Posted by craftfetish on 2006-10-24 10:36:32
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I've gotten really rave reviews for vegan pumpkin soup/stew, but I my recipe doesn't really stray far enough from what's on the internet to call it my own yet.
Serving the soup from the shell of the pumpkin does make for a fantastic holiday presentation though if anyone else has a recipe that they can really claim ownership of.
I may have some holiday dessert recipes that I can claim. I'll take a look through the file.
Posted by nikki-shell on 2005-01-07 22:42:51
Post Subject: Chocolate fondant pudding recipe
I'm a pastry chef and have made millions of these (i'm not exagerrating!).
155g Dark chocolate
130g Unsalted butter
Melt the above together in a bowl over a pan of simmering water.
3 eggs
3 yolks
55g caster sugar
Whisk the above until thick and fluffy
Fold the cooled chocolate and butter into the egg mix
Fold in 55g plain sifted flour
Pipe or spoon into individual greased pudding moulds.
Bake at 180C for approximately 10 minutes (depending on your oven, it may need less or more time)
Tip out into a bowl and serve with hot chocolate sauce and an icecream of your choice(vanilla, pistachio maybe).
The centre of the pudding should ooz out when cut into.
I have a large selection of dessert recipes, so if anyone wants anything in particular let me know and i'll do my best.
Nikki
PS This is my first post.
speaking of vegan food - does anyone have any good vegan dessert recipes (cookies, that sort of thing)? i want to make something for my cousin for the holidays ... i hear that unsweetened soy is good for baking ... but any hints on how to convert a recipe would be awesome! thanks!
Posted by stella on 2004-12-18 14:53:09
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ti, if you Google "vegan dessert recipes" i bet you'll come up with tons of them!
if you have a local health food store, you can buy packets of pudding mix (i think they're made by Mori-Nu, but i'm not sure) that you blend with silken tofu in the blender. it makes REALLY good pudding, and you can use it to make pudding pie also.
i used to make awesome chocolate chip cookies by substituting the eggs with applesauce or that flax goo i described above. most dark chocolate chips are vegan, but if your cousin is a super hard-core vegan, you might want to ask if she eats chocolate. i use Willow Run soy margerine instead of butter, and unfiltered cane crystals instead of white sugar. since there's no eggs in them, you can bake them until they're just barely done, and they stay nice and soft.
Posted by beanie on 2004-10-22 15:04:43
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My faves are The Joy of Cooking and How to Cook Everything.
A couple of weeks ago I discovered Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian....wonderful, wonderful recipes...there are a lot of Indian dishes, lots of wonderful things to do with chickpeas and chickpea flour...of course there's tons more than that, but I've been on a chickpea kick lately!
The new Gourmet cookbook seems pretty useful. I have it from the library and the three things I've made thus far are quite good. There are some amazing-sounding dessert recipes in there!
Posted by amygdala on 2004-12-20 16:38:59
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When I tried a bit ago, I got the "this site is defaced" thing, now I just get the 404 (not found) error.
And to think I posted dessert recipes just this morning! Poo! I hope things aren't all lost.
As for the split between the two boards, I post on both, though with different names since I'd thought of a cooler username by the time I signed on here.
Does anyone more IT-savvy than myself want to explain just how a worm works? Like how they go about infecting other sites and such? If I visited Glitter post-worm, do I have to do anything to my computer, or does the worm not affect your actual computer, just people's sites?
ETA: stprcsm just asked my question too, so at least I'm not the only clueless one.
Posted by superdewa on 2005-02-28 11:02:31
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My hands-down favorite cookbook is Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone. It's a big beautiful cookbook with photos. Everything I've made from there has been wonderful, some things transcendant. Her style is elegant, yet the ingredient lists are relatively short and everything is DOable. It was this book that took me from making my own pizza very occasionally as a special treat to whipping out homemade pizzas once a week. G
I am also a big fan of Nava Atlas. As a mother of young kids, I especially like The Vegetarian Family Cookbook (my girls and I go through and pick out recipes that look interesting to them) and The Vegetarian 5-Ingredient Cookbook, for when I have to get dinner on the table quick and feel like something outside of my usual standbys. She has a good website with recipes, http://www.vegkitchen.com/.
I love, love, LOVE Cook's Illustrated Magazine. I think it blows away all the other cooking magazines. Everything, the tools, the food, the cooking methods, is researched and tested extensively, and the resulting recipes are amazing! The sugar cookies alone would have made my subscription worth it. I've pretty much given up on making desserts from any other source. Something cool is that they don't accept any advertising. So none of their research and testing is in any way influenced by advertisers. They also have a great website, http://cooksillustrated.com/. You have to be a paid subscriber to get most of their recipes. If you do subscribe, you get pretty much every recipe ever printed in the magazine, which is great! The illustrations and detail are often not there, though, so I find it worth it to subscribe to both. The discussion boards there are also very helpful. Cook's Illustrated is not vegetarian, if that is important to you, but I've had some great vegetarian meals adapted from some of their meat recipes (I'm not vegetarian myself -- I just don't eat much meat), and their dessert recipes alone are good reason to get this magazine.
My other favorite (and free!) cooking website is Epicurious, http://www.epicurious.com/. Here you'll find searchable archives of many years of recipes from Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines, with user ratings and reviews. It's sort of a gourmet allrecipes.com.
