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Vegan Double Chocolate Cookies

Jul23
2011 Written by maggie

Doves Farm Double Chocolate Biscuits 

Organic chocolate biscuits from Doves farm.  These biscuits are fabulous,  they are light and crumbly.  The double chocolate flavour is really nice and they are not sickly like heavily processed biscuits.  The chocolate chips are really good,  I just really like these cookies.  Perfect for a tea break,  sharing or just when you fancy a really good biscuit.

150gram pack is suitable for Vegans, Gluten Free, Dairy Free, salt free, Organic and Fairtrade.  Each Biscuit is 79.6kcal. Priced around £1.59 per pack of 9 biscuits.  Sold in health food shops.

Doves Farm do a lovely digestive biscuit which I reviewed earlier.

www.dovesfarm.co.uk

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Vegan Sushi Recipe

Jul23
2011 Written by maggie

Veggie Sushi Recipe

125g sushi rice
170ml cold water

2 x Sushi Nori (seaweed) sheets

Dressing:
1 tbsp rice vinegar
1/2 tbsp mirin (or vegetarian/vegan sherry)
1 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt

Filling: eg cucumber and red pepper, diced and picked in vinegar for an hour or so

Add cold water to rice, bring to boil and then simmer 10 minutes
Remove from heat and let stand for 20 minutes. DO NOT REMOVE LID (the rice needs to absorb the steam).

Mix ingredients for dressing and stir into cooled rice

Place nori on a bamboo sushi mat or some other type of flexible mat that is slightly larger than the nori
Take half the rice and cover a sheet of nori, leaving 1 inch clear across the narrower end of the nori
Wet the clear end of the nori
Use the mat to roll the nori over itself like a swiss roll, keeping it as tight as possible
Finish with the wet end of the nori and wet from the outside to improve the seal
Cut into desired sized pieces (an oiled sharp knife helps)
Repeat for second sheet

Ideal served with soy sauce and pickled ginger

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Tuscan Bean Pot

Jul23
2011 Written by maggie

Cooperative Tuscan Bean Pot

This seems like the  coop’s take on the Innocent Veg Pots.  This is far from the best thing I have tasted but it is edible and OK if there is nothing else and you are in a rush.  It is basically a bulgar wheat with an Italian tomato sauce and beans.

The packaging is OK, except if you decide to microwave it.  You have to pierce the film lid and cook it for two and a half mins then stir and re cover and again another two and a half minutes.  The problem is that the film is really hard to peel and when it is half cooked and fully cooked it is extremely hot,  I almost burned myself.  It is just a bad design.  A lid would cure the problem.

Each 375gram pot is Suitable for Vegans & Vegetarians,  365kcal per pot.  Be very careful when cooking in the microwave.  Sold in the Cooperative.

I prefer the innocent veg pots,  I have reviewed four of them so far.

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Bendicks Chocolate Gingers

Jul23
2011 Written by maggie

Vegan Chocolate Gingers

Chocolate Gingers from Bendicks.   Dark chocolate coated ginger pieces are very good,  the ginger is not too strong, mostly it is good quality but you do get an occasional stringy bit of ginger.  The chocolate is a nice texture and works well with the gingers.

Each 180gram pack is Suitable for Vegetarians (not suitable for vegans as per their website, but I cannot see any dairy ingredients, Maybe they are extra cautious because it does say may contain traces of milk,  this is probably their production line, they are likely to make other products on this line that do contain milk.)  per 100grams is 440kcal.  50% cocoa solids.  Sold in supermarkets.

If you like ginger you might like the Nairns ginger biscuits I reviewed earlier,  these have a very nice taste.

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