comfort food – Crunchy Cooking

Vegan Cheeze Toast with Mushroom Bac’n

There is a time for crunchy cooking, and there is a time for vegan comfort food. This (kind of) brings them together.

Ethiopian-Style Lentil Stew with Collards & Sweet Potato

Spicy lentil stew, sweet potato and greens: perfection.

Barley and Vegetable Stew

Another one-pot meal for cooler weather featuring a wealth of warmly-coloured root vegetables and creamy barley.

Basic Spaghetti Sauce

We all need a solid spaghetti sauce to turn to: this one delivers.

Black Bean and Wheatberry Soup

Black bean soup is one of the most comforting autumn meals I can think of – wrap yourself in this warm culinary blanket today!

Baked Barley (and/or Buckwheat)

The calendar may say summer, but the thermometer said 4 degrees Celsius this morning. That begs for something warm baking in the oven. Result: baked barley.

Vegan Shepherd’s Pie

This health-boosted version of the comfort food classic has a golden potato topping, lots of vegetables, lots of garlic, layered over a rich and salty-savory lentil-chickpea blend.

Meatless Loaf with Sweet & Sour Sauce

This is a perfectly spiced millet and cowpea (or lentil) loaf that can shine alone – or that you can jazz up with a generous helping of sweet and sour sauce.