I’ve been away for a few months and am slowly replacing the freezer burned leftovers my partner failed to spot with new easy meals my partner will fail to spot.
Over the summer I had the great pleasure to attend a shojin ryori inspired Japanese supper club hosted by London based Pureism (very much worth checking out if you are interested in Japanese temple cuisine). A few times a year I take a holiday weekend in sunny The North, where I mostly drink wine and sit under a blanket at my friend Liz’s house while she cooks for me and I avoid being gutted by her laser eyes cat. If you love Ethiopian food as much as I do, or even if you’ve never had it before, you need this cookbook. I recently joined the ambassador program for Froothie UK and the company kindly sent me an Optimum 9200 blender to review and play around with.
My most recent visit to Vientiane was in 2003, and I recall little more than a delicious sandwich shop followed by the days of severe food poisoning that ensued for my travel companion.
The post Stir Fried Pickled Mustard Greens With Tofu appeared first on Messy Vegetarian Cook. Part of the TREE Alliance, a group focussed on hands-on training for young people to give them employable skills in the hospitality industry, Makphet Restaurant in Vientiane is hit and miss for vegans but most definitely worth a visit.

The post Makphet: supporting a good cause while eating in Vientiane appeared first on Messy Vegetarian Cook. After an eventful bus trip from Nyaungshwe (outdoor toilet break, cloth for door, massive hole in cloth, enough said) that involved many hours literally (hey look, this is how you use that word) sitting in the middle of the road while a broken down lorry was fixed, I arrived in Bagan. While I’m certain there are a few local dining secrets, stunning Vang Vieng isn’t somewhere to go for vegan fine dining. Being vegan is a smart option for me, if not to save my bank account from excess macaron consumption, but I will still go to the ends of the earth for vegan variations. Mom, I love you and the effort you made to support my choice, but those mushy tofu and frozen vegetable stir fries you made when I was a teenager were the worst. Everyone goes mad for it, and with good reason, but what confuses me is how dull its preparations often are.
One of my favourite condiments for spice and wow factor is gochujang, a Korean chilli paste, so when considering the next mayo variation this seemed an obvious choice. I don’t want to sound like that tourist, sorry, I mean traveller, who waxes lyrical over how cool they are for going to a place before most people heard about that place.

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