Vegan grilled cheeze with kale and tomato salad

This was a relatively simple recipe. Arrowroot and a few other odds and ends make for a nice, melty cheese type of texture. It takes me back to my days as a kid. No tomato soup, though.

Vegan rum raisin bread pudding

This was a simple and straightforward bread pudding, with help milk, a little rum flavouring, arrowroot and help milk (and, of course, whole wheat bread), baked to a golden brown.

I served it with raspberry coulis one day (photo below) and then with an espresso caramel the next day. Bread pudding is great for breakfast. In general, I've been doing more and more work with hemp milk. It's a nice, thicker texture and it's not sweetened with can sugar (brown rice syrup, like my rice milk).

Vegan hot turkey sandwich with black trumpet gravy, roasted kale and sweet potato mash

Another holiday favourite, this one focused on left-overs with some greens and sweet potatoes instead of the more traditional peas and mash. Canada's thanksgiving is in early October, and I made a faux-turkey. And of course I made too much. This sandwich is a greasy spoon and kitchen staple in the midwest in late November. The black trumpets made a very savoury mushroom gravy for this dish.

Vegan corned seitan and cabbage

I've been super busy lately with a lot of stuff, including my PhD work, writing vegan propaganda, and, of course, cooking. I also have a vegan cookbook in process! So, some quick dishes.



Corned seitan and cabbage. A holiday favourite for Irish Americans, the vegan version replaces the beef with seitan instead. To get the shape, I pushed my seitan into a ramekin, simmered it, and then roasted it with fingerling potatoes, carrots and savoy cabbage

It was salty goodness!

Roasted red potato and kale salad

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Roasted red potato and kale salad (red onion, garlic, lemon juice, evoo/flax oil, sea salt, liquid smoke). Roasting greens is a great way to add to their flavour (especially kale, collards and romaine). This dish combines a lot of wonderful roast flavours (red onion and potato, especially).

Oven-baked vegan mac and cheese with roasted kale.

Oven-baked vegan mac and cheese (brown rice macaroni, turmeric, lemon juice, paprika, silken tofu, garlic, onion, habanero pepper, tahini) with roasted kale (sea salt, evoo/flax oil, liquid smoke).

Deep dish vegan pizza with whole roasted mushrooms, artichokes and spinach

Deep dish vegan pizza with whole roasted mushrooms, artichokes and spinach (sea salt, onion, garlic, evoo, Japanese tofu, turmeric, tamari, nutritional yeast).

Potato and cabbage curry with brown rice

Potato and cabbage curry (turmeric, sea salt, white onion, carrots, brown mustard seeds, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, garlic, ginger) with brown rice.

Tofu and mushroom stroganoff with red potato and kale colcannon

Tofu and mushroom stroganoff (whole wheat flour, white vinegar, lemon juice, garlic, tamari, Japanese tofu) with red potato and kale colcannon (sea salt, evoo/flax oil).

Black-fungus and bok choy in garlic sauce with brown rice

Black-fungus and bok choy stir fry (carrots, button mushrooms, ginger, garlic, sea salt, corn starch) with brown rice.

Vegan chili and cheese fries

Vegan chili (tomatoes, lentils, peas, carrots, celery, onion, garlic, coriander, cumin, and cheese (nutritional yeast) fries. Chili and cheese (usually nacho cheese) fries were very popular in Chicago when I was growing up. This is a vegan recreation of the dish.

Vegan chickpea and greens burger on a whole wheat kaiser with chickpeas, and kale

Vegan chickpea and greens burger (chick peas, whole wheat flour, corn meal, onion, garlic, savory, thyme, spinach, sea salt, liquid smoke) on a whole wheat kaiser (whole wheat flour, sea salt, yeast) with chickpeas and wilted kale (sea salt, lemon juice, garlic).