hummus

Z is for Za'atar

When I was thinking about what to make for Z in my experiment of cooking with new things for Vegan MoFo, there was really only one option...

japanese

Y is for yuzu

Yuzu. The name alone is beautiful, and persuaded me to add it to my pantheon of MoFo experiments. Yuzu is a citrus fruit grows in Japa...

mushrooms

X is for Xampinyons

On alright, in my experiment with cooking the alphabet using new ingredients or unknown dishes, I struggled when it came to x. ...

bread

W is for wheatgerm

Occasionally, when I go to see my boyfriend's parents and the weather's good enough, I get to go down to Secretts . It's a lit...

pasta

V is for vodka

Apologies for the break in service there - I've just been in Copenhagen for a few days. But more of that post-MoFo. In the meantime, r...

chilli

U is for uttapam

Have I mentioned before how much I love South Indian food? I have? Several times? Yeah, OK, so I'm getting boring. But seriously, ...

pasta

T is for tempeh

I like to think there are very few vegan things that I don't eat. Most things you can drop on my plate, and I'll get stuck in. I...

breadcrumbs

S is for salsify

I'd forgive you if you walked past a bit of salsify and didn't give it a second look, given it bears more than a passing resemblan...

biscuit

R is for rosewater

Since my last trip to the Vegetarian Cookery School in Bath , where the course featured a bonus recipe for rosewater shortbread that I ...

cashew

Q is for queso

I thought initially that Q might be a tricky letter to find a dish to make, but then I realised that I had never made cashew queso. Last...

fruit

P is for persimmon

I've had persimmons before. I think I knew them as sharon fruit at the time, but the name 'persimmon' carries a whiff of the ...

breadcrumbs

O is for onion rings

Next up, onion rings. I've always been a big fan of their work, but have never attempted to make my own at home. A bit of idle Goog...

cactus

N is for nopales

I had my first and only taste of nopales when I was in Mexico, on holiday with a fantastic friend of mine, Rachel. We went out to a res...

chick peas

M is for mango powder

I've seen it crop up occasionally in cookbooks, and thought I'd take my 'alphabet of the new ingredients' as my cue to coo...

biscuits

L is for lavender

My first foray into lavender was a recipe from Raw Food for Everyone called Pickled Mushroom with Lavender. As per the recipe, I whisk...

kohlrabi

K is for kohlrabi

Three things initially attracted me to using a kohlrabi: 1. It's purple 2. It looks like it's not of this earth 3. It was...

almonds

J is for jumbles

Jumbles aren't strictly something I've never made before, but they are something I've never made a vegan version of ever -...

nicaragua

I is for indio viejo

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of being transported back to my recent travels in Central America  when I  cooked up a dish I'd en...

cream

H is for heirloom tomatoes

Normal tomatoes and me are great friends. I could happily champ my way through a box of cherry tomatoes like they were sweets. But heir...

basmati

G is for girolles

I could have filed this one under G twice - these cute little fawn-coloured mushrooms go by the moniker of 'golden chanterelles' o...

beans

F is for fermented black beans

Once I opened the packet and got my first whiff of fermented black beans, my hopes for making something edible, let alone pleasant with th...

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