Tuesday, June 24, 2014

No food posts lately

I acknowledge that I have not posted in a few weeks now, and I really regret the lapse.  I have been so busy planning this trip to Rwanda, and finishing off the school year, that I really have not had time.

Once the trip gets underway, however, I hope to make regular posts, but those posts will not contain recipes, rather they will be posts about maintaining a vegan lifestyle while travelling.

I'm looking forward to a vegan high-tea in London, and I will post a review about the restaurant that offers that, as well as a trip to The Coach and Horses, a London pub that serves only vegetarian and vegan food.   Looking forward to the tofish and chips!!!

Our meals on the airplane are listed as "vegetarian hindu"   I think that means vegan.   I hope it means vegan!

I'll keep you posted.

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Party Post-Mortem

My SIL's birthday party at our house was great!

The cake was fantastic, and I have my sister to thank for that great recipe.

I also made a potato salad using small red potatoes - so small, in fact that I only needed to cut them in half before boiling them.  I bought them at my local Loblaw store.  They are called "Little Gems" and apart from being a pain in the neck to cut, they are great for salads.  Loblaws also sells white and coloured Little Gems. I added thinly sliced red onions to the potatoes, and then added the dressing.  I added a few dashes of Trader Joe's Everyday Spice mix to the bowl.

I made the dressing out of vegenaise and dijon mustard, a dash of vegan worcestershire sauce, and plenty of black pepper.

We also had a fruit tray and a veggie tray.  I made a dip from french onion soup mix (it's vegan!), silken tofu and vegan cream cheese.  It was great.

My SIL made a beautiful salad containing a mix of greens and kale, spinach and avocado.

We had a great day!

Winter Warmer-upper

This is an update of a post that was originally written in 2014. This is one of my go-to winter soups. I had some squash in my freezer lef...