Recipe: Oatinut Pancakes

Hello world!

I have once again been busy in the kitchen and I came up with this radtastic pancake recipe that'll fill you up and keep you buzzin'!

Ingredients you'll need:
1 Cup Medium Oats
1 Cup Flour
1/3 Cup Sugar
1/3 Cup Desiccated Coconut
1 Tsp Baking Powder
1 1/2 Cup Soya Milk
1 Tbsp Oil

What to do:
1. Preheat Hob to medium heat and place a frying pan on top, then add half of the oil
2. In a medium bowl, thoroughly mix together the Oats, Flour, Sugar, Desiccated Coconut and Baking Powder
3. Add the Soya Milk and stir together well
4. Grab a whisk and whisk the mixture like you've never whisked before!
5. Pour half of the mixture into the pan and tilt the pan round until the mixture reaches all sides
6. When the mixture begins to bubble lots on the top surface, flip the pancake over to the other side, a wooden spatula helps this process
7. Let the other side fry for 1-2 minutes then remove from the pancake from the pan and place it on a plate, then add the other half of the oil to the pan and allow time for it to heat up
8. Fry the other half of the mix in the same way
9. Serve with lashings of vegan syrup (Maple Syrup & Lyle's Golden Syrup are favourite's of mine)

Enjoy!

That's all for now, catch you guys later!

Peace and love,
Jaims

Recipe: Gooeylicious Chocolate Brownies

Hello friends!

It's been a few days. I have been quite busy arranging my journey to Americaland, sorting out application form mumbo jumbo and searching for cheap flights!

I thought I'd share with you a crowd pleaser brownie recipe that is easier to make than jogging off the calories you take in scoffing these gooey pleasures down!

and away we go:

Ingredients you'll need:
2 Cups Flour
1 1/2 Cups Sugar
3/4 Cup Cocoa Powder
1 Tsp Baking Powder
1/2 Tsp Salt
1 Cup Oil (Vegetable, Sunflower, etc.)
1 Cup Water
1 Tsp Vanilla Extract

What to do:
1. Preheat oven to 180°C (355°F)
2. In a medium sized bowl thoroughly mix all of the dry ingredients together (Flour, Sugar, Cocoa Powder, Baking Powder, Salt)
3. In a seperate bowl mix together all of the wet ingredients (Oil, Water, Vanilla Extract) and then dump into the dry mix
4. Mix it all together until it's a big clump of unbaked brownie and slap it into a grease-proof paper lined 13x9 inch baking tin(doesn't have to be exactly 13x9 inches, the bigger the tin the thinner the brownies and vice-versa).
5. Stick the tin into the oven for 25-35 minutes. For crunchtacular brownies leave them in the oven for an extra 10-15 minutes.
6. Leave the brownies to cool for 10 minutes then remove from tin and cut into rectangles, squares, triangles, stars, politicians or however you want to demolish them. Alternatively, stick your head in the tin and scoff until you can't scoff no more!

I'm off to suffer the effects of hay fever
Peace and love,
Jaims

Knee Deep In Muffin

Summer time is upon us so I thought I'd start sharing some fruitful recipes with you guys!

I have recently got my hands on a book titled 'Vegan A Go-Go' by Sarah Kramer.

'Vegan A Go-Go' is a recipe book and travel survival manual for Vegans! I have been using this book a lot as of late for allsorts!

Here's one recipe I found to my liking for its flexibility, credit goes to Sarah Kramer of course!

You'll see some of these to the bottom right hand corner of the picture above.

I have tweaked this recipe slightly to help people that haven't had their hands on the book.

Recipe: "Anything Goes" Fruit-Filled Muffins

Ingredients:

2 Cups Flour

1/2 Tsp Salt

3 Tsp Baking Powder

1/2 Cup Sugar

Egg Replacer equal to 2 eggs (I use a medium sized mashed banana)

1/4 Cup Oil

3/4 Cup Sour Soya Milk (Soya Milk + 1 Tsp Vinegar)

1 1/2 Cups of fresh or frozen fruit (any of your liking, I tried chopped up Mango and it was nommilicious!)

What to do:

Preheat oven to 175°C (350°F). In a large bowl, stir together the flour, salt and baking powder.

Add the sugar, egg replacer, oil, sour soya milk and fruit. Stir until just mixed. Place 8 muffin cases in a muffin tin and scoop mixture evenly into the cases. Bake for 35-45 minutes until a toothpick or fork comes out clean.

That's all for now, until next time!

Peace and Love,

Jaims

Recipe: Simple Vegan Pancakes

So all vegans eat is Peas and Carrots, eh? Wrong!

Dig deeper and you'll discover a huge variety of mind-blowing options that'll give your taste buds a tingling, and keep your wallet healthy!

Vegan Pancake with a Kiwi filling

Here's a simple recipe for vegan pancakes which will please:

Ingredients you'll need

1 Tbsp Cooking Oil

1 cup Plain Flour

1 cup Soya Milk

1 Tbsp Raw Sugar

1 Tsp Baking Powder

1/2 Tbsp Golden/Maple Syrup (optional)

Enough filling to spread on one side (optional)

Equipment you'll need

1 Frying Pan

1 Wooden Spatula

1 Wooden Spoon

1 Mixing Bowl

What to do

1. Set your hob to medium heat

2. Heat half of the oil in the pan

3. While the oil is being heated, mix together the Plain Flour, Soya Milk, Raw Sugar and Baking Powder

4. When the oil starts to bubble pour half of the mix into the pan and tilt the pan round until the mix reaches all of the sides

5. Wait until the mixture starts to harden (you can test this by poking around with the spatula a little) and then shift the pan backwards and forwards to loosen up the pancake from the pan, then thrust the pan upwards to flip the pancake (moment of truth!). Alternatively you can use the spatula to flip the pancake but you don't get the steez points if you don't show your flippin' steez!

6. Keep frying until the pancake is well browned on both sides, then toss onto a plate and put the other half of the oil in the pan and repeat with the other half of the mix

7. Spread your syrup (or whatever else!) on one side of each of the pancakes and add a filling if you want to, then fold the pancakes over so that the fillings are on the inside

Breakfast is served!

More recipes to come

Peace and Love,

Jaims