Red Lentil Soup

Ok, I'll have to edit the name of this soup once I have double checked it in my book, but essentially it is a really wholesome soup (almost with a chowdery texture) made out of my favourite lentil. It was so simple to cook and with the copious amounts of coriander I added (although the recipe only calls for 2 Tbs), it had an absolutely beautiful aroma as it was simmering away. Truth be told, the recipe called for celery and an onion (which I don't like and didn't have, respectively) but it was so yummy without. Definitely a recipe to try if you have this book!

I will definitely make this again before winter ends - there really is very little that fills me up and comforts like red lentils.

I also recently had a really lovely salad at our local botanical gardens that was flavoured with a wasabi vinegarette. It was so good that I decided to make my own version of it. Mine had green beans, baby spinach and rocket, roasted pumpkin, cherry tomatoes, and pine nuts and the vinegarette was essentially a normal vinegarette with some wasabi paste added until I was satisifed with the flavour:

The photo is pretty ordinary, but it makes me hungry for this salad just looking at it!

In the next couple of days, I'll post some pictures of a spicy blackbean soup from 'Wholefoods' as well as some cupcakes I made for a friend.

Wholefoods

Its been an age since I've posted here, but I have recently gotten into my cooking groove again so decided I should document it here before I start getting lazy again! Hopefully I'll keep the laziness at bay for a while, and I think I've come up with an idea. I should credit the PPK forums for putting the idea into my head and I would link to the specific thread if I could find it, but I can't. Anyway, I was reading this thread an age ago about how there was a food blogger out there who set herself the task of making every recipe in a Nigella Lawson book, and the question was posed as to what vegan book would be a good one to set that same task for. An obvious choice was Vegan with a Vengeance and from memory Vegan Planet as well. While I have both of these books and they're awesome, I recently acquired 'Wholefoods: heal...nourish...delight' By Jude Blereau that has quite a lot of vegan (or easily to veganise) recipes. It also follows the wholefoods principle, which is what I usually aim to do when I'm eating.

So, I've decided to attempt to cook every recipe in the book that is vegan, as well as attempt to veganise some of the other dishes.

I've already made a couple of soups, and I'll post these over the next couple of days.