Favourite classics remade with love and all-plant ingredients
Reviews of popular and possibly unknown vegan or vegetarian recipes found online and within cookbooks offline. I state ‘unknown’ as some recipes may be over 100 years old! I will cook or bake a specific recipe and write a helpful review for readers. I will provide a link, either an online one or the details of the hardcopy book, so that the reader can consult the original recipe for their own pleasure. Recipes using meat and animal products will be modified so that the finished dish is vegan friendly.
Winter Warming Dr Greger Vegan Curried Cauliflower Soup My Dr Greger Vegan Curried Cauliflower Soup post is a recipe review from the brilliant ‘How Not To Die Cookbook’ (2017) by Michael Greger, MD. My daughter gifted my copy of Dr Greger’s cookbook for Christmas 2019 and it has been well used! I find it amazing […]
Vegan Gluten Free GF Chocolate Celebration Cake Gluten Free GF Chocolate Celebration Cake is a review of Gregg Wallace and Chris Bavin’s recipe ‘Gluten Free Chocolate Sponge Cake’ (p198) from the book Family Feasts on a Budget (2017). Gregg and Chris present the BBC Television show Eat Well For Less. I’ve named this cake a […]
Easy Vegan Macaroni Cheese is a recipe I have recently discovered in The China Study Cookbook by LeAnne Campbell, PhD (2018). I have prepared this recipe a few times now as it is just so tasty. Its now an absolute family favourite. The original name for the recipe is Macaroni Squash. The ingredients you will […]
WW2 Vegan Christmas Pudding Recipe Review My WW2 Vegan Christmas Pudding Recipe Review revives an old recipe from the 1940s that provided many people with a delicious Christmas pudding during the Second World War. The Christmas Pudding recipe is included within British celebrity chef Marguerite Paton’s (1915-2015) book Nostalgic Food and Facts From 1940-1954 (2002 […]
Vegan Chocolate Cake Review! This vegan chocolate cake review features the best vegan chocolate cake recipe I have ever baked. It’s just seriously moist, soft, fluffy and chocolatey. I give it a huge 10 out of 10 for being so easy to bake, for its amazing taste and for the cakes adaptability. This recipe is […]
Rose Elliot’s eggless cake recipe is from one of my well-used, cake-mix splattered cookbooks. I absolutely love old recipe books. Searching charity shops for really old cook books is one of my favourite pastimes. I live in a rural village with only 2 charity shops. Scouring on Amazon and E-bay for second hand copies of […]