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Whilst working on the marinades I came across this delicious salsa with capers. 

One Tomato Salsa with Capers 4 large tomatoes; diced, 4cloves garlic; chopped, 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil, 4 tbsp flat leaf parsley, 1 1/2 tbsp capers, drained, 1 tbsp lemon juice and zest, 1/4 tsp salt. 

Some Marinades

The Marinades are important to vegan cooking. Here are some of mine. Also, some pointers on marinades include: Where soy is mentioned, coconut aminos can substitute. There are some food items that suit marinades including tofu, pears and mushrooms for their ability to ‘suck up’ as it were the liquid marinade. There are 20 minute marinades through to overnight (in the fridge) marinades. The longer the better for a more intense flavour some say although 20 minutes of…

What I Eat – 3 Word Mantras. What's Your 3-Word Mantra? Some examples are ....

1 big bowl of roast organic vegetables in picante sauce

1 mixed salad bowl

Rhubarb and Strawberry Shortcake – New Zealand style

Loaded young Jackfruit Bourguignon with carrots and mashed potatoes in olive oil

Epic jacket potatoes with chilli con carne and all the trimmings

Leek and Silverbeet tart with Vegalomi

Plant-based sausage-rolls in puff pastry, harissa…

Spanish Gazpacho is a speciality cocktail drink that’s been drunk through-out the decades by a variety of well-known supporters of ‘Gazpacho’ itself. It is a regional spicy peppery tomato cocktail – different regions have their take on it. It’s iced for those sweltering hot days at the golf club etc. Ingredients include: fresh tomatoes; skinned and seeded, pepper, shallots, garlic, spring onions; chopped, choose a hot sauce from a diabolical heat range right through to a smokey heat range…

My first No 1. Survival Food is Bouillon, sometimes known as miso paste. 

If you and a friend were stranded on a desert island and had to choose your first favourite 50 survival foods what would that be? I’d like to see your list too.

Survival Foods A List:

Vegan 'beefy' Bouillon/Genmai Miso paste, Brown rice, Millet, Peas, Carrots, Corn, Spinach, Apples, Oranges , Berries, Mango, Potatoes, Lettuce, Broccoli, Scallions, Capsicum, Lemon, Lime, Pineapple, Red Cabbage and…

Seasonal Farmers Market fresh produce stew with fresh garlic

Cherry Tomato, Portabello Mushrooms and Cauliflower

Chanterelles, Carrot, Celery and Leek

a la Mexicana hot chilli

Sweet Potato, spiced masala potato and baby spinach

Taro, butter mushrooms and root vegetables

Kale, Courgette and Aubergine

Bell Peppers, Tomato and Mushroom

Feisty Aubergine and Potato sambal

Mixed Vegetable stew including artichokes and fresh rosemary,…

Ideas for ‘Nice Bites’ – My Mezze Plate consists of ….

Lunch box size rice balls- festive, plain or grated beetroot, Dolmades, a whipped avocado and garlic dip, a beetroot and ‘Greek-style’ dairy-free yoghurt dip, a pumpkin and cashew cream dip, slices of avocado rolled in a few black sesame seeds and served with a thyme, garlic or a saffron aioli, fresh sliced tomatoes with Greek seasonings, a selection of mixed herbed olives, onion, sesame and white miso dip, raw carrots and…

For Us. For extra length. Allspice-Pimiento. To make your paella even better add in 1/2 cup of sliced pimiento stuffed green olives. Spanish peppers are called Padron peppers. I like Bullhorn peppers for paella dishes too.  A pinch of Cayenne pepper can be added for extra heat. Allspice berry is the Spanish name for pimento. Chillies are hot peppers, red peppers and green peppers. They belong to the Capsicum species and F. Solanaceae. F means Family. Pimenton is paprika. Pimienta is Pepper…

This is a formula on salsa. It is not unlike what 'Do Re Mi' is to music. The base ingredients in salsa are what notes are to song. e.g., Red Onion, Cilantro and Lemon or Lime quarters are the base and that is what we build on.

Choose 2 from this category

Vegetables and Fruits

Tomato, English Cucumber, Capsicum, Red Chillies, Green Chillies, Habanero, Serrano, Jalapeno, Mango, Pineapple, Spring Onion, Shallots, Red Apple, Green Apple, Kalamata olives, Black Spanish…

The questions been asked: What have you done for other individuals today? Well, I have searched my recipe index and found a few vegan recipes I am reclaiming as my own. They are: Dry-roasted buckwheat with Made- with-Plants crispy bacon, avocado and roasted balsamic tomatoes with majoram and Quinoa with roasted garlic, eggplant and Greek Vegaloumi. I'll be cooking them shortly for my friends. Lunch consisted of a warm Lebanese Levant wrap with Spanish spices, garlic, and leftover plant-based…

Sydney Vegan. Abolitionist. Welcome to my edition of Vegan Verve. This is a celebration of conscious eating and an empowerment of vegan products, producers and manufacturers. Vegan Verve hails all those who empower plant-based culture and we support you with our minds, our hearts and our bucks. We can create something special together for the animals, our health, the environment and all that is planet-friendly. This are a vegan run one page space.  It's also logical to support local…

1.Tacos, all kinds served with sweet potato fries

2. Enchilada

3.Mexi Chilli Bowl

4. Mexican Street Corn with lime and cilantro
5. Macho Nachos and Nachos Fruit Salad with dusting powder
6. All the mojos
7. Vegetables with Mexican Molcajete sauce (2 chillis/2 paprikas)
8. a la Mexicana casserole with ezpozate and Mexican oregano
9. Almond Tortilla with Spanish rice, avocado and trimmings, Tortilla served with…

This is a 5-day vegan meal plan as devised by myself.

Day 1.

Breakfast: 2 slices of wholemeal toast and a vegan spread which is Nooch (nutritional yeast)

Snack: 1 medium mango, 4 strawberries

Lunch: 1 large salad with lemon and olive oil dressing. One skillet flatbread with Spanish black olives and dried crushed chillies

Snack: 1 large bunch of grapes

Dinner: Air-ovened 3 blistered baby capsicums (red, orange and yellow) in olive oil stuffed with…

The Vinegars:

Red Wine vinegar, White Wine Vinegar, Rice Vinegar, RAW apple cidar vinegar, Sherry vinegar

The Seasonings:

Salt and Pepper

Paprika

Sumac

The Oils:

Olive oil

Grapeseed oil

Canola oil

Safflower oil

Sunflower oil

All-purpose oil

The Olives:

Spanish black

Kalamata

Spanish green stuffed pimiento olives

mixed platter herbed olives

The Chillies:

a fresh…

I'd like to hear from you with your expressions from the plant and vegan kingdom. 

Of Cabbages and Kings

Brussel Sprouts with Clout

Orange Renaissance/Orange Blancmange

Hoisin Boursin

Blazin Raison Balsamic

Lemon Pepper Pot/Lemon Bad Boy/Lemon Pepper

Native Swede with cousin Turnip

Lettuce Show You Around/Lettuce Entertain You

Red Alert/Red Slaw/Kale Ale/Cauliflower Contrivance

Gutter Tactic Spud Perfumed with…

1. Sticky tamarind carrots with green chilli coconut dairy-free yoghurt

2. Avocado dippers with a chipotle sauce

3. Lentil Polpette with coriander coconut yoghurt

4. Epazote and Mexican Oregano

5. Made-with-Plants dairy-free (DF) Sour Cream

6. Garlic Chives is also called Garlic Shoots

7. Udon noodles with Gochugaru, shitake mushrooms with warm endive

8. Saffron mayonnaise, dairy-free Pesto mayonnaise and Smoky mayonnaise

9. Red…

Lunch at Dana's Cafe in Marrickville consisted of a vegan roll, avocado, mushrooms, spinach and grilled onions on a vegan bun. Your choice of plant-based sauce. I chose mayonnaise. The Greeks know how to make something as simple as a vegan roll delicious! The vegan rolls are made on the premises the proprietor told me. 

Cactus Jack: 7 Char-grilled Vegetables in 7 Days

Day 1: Strips of red pepper (2 large Bell peppers) marinated in Spanish spices (paprika, chilli powder, chipotle) and paint on the olive oil. Blister for 10-15 minutes, air-fried. Salt and pepper. Serve immediately.

Day 2. 1 large potato, cut finely. Air-fry in a crust of garlic granules firstly then dip the other side in nutritional yeast for the last 5 minutes of grilling. It takes 10-15 minutes. Garnish with cilantro. Salt and…

Salsa a la veracruzana. Tomato, Onion and Green stuffed olives (pimento).

Salsa bandera. 'flag sauce' named for the red of the tomato, the white of the onion and the green of the chilli.

Salsa borracha. Drunken sauce made from smoky chilli pasilla, garlic, onion, white vegan cheese e.g., vegan feta and puique vegan-style. Puique is a white, thick sweet alcoholic drink made from agave.

Salsa de tomatillos. With green chillies, onion and cilantro.

Salsa. Spanish…

The Village Wholefood place in Marrickville is closing down. There are still plenty of bargains. My stash today includes a lovely little kitchen blackboard for recipe writing, 30% off unhulled tahini, an enamel fruit bowl at .50cents, turkish rosemary for under $1.50 and a bag of buckwheat flour at $4.00. Not bad for a days shopping