September 2014 In My Kitchen - Vegan MoFo edition

It that time of the month when I give you a peek into my kitchen.  As it is Vegan MoFo let's start with a visit to the Cruelty Free Shop in Fitzroy.  I didn't get to Vegan Day Out.  Probably for the best as I  prefer to browse when it is quieter.   It is always such a pleasant place to shop.  Such great vegan products.  A tyranny of choice.

I bought the Rhubarb and Custard nakd bar on the recommendation of the guy behind the counter.  It was very good, despite there being no rhubarb in the bar.  What I loved about the packaging was how large the ingredients were.  So often ingredients are so tiny they are a challenge to read.  As if the company has something to hide.  The Seed and Bean Coconut and Raspberry chocolate is just lovely too.  I am yet to eat the bean soup.  Too busy eating bio cheese on toast!

Yes I am in love with Biocheese.  If cheese was the only thing stopping me going vegan, Biocheese could possibly solve that problem.  It is so melty and yummy on a cheese on toast.  I have added it to bakes and pizza and it works brilliantly.  As others have noted, it is not really intensely flavoured and it doesn't seem to crisp up the way cheese does but it is the texture of cheese that I find most difficult in vegan dishes.  If you want more information, you could check out Veganopoulous' Biocheese review.

I managed to get along to Coburg Farmers Market a few weeks back.  The bagels went quickly, as did the Cocoa Rhapsody mint chocolate, beetroot dukkah dip and apples.  You will see the cute little squash soon.  The oranges and purple carrots are still in the kitchen.

I have had fun experimenting with the strawberry vinegar.  Great in a salad dressing.  The chilli sauce has been left to E.  We had found the jar challenging.  In fact half the sauce ended up on the floor after one particularly frustrating night trying to open the lid!

I have lots of vegan puff pastry in the freezer after buying it to make sausage rolls for a recent party.  Any suggestions are welcome.

I also bought these gluten free oats for the sausage rolls.  It is rare to see gluten free oats in Australia so I was surprised to see them in the supermarket.  I prefer rolled oats but bought quick oats because I wanted to make gluten free sausage rolls.

My mum often makes a contribution to my kitchen.  Here is an apricot jam she made from dried apricots - great with scones.  Also some apples she bought me from Newton farmers market and a kiddie mosaic craft set.

I was interested to see a new range of Fry's vegan goods in the supermarket.  We are yet to try the hot dogs.  I like the idea of them but it is not a regular meal in our house.  I bought them because my mum used to make us hot dogs for lunch quite regularly on weekends when I was little and little hot dogs were a staple of kids parties.  I hoped they might give give nostalgia value.

I was really curious about the polony.  Yes it is a vegan baloney.  I thought it might make a similar sandwich to the German sausage with sauce that I used to have a lot as a child.  I was not keen.  However I fried up the polony and added it to some split pea soup.  It was delicious.  I was amused at how much it looked like there were chunks of ham floating in the soup.

Here is one of Sylvia's lunches: sushi rice in nori, carrots, roasted chickpeas, porridgies, dates and dried apricots.  It was a day when we didn't have any fresh fruit but this time of there there have been a lot of apples in sylvia's lunch box.

Regular readers will know that Frozen fever has hit our house.  Sylvia just loved this frozen plate, bowl and cup set.  Pink, princesses and flowers.  What more could a little 5 year old girl want!

Lastly here are our blueberry plant a week or two ago.  A lot of blossom has already fallen off and I am less hopeful of growing blueberries.  No doubt the birds are keeping an eye on them.  Last year they ate most of the blueberries.

Everything in this post is vegan as I have written it as part of Vegan Month of Food September 2014.  This year for Vegan MoFo my theme is The Letter S.  

Today is S for the September edition of Celia at Fig Jam and Lime Cordial's In My Kitchen even.  Head over to join in and/or check out what is happening in other bloggers' kitchens.  Go to my Vegan MoFo list for more of my 2014 Vegan MoFo posts.