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Friday, March 1, 2019

Wang Wang Dumpling

October 19, 2014

We spent Lord's Day afternoon at Coburg's Post Office Hotel at a tummy rumbles blogged close it yonks agone too it was just what nosotros wanted.

Wang Wang Dumpling is large too reasonably spacious, amongst the easy-to-wipe-down surfaces too hand-written specials of a identify unit of measurement restaurant. I noticed that they were running a steady takeaway merchandise upward past times the counter.

The card is a huge plastic binder amongst veg dishes scattered throughout - it's a flake of run to constitute what the options are too prioritise, but there's enough to guide from.

The staff started us off amongst about unloose hot tea, too nosotros ordered additional large botttles of falsely-fruity iced tea ($3.50 each) every bit nosotros mixed upward dipping bowls of soy sauce, vinegar too chilli oil.

The jump onion pancake ($4.50) was a crispy-golden monument to deep-frying amongst entirely the smallest flecks of green.

Fried tofu amongst tabular array salt too pepper ($14) is novel to the menu. While the batter too garnishing chilli-capsicum die are great, this batch was woefully underseasoned; nosotros found ourselves dredging the strange slice through our chilli-soy bowls.

The fried vegetable dumplings ($10.00) were to a greater extent than satisfying. Biting 1 inward half, I could discern finely minced mushroom too light-green vegetables inside.

We weren't inward the mood for noodles, but patently Wang Wang brand their own. One of the hand-written signs promised deep-fried icecream, too, but proficient feel too a tum amount of fried dough won out over my screaming nostalgia. I'd similar to supply to endeavour to a greater extent than too luckily we're entirely a #19 tram ride away. With reserved but friendly service too a quick turnaround on orders, this is a overnice venue for comforting too unfussy meals.

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Wang Wang has also received positive write-ups on Consider the Sauce too The Quince Poacher.

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Wang Wang Dumpling
3/51 Waterfield St, Coburg
9354 0294
menu: drinks, entrees, dumpling & soup, chicken & duck, claypot, beef & pork, more beef & pork, seafood, vegetable & omelette

Accessibility: There was 1 footstep upward on entry too reasonably spacious tables inside. We ordered at our tabular array too paid at a medium-high counter. We didn't view the toilets too suspect they mightiness live located exterior of the restaurant.

Springtime Salad Alongside Ricotta & Hazelnuts

October 21, 2014

Broad beans come upwardly together with larn chop-chop inward spring, together with nosotros were lucky to live on delivered a newspaper purse of pods inward our vege box, along alongside simply about splendid asparagus. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 'broadbeans' tag is tucked into my recipe bookmarks for simply such a moment; this flavour I pulled out a salad recipe that Anna posted on beans & barley 5 years ago.

I made a duad of kid changes, swapping the rocket for vege box lettuce together with serving the ricotta inward large dollops rather than tossing it through the salad. It's rare that I purpose dearest at all, but I loved the agency it combined alongside apple tree cider vinegar inward the dressing (and I'm certain it'd live on fine to purpose maple syrup or like instead).

With a vibrant light-green foundation of lettuce, wide beans together with asparagus, richer poly peptide inward the ricotta together with hazelnuts, together with a lively sweetness inward that honey-vinegar dressing nosotros establish that this had everything nosotros needed for a low-cal dinner.

Springtime salad alongside ricotta & hazelnuts
(slightly adapted from a recipe on beans & barley)

handful of hazelnuts
450g unpodded wide beans
1 bunch asparagus
ii tablespoons apple tree cider vinegar
1 1/2 tablespoons dearest
ii handfuls light-green leaves, rinsed
100g fresh ricotta
tabular array salt together with pepper, to taste

Gently toast the hazelnuts inward a dry out frypan, therefore laid upwardly them aside.

Fill a large pot alongside H2O together with pick out it to the boil. Extract the wide beans from their pods together with discard the pods. Chop the asparagus into 3-5cm lengths. When the H2O is boiling, add together inward the wide beans together with blanch them for no to a greater extent than than ii minutes. Scoop out the wide beans together with add together the asparagus to the water, blanching them for 1-2 minutes earlier scooping them out.

Heat the apple tree cider vinegar inward a pocket-size saucepan. Stir inward the dearest until it's dissolved. Add tabular array salt together with pepper to taste.

Hopefully past times straight off the hazelnuts are cool plenty to handle. Rub off their brownish skins together with roughly chop the nuts.

When the wide beans are cool plenty to handle, purpose your fingernails or a pocket-size knife to take the skins from the beans.

Arrange the light-green leaves inward a bowl or on a platter. Arrange the wide beans together with asparagus on top, therefore point over teaspoonfuls of the ricotta together with scatter over the hazelnuts. Pour the dressing over the pinnacle together with serve.

Broccoli Soup Amongst Tahini, Lemon & Pino Nut Dukkah

November 1, 2014

Our veggie box included a pair of heads of broccoli as well as to a greater extent than or less silverbeet, thence Cindy's recipe radar went off when she came across this soup on My Darling Lemon Thyme. It was perfectly designed to fill upwards our post-Halloween lazy hateful solar daytime - a elementary soup, slowly to whip upwards as well as salubrious to aid our recovery from all the cocktails as well as over-eating at Smith & Daughters.

Ah, if only. This was basically a disaster - our stick blender blew its motor inward the middle of the process, our tahini sauce sank similar a rock rather than swirling neatly on pinnacle of the soup as well as I managed to splash the half-blended soup all downwards my front. Good times. Luckily, at that spot was plenty leftover for us to re-blend the soup on Mon amongst a novel stick blender as well as for me to consume it amongst less of a grump on as well as truly relish it. The tahini sauce inward detail is fantabulous - tangy as well as salty as well as providing to a greater extent than or less depth to the flavour of the soup. I mean value I've been scarred plenty past times this soup non to set it into high rotation, but it's non truly fair to blame the recipe for our appliance breakdowns as well as my clumsiness - instruct as well as hold off at the great photos on My Darling Lemon Thyme to instruct inspired.

Broccoli soup amongst tahini, lemon & pino nut dukkah

(slightly adapted from a recipe on My Darling Lemon Thyme)

tahini & lemon sauce

1 clove garlic
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon set down allspice
1 tablespoon pino nuts
iv tablespoons tahini
1/4 loving cup lemon juice
2 tablespoons olive oil
tabular array salt as well as pepper
H2O to sparse things out if necessary (the recipe recommends 2 tablespoons, but our mix seemed plenty runny without it).

soup
1 leek (the white parts), roughly chopped
2 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cumin
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 heads broccoli (stems as well as florets), roughly chopped
1 litre veggie stock
1 x 400ml tin kokosnoot cream
a modest bunch of silverbeet leaves, stemmed as well as roughly chopped

1/4 loving cup pino nuts, lightly toasted
2 tablespoons dukkah (the master copy recipe wanted za'atar)

Start amongst the tahini sauce. Smash upwards the garlic, salt, allspice as well as pino nuts inward a mortar as well as pestle until it's a thick paste. Stir it together amongst the tahini as well as the olive crude as well as flavour as well as thence laid it aside.

Heat the olive crude inward a large saucepan as well as gently tyke the leek as well as garlic amongst the tabular array salt as well as cumin until it all softens nicely.

Stir inward the broccoli for a infinitesimal or 2 as well as thence pour inward the stock as well as simmer everything for xv minutes or so. Throw inward the silverbeet leaves as well as laid for to a greater extent than or less other few minutes earlier adding inward the kokosnoot cream.

Let the mixture cool a chip as well as thence stick-blend until the soup is polish (or your blender explodes). Serve amongst a dollop of the lemon-tahini sauce on pinnacle as well as a sprinkling of the pino nuts as well as the dukkah.

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Grillin' Cheese Sauce

November 2, 2014

Last weekend nosotros had some friends over for a vegan pizza party. I made a quadruple batch of my favourite pizza dough, nosotros grabbed a few fresh veges too cured olives from the market, too nosotros invited our friends to choose their favourite pizza toppings too. Michael collated a arrive at of grated too gratable vegan cheeses too I had a larn at making my own.

This pizza cheese recipe from Live Blissful resembles whatsoever reveal of cheesy vegan sauce recipes out there, based on mock-milk too solid soil cashews amongst nooch, lemon juice too garlic for flavour. But the agency it bubbled too coloured too crusted inwards the oven took me past times surprise - it definitely brings the golden-gooey await to an otherwise cheeseless pizza.

Tastewise, it was pretty mild. I used a lilliputian onion pulverisation instead of garlic due to our guests' dietary requirements too volition revert to a generous milk shiver of garlic pulverisation inwards other circumstances. (It belike wouldn't wound to increase the nooch too lemon juice quantities either.) This formulation plant good inwards tandem amongst grated commercial vegan cheese similar Cheezly or Daiya; they've got flavor too a fleck of stretch but tin dry out into miserly strings inwards the oven too this sauce lends trunk too creaminess.

This cheese sauce nevertheless has something to offering on its own, too nosotros grilled upwardly a proficient percentage of it on apparently toast too.

Grillin' cheese sauce
(from Live Blissful)

1/4 loving cup raw cashews
1/2 loving cup almond milk
1/2 loving cup water
two tablespoons nutritional yeast flakes
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
two tablespoons arrowroot
1 teaspoon garlic or onion powder
1 tablespoon olive oil

Cover the cashews inwards H2O too soak them for at to the lowest degree an hour. Drain the cashews too blend them amongst the balance of the ingredients until the sauce is every bit smoothen every bit possible. Transfer the sauce to a saucepan too oestrus it, stirring constantly. Take it off the oestrus in 1 lawsuit it's thickened, unopen to v minutes.

Use the sauce on pizza, toast or within grilled cheese sandwiches.

Ginger Cheesecake Slice

November 1-2, 2014

This recipe has been on my dessert wish-list since I received a review re-create of Veganissimo a twelvemonth ago. The cookbook's helpful icons reminded me that it's both gluten-free together with soy-free, together with was therefore an ideal dessert for our pizza party.

I've petty to study when it comes to the making of this cheesecake - everything came together every bit instructed without whatever angst or uncertainty. The base of operations is a slightly sandy mix of flours spiked amongst soil ginger, but its principal utilisation is to back upwardly a major dose of crystallised ginger. Over the meridian goes a cashew-based cheesecake mixture, together with inwards a refreshing divergence from the now-ubiquitous raw cakes this 1 gets baked.

The final result is theatre together with dense rather than fluffy, creamy amongst a sugariness heat. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 minor while brings large satisfaction (...particularly when one's belly is already total of pizza).

Ginger cheesecake slice
(from Leigh Drew's Veganissimo!)

base
3/4 loving cup buckwheat flour
1/3 loving cup kokosnoot flour
1/3 loving cup almond meal
1/4 loving cup kokosnoot sugar
1 tablespoon soil ginger
1/2-1/3 loving cup olive oil

200g crystallised ginger, roughly chopped

cashew cheesecake
two cups raw cashews
1 loving cup almond milk
2.5cm while fresh ginger, peeled together with coarsely sliced
1/4 loving cup agave nectar
1/4 loving cup maple syrup
two tablespoons lemon juice
two tablespoons cornflour
1 teaspoon vanilla

Cover the cashews for the cheesecake inwards H2O together with soak them overnight.

Preaheat an oven to 160°C. Line a 20cm foursquare cake tin strength out amongst baking paper.

In a large bowl, stir together all the dry out ingredients (buckwheat flour through to soil ginger). Pour over 1/2 loving cup of the stone oil together with mix it through amongst a spoon or build clean hands. If needed, add together to a greater extent than stone oil a tablespoon at a fourth dimension until the mixture resembles moisture sand. When the texture is right, pour the base of operations mixture into the baking tray together with spread it out evenly, smoothing it downwards amongst the dorsum of a spoon. Bake the base of operations until it is golden at the edges together with get-go to dry out out, 10-15 minutes.

While the base of operations is baking, house the almond milk inwards a minor saucepan amongst the fresh ginger pieces. Simmer the milk over depression estrus for 10 minutes, together with then plough off the estrus together with allow the ginger to infuse into the milk every bit it cools for a farther 10 minutes.

When the milk is cool enough, take away the ginger pieces together with pour it into a nutrient processor or blender. Drain the cashews together with add together them too. Add the remaining cheesecake ingredients together with blend them thoroughly until every bit smoothen every bit possible.

Sprinkle the crystallised ginger pieces over the base. Pour over the cheesecake mixture together with smoothen over the top. Bake the cheesecake until it is golden on meridian together with theatre but about the edges, 40-50 minutes. Allow the while to cool completely earlier slicing together with serving.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Thai On Street

October 16, 2011

Bangkok Rain's high standards - but even then a skillful local option.

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There are solely a dyad of weblog reviews out at that topographic point close Thai on Street, both pretty positive, from Miss Adriennely as well as EatDrinkPlayShopMelbourne.

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Thai on Street
56 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
9388 2314
veg entrees $6.90, mains $12.90

Accessibility: Thai on Street has a step-free entry agency but is pretty jam-packed inside. There's non much room to deed at all. Ordering as well as payment happens at the table.

Friday, July 1, 2011

The Annual Lab Culinary Competition

October 17, 2011

The annual culinary contest is however my workplace's social highlight. That it occurred a calendar week or 2 after than green this twelvemonth solely served to enhance the anticipation. Our hyper-competitive lab leader was sadly absent but the lineament didn't diminish for lack of his trash verbalise or formidable skill. This twelvemonth tended towards fewer entrants, though many of them made multiple submissions - for certain no-one went hungry.

This is the 1 post service each twelvemonth where you'll run into non-vegetarian foods on this blog. Everyone puts inwards a lot of effort, a arrive at of dietary requirements are catered to, as well as I intend every dish deserves a mention.

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