Food snaps to make you fat just by looking at them

No recipes (comment if you'd like one), but here's a taste of what can be done with some funky vegan skillz in the kitchen. You don't need those cholesterol raising animal products to have a Bacchanalian feast!











Chocolate and Coconut Cake

Moist and decadent, yet (compared to other cakes) refreshingly healthy!

















Curried pumpkin pastries

Hearty, pretty and delicious by even the most hardened omni's standards!

New fresh delicious recipes, your way cometh

Well, after a protracted hiatus (due to work and study keeping us well-in-hand), we're back!

We're sorry for the length of the radio silence; but we promise to start bringing you fresh, vegan goodies once more.

World Vegan Day is coming up on Nov 1st, so we're planning to unleash a new feast then. There'll be an entree, main AND a dessert. Voting on the ingredients will open very soon, so keep stopping by here to look out for that.

To whet your appetites, we'll be posting pictures and/or recipes of some of the tongue tingling things that have been happening in our kitchen. Here's a recipe for some banana walnut muffins I made this morning - with only five key ingredients, what could be simpler?

Big vegan love to you all!

- The Vegan Apron


Banana Walnut Muffins

Great as a breakfast, mid-morning or afternoon snack, these banana muffins are dead-set certs in the "winning friends and influencing people" recipe stakes.


Ingredients

4 mashed, large, uber-gooey ripe bananas
1 cup of bashed up california walnuts
3/4 of a cup of raw sugar (a lot of refined sugar isn't vegan)
2 tablespoons of macadamia oil/vegetable oil
2 cups of organic whole-meal self raising flour (I reckon organic flour tastes better)

**optional - this will brown them slightly**
1 level tspn of bicarb
1 tblspn of apple cider vinegar

Method

This couldn't be easier! Combine mashed bananas with oil and sugar and mix well. Add flour and walnuts and give the whole lot a good stir. If adding the optional ingredients, do so at this stage.

Dollop out into about 12 muffin cases and bake in a pre-heated oven at 190 degrees celsius for 20- 25 minutes.

Try to wait for them to cool before eating. Hot walnuts HURT. Alternately, for the kamikaze eaters among us, spread with butter and go for it.

Challenge 3: The letter 'C'

Please vote for your favourite ingredient that starts with the letter 'C'! The ingredient with the most votes will star in the weekend cookup.

Voting closes every Friday, 5pm EST.

This week's list of challenge ingredients is as follows:

* Chocolate
* Cauliflower
* Chokoes (we have an over-productive vine out the back of our house!)
* Cinnamon

In the interest of fairness, try and keep it to one vote per person. (This means - recruit listeners for us and voters for you!!) You may split your vote by giving .5 to an ingredient and the rest to another. This is great for the indecisive among you - I know I am! However, you can't split to quarters or thirds. My brain will reduce to the consistency of agave nectar.

Challenge 2 now closed: Blueberries wins!

Thanks to everyone who voted! Challenge two is now closed and blueberries were the clear winner. Apparently you guys are nuts over those little anti-oxidant rich orbs of delight.

We're going to make you a scrumptious dessert with blueberries which should go up tomorrow. Until then, you can prick your brains with some uber-facts about blueberries from World's Healthiest Foods.

"With flavors that range from mildly sweet to tart and tangy, blueberries are nutritional stars bursting with nutrition and flavor while being very low in calories..."

Challenge 2: The letter 'B'

Please vote for your favourite ingredient that starts with the letter 'B'! The ingredient with the most votes will star in the weekend cookup.

Voting closes every Friday, 5pm EST.

This week's list of challenge ingredients is as follows:

* Bananas
* Borlotti beans
* Basil
* Blueberries

In the interest of fairness, try and keep it to one vote per person. (This means - recruit listeners for us and voters for you!!)

You may split your vote by giving .5 to an ingredient and the rest to another. This is great for the indecisive among you - I know I am! However, you can't split to quarters or thirds. My brain will reduce to the consistency of agave nectar.

Challenge week 1, Episode 1: Eggplant and polenta stack with avocado mash

Recipe:

Ingredients

1 cup of polenta
1 cup of breadcrumbs
2 pinches of salt

4 tbspns of soy milk
2 tspns egg replacer (mixed w) 4 tspns water
1 tbspn of flour
Pinch of salt

1 large eggplant

1-2 large hass avocados
1 red onion, finely diced
1-2 tspns wasabi
1 tspn minced garlic
1 tspn chilli powder
salt and pepper to taste
1 handful chopped coriander
olive or vegetable oil for frying




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Winner of challenge 1!

Avocados won out in the voting for challenge 1: A. Thanks to everyone who voted!

Stay tuned for our weekend cookup creation - think avo, think eggplant - think wasabi....