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Braised seitan with onions
Since I’m working as a volunteer in the EVA-library I’m lending every 4 weeks a  new cookbook.  I’m escpecially interested in the older vegan ones.  This way I can figure out if it’s still worth to buy the book.  The problem is that every cookbook I read has at least a few recipes that are worth buying the whole thing.  Yes, I am a cookbook addict. The latest one I took home was The Angelica home kitchen: recipes and rabble rousings from an organic vegan restaurant. The book is originial from 2000.  So don’t expect new inspiring food.  But it has some basics that every vegan should know.  Like this one:

Mini sandwich cookies
Van TofuParty-bakery From ‘The vegan scoop’. Especially good when served with  chocolate chip ice-cream. And a funny news: they discovered a pear tree which is the only one of his kind in the world.  And g

Fried tofu
I’ve got the idea for this recipe from this blog ‘Natuurlijk veganistisch’.  She has an english blog too, Happy Veganarian, but I couldn’t find the recipe for tofu filet on it. Van

Creamy bulgur and marinated red beets
I had the idea for this recipe from ‘Vegetarisch koken in 30 minuten’.  Normally it was a carpaccio recipe, but I ended up changing it totally: Van TofuParty sides   1 cup bulgur 2 red beets 2 tbsp nut vinegar 2 tbsp canola oil 2 tbsp soy cream 2 tbsp nutritio

Speculaas scones with raisins
Around this time of the year in Belgium, you’ll find speculaas all over the shops. For people who don’t know what speculaas is: it’s a kind of cookie which contains spices. You can read more about it here. For these scones I used the ‘raisin and spices scones‘ recipe from Vegan brunch and substituted all the spices with speculaas spices.