for anyone who grew up in australia, maybe you remember CHEEZEMITES? for anyone not exposed to vegemite (or marmite i guess) from an early age, you might find this disgusting, unless you're my boyfriend (who is from & has lived in austria all his life) who somehow overcame the key developmental age-introduction factor for vegemite appreciation ( Read more... )

Every year, we have a diversity pot luck at work. Each team chooses a country and makes a number of dishes representative of that country. It's usually a lot of fun and I normally have some idea what to make. As a Canadian with a large and varied group of immigrant/international friends and a penchant for traveling, I've grown up eating food from ( Read more... )

My younger brother is emigrating from the U.K to Australia in 5 weeks time (eek!) and we're having a bbq as his going away party-type-thing. Obviously I wish to provide many vegan delights for everyone to sample and I have a few in mind (stuffed tomatoes, pasta&chickpea salad and veggie kebabs) but I thought it would be nice to have something ( Read more... )

I don't know if you have chocolate crackles in america or the UK, but in australia they are the stuff of childhood birthday party nostalgia. They are unbelievably quick and easy to make, they taste brilliant (due to being basically sugar and fat) and are completely vegan!

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I'm trying to veganise this recipeI think I'm okay with the actual cake - I'll use soy buttermilk and the flour-oil-baking-powder-water egg substitute (fingers crossed it'll work in huge quantities like that, if you've got a better suggestion let me know) but I really have no idea how to make the icing. I don't think you can buy soy cream in ( Read more... )