Faux Ham

This is another attempt at homemade seitan. The recipe (from La Dolce Vegan) is for faux ham. The gluten is pretty easy to make if you have access to high gluten flour (I use Lotus brand). Making it with ordinary flour is no fun at all.

The gluten is then cooked in a broth flavoured with nutritional yeast, soya sauce, dried sage, black pepper and boy was it salty! A little too salty for my liking but there you go.

La Dolce Vegan's BLT Brunch Casserole

I have been wanting to try this recipe for a while now but never had all the ingredients. But recently I paid a visit to USAFoods in Moorabin and was able to pick up such gems as "Bac-os"(partially visible in photo), Jack Daniel's honey Dijon mustard and life's non essentials in the form of Bisquick, Cinnamon Toast Crunch and dill pickle flavoured Pringles.

The casserole was like a giant vegan serve of scrambled eggs on toast meets a BLT. I thought it was fabulous. (And who knew Bac-o's were so darn tasty?!)

Lemon-lime self saucing pudding

I LOVE self saucing puddings!

Sometime in August we celebrated "lambstravaganza" (A meal with three types of lamb.)

I deliberated over making dessert but decided to go for it and try out a recipe from sfi "lemon self saucing pudding". As usual some amendments were made. Usually when I try out recipes I leave the quantities as is but because it was for a larger gathering I doubled the ingredients. Also, with the availability of fresh limes, I made it a lemon-lime self saucing pudding. The result was a lovely light citrus scented sponge floating atop a luscious lemon lime sauce. Superb!