What have you been eating?

[Spritelady]

Very late July entry! I made completely vegan brownies, which was my first attempt ever at vegan baking and it went rather well!

[The Seamstress]

Looks good! 

[Spritelady]

Thank you! For my first time baking anything vegan (and having to substitute one of the ingredients as I couldn't find flaxseeds for love nor money around here), I was pretty pleased with how they turned out!

I think this month's culinary adventure will be homemade sushi so pics to follow!

[Spritelady]

So I actually made this month's new food several weeks ago and completely neglected to post an update. I'm sneaking it in now before we technically get to the end of August: I made spinach gözlemes, based on a Hellofresh recipe. They were tasty, although I suspect that making my own dough instead of using Hellofresh's shortcut of using tortillas to make the outer layer might have turned out rather better. Next time!

[Spritelady]

A classically late but hopefully delicious looking entry for September's food: we made sushi!

   

   

[Jubal]

Oh those look super neatly done! Very impressed!

[The Seamstress]

I agree! Though I confess I'm not a huge fan of sushi in general, but these look good. 

I tried Korean pancakes with scallions once, they were good too, but I'd recommend making them with grated zucchini & only a little onion. There are many basic recipes online, generally it's just flour, water and salt and whatever ingredients/veg/spices you like, so very tweakable to your own taste. Maybe I should make some again...

[Jubal]

A recent recipe that worked OK: fried chunks of tempeh, green peppers, and dried tomatoes and then put them on a colourful skewer: I added a bit of a spice mix during frying, and drizzled a bit of tkemali (Georgian plum sauce) on afterwards, and served them with couscous. Honestly the skewers didn't really do anything culinarily given I didn't grill them, but I think you could do this via grilling, and the results looked pretty anyway.

[The Seamstress]

I've never tried tempeh, is it comparable to tofu, taste-wise?

Here's my dinner today, a humble "Blunzngröstl" (Blunzn = Austrian dialect/vernacular for Blutwurst = black pudding; Gröstl = also dialect, comes from "rösten" = to roast, usually in a pan). It's basically just minced onions, then cooked potatoes and the sausage thrown together, and you season it with a little salt & pepper. I always add some parsley too. This is The One, by the way. A few years ago I ate a prize-winning Blunzn that allegedly was chosen as the best in some international competition in France, and it was terrible, lol.

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[Spritelady]

Both dishes look delicious!

[Spritelady]

Here's my October entry in the food challenge: Anzac biscuits! According to a quick bit of Googling, these were made by the wives of Australian and New Zealand soldiers during WW2, to send with their husbands to the war.

I think I probably did a decent job when I made them, since the entire batch (half of which is pictured here) vanished within 4 hours of coming out of the oven!

 

[The Seamstress]

Oooh historical recipes are always interesting to try


So you all know what day it is, here's my dinner for the occasion! 

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Oven-baked Hokkaido pumpkin & potatoes, and a treat in the form of an apple-streusel-thing which I spontaneously concocted. (Those salad leaves ended up being bunny food, btw, as they turned out too bitter for me to eat...)

[Jubal]

What about the pumpkin makes it Hokkaido pumpkin specifically?

[The Seamstress]

What about the pumpkin makes it Hokkaido pumpkin specifically?

It's just what they're called, according to German Wikipedia it got its name because it was first grown there, developed from a pumpkin variety brought to Japan from the US in the 1870s and achieving its final delicious form in the 1930s. From then on, world domination.

[Spritelady]

Looks delicious! I have a lot of pumpkin flesh saved from my carving that I plan to make a pie with. When I will actually have the free time to make it is as yet undecided XD

How did you make the apple streusel thing? It sounds tasty