Sunday 24 January 2010

Vegan breakfast and/or brunch for a lazy weekend

When I was younger, I didn't care too much about having 'the most important meal of the day'. When you have to get up at 6 am to make it for your train that will bring you to uni, you really don't bother with preparing an elaborated morning meal ;) Things have changed with time, now if I don't get breakfast, I am literally starving at work before 10.. The most common morning choice is porridge, made with soy milk, some fresh fruit, sunflower seeds, flax seeds or some nuts, whatever I have at hand. Tastes great and keeps me full for a long time ;) This weekend however, I decided to try something more special. Yesterday I baked these fantastic banana-walnut muffins from 1000 Vegan Recipes by Robin Robertson. 


What can I say, they were amazing! To quote my husband 'the best muffins I'd ever had';) I froze half of them, so that we can have a delicious breakfast next weekend.

After the sweet treat on Saturday, on Sunday I have decided to got for a vegan version of the classic English breakfast. I didn’t use any specific recipe, except for the Savoury Scrambled Tofu  taken from Refresh by Ruth Tal. The rest was inspired by The Complete Book of Vegan Cooking breakfast recipes. I baked some vegan sausages in the oven, together with a few tomatoes, cut in half and seasoned with salt, pepper and dried basil and a few mushrooms. When the sausages and the vegetables where almost done, I added a few bread slices. I also heated up some beans seasoned with salt, pepper and a bit of chili. 
 
 

Thursday 21 January 2010

Wild rice and tofu salad

It seems that my blog has recently fallen into the winter sleep.. Well, hopefully things will change once the spring comes ;)

In the last couple of months I have bought numerous vegan cooking books, which are just so full of ideas you don't really know where to start.. I will try and post some photos of the food I make from the recipes. They are definitely worth trying, even if you're not vegan, but just looking for some delicious and healthy change from your regular diet. For example esterday I made an extremely simple wild rice and tofu salad from The complete book of vegan cooking:


It was fantastic! Great taste, plus light and filling at the same time.