Vegan-Vegan friendly MNetters- the new thread-sign in here!

[anyabanya]

Hi Vegan and vegan-friendly MNetters!

Just wanted to know if anyone was out there and wanted to form a support thread- to talk about food/ veganism, 'stuff' in general.

I am late 30s, have been an on and off vegan for about 6 years, and after a hiatus of about 9 months or so am back 'on'. I adore cooking with a passion, and love reading food blogs and vegan food blogs.

I would very much like to exchange thoughts/tips/frustrations with anyone else out there!

I find the soya milk from the fridge section goes into hot drinks fine, but the long life stuff is very hit and miss. Apparently it doesn't make a difference if it curdles, but I'm not drinking it. The fridge stuff normally lasts a couple of weeks before curdling in hot drinks.

I always drink it i have also made it!! and have noticed if you look at the packs that some have much more actual soya in it; the ones with over 7% in them taste and behave much better than the cheaper ones.

Also the organic or non gm alpro makes are better. i find that it only curdles if you put it into boiling or very hot drinks. let the drink cool down a bit first.

I haven't had it curdle it in tea in years and i always use the long life ones - either alpro or sains own make.

coffee can be a bit hit and miss especially if v hot. it's usually better if you put the milk in first and then the coffee (this is assuming cafetiere or filter stylee, i hate instant so that might not work)

englishgirl the ones from Vegan cupcakes take over the world book are wonderful and v reliable. i make them lots. They actually make the large American sized cupcakes (e.g buy muffin cases not fairy cake size). Here is the basic vegan cupcake recipe

Thanks i will try the basic cupcakes, i have american style stuff so i hope it will work. all the ones i've made in the past are tasty but just flat and well sticky on the top. Yummy but it doesn't look as good as i want.
As for Soya milk i haven't had it go funny in years, i would always heat it for coffee or put it in first before the water. If all else fails try a different soya milk! or rice or oat or well there are tons of good "milks" out there.

Is anyone going to be having vegan pancakes tomorrow? I might have a stab at some Vegan Crepes Suzette !

Apparently this is a vegan crepes recipe from the 'Veganomicon'
www.livestrong.com/recipes/vegan-crepes/

OOOh thanks for reminding me brillopads i always make gluten and egg free pancakes with rice flour and soya milk that 's it and a bit of olive oil.

Mmm, had awesome pancakes, and made so much batter we had it last night too, AND there's some for tonight too!

DH has also bought a waffle maker, so got those to come one day soon.

Well, I tried to make pancakes/ crepes, but the frying pan just wasn't up to it! (We hardly ever use frying pan to cook anything, and I think putting it in the dishwasher hasn't helped the non-stick coating). So pan is in the bin & crepe batter & orange/brandy suzette bit are still in the fridge! I went to Asda to get a new frying pan on Wed but the shelves were pretty much bare! Crappy £2 one, or expensive £20 one doh!

In the meantime I made Lemon-corn waffles with blueberry sauce from "Vegan with A Vengeance" today, nom!
rice-dream-girl.livejournal.com/96646.html

Dear brillo did you use my recipe? 'cos it didn't work for me either( tasted nice though) .I forgot that i had put an egg in it last year and my pan is good though not cast iron admittedly.

ppeat- nah I tried the one I posted off the livestrong site, although I used rice flour in place of the chickpea flour so perhaps that's another reason they went wrong... still not got a replacement frying pan!

Great thread! We're not vegan but all the various family food issues generally add up to a vegan meal most nights of the week. Much easier than cooking two, three or four meals!

PenguinArmy - quick filling vegan snacks I give my 2yo:
Dried apricots
Cashews
Chickpeas (open a can, drain and rinse, pop in a snackbox - not terribly exciting but both my 2 love this)
Banana
Avocado
Flapjacks

I make vegan gingerbread ;I melt molasses and maple syrup with almond oil or rice bran oil and ground ginger and cinammon (off the heat) add kamut and rice flour then baking powder beat well...

....cont. put in a shallow tin and bake in med. oven without fan approx half an hour, cool in tin for 20 mins then on rack. ( BTW I don't use measurements!) The good thing about this recipe is it doesn't crumble due to the syrups.

wendy great idea re chick peas as snacks. my 2yo loves any kind of beans and i'm sure would love them as a snack

Anyone going to the Brighton VegFest? We are planning on being there. brighton.vegfest.co.uk/

GeorgeEliot - I've just noticed Tetley tea bags for soya milk in my local health food shop, and longlife soya milk for coffee. Someone told me to heat the soya milk first before adding it to anything. I haven't tried it though.

PenguinArmy I give the kids a pot of nut butter and a pot of fruit spread and let them loose with breadsticks and crackers. If I am feeling like a very nice mummy I do avocado with cocoa and agave for a chocolate dip.

www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/mar/12/mocha-fig-muffins-recipe-lepard?INTCMP=SRCH

trying these tonight.
Couldn't see Corn Oil in the shop so just used vegetable & olive. Also wasn't sure re 1tsp of coffee so I put in 1tsp of ground coffee-ie. the stuff you make coffee with, not the drink...

It was a while ago now, but we resorted to using our wok to make our pancakes. They were delicious.

DH had made the batter as a surprise when I got in a from a horrible day at work

also any other vegans struggle with urges to eat big macs and egg sandwiches when pregnant

NoHun we went to vegfest - it was great :) Totally od'd on chocolate samples and gae myself a killer headache but other then that we enjoyed it! Did you go?

I wish I'd seen this thread before and remembered it was pancake day - doh!

PenguinArmy I wanted burgers and bacon when I was pregnant too! It was soo hard to resist. I did eat cheese a couple of times and non-vegan cakes but I stayed strictly Vegearian. Not sure how I managed that as I have O willpower at the best of times!

everyone else getting riled by the french vegan couple story.

Sorry penguin what story? (we have a 2nd home in fr. You cannot believe how they look if you're a veg let alone a vegan!!!!)

And I don't eat white bread, also i hardly drink wine (only a little red occ.!) so you can imagine what the fr. say! (only they DO notice I'm healthy and slim at 60!!) which very few are!