Sweet and Sour Faux Fish Thursday, May 21, 2009
What's cooking today ?
Vegan sweet and sour faux fish !! Easy to cook, simple and delicious. Every children will like this dish. All you need is to shop for some seaweed wrapped vegetarian fish slices and saute these in tomato sauce. You can add cucumber, pineapple, yellow and green bell peppers for garnishing and a beautiful life saving vegan dish for the entire family is created !!
Try this dish today !! You can make it as the ingredients should be easy enough to obtain and the cooking is simple, everyday home cooking..
Labels: home cooking
Lasm's story told @4:18 PM
Asam Fish with Chayote 全素亚参午宜龍鬚菜 Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Here we do a home cooking with Vegan Asam Fish and Chayote.
Chayote, also known as sayote or the "dragon whiskers" vegetables is a common vegetable in this part of the world, easy to cultivate and well known for its medicinal properties. It is said to possess diuretic, cardiovascular and anti-inflamatory properties.
The essential ingredient is the vegetarian fish together with asam seasoning, tomatoes, ginger and a pinch of salt. This version does not have the traditional spicy chilli so it is easy for young children's palette who may not be comfortable with hot chilli.
It has a mild sour taste perfect for a faux fish dish which otherwise you may have to spend a small fortune in order to taste it in an expensive restaurant.
Get creative. You don't have to die to save the world. Just be vegan.
Labels: home cooking
Lasm's story told @8:10 PM
Faux seafood soup - A vegetarian beginner Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Here we see how to use the ingredients from our vegetarian shopping to make a simple homey soup that your mother will be proud of.
This simple and easy soup has four ingredients: faux prawn, veggie stick, tofu cubes and golden mushrooms..
If you know how to boil a pot of water, you know how to cook vegan soup !!
Just boil it together with the ingredients, add vegetarian mushroom seasonings to taste, a little bit of salt and pepper, and you are done !!
This soup served with a plate of rice offers enough nourishment and joy after a hard day's work !
Start learning vegan cooking today ! It's fun, it's joy, it's life saving..
Labels: home cooking, vegetarian
Lasm's story told @11:30 AM
Fried Kway Teow !! Monday, February 23, 2009
When I think of fried kway teow, I remembered the mobile hawker near my house in my youth. The kway teow seller had a secret ingredient that keeps his customer coming to him again and again. That secret ingredient is the sweet sticky black soy sauce. Well I don't have the sweet sauce, so I have to make do with ordinary dark soy sauce.
Ingredients:
3 small vegetarian sausages
4 vegetarian fish balls
3 dry shitakae mushrooms
1 bunch of french beans
1 packet fresh hor-fun or kway teow
2 teaspoon vegetarian seasoning powder
3 teaspoon dark and light soy sauce
1 teaspoon sea salt
1 tablespoon vegetable cooking oil
Preparation:
1) Soak the dried shitakae mushroom in a small bowl of water for 10 minutes
till it soften. Then cut off the stem and slice the mushroom.
2) Cut off the end part of french beans and chop into 1 inch pieces.
3) slice the vegetarian fish ball into half, then slice each half again.
4) chop the vegetarian sausage into small manageable pieces.
5) prepare a small bowl to add vegetarian seasoning powder, dark and light soy sauce and mix thoroughly.
Cooking:
1) Heat up a flat frying pan or Chinese wok with some cooking oil.
2) Add in the shitakae mushrooms and french beans first, stir fry a while and cover the frying pan or wok with a cover for 3 minutes.
3) Add in the vegetarian sausages and sliced vegetarian fish balls and stir fry another 3 minutes.
4) Pour in the seasoning and soy sauce mixture and cover the pan to let the vegetables cook for 5 minutes.
5) Finally put all the hor fun or kway teow and stir fry for another 5 minutes until the kway teow becomes dry. You can optionally add in some bean sprouts. Add some sea salt and optionally some pepper and tomato ketchup if you prefer.
Labels: home cooking, vegan
Lasm's story told @6:57 PM
Corn soup powder Sunday, February 15, 2009
In this series, we will shopping specifically for home cooking purposes, so we will show case some common vegetarian or vegan shopping products, whether it is fresh, organic or frozen.
We start off with a simple vegetarian corn soup powder. This is very useful to keep at home when you want to make creamy corn soup. To add the creaminess to the soup you can put in flour like tapioca flour or rice flour powder. The soup powder alone is enough if all you want is instant tasty soup, but if you add in more fresh ingredients, such as carrots, vegetables and mushrooms, the result will be excellent.
Some product contain dehydrated vegetables. This product, for example, contains dehydrated corn and peas, so if you boil it long enough, you will also get to eat some pieces of corn in the soup.
Labels: home cooking, veggie shopping
Lasm's story told @7:39 PM
Vegan Fried Rice Saturday, February 14, 2009
Cooking at home is a very simple affair. The main thing to remember is to be creative and use whatever ingredients happen to be available that day. Here's a simple recipe for a delicious vegan fried rice..
Ingredients:
1) 1 plate of over-night rice, left over from last evening dinner.
2) 4 dried shitakae mushrooms
3) 2 fresh round white mushrooms
4) 3 kangkong stalks or other green vegetables
5) some leaves of white cabbage
6) half a cup of mixed vegetables, carrot cubes, green peas and corn
7) 1 vegetarian sausage
8) 2 stalks of long beans
9) 1 teaspoon vegetarian seasoning powder
10) 1 teaspoon vegetarian ketchup
11) 1 tablespoon soy sauce, light and dark type
12) 2 teaspoon of salt
13) 2 tablespoon of vegetarian cooking oil
Preparation:
1) soak the 4 dried shitakae for 10 minutes till soft.
Cut away the stem, and cut the rest of mushroom in thin slices.
2) cut the round white mushroom in half, then slice the rest.
3) cut the long beans into 1 and half inch pieces, small enough to cook fast.
4) cut the stalk of kangkong into 1 inch pieces, so that it can cook thoroughly in
minimum time. Just tear the leaves into manageable pieces, it will shrink when cook.
5) tear off some leaves of white Chinese cabbage, make it small pieces for easier cooking.
6) cut 1 or 2 small vegetarian sausage into pieces.
7) prepare a bowl of mixed carrot cubes, green peas and corn to add color to dish.
8) pour the vegetarian seasoning powder into a small bowl, add the salt and 1 tablespoon
of light and dark soy sauce each. Add a little bit of water and dissolve the seasoning.
Cooking:
1) Pour some cooking oil into a flat frying pan or use the Chinese wok.
2) heat the oil for a while, then add the soften shitakae mushroom pieces and long beans. Cover the frying
pan to let the mushroom cook a while and avoid the oil spilling out.
3) Add in the cabbage leaves and kangkong. Stir fry for 3 minutes.
4) Add in the mixed veggies, corn, carrots and green peas. Stir fry a while in medium heat.
5) Add in the vegetarian sausages and pour the mixed vegetarian seasoning.
Cover the frying pan and stew the vegetables for 5 minutes.
6) Check that the vegetables are well cooked and the kang kong and cabbage have shrunk in size. Add in the
plate of over-night rice and stir fry throughly to let the rice soak up all the seasoning. The fired rice should
be relatively dry after some frying. Add in more salt or tomato ketchup to taste.
The fried rice should turn from white to a nice golden yellow after soaking up the vegetarian seasoning.
Bon vegan appétit !
Labels: home cooking, recipe, vegan
Lasm's story told @12:09 AM
