Vegan ice cream

I've been really busy lately -- mostly with work and school, but also experimenting with a new ice cream machine. Recipes are based loosely on the recipes at A Vegan Ice Cream Paradise. Mine are strictly vegan, though.



Mango, pineapple coconut on top of a whole grain waffle with pineanapple and cantaloupe.


Orange vanilla vegan ice cream (the dreamsicle) with espresso (served as affugato).

Sweet potato, rhubarb and espresso ice cream sweetened with black strap molasses.


Pomegranate and walnut ice cream (a dessert twist on an Iranian sauce combination).

Some good old maple walnut (very Canadian, sweetened with maple syrup).


Orange, strawberry, banana with cashew butter. This one turned out more like a sherbert.

Peanut butter, mango and romano bean chili and walnut cheese over brown rice

Peanut butter, mango and romano bean chili (garlic, cumin, paprika, coconut, liquid smoke, cremini mushrooms, vidalia onion, flat leaf parsley, spinach, jalapeno pepper, evoo/flax oil, tomato paste, lime juice, vegetable stock) and walnut cheese over brown rice.

Chili and cheese is a very popular combination in the midwest where I grew up. This dish had a great mouth feel and an excellent flavour. Coconut and mango add a rich undertone to anything spicy, and the walnut cheese added just the right richesse to the dish overall.

For the walnut cheese:

1/2 cup of walnuts ground until they start to get buttery
2 tablespoons of nutritional yeast
2 tablespoons of plain soy yogurt
1 tablespoon of turmeric
Sea salt to taste

Black beans with red peppers, mushrooms and bok choy; spelt empenadas stuffed with sweet potatoes and coconut accented with chipotle and lime.

Black beans with red peppers, mushrooms and bok choy (nutritional yeast, sea salt, vegetable stock, chipotle, cumin, black pepper, lemon juice).

Spelt empenadas (spelt flour, yeast, water, sea salt, palm oil) stuffed with sweet potato and coconut mash accented with chipotle and lime juice (vegetable stock, allspice, palm oil, sea salt).

All plated on a bok choy green.