Foodies In The News

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Nigel’s mid-week dish is Smoked Salmon pudding.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/d ... on-pudding

And there are ideas for New Years Eve.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... ke-a-party

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Wholemeal banana pancakes.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/d ... a-pancakes

[Pepper Pig Profile]

On Indian recipes.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... um=twitter

[Pepper Pig Profile]

https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/caramelized-cabbage

This has been posted on Twitter by Jamie Barton, possibly the world’s top opera singer. If it’s good enough for her I’m going to have a go on one of my new veggie days.

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/caramelized-cabbage

This has been posted on Twitter by Jamie Barton, possibly the world’s top opera singer. If it’s good enough for her I’m going to have a go on one of my new veggie days.

That sounds lovely .... I only need coriander leaf

[scullion Profile]

it would need a bit more of a protein accompaniment, other than the greek yoghurt, i think.
many dishes that purport to be a vegan/vegetarian 'main' are deficient in protein. i know you need less than used to be thought but having some leaves you feeling more satisfied!

[scullion Profile]

On Indian recipes.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... um=twitter

a good book of collected indian recipes is 'indian delights' (Zuleikha Mayat) produced by the durban women's cultural group,
collected there in order to retain heritage.
gosh, i have just had a look - maybe a tad expensive to buy now! it was nothing like that when i bought mine.

[Renee Profile]

PP, I love all those recipes, especially the Smoked Salmon Pudding! Thanks so much for posting.

[smitch Profile]

I posted on here previously about a lovely roasted cabbage dish with lentils https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/italian-style-roast-cabbage-wedges-tomato-lentils

I wouldn’t bother with the olives and breadcrumbs next time.

PP’s link looks good too.

[Pepper Pig Profile]

School Night Vegan.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/d ... nned-beans

[patpoyntz Profile]

Nigel’s mid-week dish is Smoked Salmon pudding.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/d ... on-pudding

I wonder if anyone else has made this? I wasn’t sure I really fancied it, but needed to use up the scraps of smoked salmon, and made it last night. It was a huge success. We had it with some nice broccoli and baby potatoes.

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Oooh, that's good to hear. I have some scraps left too.

[KeenCook2 Profile]

My problem is that I simply don't have scraps

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Taste test for supermarket vegan burgers:

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/j ... x-la-manna

Rachel Roddy’s lentils, roast grapes and goat cheese.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/j ... ats-cheese

Meditative cooking.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/j ... -at-a-time

[scullion Profile]

shame the chap didn't go to aldi - i would put their plant based burgers on a par if not better than the moving mountains ones - maybe he only had the time to go to the big three supermarkets.
the ones that used to be sold in lidl were good, too. maybe they'll come back sometime.

[Earthmaiden Profile]

The most interesting thing is the description of the main ingredients. One is potato. Others are soy or pea protein and one is soy.
What is the difference between soy and soy protein ( or peas and pea protein for that matter)?

[Stokey Sue Profile]

If the word “protein” is added then surely the implication is that they have processed the soy beans or the peas to extract or concentrate the protein rather than use the whole seed?

So tvp (textured vegetable protein) is an extract of soy beans then processed to give it texture, seitan is wheat gluten protein with the carbs and fibre removed, and in neither case would you list the original soy or wheat as an ingredient (though you might identify them as allergens)

[Earthmaiden Profile]

Thank you Sue. As that is not my field I have difficulty imagining what the processed concentrated protein would look like ( as you say, textured vegetable protein has been given added texture. I didn't realise before that it was made like that).

[Stokey Sue Profile]

The easy one, which you can try yourself, is to get a bit of spare bread dough or make a simple dough with white (ideally strong) flour and water, knead it well, leave it for 30 minutes or so, then rinse it under the cold tap while working it it’s your fingers. The starch will wash out and you will be left with a spongy mass of gluten, aka wheat protein


Or more simply watch a video of someone making seitan from ordinary flour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyta5H8xHC0

[scullion Profile]

you can try yourself, is to get a bit of spare [...] white (ideally strong) flour and water, knead it well, leave it for 30 minutes or so, then rinse it under the cold tap while working it it’s your fingers. The starch will wash out and you will be left with a spongy mass of gluten, aka wheat protein

there's a famous vid of margaret thatcher doing just that, at no10, as a kid's science experiment.