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A vegan food blog, a continuation of fairestfeed.blogspot.com.

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Green tea soba noodle salad with shredded cucumber, enoki mushrooms and soy/mirin/ginger tofu steak. Served with miso soup.
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Pho. Pho is my favourite. I am by no means an expert on the subject, but I knows what I likes, and I knows that a really good bowl of pho is actually quite a simple task to undertake provided I have plenty of fresh, fragrant crunchy veggies and a little bit of time to prepare it. I used this recipe, which I like because it’s straightforward, and doesn’t require a list of ingredients as long as my arm. I added a few dried shitake mushrooms to the broth as it was simmering for extra flavour, and served it with slices of fried eggplant, rice noodles, Swiss brown mushrooms, strips of zucchini and carrot, sliced green chili, fresh mint and basil, spring onions, and red chili oil. Vegan Pho (from Kitchen M) Broth:1/2 onion, chopped into half1-1/2” cube ginger, chopped into half3 cloves garlic, peeled, whole4 cups vegetable broth1 pod star anise2 cloves1 cinnamon stick (about 3”)2 Tbsp soy sauce1/2 Tbsp raw sugar Heat a large pot and lightly brown onion, ginger and garlic. Add vegetable broth, star anise, cloves, cinnamon stick, soy sauce and raw sugar and simmer over med to med-high for 20-25 min. Check the flavour of the broth, and strain. Keep hot. Meanwhile, prepare your noodles (rice or wheat, dried or fresh, whatever you prefer), vegetables (whatever you have on hand, lightly steamed), any tofu, eggplant, mushrooms or mock meat you’d like to include, and toppings (fresh mint, basil, Vietnamese mint, coriander, bean sprouts, sliced chillies, spring onions etc). Place noodles, veggies, mushrooms/tofu et al in 2 large bowls and ladle over the hot broth. Add toppings and extra chili if required. Serve.
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Wheat noodles in miso broth with dumplings and my home-made kim chi (which is god-damned delicious).
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Vegetarian (vegan) laksa, $9.20, Laksa King. Mother fucking vegan laksa. Tofu, eggplant, bok choy, broccoli, snow peas, bean sprouts, fried onions, mint and coriander, two types of mother fucking noodles, all in the creamiest coconut soup you’ve ever tasted. Fuck. 6-12 Pin Oak CrescentFlemingtonVictoria03 9372 6383
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Noodles with shitake mushrooms, wakame (seaweed) and bok choy, topped with home-made pickled raddish. The bok choy I stir fried with lots of garlic and fresh ginger (I’m sick), a little soy sauce and water. I made a broth of mushroom water (from rehydrating the dried shitakes), soy, wakame, garlic and ginger. To this I added the mushrooms, noodles and sesame oil. I topped this with a little dried chilli and seaweed/sesame sprinkle and shredded raddish.
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Tonight’s solo dinner: Hor Fun style stir fry of tofu (crisped up in the wok first with a little 5-spice powder), onion, garlic, broccolini, celery, bok choy, adzuki beans and shitake mushrooms. The sauce is soy sauce, veg oyester sauce, a little cornflower mixed with water, and sesame oil. All on a bed of wheat noodles, served with some of the radishes I pickled earlier in the year. So gooooood.