Tofu pot pie

Chunks of pan-fried tofu, potatoes, mushrooms, peas, carrots & leeks in a creamy finger-licking sauce, all topped with crispy puff pastry… Little bit o’ comfort food heaven. Recipe to follow, if anyone should request! This…

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Slow cooker vegan Irish stew

Stew is one of those meals that’s satisfying and hearty… just not very exciting. It also isn’t something I make very often, but today Mr Thrifty was hankering after stew, and I obliged him. The…

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Slow cooker TVP chili

This is a delicious and easy chili for the slow cooker. It’s not quite a throw-it-all-in-and-turn-on-the-slow-cooker recipe, but close. The onion & garlic is sauteed first to give the chili extra flavour, and the cumin…

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It’s time for Vegan MoFo!

It’s that time of the year again… when vegan chefs world-wide share their creativity in the kitchen. Yes, November 2010 is Vegan MoFo! (Vegan Month of Food, for those who are wondering.) Count me in!…

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Pasta with avocado pesto

I usually like my pasta with some kind of tomato-based sauce, but when I saw this recipe for Avocado pesto pasta from vegan chef Chloe, I just had to try it. (And yes, I know…

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Vegetable harvest yields

This is a handy chart for calculating how much produce can be grown in a given space using a bed system. It’s from the book Solar Gardening: Growing vegetables year-round the American intensive way by…

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Chargrill style veggie burgers

ASDA has come out with a new range of vegetarian just-add-water mixes. The range includes burgers, sausages, falafel and nut roast. When I first spied them in the store, I perused the ingredients list and…

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Faux meat experiments

The other day I decided to experiment with a couple of faux meaty things. I made “white seitan” from the book Viva Vegan (recipe can be found here; I made 1/4 of the recipe). I…

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