Supporting the Animals in Japan

This video came up in my Twitter feed. It’s very moving.

I felt like my heart might break.

If you think you’d like to help out the animals who are left injured on homeless, please take a look at this site.

Pumpkin Spicy Coconut Soup

Cookbook: Clean Food.

Dish: Pumpkin Spicy Coconut Soup.

Ease of preparation: 4/5. It would be 5/5, but I deducted a point for having to peel the butternut pumpkin (always a serious drag to do this).

Accessibility of ingredients: 5/5 if you have acess to some Asian ingredients. This dish contained kaffir lime leaves, galangal and loads of lemongrass.

Taste: 4/5 Wonderful Thai flavours in a creamy pumpkin soup. Yeah!!!!!!

Uzuki Restaurant in Sukhumvit Soi 11

Christy is heading back to USA on Monday. Boo….. We went out for Japanese to celebrate. I’d never been to Uzuki Restuarant on Sukhumvit Soi 11 before. It was recommended by a friend as being quite vegan friendly and indeed it was. I am really new to Japanese cuisine and I have to say I am getting rather partial to it. The eggplant in miso sauce was outstanding. I also adore steamed edamame beans. While there is not the range of Chijuya, I’d go back just for the eggplant.

Beet Burgers and Carrot Fries

Dishes: Carrot Fries and Beet Burgers

Cookbook: Color Me Vegan

Ease of Preparation:

Beet Burgers: 3/5 Veggie burgers always involve a bit more work than a regular dish. You need bulgur wheat (or quinoa) cooked ahead of time. You have to shred beets which is always a bit messy. The burgers held together really well as they baked in the oven.

Carrot Fries: 4/5  Easy although cutting up the carrots was a bit tedious and you have to make them the same size, otherwise they might burn before the rest of the them are cooked.

Accessibility of ingredients:

Beet Burgers: 4/5 You’ll need a pretty well stocked pantry as it includes sesame and sunflower seeds.

Carrot Fries: 5/5 Cumin, oil and carrots. Easy!

Taste:

Beet Burgers: 5/5 Incredibly tasty, espeically becuase they are so nutritious. Loads of colourful vegetables, seeds and herbs. They are certainly not low in fat due to the amount of seeds and the oil, so if you’re dieting, just have one.

Carrot Fries: The objective of Color Me Vegan is to find ways of increasing our intake of colourful vegetables which contain all those anazing anti-oxidents and micronutrients that are not available in supplements. Colleen’s take on the regular fries, is really good. So much Betacarotene and also much lower in fat than regular fries. These were really flavourful.