Sunday 27 July 2014

Vegan Ma'moul/ Klaycha

recipe from an Iraqi friend. The Iraqi version is naturally vegan, apart from the egg glaze on top.

about to try with spelt flour... and an Oat milk as a glaze.

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three cups of plain flour
3/4 cup of sunflower oil
pinch of salt
tea spoon baking powder
mix together

add lukewarm water bit by bit until it becomes a dough
can add some rosewater to the dough too.

cover it with a towel and a leave for a bit (few minutes) while you get the date paste ready

date paste, add cardamon or aniseed (I presume powder…)
to make the date paste, just heat the chopped date with some oil to make a paste

try oatly as a glaze before baking. It's usually egg.

no need to oil the mould as the dough is oily.

oven on 160C until they are baked, (slightly red)

Friday 24 August 2012

Vegan Crepes

Vegan Crepes


here you go! from voted no 1 vegetarian restaurant for many years, Terre a terre in Brighton. I had them on pancake day last year and they were so amazing that I asked for the recipe and they kindly obliged!

Recipe ... don't quite know how many these make ?
1cup soya milk 1 cup cold water 1/2 cup soya marg. - melted 2 tbsp sugar 4 tbsp maple syrup 2 cup plain flour 1tsp salt Mix all together and leave to rest for 2HOURS.. then cook


(and some wisdom from me…)
I cut out the sugar but leave the maple syrup in. I had them with spinach and garlic this time, as well as chocolate and banana.
also accidentally made them with soya cream intead of milk. so had to water it down. but certainly came out well! have also made them with oat milk yesterday so I think any sort of milk replacement thing is fine.

bit of a 'replacement fest' but resulting texture is perfect!

Video of me enjoying them in the restaurant. (great place btw, highly recommended!)

Sunday 23 January 2011

Mung Bean Dhal


I'm going to use the word 'some' or other vague words as I am pretty clueless about amounts. Might be worth having a look at some recipes online to get an idea of relative quantity. I tend to vary the amounts too, but that's the beauty of this recipe, its really hard to make it inedible!

Put some green mung beans - in the photo, I use the packet shown, but this makes huge amounts. You might want to start with small quantities and working out what you like -into a saucepan, put plenty of water (I have about an inch and a half on top of the beans - it will soak it all up and then some), bring to the boil and them simmer.

While that is cooking, chop up, or grate some ginger and garlic, and throw that in.


Put in some chopped tomatoes (I have varied the amount of tomatoes wildly and it never seems to make much difference).

Add some hot pepper (we put in a whole Scotch Bonnet and let it cook in there but that might be a bit too mad for most) or not. You can always add some hot sauce at the end, when you eat it.

Add some ground tumeric and ground cumin (roasted cumin is best). there is traditionally a stage where some oil is heated in ladle, and the whole or ground cumin is 'burnt' in there and then plunged into the dhal but I'm happy without this stage (and makes it healthier and safer!)

Just let it carry on cooking, and add water until its a mushy texture. Salt to taste.

Serve with rice, or I have even watered it down as a soup. A tomato and onion salad can go nicely, or some cucumber.

Good luck!

Friday 14 January 2011

Bata de Cola



I was asking around to see if anyone knew of any good bata de cola videos and they came up with these


Fast and furious!



Matilde Coral - This one has some slow flowing moves in it too.

(this one has a second half too)

Its an art that can look good..if you do it really well... but otherwise it looks utterly ridiculous! It requires an interesting technique though, more balletic than flamenco in a lot of ways.

Sunday 26 September 2010

.mov from Flash


Convoluted method for getting an avi or decent .mov out of a Flash file. this was to get stuff into an .avi uncompressed, odd shape (one is a football perimeter fence) 30fps as per specification.


The built in 'export as movie' to .mov is dreadful in Flash CS4. Lots of artefacts and random results.

The solution I found is detailed below.

exporting it as a jpeg sequence (caveat is that any movie clips won't play (Jpeg sequence seems to give you exactly what you see as you scrub, and you don't see movie clip animations (you only see those when you export as swf). solution for the movie clip problem is to convert them to graphic symbols, or put the frames directly on the timeline.

putting it together in FCP. (in a 30fps sequence, need to edit timebase before you put the images in).

export using compressor (no compression, keeping and frame rate the same) to .mov (oddly comes out half second shy). The settings I used as a base were the 'uncompressed 10bit' and then checked through and saved them as a specific one.

then my first attempt was to convert using quicktime pro into .avi (oddly retrieves the half second!). this had the result of a dreadful colour shift. So I processed the .mov through Shake and used no codec and .avi container for the fileout node settings. slight colour shift, but nothing as startling as the quicktime effort. (shown - left is .mov right is mov to avi via shake. bottom is mov to avi using quicktime pro)

Oddly putting it through shake restored the extra half second missing.. !!??!!!

Saturday 31 July 2010

gossypium packaging


gossypium packaging, originally uploaded by london_lime.

cutest packaging ever!

Monday 12 July 2010

RSA - Postage Stamps


RSA - Postage Stamps, originally uploaded by Kathryn Brookes.

such a cool idea.