Healthy Vegan - November Blue Fenugreek, Purple and Green Cauliflowers

I don't have that much to share this month, but here are a few vegetables and foodie related things that I did manage to photograph. 

In my kitchen were these green and purple cauliflower picked up direct from one of the growers at a farmers market.  I made Savoury Black Sesame and Purple Cauliflower Cake with the purple cauliflower; and the other was made into a Green Quiche which I will share later in the week for Eat Your Greens food challenge.

These two baby pumpkins were left over from last month.  I roasted them in a little oil and added them to a Peanut Curry.  I found peeling them quite difficult.

These are the last of the cooking apples from the tree.  Its been a good year with the fruit trees in the allotment garden plot this year. 

I made two recipes from the BBC website, Dorset Apple Cake as shown above and Dorset Apple Traybake (not shown)  and I must say, that both very delightful to eat and share.  I want to be cheeky and call it Welsh Apple Cake, as the apples were from Wales, but I better not. 

I have two cookbooks from the library: Mamushka and Kaukasis by Olia Hercules. I had wanted to make a few Georgian, Azerbaijan recipes from the Kaukasis: The Cookbook, but nowhere could I get my hands on Utskho-suneli known as blue fenugreek. I even went into the cities to seek this out, but no success,  So, I had to source and order some on-line.  It's expensive.  I have 250grams of it to use in the next two years to use it and share it. I better get on with making some of those recipes now. 

There is a vital wheat gluten that I recently used for my Seitan Cake.  I also have some mushroom stock, many of the vegetarian and vegan recipes I have say to use vegan beef stock, I have never seen it being sold, so for me the mushroom stock is a good dark flavourful replacement. 

We went to a supermarket and I was  quite impressed with their vegan offering and picked up these Tofurky deli slices, we usually use Quorn brand.  We picked up Hickory Smoked and Oven Roasted flavoured ones.  I have to say, they were okay, I was not fully sold on the texture, it was too polished and shiny, if that makes sense - still I'd buy them again only if they were on special offer. 

We also have some fudge in the fridge, this stuff is sweet and too soft.  

I am sharing this blog post with Sherry Pickings for In My Kitchen series, its a nice opportunity to take a peek into other bloggers kitchen.