THE VEGAN NEWS
OCTOBER 1996
The Vegan News is edited by P M Lloyd.
Do you have a favourite vegan recipe that
you would like to share with other vegans? Or perhaps you know of
some useful vegan products that we can buy? If so, please e-mail
the details to me at: pauline@bury-rd.demon.co.uk
I will try to publish some of your contributions in the next
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200g wholewheat macaroni
1 onion
3-4 medium tomatoes
1 tsp dried mixed herbs
1 x 400 g tin of curried baked beans (or normal baked beans with
1 tsp mild curry powder added).
- Peel and chop the onion and
the tomatoes. Put the onions and tomatoes in a pan and
cook them gently with the herbs for about ten minutes.
(N.B.tomatoes can be skinned by covering them with
boiling water for a few minutes. The skins should then
come off fairly easily.)
- Cook the macaroni in a pan
of boiling water until tender.
- Add the baked beans and the
curry powder to the onion and tomato sauce. Stir well and
heat through thoroughly.
- When the sauce is cooked,
mix in the cooked macaroni and serve.
Recipe serves 2.
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October Product
Review
Provamel soya dessert
This dessert is made from
soya beans and contains no animal ingredients. It is available in
chocolate or vanilla flavour and uses chicory syrup as a
sweetening agent instead of sugar. Serve it over fruit as a
change from vegan yogurt. Provamel soya dessert can be bought in
Holland and Barrett and other health food stores and costs about
£0.89.
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Recycling Tips
Before you throw anything away
think! Can it be reused? Here are some suggestions:
- Did you know that those
empty toilet rolls make good 'plant pots' for germinating
large seeds in? Simply, cut the toilet rolls in half and
stand them in a gardening tray or propagator. Fill them
with peat-free potting compost and plant your runner bean
seeds or sweetcorn seeds in them to germinate. When
planting out the seedlings cut off the toilet roll with
scissors. Start saving up all your old toilet rolls now
for next year's sowing.
- Similarly, any small
yogurt/dessert pots or take-away coffee cups can be
reused for growing cuttings in, or for potting up young
plants.
- Don't throw away your grass
mowings either. These can be used as a mulch on peas or
around the comfrey plants or they can be mixed into the
compost heap. Autumn leaves can be used for making leaf
mould. (See next section)
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What's Happening in
the Veganic Garden This Month?
There are two main tasks to be
done in the garden this month. These are:
A. Harvesting:
- Now that it is getting
frosty, bring in the tomato plants and ripen those last
green tomatoes indoors by putting them in paper bags in a
warm place such as in the airing cupboard.
- Finish lifting root crops
such as beetroot, carrots, turnips and potatoes and store
them for use thoughout the winter.
- Take down the runner bean
frames after harvesting any remaining beans. And don't
forget to keep and dry any large runner bean pods for use
as next year's seeds.
B. Tidying Up:
- Leaf mould:
Sweep up all those autumn leaves as they fall. They can
be used to make leaf mould. This is usually made inside a
wire netting container but if you do not have a suitable
container to put them in, then the leaf mould can be made
inside plastic dustbin bags instead. Punch some air holes
into the bags of leaves and sprinkle in some soil and QR herbal
activator. And, if the
weather is not too wet, give the lawn a final cut and mix
the mowings in with the leaves. Note:
For leaf mould, only deciduous tree and shrub leaves
should be used and rose prunings or horse chestnut leaves
should not be included. If you are making the leaf mould
using a wire netting container, it should be built on a
soil base and should be at least three feet high. You
will get better results if it has a cover to keep the
rain out. A special wire netting container can be
purchased from: The Organic Gardening Catalogue. Price
£14.60. They also sell a
special activator (Biotal, price £6.99), which is
designed to accelerate leaf mould production. Wire
netting containers can however be constructed quite
easily. Details on how to do this can be found in Veganic
Gardening by Kenneth Dalziel O'Brien.
- If you have some compost which is ready,
then put it on the land as it is cleared. The ground will
then be ready for Spring sowing. Details on veganic
compost making will appear in the November issue of The
Vegan News. In the meantime, keep any garden rubbish!
- Plant out the Spring cabbage plants if you
have not done this already. August sowings of seeds such
as winter radish, land cress, corn salad and claytonia
should all be doing well and you will soon be able to
harvest some of these winter salad crops. Hikari bunching
onions and welsh onions can also be picked throughout the
winter months and eaten in salads.
- If you haven't installed a water butt yet,
then now is the time to do it. You can purchase one from
your local DIY store or from: The Organic Gardening Catalogue. Many plants prefer to be watered with rainwater
and it helps to conserve the mains water supply for other
more important human uses. Why not set it up now so that
it will have time to fill up for the Spring?
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I love Pesto Sauce on my
pasta but since becoming a vegan, I have had to stop using it as
it contains cheese. Can you suggest any alternatives?
S. Williams. Milton Keynes.
Yes, I can. Zest foods make a
special vegan pesto. This is available from some health food
shops. Price approx. £2.13. Or by mail order from: Real Foods. Florentino also produce a dairy-free pesto. Price
£1.65 for 170 ml.
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365 plus one vegan recipes.
By Leah Leneman.
A good collection of easy recipes. The first chapter of the book
is a good source of information on vegan 'dairy' products and it
is therefore quite useful for beginners. This book can usually be
obtained from large booksellers and also from The Vegan Society. Price £6.99
Recipes that I would particularly recommend
include: The queen scones (p.17). Avocado and mushroom
salad is also very tasty and easy to prepare when the weather is
hot (p.31). I frequently use the miso and tahini pizza
topping (p.46) instead of vegan cheese. The tahini sauce
for pasta (p.53) is delicious when baked in the oven and
this dish makes a very tasty vegan alternative to macaroni
cheese. Potato and pea curry (p.72) is interesting and
cheap to make. Hazelnut and potato patties (p.78) is one
of my favourite recipes. I always grill the patties for about
15-20 mins instead of frying . They are very cheap and easy to
make, especially if you use leftover potatoes. The toad in the
hole batter made without eggs and using vegan sausages makes a
nice treat (p.104). I generally reduce the amount of fat
used though. And to end a meal try tofu cheesecake 1 (p.125)
or bread and butter pudding (p.127). Both of these are
delicious. The book also has a chapter on vegan cakes if you are
wondering how to make cakes without using eggs and dairy
products.
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