This summer I have been really enjoying having barbecues in the garden. You might think the BBQ ritual is hardly conducive to a plant based diet but that really couldn't be further from the truth.
If you fancy the traditional burgers and hot dogs vegans are really well catered for. My favourites include the Fry's range of dogs, VBites and of course the Linda McCartney sausages are a bit of vegan staple.
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| You can still have dogs when you are a Vegan-just meat free ones |
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| Aine Carlin helping make my summer food rather wonderful |
If you would rather avoid processed vegan foods then I recommend checking out the wonderful vegan cookery book The New Vegan by Áine Carlin. I made a couple of her recipes last week and they were both simple and delicious. here is one of my favourites:
Walnut Meat Tacos Recipe
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| Vegan Tacos |
Ingredients
130g walnuts
3 sundried tomatoes
1 scant tsp ground cumin
¼ tsp ground coriander
¼ tsp smoked paprika
Pinch of cayenne pepper
½ tbsp soy sauce or tamari
2 tbsps extra virgin olive oil
2 little gem lettuces
For the pineapple salsa:
½ pineapple, peeled and diced
1 small yellow pepper, deseeded and diced
2 spring onions, sliced
1 small green chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
Juice of 1 lime
20g fresh coriander, roughly chopped
For the garlicky avocado sauce:
1 avocado, peeled and stoned
1 tbsp coconut cream or yogurt
1 garlic clove, crushed
Juice of 1 lime
2 tbsps extra virgin olive oil
2-4 tbsps water
Salt
Method
1. Put the walnuts in a food processor or blender and blitz
to a coarse rubble. Add the sundried tomatoes, spices, soy sauce or tamari and
oil and pulse until it forms a crumbly, ‘meaty’ texture.
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| How cute are these salad servers |
2. For the pineapple salsa, put the pineapple and yellow pepper
in a bowl. Add the spring onions and chilli. Squeeze over the lime juice and
stir to combine before adding the coriander. Stir and set aside until needed.
3. For the avocado sauce, put the avocado flesh in a food
processor or blender with the coconut cream or yogurt, garlic, lime juice and a
pinch of salt and blend until smooth. While it’s blending, gradually pour in
the extra virgin olive oil until amalgamated before thinning out with a few
tablespoons of water, depending on how thick you prefer it. Check for
seasoning, adding a little more salt if necessary. Refrigerate until needed.
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| Two and a half vegans-one big appetite |
4. Separate the leaves from the little gem lettuces. Spread
some avocado sauce in the centre of each lettuce leaf, spoon over a generous
amount of walnut meat and top with the pineapple salsa. Eat, taco style.
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| There is shop brought slaw and then there is this-amazing |
I also made a delicious red cabbage coleslaw from the New vegan book too. Perfect for taking along if you are invited to a non vegan get together. Takes about ten minutes to prepare and is absolutely delicious.
Don't forget your tomato sauce and mustard yet again most tomato sauce is vegan (my fave is the Suma organic one, tastes so rich) and most mustard's are too-but always check the label.
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| All the taste, none of the meat |
The one thing even Vegans can't create a hack for is a guarantee of good weather so if you are planning a Barbecue make like Baba and be sure to take a rain mac or in Babas case a "Pugcho"
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| Woof! |
I also filmed a video including some of these recipes over on my Youtube channel-take a look
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Engraved Salad Servers http://fave.co/2aC5v6Q
Condiment Crayons http://fave.co/2aC5hN5
Pug Poncho http://fave.co/2aDZO5v
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