This vegan whipped cream (can also be called a vegan meringue or whipped egg whites) is truly an amazing technique to learn for all kinds of (vegan) cooking. You will see the slimy mucilage of the linseed (otherwise known as flaxseed) turn into a light fluffy and delicious whipped cream/meringue. Now I have mentioned before
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Chinese broccoli or Kai-lan (Gai-lan) is a great vegetable that can be found at bargain prices at any good asian supermarket/fresh produce shop. It basically covers the flavours and textures of bok choi, broccoli and spinach all in one. So there is no better way to treat such a delicious and versatile vegetable other than simply
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Nothing really says “I love you” more than pancakes in bed on a Sunday morning. Throw in the delectable combination of lemon, coconut and blueberries and you will be loving yourself or significant other more than you can ever know by treating yourself to these pancakes. These lemon, coconut and blueberry pancakes are moist, tasty
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Last weekend I had the pleasure of eating at one of Auckland, New Zealand’s hottest restaurants – Ortolana. Their blend of rustic yet modern European/Italian menu is both rich and fresh in flavour. I had of braised lamb and parsnip mash as a main which is what inspired me to create this recipe – braised
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Thai food is all about the balance of sweet, sour and heat with the added freshness and aromatic quality of herbs and spices. Add the richness of coconut cream into the mix and you will have the most savoured Thai dish – Thai green curry (kaeng khiao wan), which literally means sweet green curry. The
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This is a super easy and delicious recipe for a broccoli and blue cheese pie. There are few relationships as good as the one between broccoli and blue cheese (aka gorgonzola). This powerful couple of ingredients battle for supremacy of flavour, which are both so strong, that they eventually end up bowing to each other
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Miso butter sauce is a fantastically rich salty, sour, sweet and umami packed sauce that goes brilliantly with a number of dishes. The miso itself (fermented soy bean paste) is what lends the dish a sweet, salty, savoury flavour packed full of umami, while vinegar and sugar add the sweet and sour components of the sauce. The butter
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Eggplant (aubergine) is an absolutely brilliant ingredient to use for soaking up flavours. With its slightly meaty texture it makes it a fantastic- one of my favourite in fact – vegetarian dish. Particularly when paired with a miso butter sauce! Miso (fermented soy bean paste) lends the dish a salty, savoury flavour packed full of
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This is the recipe for a fantastically delicious, flavoursome and wholesome Vichyssoise (potato and leek soup) with all of the rich creaminess, and without the downsides of using cream (as you shall soon see). This recipe also has a few other tweaks to take it from a simple salt-of-the-earth soup to mind blowing dish. Once
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The mark of a good salad is the fact that it is considered more than a bit of roughage on the side. A few stray leaves or ancillary boiled broccoli sprigs chucked onto the plate as an afterthought certainly doesn’t warrant a recipe of its own. But a salad that can be eaten as the
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