Tag Archives: vegan cookery

homemade flour tortillas

Posted on October 4, 2011 by

The other night I tried making home-made flour tortillas.  A great success – and by my standards, not any more technically difficult than making good pancakes! I used a recipe from the book Making Bread at Home by Tom Jaine; … Continue reading →

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fair trade deliciousness

Posted on June 12, 2011 by

On Friday I came home from work to find a visitor sitting and chatting on the porch with my partner.  We grabbed beers from the fridge and gave a tour of the garden and how it’s developing.  Our friend was … Continue reading →

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look what I won!

Posted on February 5, 2011 by

A sweet little spiral-bound book on recycled paper, from the folks at EarthSave Canada in Vancouver – an environmental-vegetarian group which focuses on educating about the environmental impact of animal consumption. This is a quirky little book, mostly recipes, a … Continue reading →

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it’s not worth it

Posted on February 1, 2011 by

Some vegans will try to say that animal products don’t taste good.  Some will even tell you that you are eating the slaughtered, rotting corpses of once-living beings (a little over the top, don’t you think?) It occurs to me … Continue reading →

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“What DO you eat? Where do you get your protein?”

Posted on November 7, 2010 by

These are very common questions, and as one blogger puts it, understandable ones, in relation to the vegan diet.  It’s unusual; it sounds restrictive.  We’ve believed all our lives that *meat* is where we get our strength.  And okay – … Continue reading →

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La petite recolte / the little harvest

Posted on September 9, 2010 by

Remember the free-wheeling little bean patch that I blogged about before my trip to Victoria?  Well, just after I returned, it was already ready for the first little harvest: Yellow wax beans.  We steamed them and enjoyed them fresh along … Continue reading →

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a new wedding tradition: Tamale Pie (and other random food-related activism moments)

Posted on May 29, 2010 by

My brother is getting married this July.  My aunt sent out a call for favorite recipes to be bound into a book and sent as a gift to the couple – what a sweet thought. I decided to send a … Continue reading →

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vegan decadence: home-made cinnamon buns

Posted on April 4, 2010 by

So the deal is, I make cinnamon buns at home.  I use the recipe from VegWeb that you can find here; I find it’s quite perfect and easy.  For egg replacement in the dough I have used alternately smashed banana … Continue reading →

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Spreading the word, spreading the frosting: World Vegan Bake Sale 2010

Posted on March 6, 2010 by

“Spread the love, spread the frosting. The second annual Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale – April 24 -May 2, 2010.” A ‘sweet’ idea from an animal-welfare charity called Compassion for Animals: a worldwide vegan bake sale where the participants can raise … Continue reading →

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A little wisdom from 100 years ago

Posted on February 20, 2010 by

I’m working on research for my vegan cookbook, and at the moment I am analyzing a “Reform Cookery Book” written a hundred and one years ago by a person in Scotland.  There’s a lovely passage from the introduction which still … Continue reading →

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