sandwich

The humble sandwich: A final couple of recipes for Vegan MoFo

For this MoFo, I've been using the theme of English dishes, making some forgotten centuries-old recipes and cooking up modern favourites...

cakes

Eccles cake recipe (sort of): Vegan MoFo

Can't believe the end of MoFo is nearly upon us - it kind of snuck up on me, so I've had to do a double post today!  So, the secon...

cake

Vegan tea cake recipe, circa WWII: Vegan MoFo

When a lovely colleague at my other half's work was kind enough to bring me a load of delicious tea from Sri Lanka recently, I decided I...

black pudding

Lancashire hotpot recipe: Vegan MoFo

I made this next dish, Lancashire hotpot, only so I could use up a rather odd purchase I made at a health-food store in Brighton: vegan blac...

breakfast

A vegan full English breakfast: Vegan MoFo

When I uncloaked my plans for my Vegan MoFo  theme and said I was planning on cooking just English dishes, I asked for suggestions of what I...

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Experiments with singing hinnies: Vegan MoFo

I was down the pub not so long ago with a friend who hails from near Newcastle, and were chatting about MoFo. I asked her if there were ...

biscuits

Goosnargh cakes recipe: Vegan MoFo

This is one of those recipes that I've actually never seen in the wild - it's proper old-school and only turns up in food history bo...

apple

Apple and blackberry crumble: Vegan MoFo

I'm a little bit dubious of the research I've done on my next English dish (research = reading Wikipedia). My extensive research sa...

soup

London Particular soup recipe: Vegan MoFo

The next English dish was a completely new one on me, but one I stumbled on when I was trying to work out how best to cook gammon (or in...

chick peas

Coronation chick peas: Vegan Mofo

With a lot of the dishes I've been experimenting with this MoFo, their origins have been lost in the mists of time - they're foo...

curry

Chicken-free tikka masala: Vegan MoFo

So convinced was I of this dish's English origins, that I went ahead and cooked it for MoFo before really looking into it. That...

pease pudding

Vegan gammon and pease pudding recipe: Vegan MoFo

I think it's technically impossible for me to say pease pudding without following it with 'pease pudding hot, pease pudding cold, pe...

biscuit

Homemade Jaffa cakes: Vegan MoFo

The Jaffa Cake: a three-part confection of sponge base, orangey jelly and a chocolate coating, and an English institution. If you'v...

pie

Cooking a WWII recipe, Woolton pie: Vegan MoFo

A lot of the things I've been cooking this MoFo seem to be dishes whose origins are opaque, because they've been cooked in England...

chips

Vegan fish, chips and mushy peas: Vegan MoFo

If I asked most people, English or no, what's the most traditional English dish you can think of, almost all of them would say fish a...

cake

Cooking vegan parkin: Vegan MoFo

You need parkin in your life. Seriously. The parkin, a small brown beast, is found chiefly in the north of England, where it has dwelled...

baking

Making Chelsea buns: Vegan MoFo

"So what's a Chelsea bun, then?" is a question you might ask if you're not from Blighty. If you are, chances are you&...

mulligatawny

Mulligatawny soup recipe: Vegan MoFo

If you thought mulligatawny soup doesn't sound very English, you'd be very, very right. If popular wisdom is correct, then its ...

gravy

Bangers and mash (with bonus onion gravy): Vegan MoFo

Bangers and mash is an English dish that's probably centuries old, and it's still eaten everywhere today. If you're not famili...

mashed potato

Shepherds pie recipe: Vegan MoFo

Shepherd's pie is one of those dishes that, if you can find someone in England that hasn't heard of it or eaten it, I'll give...

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