28.4.07 Baking

This is chocolate-truffel cake with "Wolf`s paw print"-design, which I was made today. The cake was wery tastefull and it is now whole eaten...

And the second cake which I was made yesterday evening: Tofu-strawberry cake with fresh strawberries and peaches. I like this cake wery mutch,taste was wery fruity and fresh!

26.4.07 Some indian cookings, again!

OK, I like indian food and I like to made it sometimes together with my friend or family and have a "Indian dinner" or "Indian cooking night".. Then we used to made lots of differend kinds of vegan-Indian cookings and have a "long dinner" with nice looking servings and cosy atmosphere. I like that kinds of happenings, I hope we got that soon again!

This (above) was so good tasting(little lots of chili I think..) lentil curry.

..And yummy hummus with fresh herbs! (and you can also see that terrible, red, glittering rose candle which is not mine... My brother wanted it into table, I dont like those glittering, pink things so much, eh..)

And last, homemade Naan-bread with mango chutney and green sallad(and in that green cup there is my soy-youghurt Raita sauce). That Naan was good tasting and the crust of bread was crispy and little "hard" because I take them out from owen coupple of minutes too late.. But they were still tasting good.

In the end of that post I want to say sorry to all, because of my poor skills with writing english.. But I`m studying hard...

24.4.07 Having fun with pancace`s...

Hahaa! The first vegan pancace which I have ever made! Okay, its not "buffed-upp" so good (little flatt I mean... I think pancaces are wery "fluffy" or something..) but its tastes wery good because I add some blueberry soup in dough and made it for using whole-wheat flours.

Served with smashed, fresh berries.

22.4.07 Grill stuff!

Yeah, it was in last weekend if I remember right when I made first grill foods in this year..

Starters: Vegan sushirolls and soysauce + extra "hot" wasabi paste, green sallad...

Grilled onions,garlics and eggplants,tomatoes, seitan/mushroom/pepper grill sticks and green sallad with soy youghurt sauce with herb seasoning..And BBQ-seitan ribs..

BBQ-marinaded seitan "ribs".. Helli`s good... Praise seitan again!

...And better picture of my mushroomish seitan grillsticks!

I`m just waiting for summer comes...

5.4.07 Indian cooking

Usually if someone ask me which food I like most, I answer "somekind of Indian food". I Like Indian spices(lots of chili,curry,coriander,ginger,different peppers and herbs which they use during the cooking) and many indian- style vegan foods are wery tasty and HOT!

In the picture you can see my "indian-style dinner": lentil-tomato curry,cauliflower-mixed vegetables and peas-curry and tasty cucumber-mint-raita sauce(I use plain soy-youghurt and in this time also some "ready to use"-indian raita spice mixing)+ brown curcuma spiced rice and vegan "ready to eat"-Naanbread(I just heat it in the owen). And, ofcourse some green sallad.

At last time when I was making Indian food I was made Naanbread itself and it were lots of more tastefull than those "co-prepared" market bread.

30.3.2007 Mushrooms..

One day for the some of last weeks I was made some really good "stuffed things!"

There were some mushrooms,peppers and tomato stuffed for delicious spinach,kidneybean,onion filling. They were guite "spicy"(someone maybe think they were "over" spicy, but I like spices, exspecially when food is "extra hot"...), but they tastes really yummy. Att next time I maybe made some stuffed kalerolls or aubergine...

27.3 Seitan is GO(o)D!

Yeas, I have been vegetarian some about 4 and half years, and last 2 and half years I have been vegan. One of my favourite foods is SEITAN(if you don`t know what is it go check this link http://www.wikiveg.org/Seitan). Seitan is wery easy to made with pure gluten flours, but I first time made my own seitan "steaks" on last week(when I have a holiday and littlebit extra time to use..). Seitan is made by removing the starch and bran from flour, leaving only the gluten, and adding seasonings. So, because I like wery spicy food I made wery spicy seitan slices and put them in somekind of BBQ marinade.. They tastes wery good! I`l be back and adding the recipe of my seitan and something what I try to remember recipe of my BBQ marinade.

Recipe what I using to made my

seitan steaks

You need:

1 1/2 cups vital wheat gluten flour

1/4 cup nutritional yeast flakes

1 cup very cold water

2 cup soy sauce

1 tablespoon tomato paste(I using chili ketchup, it adds good, spicy and little sweet flavour)

2 cloves garlic, pressed

teaspoon finely grated lemon zest

Simmering Broth

10 cups water

2 cup soy sauce

some herbs like oregano,basil,thyme...

some other spices( I think I was using some chili and black pepper?)

In a large bowl, mix together Vital Wheat Gluten Flour and nutritional yeast flakes.

In a seperate bowl, mix together reamining ingredients: water, soy sauce, tomato paste, garlic and lemon zest.

Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and combine with a firm dough, knead dough for about 3 minutes until a spongy, elastic dough is formed.

Let dough rest for a couple of minutes and prepare your broth, don't start boiling brought yet. Now roll your dough into a log shape about 8 inches long and cut into 3 equal sized pieces.

Place the pieces in the broth.

Cover the pot and bring to a boil.

When the water has come to a boil set the heat to low and gently simmer for an hour, turning the peices every now and again.

Let pieces cool in the broth because seitan is best if it cools completely.

Now you can made some steaks, or smaller lices/pieces and put them in to some marinade if you like...

BBQ-marinade for seitan

1 cup water

1/2 cup soy sauce

3 tablespoons tomato paste or (chili)ketchup

2 tablespoons sweet chilisauce

2 teaspoons black pepper

1 teaspoon ginger

salt

some herbs if you like

Mix all ingredients in some bowl, taste and if it`s tastes good put seitan steaks in marinade, leave them marinade over night in cool place.