures and soaking times so I’ve used malt extract to add sweetness instead. This is where I’m at so far:

1700g water
100g oats
2 tsp rapeseed oil
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbs barley malt extract
1 pinch xanthan gum

I soak all of this in a tub overnight and then give it 3 minutes in the Vitamix on the full gas setting. It needs a couple of hours to settle.

It tastes pretty good. I could strain off the sediment but it doesn’t bother me as you don’t notice it (other than visually) even when using the milk in coffee or tea. The xanthan gum is optional, it stops the milk splitting completely when it’s kept in the fridge.

That looks banging! Inspired me to make my own flatbread, had it for lunch with what was left of the seitan I made last week, some salad and some tahini sauce, would recommend.

The white sauce was half and half periperi mayo and oatly créme fraîche with some oat milk to thin out and garlic and herbs, was very nice.

Sounds good! We had some violife tzatziki stuff (which is quite weird, basically just cream cheese with dill in it), mixed with a bit of plain alpro yoghurt as well as the tahini sauce, was a good combo! Needed some hot sauce but I don't have any in at the minute.

Needed some hot sauce but I don't have any in at the minute.

see that's your problem right there

I normally have loads in, was meant to be moving so tried to finish them all off. I still have plenty of sriracha and just picked this up which is excellent.

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God my hand has aged about 30 years with all of this washing.

Ah brilliant, glad you enjoyed them!

The morrisons vegan almond magnum knock offs are absolutely banging.

Please help.
I've started making a trifle but haven't worked out how to do the cream on the top.
I have some cartons of Oatly cream, is there any way to add something to it so I can whip it up so it thickens?
I'd rather not go shoppin right now.
I also should mention that my kids don't like whipped coconut cream.

Generally you just add a load of tasteless oil and a pinch of xantham gum if you have it.

Never tried it with Oatly before, might be worth seeing if someone else has a better plan...

No help at all but the oatly custard whips really well but collapses on contact with hot food.