Tomorrow, my workplace is hosting Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea, a fundraiser for the Cancer Council. Since a lot of my postdocs and PhD students are supported by the Cancer Council in one way or another (and because we are all…
Category: coconut
Recipe: Old English Matrimonials for Melissa
I have a terrible, terrible habit as a cook. Actually, I have many terrible habits as a cook, as I’m sure you all know by now, not least of which is my complete inability to follow a recipe even when…
Recipe: Raw Vegan Mini Christmas Puddings!
Hannah over at Wayfaring Chocolate keeps on putting up these fascinating raw vegan truffle recipes. Today was supposed to be my day for making mince pies (and the day isn’t over yet…), but I thought it might be fun to…
Recipe: Summer Apricot and Lavender Crumble (gluten-free!)
I am such a lunatic right now. I’m bouncing off the walls and giggling madly at the completely insane set of tasks ahead of me this month. And then someone sends me an email mentioning shiny metallic food paint and…
Recipe: Obscenely Decadent Chocolate and Cherry Brownies
These are lightly adapted from a recipe in Paul Young’s book, Adventures in Chocolate, which is, incidentally, a completely and gloriously insane book containing recipes for things like marmite truffles and garlic ganache. Actually, I really need to try the…
Recipe: Raspberry, Soy and Coconut Ice-cream
This recipe comes more or less directly from Veganomicon, with a little extra verbiage from me. I’m afraid you do need a blender and an icecream maker for this – I suppose in a pinch you could put everything through…
Recipe: Nearly Vegan Banana Bread with Indian Flavours
This recipe is as vegan as a cake can be that has honey in it. I don’t actually know any vegans who eat honey, but I’ve heard they exist. But don’t worry – honey could easily be swapped out in…
Recipe: Chocolate, Coconut and Raspberry Cupcakes
Today my workplace is holding the Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea, a cancer research fundraiser which is very popular with hungry scientists! Since I work in a medical research institute looking after a couple of cancer research Divisions, we take this…
Recipe: Chocolate for Breakfast
The official name for this recipe, which comes from Less Meat, More Veg, is ‘Chocolate, Coconut and Raspberry Spread’, but I like to think of it as Chocolate for Breakfast, as that is basically the point. You can say all…
Recipe: Coconut and Lemon Buttercream
This is a very quick and easy recipe for a lovely, rich, coconut-infused icing that is dairy free and will work on all sorts of citrus or coconut cakes, but particularly on the coconut and lemon cake found in Veganomicon. …