On The Pan « Veggie Wedgie

Tempeh and Celeriac Mash

I finally got some time to cook the batch of tempeh I made a few days back.I marinated it in some shoyu and garlic and then cooked it. To accompany the tempeh (besides the obvious salad) I made mashed potatoes. This is not your average mashed potatoes though- I made mash using celeriac (celery root). It’s [...]

Akuratake Mushroom Fillets

My addiction to mushrooms continues to expand in yet another post…Today I give you :

Akuratake mushrooms (Pleurotus cystidiosus) are of Asian origin and are commonly known as White Elf or Abalone mushrooms (when I googled Akuratake almost nothing came up). They are very pretty, don’t you think? They look like big white seashells. Akuratake belong to the [...]

Mushroom Scallops

I first tried Eringii mushrooms last year, when I found them at my local Asian store. I tried them grilled and smothered with barbecue sauce and they were delicious! But when I went to New York this summer, I tried them at Pure Food and Wine as scallops! Yes you heard correctly. And they tasted and [...]

Instant Banana Crunch Ice cream

I had a dream the other night that I owned an ice cream shop with my boyfriend and we only sold ice cream with frozen bananas as a base. We had flavors like banana-caramel, banana-vanilla, banana-chocolate, banana choc-chip, banana peanut butter, banana-pistachio and strawberry-banana!! It was a very funny dream but it made me realize how [...]