First Day of MoFo!

   I've just read my first MoFo blog post- an amazing, beautifully illustrated review of a vegan extravaganza in a Brighton Sushi restaurant and am now feeling really humble and intimidated!! How will we measure up in comparison with that? We live in very rural East Anglia and don't have a sushi restaurant in 10 miles- we don't even have a CHIP SHOP within 5 miles! We don't even have a SHOP within 5 miles, come to that! We don't even have a- you get the picture! So, OK, it's not that sort of blog- think of me more as the Laura Ingalls Wilder of veganism- pushing ever onwards where no vegan foot has ever trod, making do and mending and making penwipes and whatnots out of..absolutely nothing!!
   So, we started the day with pancakes, made with my own wonderful recipe- you'll realise how good it is when I tell you that I waited to have my children until I had developed a pancake recipe worthy of them!
  Some of us eat them the old fashioned way, with lemon and sugar, some of us with yeast extract and the really experimental contingent discovered that they were nice sprinkled with black salt! If you don't already use black salt, and if you ever miss that weird slightly sulphur-y taste of eggs, then black salt really does the job! We sell it in VegaNation, our delightful 100% vegan online shop (www.veganation.co.uk), so if you don't have any we can fix you up!
  I was going to take a photo of the pancakes but I could never get more than one on a plate at a time as people were eating them so fast! Also, we're planning a cooked meal later which might look slightly similar and I didn't want anyone thinking that vegans only eat tube-shaped food!!

  OK, we did some Maths, now we've just made our supper: Cheese and Bean Enchiladas are in the oven at the moment. We had to make some salsa and some enchilada sauce first and made the cheese sauce that we always use for our Macaroni Cheese.
  WOW! That was really, really lovely! it only worked out as a * * * meal because, of the children, only Fin ate it. He was VERY enthusiastic about it and declared that he'd NEVER had anything nicer, and he wants it for his birthday meal (in March!), so it has displaced Pierogi from the top of the leader board for his birthday meal- excellent news as Pierogi take about 3 days to prepare and then leave you thinking that they'd probably have been nicer about two stages back!
  Pony tried the enchilada and didn't like it, but she was happy anyway as she had her VERY FAVOURITE MEAL of all, which is Quesadilla, which we made in the oven this evening, instead of on a griddle, which made things simpler as usually when we have Quesadilla (which is ideally NEVER as all the rest of us are heartily sick of it!) it involves a lot of jumping up and down to the oven and back.

  We make the filling very simply with Cheesly and soya milk, cook on an oiled baking tray and serve with 'sour cream', made with plain vegan yoghurt with plenty of lemon juice added.
   I thought the Enchilada was really lovely; the cheesy sauce really contrasted well with the enchilada sauce, and the vegan sour cream added a note of coolness which set off the warmth of the cumin and chilli spices in the sauce. The original recipe had a 'cheese' sauce based around yeastflakes but much tho' we love yeastflakes I don't really like using them to make cheesy sauces- it uses the yeastflakes up too fast, and Cheesly makes a better-tasting sauce, anyway. I'll try and remember what I did when I made this meal so that I have somehope of re-creating it and so I can post it tomorrow!