any recipes?

As anyone got some interesting recipes? if I make any yummy vegan food I'll post recipe and pic, if you have one post me the ingredients to donna.black@gmail.com , don't worry I'll say it was all yours and write your names on the posts :) x

some yummy soup cus I've got a cold and I'm in the mood for some

Mexican Black Bean Soup with Tomato Salsa
Serves 4

Shake those maracas, baby!

• 250g/9oz/1¼ cups dried black beans
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 large carrot, diced
• 1 celery stalk, diced
• 1 garlic clove, chopped
• 2 sprigs parsley
• 1 bay leaf
• ½tsp cumin seeds
• ½tsp ground coriander
• 1 tsp dried oregano
• juice ½ lemon
• salt and freshly ground black pepper

1. Put beans into a large pan with enough water to cover by about 5cm/2in. Bring to boil, boil for 1 minute, then remove from heat and leave to stand for 1 hour.
2. Add onion, carrot, celery, garlic, parsley and bay leaf. Bring to boil.
3. Boil for 5 minutes, then reduce and simmer gently, covered, until beans are very tender – 1-1½ hours.
4. Add cumin, ground coriander and oregano. Cook for a further 30 minutes. Remove and discard parsley stems and bay leaf.
5. Purée about half beans in a food processor or blender. Put purée back into pan. If very thick, add a little water to get to consistency you like.
6. Reheat gently, add lemon juice and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.

Tomato Salsa

• 4 tomatoes, chopped
• 4 spring onions, thinly sliced
• small bunch fresh coriander, chopped
• juice ½ lemon

1. Make salsa by mixing together all ingredients.
2. Season and put into a small bowl.
3. Ladle soup into bowls and let people spoon salsa on top of soup themselves.

Well Hello :)

Hi all fellow veg heads :) this blog was set up for The Belfast Vegan and Vegetarian society, I used to use a google group page but a lot of people found that hard to get into so I thought a blog spot and a face book page for the group would be much better so here we are, the facebook link is ( http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=135649283773) or just find me on face book ie BlackRat and look for my groups and join :0)

Basically I am a local contact for The vegan society and I am here to answer any vegan questions for people in Northern Ireland (not just Belfast) and I have also set up a group for other Vegan and vegetarians to meet up within Northern Ireland (but I am based in Belfast hence the name of the group) to go for drinks,meals, organise events and stalls etc, or just swap info and make new friends with like minded ideals :)

Please feel free to come and join the group and join the chats here.

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