Some Urban Vegan testers

Here’s some food porn from some recipe testers I did this weekend. They’re recipes from Urban Vegan’s upcoming cookbook The Urban Vegan: 250 Street-Smart, Animal-Free Recipes (publish date: late 2009).

Pommes Anna.

Béchamel Sauce.

Béchamel Sauce over Pommes Anna.
I was curious what the two would be like together and did a combination. Omni-mom really liked [...]

Acorn Squash with Pecan-Cherry Stuffing

Acorn Squash with Pecan-Cherry Stuffing. Recipe test from Urban Vegan’s upcoming cookbook The Urban Vegan: 250 Street-Smart, Animal-Free Recipes (publish date: late 2009).
This dish wasn’t that hard — once you get the darn acorn squash cut in half — to make but is a lovely presentation. I can definitely see serving this with a Fall [...]

Parsnips St. Jacques

Parsnips St. Jacques. Recipe test from Urban Vegan’s upcoming cookbook The Urban Vegan: 250 Street-Smart, Animal-Free Recipes (publish date: late 2009).
Delicious! Again, it filled the kitchen (and outside via the exhaust fan) with great aroma. Dynise does a wonderful job of combining flavors in a layering effect, I think. It’s also a good looking dish.

There’s [...]

John’s Marinara Sauce

John’s Marinara Sauce. Recipe test from Urban Vegan’s upcoming cookbook The Urban Vegan: 250 Street-Smart, Animal-Free Recipes (publish date: late 2009).
My favorite spaghetti sauce was Jo Mama’s World Famous Spaghetti Sauce. No longer! This vegan sauce was delicious, rich, aromatic, and hearty! I served this over some spaghetti noodles with a side salad with Dynise’s [...]

Sun-dried Pesto

Sun-dried Pesto. Recipe test from Urban Vegan’s upcoming cookbook The Urban Vegan: 250 Street-Smart, Animal-Free Recipes (publish date: late 2009).
I served this spreadable pesto on top of toasted thinly-sliced French bread. This was incredible! The layers of flavor were beautiful. This was supposed to be done with a food processor, but I’m still unsure about [...]

Chocolate-Pumpkin Bread Pudding

Chocolate-Pumpkin Bread Pudding. Recipe test from Urban Vegan’s upcoming cookbook The Urban Vegan: 250 Street-Smart, Animal-Free Recipes (publish date: late 2009).
So, you know how this is my first time serving as a tester for a cookbook, right? Well, I recommend the experience to everyone. The only drawback is that I can’t give details. I wish [...]

Tri-color Quinoa

Tri-color Quinoa, tester from Urban Vegan’s cookbook
I have discovered something. I am not a huge quinoa fan. It’s too mellow for me. Or maybe this was too mellow. This is the second recipe that has been fine but not a repeat. The texture is fine. It’s pretty enough. I want to add BAM! to it, [...]

Modular Pakistani Kima

Modular Pakistani Kima from Urban Vegan’s cookbook.
Oh, how the house smells! This is my favorite so far. And I look forward to taking this to work tomorrow and making the whole floor envious! (Well, those that are still there and not off on vacation.) Silly me. I had this post scheduled and didn’t think about [...]

Walnut Sauce

Yep, another testing of a recipe from Urban Vegan’s upcoming cookbook, Urban Vegan: 250 Street-Smart, Animal-Free Recipes.

I was supposed to use a food processor but don’t have one so borrowed Mom’s. Mom got it from Grandma when she passed. I was baffled though. Wouldn’t the oil of the bottom point-up thingy get on the food? [...]

Cornmeal Scrapple

It’s vegan, I promise! It’s another recipe test of Urban Vegan’s upcoming cookbook so it is! The name though. Ick. But I was curious since I was never brave(?) enough to try real scrapple and I am in Virginia. I see scrapple in the local supermarkets often.

Oh, the smell was outstanding! The taste was good [...]