Cam's Indian Restaurant

We had friends over for dinner on Saturday night, and by Jeebus, he outdid himself!  (You can commence drooling now):

Mung Bean Dahl.  Need I say more?

Cam's favourite Savoury Chickpeas.

Amy's favourite Potato and Cauliflower Curry (he added Coconut Milk this time - it's a nice addition!).

Indian Salad.

Mushroom and Pea Curry.  This one was HOT but good!

Why are there never any leftover Chilli Potatoes?  Grrrrrr.

The whole shebang.
We followed all that spice with Spiky cupcakes!

They were the Toasted Coconut ones from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World topped with Chocolate Buttercream.  I made too much icing (on purpose).  Oh the joy of raiding the fridge for icing!!!!

(The diet started yesterday - I'm of course ignoring the English muffins below!).        

I bring to you..... my breakfast!

I couldn't let this one go without a pic.  Cheezley on English muffins with sliced up hot dogs (hooray for Sanitarium doggies).  Note the incredible melty browny goodness!

I'm actually still eating it (while procrastinating from law study - as always!).  Yummo!

Vegans in Brisneyland - part one

The first in a new series of food pictures (because I got a fancy new phone that takes awesome pictures!)
First up: My Heart Garden in St Lucia (a brisk five minute walk from the main campus of the University of Queensland (suck it QUT)).
I tend to visit this with friends for lively literary discussion, but I always forget my camera. Not anymore!

Cam had this burger - no idea what the name was... It looked gorgeous!
I had two of their great salads, with Korean Tofu. I'm so going to crack the recipe for the Korean Tofu!!!!

They make the best cakes!
Vegan Chocolate Cheesecake:

Vegan Chocolate Cake (note the literary hands - she's writing her honours thesis on Anne Bronte's The Tennant of Wildfell Hall - yes we're all into old English lit!):

They're open: Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri, 8am-9pm. Wed 8am-3pm. Sat 5pm - 9pm Sun Closed. (I always forget they're not open for lunch on Saturday!)
My Heart Garden: Shop 5 / 225 Hawken Drive, St Lucia 4067. 07 3870 8898

Wicked!!!!

So my trip to Melbourne was about four weeks ago now (but I can tell you lots of information about negligence torts with regards to omissions and psychiatric illness!), so it's probably about time that I shared the photos.  They're pretty damn blurry because my hands were shaking the whole time (yes, I was that cold).

Wicked was wickedly (lame, I know) awesome.  The fact that I knew all of the songs didn't detract from the performance.  I'm wearing my Defy Gravity t-shirt right now!

We spent most of the Saturday walking to Collingwood so I could get a new belt from Vegan Wages.  Above: picture of Vegan Mecca #1.
Vegan Mecca #2: Lord of the Fries!
This was taken at three in the morning at our hotel.  OMG.  How can the Melbourne vegans eat anywhere else?
We found Las Vegan, but alas, they were closed.

Finally, on Saturday night (after the show) one of my friends from high school took us to an awesome cocktail bar called Ginger.  Wow.  This bar showed me just how far Brisbane has to go to creating a decent nightlife.

I can't remember what the red one was called, but the one below was called Napoleon Dynamite! (ignore the non-vegan cocktail behind it)

All in all it was an awesome trip.  I'm dying to visit Melbourne when it's a little warmer!!

Unhealthy yumminess

Howdy.  Yes, I'm a lazy blogger, but between work, my trip to Melbourne (blurry pics will be in the next post!) and other stuff, it's been a little busy.  Enough empty apologies, you came here to see food pictures!

Vegan Fish and Chips!!!!  We took the Vegetarian Cod Fish slices (available from Asian grocer - it's like an oval shape with seaweed around the outside), mushrooms and leek circles and made a batter with the following (actually, I just mixed the dry ingredients and added liquid as required):
1 cup plain flour, 1 tsp Baking Powder, 1/2 cup cornflour, 2 tsp salt, 1tsp sugar.  To make a full batch add 1 cup water and 1tsp oil.
Take to your mum's house when everyone else is having fish and chips and make everyone jealous with your fried goodies.  And OMG, deep fried leeks and mushrooms are just DROOL-worthy.  Seriously.

Amy and Cam's lazy burger (makes one burger):
Take 2 Fry's Burgers and bake along with 4 slices of Sanitarium luncheon.  About 10 mins after the beginning of cooking, add slices of Cheddar style Cheezely.  Assemble with tomato sauce and american mustard.  Pretty damn good.  The baking of the cheezely kinda enhances the cheddar goodness.
I'm waiting for permission to post details of the recipe for the lasagne (which is made up of about 3 different recipes)!  So here's a sneak peek!

It's fricking freezing here in Brisbane (or as I now like to call it - Brisneyland - thanks Bec!).
IronChefAmy out.

Lazy vegan food

Howdy! We've been incredibly lazy the last week when it comes to cooking. I've been spending most of my time sequestered on the couch knitting a scarf (I'm hoping to be done on Saturday - pics will follow) and Cam's been back at med school (ha ha! I still have about a week left of holidays!). So no intensive cookery sessions! So lazy food it has been.....

Cheezeburgers! We used Cheddar Cheezely and English Muffins, topped with American Mustard and Tomato Sauce. So unhealthy. SOOOOO tasty.

Yes, this is jam on bread. Raspberry jam on bread. The jam was made by my uncle (he lives in Launceston). Best damn jam in the world.

I've kinda made up an awesome recipe for vegan lasagna (my nephew calls is assnia - it's funny in the voice of a four year old), so hopefully next post will be pictures and recipe!

Iron Chef Amy out.

DIY Indian Feast

I often brag about Cam's skills as a chef (or as he'll now be known, Iron Chef Cam) when it comes to Asian delights. He really is very good!


Here's an example of just how good he is (be prepared for extreme jealousy!). A couple of weeks ago we took pity on my Dad and made him dinner (Mum was overseas for work). Cam made an extra yummy Indian feast!.

Tomato Glazed Sour Chickpeas from The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking.


Chilli Potatoes by Iron Chef Cam - recipes to the right!
These are pretty hot, but OMG they're incredible!



Mung Bean Dahl - Iron Chef Cam




And my absolute favourite at the moment, Potato and Cauliflower Curry by Iron Chef Cam.




Yummy! Dad sweated a bucketful (as always). Tee hee.

Here's a later meal - Mushroom and Pea Curry by Iron Chef Cam. The recipe's in the recipe list to the right.



Hopefully I can get myself organised before uni goes back to add some of my original creations.

Please have a go and let us know what you think!
Email us at ironchefvegan AT optusnet.com.au.

The incredibly dorky Iron Chefs.

P.S. I heard Hiroyuki Sakai was in Brisbane yesterday and I missed out!!! :(