Vegan Restaurants

On a recent trip to Canberra we discovered some fantastic vegan resaurants in Dickson.
Au Lac Vietnamese and Kingsland (http://www.kingsland.canberra.net.au/)

We ate in at Kingsland and the food and service was fantastic. Restaurants like these are great places to go if you want to try vegan food but are a bit unsure as the food satisfies even the most hard core meat eaters.

Chocolate Croissants

Vegan Chocolate Croissants? Yes and the recipe comes from an unlikly source_ Nigella Lawson.
This was on her Express TV series.

It is simply some puff pastry cut into triangles and a square of chocolate. Roll the pastry up with the choc inside and shape into a crescent.

Bake at 180C for about 20mins.

Serve warm. I would dust with some icing sugar for extra decadence.

Chocolate Walnut Muffins

I would dust these with a little icing sugar if you want a sweeter muffin.

Here is the link:
http://bakingbites.com/2005/09/vegan-chocolate-walnut-muffins/

Pineapple Upside-down Cake

This was the first Pineapple Upside-down Cake I have ever made. I used fresh pineapple so there are no cherries in the holes and subsequently I needed to add some orange juice as I didn't have the juice from the tin.

It was still delicious.

Here is the link:
http://healthy-desserts.suite101.com/article.cfm/pineapple_upsidedown_cake_recipe

Pasta Bake

It's been a while since my last blog, I've just been so tired due to being pregnant and then having my baby on New Years Day. So there is a back log of cooking to share (I made sure to at least take pictures!).

Pasta Bake.

This recipe was just some cooked pasta mixed into a sauce based on the bolognaise from the lasagne recipe but with more and bigger cuts of vegies. I then used the bechmel sauce from the lasagne recipe to top the pasta bake and sprinkled some bread crumbs on top as well as drizzling some seasame oil on top (olive would be great too).

I baked until the top was browned (about 1/2 hour at 180C).