Recipe Round-Up: 350 Best Vegan Recipes

Why not do a second post this week about this book, 350 Best Vegan Recipes, to share the rest of the recipes I have currently made with you. As I mentioned, this book is kind of meh. But I made some stuff! See other stuff I have made from this book here.

Pantry Muesli: This is a nice, simple muesli that you can use in a number of ways and could really customise anyway you want. It has oats, oat bran, rye flakes, nuts, dried fruit (apples, apricots, cranberries), coconut (I used dessicated rather than shredded) and pepitas. I ate this three ways - like cereal, as overnight oats, and as oatmeal. And it was good each way.
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Korean BBQ: Thsi recipe is for seitan, but I had some vegan duck (from the fridge section of the supermarket, I will share more about that in an upcoming midweek munchies post) so I used that. As the duck had quite a bit of flavour already, I diluted out the soy sauce and oil with some water in the marinade so it wouldn't be too much. I leftout the hot sauce. This was very nice, though also helped by the fact that the duck had good flavour on its own, but the leftover marinade used as a sauce was tasty. Served with some Korean recipes from another book.
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Rice Noodle Bowl with Lime-Spinach Pesto: This was meant to be made with rocket, but I used baby spinach instead. As you can see, it is beautifully green. I added some tofu and peas as well, and got three serves out of this over some more baby spinach. I left out the zest in the pesto, and just used lime juice, as I often find zest a bit over powering, and I also used a mix of water and oil as the liquid in the pesto rather than all oil, as I often find oily pestos make me feel a bit icky.
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Daikon Dipping Sauce: I ahd some daikon to use up, so thought I'd try this. The recipe says to allow at least two hours for the flavours to meld, and you definitely cannot miss this step. I tried a bit right after making and it was not good. But after sitting for some time (the next day is even better), the flavours meld really nicely. It's a refreshing mix of grated daikon, soy sauce, citrus, and vinegar. I used it here as a dipping sauce for some gyoza and broccoli, and then used the rest (it made quite a bit, closer to two cups rather than the recipes suggested 1 1/2 cups) the next day over some stir-fried greens.
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George of the Jungle: This is meant to be an alcoholic drink, but I don't drink. I enjoy converting things to tasty mocktails when I can though. The alcohol in this is rum, it also has coconut milk (which I can use a little bit in cooking, but don't want to drink). Instead I used oat milk and added some coconut and rum extracts. The fruit is pineapple, mango, and banana. It calls for crushed ice as well, but I left that out and used frozen fruit instead. It was like a thick, icy, tropical slushy.
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Sweet Tart Smoothie: Frozen cherries and bananas, with the tartness coming from lime juice. This also calls for quite a bit of vanilla soy yoghurt, though I used a natural one, and I cut down on the agave as well. It was very thick, so I did add a smidge of oat milk to really get it blended and drinkable, otherwise I'd suggest this as a smoothie bowl.
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Vermont Maple Morning Smoothie: This is a really yummy smoothie. It uses yoghurt, milk, apple, maple syrup and granola. It calls for a maple almond granola, and there isn't actually a recipe for this in the book. But I had just happened to make a maple almond granola from another book that week, so I used some of that. The yoghurt and milk were meant to be vanilla, but I didn't have that and just added a smidge more vanilla extract.
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Cute Kitty Photo of the Post



The final chapter of our visitor story. Dim Sim saw them off, out of the pool area. Can you see where they settled just outside the pool fence? Lots of greenery between them! But Dim Sim was still on alert, behold her puffy tail.