Difficulty: Easy-Medium Serves 8-10 My brother is on the most gnarly health kick of all time and for his birthday he requested a healthy carrot cake. Let’s be honest here – this cake is much healthier than other cakes but at the end of the day, a cake is a cake, and cake isn’t all [...]
Tags: cake, carrot, dessert, gluten free, healthy
Difficulty: Easy-Medium Serves 2 I got my hands on a bunch of figs and needed to use ‘em up, and quick! Some fig flavoured Spun Fairy Floss was also lying around and I figured that it would be a crime to not put the two together. This layered dessert is perfect for Autumn… or [...]
Tags: agave, buckinis, dessert, figs, gluten free, roasted, vegan, vegetarian
Price: From $7.95 AUD Where to Buy: Click here to buy online and for stockists I’m not a huge sweet tooth but every now and then I love me a bit of candy. Recently I heard about Spun Fairy Floss and knew I just had to give it a go. Unlike traditional fairy floss, this stuff [...]
Tags: candy, gluten free, natural, Spun Fairy Floss, treat, vegan, vegetarian
Difficulty: Easy-Medium Makes 12 I once made a premo batch of Anzac cookies with one of my friends but because I am an idiot, I didn’t write down the recipe. My redemption comes in the form of these Anzac cupcakes; they have all the basic elements of the cookie but they’re a cake, does [...]
Tags: ANZAC, coconut, cupcakes, dessert, oats, sweet, vegan, vegetarian
Difficulty: Easy-Medium Serves 4 I visit a local Vietnamese restaurant nearly every week and one of my favourite menu items is the sweet and sour soup. Last weekend I decided to give it a whirl and make my own, the results were nearly just as good. The serving sizes probably aren’t big enough [...]
Tags: asian, soup, sweet and sour, vegan, vegetables, vegetarian, Vietnamese
Difficulty: Easy-Medium Serves 4 The weather is cooling down and my meal cravings have been leaning towards the more hearty side. The other day I kinda felt like chili but I also kinda felt like a mushroom so I thought I’d throw the two together. You could even do mini version of this with smaller [...]
Tags: black beans, chili, dinner, mushroom, vegan, vegetarian
Difficulty: Medium Serves 4 For those members on the family who weren’t on a health-kick this Easter, plus those who were looking to indulge a little, I whipped up this super crispy batch of panko tempura. I’ve done tempura before but this time I decided to add to the crunch by using both batter and [...]
Tags: asian, dinner, Easter, japanese, lunch, mock fish, panko, tempura, vegan, vegetable, vegetarian, wasabi salt
Difficulty: Easy Serves 4 Last year I decided that I was going to start a new family tradition of making Easter lunch. The family seemed to tolerate it last year so I thought I would take the tradition into its second year in 2013 and make an Asian themed feast. Since a few family members [...]
Tags: asian, bean curd, bean shoots, Easter, healthy, red cabbage, salad, sesame, tofu, vegan, vegetarian
Address: 17-19 Bent Street, Adelaide SA 5000 Website: www.zenhouse.com.au I recently visited Adelaide for the first time and wasn’t expecting there to be as many vegan options as there were. While doing some research, I discovered Zenhouse, which was conveniently located about 3 minutes from my hotel. The menu is on the website so you [...]
Tags: Adelaide, vegan, vegetarian, yum-cha, Zenhouse
Address: 10 Pacific Street, Newcastle East, NSW 2300 Website: www.casadeloco.com.au If you live in Newcastle, you know as well as I do that finding vegan food worth going out for can be a bit of a struggle. You can understand my excitement when I stumbled across Casa de Loco’s menu and saw those magic words [...]
Tags: dinner, fresh, light, lunch, mexican, Newcastle, soft taco, vegan