0 Happy New Year ( 2008 food recipes)

Happy New Year to all my readers!

Thank you so much to everybody who has been visiting my food recipe blog in 2008.

I have had a lot of fun cooking my food recipes and posting them onto this blog.

It is great to get such wonderful feedback from my readers and people who love to cook my recipes, thank you everyone.

I have enjoyed cooking curries, other savouries, sweets and desserts.

I have particularly enjoyed cooking my vegan and gluten free recipes. Baking vegan and gluten free can be very satisfying and a lot more healthy for you.

I thought a little reminiscing over my 2008 recipes would be fun so here are last years favourite recipes. I have enjoyed cooking and posting every single recipe on my blog but here are a few favourites that I have picked out:

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Curry Pasty Recipe

The pastry on these tasty pasties tastes so very good and with a vegetable curry filling they are just so delicious.

See my Vegetarian Curry Pasty Recipe

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Hash Browns Recipe

My hash browns are so tasty that you will never buy them from the shops again. Seasoned perfectly with a crisp outer layer with a soft potato centre, what more would you want from a hash brown?

See my Hash Browns Recipe

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Baked Salmon Recipe

My baked salmon recipe is very easy to cook and so very healthy to eat. Fresh salmon with a wholewheat crust baked until golden in the oven, delicious.
See my Baked Salmon Recipe

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Coconut Chicken Curry Recipe

This curry recipe is a huge favourite in our house. I just adore the Kerala Indian flavours of the coconut.

See my Coconut Chicken Curry Recipe

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Caramelized Onion Hummus Recipe

If you love hummus you will love my caramelized onion hummus recipe. The sweetness of the onions compliment the chickpea hummus in such a fantastic way.
See my Caramelized Onion Hummus Recipe

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Restaurant Style Chicken Curry Recipe

If you love spicy curries then this is a curry for you. I really enjoyed cooking this curry because it was easy to cook and had maximum flavour once done.

See my How to make a restaurant style chicken curry recipe

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Strawberry Gateau Recipe

This dessert is so good that you will be back for a second serving. The cake slices are moist, that along with clotted cream juicy fresh strawberries....need I say more?

See my Strawberry Gateau Recipe

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Battenburg Cake Recipe

Battenburg cakes can be one of those recipes that you think will be too difficult to bake. My batteneburg is easy and tastes fabulous. The best thing is to see the finished product and be so proud that you made your very own battenburg cake

See my Battenburg Recipe

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Egg Free Bakewell Slice Recipe

We all love a good bakewell tart or almond slice so I was very excited to bake an egg free vegan bakewell slice. It is very very tasty, so much so that you would not believe that it contains no eggs or dairy. Absolutely delicious.

See my Vegan Bakewell Slice Recipe

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Apple and Cream Swiss Roll Recipe

The flavours of this vegan Swiss roll are fantastic. I used wholewheat for a healthy Swiss roll sponge cake, vanilla cream and cooked cinnamon apples for the filling.

See my Apple and Cream Vegan Swiss Roll Recipe

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Gluten and Egg Free Toffee Cake Recipe

This recipe you will recognise as I only published it recently. My toffee spice cake is so very tasty that it really does have to be on this list of favourites.

See my Gluten Free Toffee Spice Cake Recipe

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Lamb Tikka Kebab Recipe

I could not finish the list without one of my tasty kebabs. I picked this one as the lamb is so tender and they are so easy to cook and come out of the oven tasting so very delicious.

See my Lamb Tikka Kebab Recipe

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More from 2008...

It was great fun to make my very own food recipe videos for you all to view. I now have four food recipe videos;

How to make an egg free bakewell video recipe

How to make onion bhaji video recipe

How to make a vegetable stir fry video recipe

How to make a vegetarian chicken curry video recipe

I always publish a full step-by-step picture guide recipe alongside the video recipes to make it easier for my readers.

See my video recipes index page here

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It has been great fun cooking and publishing all my tasty recipes for you to enjoy.

Thanks

Jeena x

0 Vegan Spiced Toffee Cake Recipe (Egg free/ Gluten free Recipe)

If you bake my vegan spiced toffee cake recipe once I guarantee that you will be baking it again for sure.

You best grab a piece of this tasty toffee cake before everybody else eats it all up!

This is an egg free toffee cake recipe a gluten free toffee cake recipe and it is fully vegan.

I use a combination of individual sweet spices but you can use a ready made sweet spice blend if the spices I use are not available to you.

The use of both dates and dried apricots add to the toffee flavour of the cake, when dates and apricots cook the texture of the fruit becomes soft and the flavour is very much of toffee. I use unsulphured apricots which are darker in colour and more rich in flavour.

Once my cake is cooked I insert a skewer into the cake and spread a thick layer of my dairy free toffee sauce all over the cake.

This spiced toffee cake is so more-ish, I slice the cake up into squares and it is not long before there is only cake crumbs left over on the plate.

Ingredients for Vegan Spiced Toffee Cake Recipe
5 oz Rice flour
2 oz Light brown Sugar
3 oz Dried apricots (chopped)
2 oz Dried dates (chopped)
2 oz Sunflower margarine
100ml Hot water
1/4 tsp Aniseed powder
1/4 tsp Cinnamon powder
Pinch Mace
Pinch Ground cloves
1 tsp Baking powder
1/2 tsp Bi carbonate of soda
1 tsp Vanilla extract
2 oz Ground almonds
2 Tbsp Flax seeds
4 Tbsp Hot water
Chef Jeenas Vegan dariy free toffee sauce



How to make Jeenas Kitchen Vegan Spiced Toffee Cake

Soak the dried fruit in the hot water.

Grind the flax seeds to a powder. Mix flax seed powder and 4 tablespoons of hot water together and leave for a few minutes.

In a large mixing bowl mix margarine, sugar and flax seed binder together very well.

Add all of the dried ingredients and vanilla, mix very well.

Add the dried dates and apricots along with all of the water used to soak the fruit.

Pour into a greased and floured square cake tin. Place into a hot oven at 200C for 30-40 minutes or until golden and a skewer comes out clean.

Leave to cool slightly then cool on a wire cooling rack. Take a skewer and poke holes into the cake, only insert the skewer half way into the cake, do this all over the cake.

Spread generously with my vegan toffee sauce. You want the sauce to seep into all of the holes and cracks on the cake.

Once fully cooled and ready to served spread with a thick layer of my dairy free toffee sauce.

Enjoy Chef Jeenas vegan and gluten free toffee cake recipe.

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0 Dairy Free Vegan Toffee Sauce Recipe

My dairy free vegan toffee sauce recipe is such a fabulous accompaniment to any vegan sweet or dessert recipe.

It contains no butter, cows milk or cream yet it tastes fantastic and is far healthier to indulge in than toffee sauce that uses dairy.

You do not need a thermometer to cook this toffee recipe as it is a thick sauce you want to produce not a hard toffee or a fudge.

Follow my step by step toffee sauce recipe and enjoy this wonderful sweet vegan treat.

Ingredients for Dairy Free Toffee Sauce Recipe
6oz Light brown muscovado sugar
6oz Sunflower margarine
200ml Soya milk



How to make a Dairy Free Toffee Sauce

Place all ingredients into a deep based pan.

On a medium heat bring to the boil.

Once the ingredients have melted down at a boiling point reduce the heat until you get a steady simmer.

You want to sauce to boil at a simmer but not so it starts to over flow the pan.

Stir frequently for 30-40 minutes.

The toffee sauce will then froth more and darken in colour.

Stir constant for 5 minutes.
Take off the heat and pour into a dish.

Leave to cool then cover and refrigerate.

Use as needed.

You can use Chef Jeenas vegan toffee sauce recipe in baking, desserts, as an accompaniment or as an ingredients for all sweet recipes.

Enjoy.

See my vegan spiced toffee cake recipe that uses my dairy free toffee sauce.