skip's famous quinoa fritters

This is a sweet dish that I originally made for a date with a sweet kid. It has since become my signiture dish.

I usually make it with red quinoa, this time I had tri-colour quinoa on hand (normal, red and black). I cook up the quinoa and let it cool a bit.
I mix it up with a bit of flour (usually buckwheat, this time used spelt), some chopped garlic, fake egg mix (olive oil and guar gum or cornstarch), some melty vegan cheeze (daiya mozz here, when in australia use cheezly).

Form patties from the mix and fry them up real quick in some shallow oil.



The first time I made this I served it up with a slice of orange, a pica de galo, and smokey grilled tempeh.

This time I made a berry-wine-balsamic reduction and put that on top, with a dollop of kalamata olive paste, with some blanched brocolli and beets!! totes delicious.

ft lauderdale, Green Wave Cafe

Me (vegan, diabetic) and friend (celiac (glutton-free) and diabetic) and other friend (vegan) met up in florida this week and it was my challenge to find us a place to eat. and holy shit, did I find the perfect fit. I found a place called Green Wave Cafe in Plantation, FL. which is pretty much fort lauderdale. and its is VEGAN, 100% GLUTTON FREE, RAW, and refined sugar-free. what the what right? Its amazing that I found something that totally fit all of our many needy needs.

They had an extensive menu with heaps of yummy looking stuff. We got a chocolate shake, and I had a almond milk coffee (a total dream of mine for places to serve coffee with almond milk). and we all got this awesome BURGER!!! served on onion bread and had a sick cheezy sause made from cashews and it was seriously just great. whadda dream.

a new yogurt attempt

So, after the past couple months of making a weekly batch of coconut yogurt for myself, I looked at the can of coconut milk to find that it has 50 % of your suggested daily fat intake in it. And i thought thats a bit much eh? Ive tried using lite coconut milk but its just doesnt work for making yogurt, its too watered down. So I thought Id try making a yogurt from almond milk!
I knew it would be a bit thin, so I tried making it with some guar gum in it to keep it thick. I did everything the same as my recipe found on this page for coconut yogurt, but with unsweetened almond milk. And it did work! its not nearly as tasty and delicious as the coconut milk, but its nice to know that it works and that the guar gum thing works. I think next time Ill try half coconut milk half almond milk, that way i keep the yummy coconut flavour but reduce the fat significantly.

its just a picture of a jar, but this is it finished! not as white as the ccnut one.