Who knew local food could taste so exotic? This simple soup is delicately flavoured with winged sea kelp, an ingredient that is abundant in our area of the world and needlessly feared by wimpy palates everywhere. Yes, we all learned quickly to avoid getting tangled in the stuff whilst frolicking in the waves as wee [...]
Garden Beet Soup
On March - 6 - 2011
Beets are great. My Grandpa Mac grew them in his garden and I was always very excited when he felt like sharing. The colour of beets never ceases to amaze me: technocolour vegetables, they are definitely one of the most beautiful things we’ll ever get the pleasure to eat. And if bright colours equal healthfulness, [...]
Skirlie Tattie Squares
On February - 21 - 2011
When our neighbours invited us to their annual Robbie Burns Day / Chinese New Year celebration this weekend and challenged me to bring a traditional Scottish dish a là Vegan, I had lofty hopes of creating some fun-derful Chinese/Scottish/Vegan fusion cuisine, something the likes this world has never seen. But it turns out the world [...]
Quick and Easy Vegan Cabbage Rolls
On October - 15 - 2010
Do you like cabbage rolls? Anyone? Anyone? I have a theory: I think that in the olden days (like the 70s or something), parents must have fed their kids wicked terrible cabbage rolls, because almost everyone I know either HATES them or won’t even try them. I know my parents were so terrorized by the [...]
Vegan Gyozas
On October - 12 - 2010
Who doesn’t like dipping stuff in other stuff? You’d be a fool not to and these subtly spicy fat free gyozas (or pot stickers, for people who talk funny) are good dippin’. Don’t like mushrooms? Then you suck!!!!! (I’m looking at you, marital partner). But you can substitute some firm tofu, rehydrated TVP or this [...]
