Olive Lentil Burgers

What You Will Need
{2 tsps} olive oil
{1 small} white onion, diced
{8 oz} cremini mushrooms, thinly sliced
{3 cloves} garlic, minced
Fresh black pepper
{1/2 tsp} dried thyme
{1/4 tsp} dried tarragon
{1/4 tsp} smoked paprika
{1/2 cup} pitted kalamata olives (plus a handful more for chopping)
{1.5 cups} cooked green lentils, rinsed and drained (not red, they're too mushy)
{2 cups} breadcrumbs (shop-bought)
{3 tbsp} soy sauce
{1 tbsp} nutritional yeast (optional)
{2 tsps} freshly squeezed lemon juice

Cooking spray

How You Do It
>Preheat oven to 180C.
> In a preheated pan, saute the onion for about 3 minutes with a pinch of salt.
> Add mushrooms, garlic, thyme, tarragon, paprika, and black pepper: 7-10 minutes.
> Pour mushroom mixture into a blender with the olives and process. Add all other ingredients EXCEPT THE BREADCRUMBS
> Pulse until fairly smooth. Transfer into a mixing bowl and stir in the breadcrumbs, adjusting flavour if necessary. Chop up the handful of extra olives and add them to the mixture.
> Shape the mixture into little burger patties, and place on a tray lined with baking paper. Spray with cooking oil.
> First side: bake for 15 minutes, then flip. Second side: repeat. Should be nicely browned.

With homemade walnut pesto!

Pudding! Chocolate orange biccies.

Tempeh bean, lemon and garlic broth.

A veritable feast!

And look! My dill is growing.

LOVE



Chocolate Cookies With A Heart Of Jam

"Magnificent" "Yummy" "Better than shop-bought cookies"

All praise for these choc-o-jammie cookies. Please, please, hold the applause. You're making me blush.

Y,know The Stuff That Goes In
{60g} plain flour
{2.5 tbsp} cocoa powder, fairtrade
{1/4 tsp} sea salt
{1/4 tsp} bicarbonate of soda
{2.5 tbsp} organic sunflower oil
{2.5 tbsp} unsweetened soy milk
{1 tsp} vanilla extract
{75g} granulated brown sugar
{3-4 tsp} jam (I love Bonne Maman's raspberry)

Yields about six cookies

Like...How You Do It
 > Preheat your oven to 180C; line a baking tray with baking paper (I used foil because it's all we had in the cupboard...improvisation is cool).
> Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, salt, and bicarbonate of soda.
> Add wet ingredients (except the jam), and the sugar. Incorporate well.
> Dampen your hands and smush one tablespoon of mixture into a cookie shape. Keep going until all the mixture is used up.

> Bake for 5 minutes. Take out of oven and press a heart shape into the centre with your thumb. Put a wee bit of jam into the indentation. Bake for a further 6-8 minutes. Remove from oven and let sit for 2 minutes. Then, transfer to a cooling rack.

Garlic Bread

What You Need
{1} part-baked baguette, sliced
{1/2 cup} vegan butter
{2 large cloves} garlic, minced
{1 heaping tbsp} freshly chopped parsley

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200C.
2. In a bowl, mix together the butter, garlic and parsley until well combined.
3. Slice the baguette and spoon the butter mix into the cracks.
4. Bake for about 10 minutes, or until crisp and golden.

Banana Shake

What You Will Need:

{1-2} fresh bananas, sliced

{1 mug} soya milk (or any other dairy-free milk)

{1 tsp} peanut butter

Method:

Throw all the ingredients into a blender. Whizz it up until smooth. Pour, and enjoy.

Lentil Minniballs and Spaghetti

Adapted from: Post Punk Kitchen

 

What You Will Need:

Cheesie Tomato Sauce

{1 tsp} olive oil

{1/4 cup} finely chopped onion

{2 small cloves} garlic, minced

Fresh black pepper

{1/2 tsp} dried oregano

{1/4 tsp} dried basil

{1/2 tsp} sea salt

{1 and 1/2 tbsp} packed brown sugar

{1 tin} chopped tomatoes

{1 cup} passata

{1/4 - 1/8 cup} cashews, soaked for a few hours

{1 and 1/2 tbsp} nutritional yeast flakes

Minniballs

{1 clove} garlic

{1/2} small onion, shredded (try not to cry too much)

{3/4 cup} cooked green lentils (or brown)

{1 and 1/2 tbsp} nutritional yeast flakes

{2 tbsp} plain flour

{2 tbsp} soy sauce

{1 tbsp} tomato paste

{1/2 tsp} olive oil

{1 tbsp} water

{1/2 cup} store-bought breadcrumbs (store-bought is very important - normal breadcrumbs won't work)

Seasoning of choice

{1 serving} pasta of choice

Method:

1. SAUCE: in a sauceypan, sautée onions with a pinch of salt until translucent - about 3-5 minutes. Add garlic - 1 minute. Mix in black pepper, oregano, salt, basil, and brown sugar - 2 minutes. Pour in the tomato sauces, cashews, and nutritional yeast. Cover. Simmer for 20 minutes. In a blender, process until smooth. Set aside.
2. MINNI BALLS Mash together the garlic and shredded onion. Then, beat in the cooked lentils, nutritional yeast, flour, soy sauce, tomato paste, olive oil, seasoning and water. Blend until smooth.
3. Combine with breadcrumbs and mix with your hands for 2 minutes. Preheat oven to 160C. Mould the minni balls as seen below and heat up a skillet with a little oil spray. Pan fry minniballs for no more than 5 minutes.
4. Bake miniballs in oven for 18-20 minutes, tossing them in the baking tray every now and then to ensure an even oven cook.
5. Cook pasta per packet instructions and drain. Heat through the SAUCE set aside from earlier.Throw everything together and toss, making sure you don't break the minniballs.



Pecan Nut Butter

Blenders were harmed in the making of this nut butter.

What You Need:

{1 and 1/2 cups} pecan nuts, toasted

{1 tbsp} coconut oil, melted

{1/4 tsp} sea salt

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 150C. Toast pecan nuts for approximately 10 minutes. Make sure your nuts don't burn. (Immaturity is a virtue).
1. In a blender, blend up the pecans with the sea salt for about 5 minutes, stopping to give it a stir now and then. When I did this, the blender started smoking and broke. Fortunately, there was a back-up. Another one bites the dust.
2. Melt the coconut oil. Add to blender and blend until smooth.

Blueberry Pancakes

Every good day begins with pancakes.

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The blueberries bled through the pancakes. Purpilicious (and burpilicious).

So much so, it looked rather murderous.

Yummy yummy in my tummy.

Recipe from Vegan With A Vengeance

Sauce: a mixture of apple sauce, maple syrup and peanut butter.