Vegan Crab Cakes (GF, Vegan) What to cook for game day? Vegan crab cakes of course! These are a pretty tasty treat, with the heart of palm being the substitute for the crab. However in my opinion this is a case of when the understudy is better than the original actor. I used old bay …
Nori Macadamia Nut Cheese (Vegan, DF, GF) What do you do when you can’t eat dairy anymore but you love cheese…make your own of course! Some of you may think that this sounds a little extreme, but I used to eat so much cheese that my brother nicknamed me, cheese please! I therefore had to …
Wild mushrooms on Kombu (Vegan, DF, GF) The intensity of the smell as this is cooking will make you want to take it out every five minutes to eat it, but the longer you leave it, the more concentrated the flavor. The Kombu brings an extra savory tone to the dish giving it a smoky …
Apricot Chutney (Vegan, DF, GF) I saw these beautiful apricots glistening in the market and I had to get some. I love apricots, they have amazing nutrients, vitamins and minerals and taste as sweet as candy when ripe. Since I just got the newest addition to my recipe book collection, Rasoi by Vaneet Bhatia and …
Easy Masala Sauce (DF, GF, Vegan) The classic ‘Indian’ dish, Chicken Tikka Masala, was apparently invented by a chef in Scotland as a hybrid dish for the English palate. This has since become a very popular dish both in the UK and US normally made with a decent amount of cream. In Indian cooking, we …
Coconut-Lime Avocado Dressing on Kale (GF, DF, Vegan, Raw) I adapted this recipe from Matthew Kenney’s PlantLab – creating the future of food book, which is centred on nutrient dense plant based recipes It is a beautifully vibrant salad with the coconut and lime reminding you of the tropics as well as doing a good …
Indian Arancini (GF, Vegetarian) This is a fusion of my Italian and Indian heritage. Think about it as an Indian Tikki and Italian Arancini doing a little dance with the spice from the Tikki kissing the melted cheese from the Arancini. Mr B told me that Arancini in fact isn’t the name of the dish, …
Roasted Romanesco with Garlic, Sage Crumbs (GF, DF) This is a stunning dish, fragrant, tasty, textured and healthy I have a lot of fun cooking vegetables as sides to my southern Italian in-laws dishes. I can not make what would be perceived as a main dish, as it would be seen as disrespectful, even in …
Methi Matar Malai (GF, DF) This is a beautiful fragrant vegan curry from the north of India. It is made with Methi, which is Fenugreek, Malai which is cream, which I substituted for tofu cream and Matar which is green peas It is a beautifully balanced dish, due to the bitterness of the Fenugreek and …
Spinach Paneer (GF) The word Paneer is of Persian origin and is used to refer to any type of cheese. Paneer is normally homemade by Indian families, boiling whole milk and adding some lemon juice. My Grandma tried several attempts to make Paneer using Soya Milk and Almond Milk, but it didn’t work, so this …
