Random MoFo Thursday!

Thursdays were always going to be pretty random on the blog during MoFo, I wanted to leave some unplanned days so that I could choose what to eat based on what I fancied that day & so that I could get through some of the inevitable leftovers. Today I've been inspired by peoples What I Ate Wednesday blog posts, so today is What I Ate Thursday!

I started the day with a plate of fruit & a slice of the Co-Op's fruit loaf, toasted & spread with Marks & Spencer Low Fat Dairy Free Margarine.

I followed with a late morning snack of the last Apricot Glazed Almond Cupcake that I made for the cookbook challenge on Tuedsay.

Lunchtime involved more leftovers, this time the last of yesterday's Leek, Bean & Rice Medley from 500 Vegan Recipes.

It might've looked better yesterday but it still tasted fantastic today.

Next I had a delicious bowl of Tyrells Sweet & Salty Popcorn as a mid afternoon snack whilst I was reading MoFo blog posts.

Whilst I was waiting for Nick to finish work I got hungry & ate one of yesterdays Beer Rolls (again from 500 Vegan Recipes) with some Marks & Spencer Low Fat Dairy Free Margarine.

I also hadn't forgotten that I'd promised to make the last recipe of this weeks cookbook challenge today after the rainy day laziness hit hard yesterday, the generator had picked the Quinoa, Tofu & Kale with Walnut Pesto from Color Me Vegan so that's what was on the menu for dinner.

I started by making the Walnut Pesto.

I'd planned to halve the recipe but it was too little even for my mini chopper to deal with so I made the whole lot & now I have pesto in the freezer for next time I fancy it. I always freeze portion sized amounts of pesto in silicone muffin cases & then pop them out into ziplock bags.

The actual meal was really easy to throw together & faster than the recipe suggested, the tofu & kale were done by the time the quinoa was finished & I had time to reconstitute & chop the sun dried tomatoes & toast my pumpkin seeds whilst all of that was cooking. The only change I made was to cut down the oil a little bit & to salt the kale whilst it was cooking rather than adding salt to the whole dish at the end as the recipe suggested.

I was really quite surprised how much I liked this, I love quinoa & tofu but I don't usually like sun dried tomatoes & I'm not the hugest kale fan but it all came together to make a delicious dish. What was actually the most surprising thing though is that Nick (my vegan but fussier-than-me husband) came home & ate some of it! I swear if he'd seen me doing 'weird' stuff like cooking the kale & rehydrating the tomatoes there's no way he'd have touched it! I'll definitely be making this again & I love the cookbook challenge for alerting me to another great recipe that I'd have otherwise skipped & for making Nick eat kale!

I can't promise I'm done with eating for the day so I'll pop back & update this if I end up snacking on anything new...I might just eat the leftovers from dinner though because they were really yummy!

Cookbook Challenge Day III

After all of yesterdays sweet treats I was happy that the generator threw some savoury stuff at me today. First out of the hat was 500 Vegan Recipes & the page, 354, Beer Rolls. I've made some really delicious things from 500 Vegan Recipes before, the Seitan en Croute and the Caramelised Onion Tart with a Sweet Potato & Sage Crust really stick in my mind, so I had high hopes for the rolls.

I've never really made bread before today, I've made bagels & pizza dough but never actual bread, so I knew this would be a challenge. First off I had to seek some help from my American BFF to find out what the UK equivalent to sucant was (it's rapadura whole cane sugar btw) & then I had to work out what kind of beer to use. I went for Budweiser after checking my VeganXpress App in the supermarket because it was the only vegan American beer I could see! Whilst reading through the recipe I was a little surprised by how long baking bread was going to take but also by how simple it was, sure it takes a while but during all of the waiting I went to the gym, hung up the laundry, cleaned the kitchen & watched some Jersey Shore so it's the kind of cooking I can get down with!

To start I mixed together the dry ingredients, and then the wet - the wet ingredients included beer, hence the name, but also water that had to be 38 Celcius. That was quite a challenge as I kept getting distracted & letting the water drop in temperature. Next up was trying to find somewhere warm for the bread to rise, our house is currently a little chilly because our radiators aren't working but I solved the problem by taking the dough into the bathroom with me whilst I showered & leaving it there to let the steam do it's thing once I was done!

I was so excited that these turned out so well, look, they're like real bread!!

These rolls are really delicious, I'm eating my third right now & I made the first into a sausage sandwich...

...which was of course delicious!

The only bad thing about these rolls coming up is that bread was part of my 'New Foods Friday Challenge' for MoFo & now it'll feel like cheating so I need to come up with something else to go alongside the Paella, Pierogis & Tamales I'll be making. Any ideas?

Surprisingly the second name out of the hat was 500 Vegan Recipes. I guess I shook the hat too well... or not well enough! The generator picked me page 164 the Leek, Bean & Rice Medley. I like rice, beans & leeks so it definitely looked promising.

The recipe was really easy to follow and whilst it needed two pans you were't really using them at the same time so it's definitely an easy weeknight dish. The rice, both wild & brown, takes a while to cook so as long as you throw it in the pan when you get home you can still have dinner on the table in around an hour. I'm so glad this recipe popped up, it's full of gorgeous flavours & I'd never have thought to put pecans in a hot rice dish myself.

The more I cook from 500 Vegan Recipes the more I love it & I'm hoping it comes out of the hat again before the end of the month.

Now I was meant to make a third recipe today, the Quinoa, Tofu & Kale with Walnut Pesto from Color Me Vegan. I'm not particularly hungry after all of that bread and rice and beans though so I'm going to save it for tomorrow & spend the rest of the evening reading MoFo blogs rather than cooking.

Cookbook Challenge Day II

Yesterday was the start of the cookbook challenge & I continued today with another three recipes. First out of the hat was Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World. Amazing. I was very pleased with this start to the day! The random number generator picked me page 107 the Coconut Lime Cupcakes but as I'd already made these (I've made quite a lot of recipes from VCTOW!) I had to pick again. This time the generator directed me to page 89 where I saw the recipe for Apricot-Glazed Almond Cupcakes.

This actually might not have been a recipe I'd have made if it hadn't have popped up in the challenge, I haven't had the best results baking with soy yoghurt in the past & I'm very much a chocolate girl when it comes to baking cupcakes for myself.

I'm so glad the recipe generator picked these cupcakes though. They're unbelievably good & I think I've actually been convinced that there is a cupcake better than a chocolate cupcake! These remind me of an apricot version of a cherry bakewell, one of my favourite pregan desserts that I still haven't gotten around to veganising...partly because a cafe just around the corner from my house sells a vegan version! I picked toasted almonds for the topping just because I thought they'd be more fun than regular almond slices & I really enjoyed decorating a cupcake with something other than buttercream for a change.

The second cookbook of the day was Kelly Peloza's The Vegan Cookie Connoisseur. This was shaping up to be a very good day indeed! The recipe the generator chose was the Vanilla Thumbprints & it looked like a great easy recipe. I also liked that the baking with jam theme was continuing.

This is one of my newest cookbooks & whilst I've spent a lot of time flicking through it & bookmarking recipes this is actually the first recipe I've baked from it. You can use any jam you like in the cookies & I picked raspberry. These cookies are so fucking delicious that I actually had to stop Nick eating them straight from the baking tray because I was running out of cookies to photograph! They're also super simple to make & don't use any complicated ingredients. The only thing I did differently to the recipe was that I pressed them down a tiny bit before baking the second tray because my first batch were a little rounder than the picture in the book.

I was amused when the third recipe of the day came up as the Prosecco Spritzer from The Urban Vegan. Apparently the universe doesn't want me to eat any real food today! Whilst I do drink alcohol I certainly do not drink expensive prosecco on my own on a Tuesday afternoon so I decided to make this drink with soda water & cranberry juice rather than the suggested prosecco.

Nick has the day off work today & he doesn't ever drink alcohol so the non-alcoholic option was a good way for him to join in with the fun too. I definitely like this drink, in fact I am about to pour myself a second, and I will happily make the alcoholic version one day.

Today has definitely been a fun day but I do currently have a bit of a sugar buzz after eating two cupcakes, 8 cookies & a glass of cranberry & soda water. I think I might need to go & find myself something sensible to eat! See you all again tomorrow!

Cookbook Challenge Time!

It's Cookbook Challenge time! I'll be doing the challenge every Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday this month & I've been really excited about this part of MoFo. I ended up really enjoying it last year despite being nervous about posting my home cooking on the blog! I'd say I'm a better cook that I was last year, I don't rely on store bought meat & cheese substitutes anywhere near as much as I used to but I do still neglect some of my cookbooks; for example I've cooked around half of the recipes from Appetite For Reduction this year but their are other cookbooks sitting on the shelf untouched. Ridiculous.

For people who didn't read the blog during last years MoFo the Cookbook Challenge is where I pick the names of my cookbooks out of a hat (I even have a real hat this year!) & use a random number generator to select which recipes I'll be cooking. I also won't be cooking any recipes I've made before & I'll be choosing the weeks recipes at the start of the week so that I don't have to food shop every day. That'll also mean that the challenge isn't too planned out which is part of the fun.

The first cookbook out of the hat today was Color Me Vegan.

This is one of my newest cookbooks & it's the second one I have that's written by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau. I have actually managed to cook a few things from it & my favourite recipe so far has been the Swiss Chard Pie which I've made three times subbing spinach for swiss chard each time.

Today the recipe generator picked me page 130 Kiwi Banana Muffins. This definitely isn't a recipe I'd have picked myself. I'm not the biggest kiwi eater, I do like them but they're not something I often buy... I don't really know why!

I got my ingredients together.

I was surprised that all of the liquid in the recipe came from fruit, I usually bake with oil so using margarine was a bit of a change. The recipe came together quickly but I'm glad that the recipe included the amount of kiwi purée the fruits should yield rather than just the number of kiwis because the number of suggested kiwis actually made twice the amount of purée the recipe needed which would have resulted in incredibly soggy muffins.

I thought that the muffins came out a little strangely. They hardly rose & were quite heavy. These weren't dense as I suspected they might be when I pulled them out of the oven, they were actually quite moist but also a little gummy. I don't think I over mixed them but then again you never know. That said I doubt I'll be making them again because peeling & mushing the kiwis seems like a lot of effort for a just-okay muffin!

Next out of the hat was Please Don't Feed The Bears.

Now I have to be honest here, I cooked one recipe from this cookbook last year during the Cookbook Challenge, it didn't turn out brilliantly & I haven't actually used it since. The recipe the generator picked me was the Frankenbeans. This certainly looked very promising, I like all of the ingredients & the directions were just to throw them all into a pan together & heat them up.

I chose a smokey tofu hot dog for this recipe because it seemed that it would go well with the other flavours in the dish. I'd also never tried them before which fitted in with the challenge. The dish also included light molasses which I haven't ever been able to find so I used part molasses sugar & part maple syrup. These were really, really good.

Really good! Especially given how ridiculously simple the recipe is. This dish was great on it's own but I imagine it'd make a great beans & rice bowl with brown rice & smokey greens. You could even make this a much cheaper dish by making steamed smoky seitan sausages rather than buying expensive hot dogs. I'll definitely be making these again, in fact thinking about it they'd probably make perfect drunk food!

The third & final cookbook of the day was Vegan Planet by Robin Robertson. I've actually had this cookbook for about two years & I don't think I've ever used it. It was included in last years Cookbook Challenge but it never came up & I've always found it a little intimidating, probably because it's quite big & has no photos at all.

The recipe that came up was the Tuscan White Bean & Fennel Stew with Orange & Rosemary. This sounded promising, my only worry was that whilst I'd never actually cooked with fennel I'd decided after smelling it that I probably wouldn't like it. I do love stews though especially now that the weather has turned all Autumnal & tying new things is the point of the cookbook challenge so I soldiered on.

It was another easy to throw together recipe, not as easy as the Frankenbeans but I don't think anything ever will be!

I was pleased to realise that cooked fennel tastes much milder than raw fennel smells. I don't even think I could taste it in the finished stew. I loved the taste of fresh rosemary, I don't actually think I've ever cooked with it before but I'll probably make more of an effort to get fresh herbs when recipes call for them now.

What's your favourite recipe from Vegan Planet? I'd love some ideas of what to make from it once the challenge is over. Today's been super fun & I'll be back with more cookbook challenge fun tomorrow!

Football Food Sunday. Take 1!

Every Sunday this month I'll be posting about Football Foods. Because I'm British you might assume that I'm talking soccer but nope, my husband Nick is pretty obsessed with American football! The games start here at 6pm which is the perfect time to dig into a huge plate of food or two.

I'm going to be cooking what I consider to be classic North American dishes every Sunday. Unlike the Cookbook Challenge I'll be choosing these dishes myself. Tonight I decided to make these Barbecued Seitan Ribz from Fat Free Vegan Kitchen and the Mac Daddy from Veganomicon.

Nick & I are both big mac & cheese fans but we've never eaten ribs in our lives. It's not really a thing here but I searched around a bit & settled upon the recipe from Fat Free Vegan Kitchen because it sounded easy to throw together and the pictures on the site looked great.

This recipe was definitely easy to make, the only challenge was getting the seitan to spread out & lie flat in the pan so that you could cut it into equally sized pieces. I was also momentarily panicked when I was reading the recipe through a few hours ago & it said to 'prepare your grill'. We don't really have grills over here but then I remembered one of my most recent kitchen appliance purchases, a Grill & Griddle!

I love this thing! So far I've used it to make panini's, toasted sandwiches, pancakes and now ribs. Nick also wants me to mention that he once used it to make a pocket pita panini pizza!

The actual seitan was crazy delicious. Moist inside and crispy on the outside thanks to the grilling. Nick & I are both fans of steamed or baked seitans & this recipe certainly didn't disappoint.

We chose the Mac Daddy recipe from Veganomicon to go with it because it seems that people in the US eat ribs with mac & cheese! The Mac Daddy was the first vegan mac & cheese I ever made & I love it. It's slightly healthier than some other popular mac 'n' cheeses (the New Farm recipe for example) and I love that it includes tofu. The Cheesy Sauce recipe is part of the Mac Daddy recipe & we often just make the Cheesy Sauce to throw over pasta. Sunday Night Football's a special occasion this month though so I made the whole thing.

This was a great dinner & I'll definitely be making it again. We went a bit easy on the BBQ Sauce because we were using store-bought & were unsure of how much we'd like it but I'd happily slather on some more next time.

I thought I'd also give you guys a sneak peek at my kitchen set up! I've mentioned on the blog before that my pictures can be less than perfect because I do most of my cooking in the evenings & my house is really dark but tonight I started working on a solution. Last weekend I actually made a pre-mofo practice Sunday night football dinner & the pictures were so terrible that I had to do something!

That's my kitchen with the main lights on. That's how dark it usually is! I've added the extra light which'll have to live somewhere else when I'm not taking pictures as it's clearly in the way. I'm no photographer but I think this has made my night time pictures a little better.

I'm going to show you what we ate last week anyway though because it was delicious...

We made Vegan Dad's Boneless Chicken Hot Wings and his Sweet & Sticky Sauce with a side of polenta fries.

As you can see the picture really didn't do this delicious food justice. I was also a little freaked out about making three new recipes for one meal so I'm glad that this was pre-mofo rather than today when it would have made me a little more panicky! Everything actually came together relatively easily. The first hurdle was that the seitan wings included chicken broth powder which isn't something you can buy here upping the new recipe total to four as I needed start by making Bryannas Chicken Broth Powder. This looked so easy that I actually outsourced the task to Nick who's not usually the chef in this house. We left out the soy protein powder, I would imagine that you can buy this in the UK but we didn't have any so out it went & it was fantastic anyway. I'll definitely be making this again rather than buying expensive chicken broth cubes from Vegan Essentials so don't be put off making this wing recipe because of the extra step.

The seitan came together really easily, the only real challenge was forming it into the 'wings' around the stick. We only used 1 cup of water (the lower amount in the recipe) & it was quite a wet dough so if (when! Seriously, go!) you make this add the water slowly. Also bear in mind that I'm no artist so I would suggest a trip to Vegan Dad's blog if you would like to see what the wings are meant to look like. This is some of the tastiest seitan I've ever eaten.

This thick sweet sauce was equally easy to make & I added a tonne more to my plate after taking that picture. I was worried that the sauce might be too sweet for me given that it contained ketchup, maple syrup AND brown sugar so we decided to serve it as a dip rather than pouring it over the wings & baking it that way but I'd certainly give that a try next time. Nick was incredibly excited about this sauce because the last step is to drain the onion, he hates onion & we often argue about whether it is or isn't necessary in recipes!

I'm actually unsure where I found the Perfect Polenta Fries recipe. It's something that I've had saved in my bookmarks for years but for some reason I've always had some kind of polenta phobia. I don't really know why but it meant that I'd never tried it until last weekend. This recipe was probably the most challenging of all because the directions in the recipe seemed a little off. It said to coat the polenta in cornmeal which I would take to mean it should be really well covered but after trying them (& having had to use a lot of extra cornmeal!) I would think that the recipe should have said that these needed to be sprinkled with cornmeal or perhaps thrown into a bowl & tossed with the oil & then the cornmeal. Whilst the recipe wasn't perfect (we had to scrape a lot of corn meal off off the cooked fries!) I am now a polenta convert though & will be making some polenta fries in the near future.

I think it's time for Nick & I to break open some Cleo's to stick with our American theme & I'm going to go & read all of the MoFo blogs that I have open in multiple tabs & windows! I hope you guys enjoyed Football Food Sunday I'll be back with more of the same next weekend!

Getting my MoFo on with an all you can eat vegan sushi party!

Iiiit's Vegan MoFo time!! I'm really excited that it's finally here, I've been thinking about all of the things I want to write about for a while now & waiting until October first to put pen to paper has been quite a challenge!

I posted my MoFo Plan yesterday, Saturdays are going to be pretty random, a mish mash of restaurant reviews, my favourite products or whatever else I'm feeling like writing about that day. I've decided to start off this posi vegan blogging event with a write up of local sushi restaurant Moshi Moshi's excellent vegan challenge night.

This Redwood Foods sponsered event which was part of the Brighton & Hove Food & Drink Festival was held on Thursday & the whole restaurant turned vegan for the night. As soon as Nick (that's my husband for new readers! Hi!) & I heard about the event we knew we'd have to drop £25 each on the ticket, we're both big fans of Moshi Moshi anyway & the chance to try some new kinds of sushi & to get to take part in such a positive local event sounded way too good to pass up. Six chefs from local restaurants, both vegan & non vegan, including Aloka, Titbits Catering & Hotel du Vin each created a vegan sushi dish which we gave scores to.

On arrival everyone was given a free jug of hot sake and a Moshi Moshi tote bag containing a Moshi Moshi t-shirt, a Redwood Foods catalogue & a packet of their mock duck. We also each got a score card.

We were seated right by the sushi preparation area which was fantastic as we got to watch some of the chefs create their dishes.

What we didn't realised when we booked was that not only were we going to be eating all of the sushi's created for the competition but that Moshi Moshi would also have all of their vegan menu items going around the conveyor belt AND that we could eat as much as we wanted!!

It was essentially an all you can eat vegan sushi party which made us both very happy & definitely made the ticket price more than worth it. We munched on Crispy Vegetable Dumplings, Avocado Hosomaki, Inari Tofu, Salted Edamame, Vegan Cheese & Sun Blushed Tomato Maki and Inari Tofu, Celery, Red Radish, Lettuce & Campio Maki alongside the fantastic dishes created for the competition.

First out of the kitchen was an uramaki, or inside out roll, created by Moshi Moshi themselves.

This contained mock chicken & ginger & was surrounded by a plum sauce & black sesame seeds. We both really enjoyed this roll & gave it a 6/8 on our score card. I was surprised that I didn't find the ginger overpowering & I think that had to do with the pairing of it with the sweet plum sauce.

Second out of the kitchen was a creation by Aloka, a local cafe & raw food restaurant that I've written about on the blog before.

Now whilst I do love Aloka's cafe, they have a great buffet, some delicious raw desserts & they make my favourite mint chocolate chip ice cream they can be a little hit or miss. Sadly this was a miss. Myself, Nick & the diners surrounding us all agreed that whilst this was an incredibly beautiful & well presented dish it just didn't taste good. The sesame covered ball just tasted like Redwood Foods pâté! This would have been fine next to a plate of crackers but it certainly wasn't something you should put in your mouth whole. The thing next to it was also beyond strange, of course I put it in my mouth in one go & was pretty repulsed by both the taste & texture. I did enjoy the little fried thing that came perched on top of the pâté ball though so all was not lost & we gave this dish a 2/8.

Thankfully what came next was so amazing that it made us forget about the preceding dish. This vegan duck & avocado uramaki was fanfuckingtastic!

Alongside the mock duck inside this uramaki were red onions, sun blushed tomatoes & celery, it was topped with perfectly ripe avocado and came with two sauces; one plum & one strawberry, both of which were fantastic & complimented the sushi roll. I'm not going to lie there was almost some plate licking here & I actually ended up eating three of them & requesting that it be added to the menu on a permanent basis! At this stage of the competition this was the clear winner in my book & we gave it 7/8.

Next up was a dish very obviously created by local Indian restaurant Chilli Pickle.

I don't think this picture can possibly convey how spicy this dish was. It was delivered to us with a warning & after taking a small bite my eyes started to water & my mouth was on fire. This was definitely too spicy for me! Nick bravely soldiered ahead identifying the flavours. Alongside the chilli were coriander, cardamon & mango to name a few. This roll was filled with some mock duck that tasted the least like mock meat of any mock meat dish we'd ever tasted. We gave this sushi a 4/8 because whilst we aren't spicy food fans we thought it was great that they'd really put their own slant on the sushi dish.

The fifth dish of the evening from Hotel du Vin was something different.

This dark miso broth was filled with crispy duck, glass noodles, spring onions, kale, ginger & onion. We both enjoyed this dish, I especially enjoyed the fried noodles on top of the dish & the fact that they had used kale. We had a bit of a disagreement over how to score this one. I wanted to give it 5/8 and Nick 7/8 so we settled on 6/8!

The sixth dish to fly out of the kitchen was this pretty plate made by local catering company Titbits Catering.

There were two main elements to the dish, a wasabi beetroot topped, miso soaked & seed covered slab of vegan cheese and an avocado, cucumber & hijiki salad topped with nori coated almonds. I quite enjoyed the salad especially the hijiki flavour & the almonds were definitely my favourite part of the whole dish. In fact I wrote on my score card the they should be added to the menu as a nibble! Unfortunately I felt that the slab of White Cheddar Cheezly was a little misplaced. Not many people actually enjoy eating vegan cheese straight up like this, especially non-vegans & we thought that tofu or even a softer vegan cheese could have worked better in the dish. We gave this a 4/8. I would like to add that I've eaten Titbits Catering's food before at their Gourmet Girls pop up restaurant & I thought that the food was fantastic. I also just found out that they only had 24 hours to prepare for the competition after Terre a Terre had to pull out.

The last savoury dish of the evening was a beautifully presented crispy duck, mushroom & cheese dumpling served with butternut miso sauce, spicy chilli & ginger jelly and a cheese & wasabi foam topped with cheesy kale chips. This was by far the fanciest of all of the dishes & unfortunately I was so excited by it that I started to tuck in before snapping a picture. Blogging fail. I apologise in advance for doing this & I'll admit that I hate people posting half eaten pictures of food on their blogs but in my defence I'd only take a small bite...

Every element of this dish created by Cashew Catering worked beautifully together, I can't pick a favourite bit because it was all spot on. I love kale chips & the cheese & wasabi foam was an inspired idea. These guys definitely know how to create delicious & stunning looking food & we gave this dish full marks.

Last but not least we were served dessert. VBites contribution to the competition was a matcha sponge cake with a layer of chocolate topped with a light cream & dusted with matcha powder.

This was such a great end to the evenings meal. The cake was beautiful to look at & I enjoyed the matcha sponge part of the cake. I'm not the biggest fan of cream toppings but Nick was definitely a fan. We scored this a 6/8.

The whole event really was fantastic and Nick and I will definitely be attending next year. My favourite dishes were definitely the deep fried duck, mushroom & vegan cheese dumpling & the vegan duck & avocado maki. We waited to see which dishes were awarded places in the top three & the results were as follows...

In third we have Moshi Moshi with their vegan duck & avocado uramaki. In second Hotel du Vin with their crispy duck broth with glass noodles and taking the top spot was Chilli Pickle with their spicy sushi. I have to say that I was surprised that Cashew Catering's entry didn't place in the top three but I loved that the dish from Chilli Pickle came first because even though it wasn't to our taste they really put their own spin on it.

The only negative comment I have regarding the whole event would be that every dish contained a mock meat or cheese product. Don't get me wrong I like these things a lot but I don't think that they're necessary in vegan Japanese cuisine (as Moshi Moshi's regular menu proves) & I would not like that to be the impression that non-vegans left the event with. I would have loved to see some of the chefs using tofu or tempeh & I'd be interested to know if Redwood Foods sponsorship of the event was reliant on every chef using one of their products?!

That said I love that Moshi Moshi put on this event and that they're so vegan friendly. It makes me really happy to see a non-vegetarian restaurant showing a real commitment to being more ethical & environmentally aware.