Category: Baking

     Hello All,Wayne AKA the Mad Food Scientist here.This time around, I’m kitbashing a vegan Gardener’s Pie. What’s a Gardener’s Pie you may ask? It’s akin to a Shepherd’s or Cottager’s Pie, but no meat is used. In this case, no animal products are going to be used. I’m...

Hello All, I recently came across a great simple vegan lasagna recipe on the Tasty, Thrifty, Timely YouTube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SKr4q6X9Oc ) and blog. ( https://tastythriftytimely.com/simple-vegan-lasagna-with-lentil-meat/ )I mostly followed the recipe, but tweaked it on the fly.Here’s the original from the blog post. ORIGINAL:1.2 L pasta sauce (about 2 jars, you will likely have extra)500 g lasagna...

     Hello All,Wayne AKA the Mad Food Scientist here.Recently, I made a batch of chili. I was searching for a good Southern style cornbread recipe. A friend, Ms. Lia was kind enough to share her Grandmother’s recipe with me.I’ve taken it and veganised it. I’ll show the original and...

Hello All,Wayne AKA the Mad Food Scientist here.Over Labor Day weekend I decided to take a swing at making Seitan sausages.( SPOILER ALERT: UPCOMING POST!! )So, to go along with the sausages. I need to make Hoagie rolls so I can take some of these bad boys to work for...

Hello all,Wayne, AKA the Mad Food Scientist here.I recently decided to jump back into baking. I found this video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_OkBy9REAI on John Kirkwood’s YouTube channel.John is a retired cook from England and has tonnes of interesting videos.Here’s the link to the written recipe.https://profoodhomemade.com/two-hour-loaf/However, I got to wondering if I could tweak this a bit...

     Hello all,Wayne, AKA the Mad Food Scientist here.I decided to jump back into baking my own bread again. I found this video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_OkBy9REAI on John Kirkwood’s YouTube channel.John is a retired cook from the North of England and has tonnes of interesting videos.Here’s the link to the written recipe.https://profoodhomemade.com/two-hour-loaf/ ORIGINAL: 450g / 16oz...

Hello All,Wayne, The Mad Food Scientist here.The experiment below is one born out of a desire to make homemade bread using oats as part of the flour. So, this isn’t going to make what most people call oat bread. i.e. using unmodified rolled oats in the recipe.This method is dead simple.Weigh...

    Hello, Wayne AKA the Mad Food Scientist here.It’s been a bit since last I posted.This is what I would call a building block post.What I’m making is building blocks for other things.In this case aquafaba and navy beans. Aquafaba is handy for replacing egg whites, vegan whipped cream, as a binder, and as...

Hello, Wayne AKA the Mad Food Scientist here.I’ve mentioned the subject of today’s post in a couple posts already. I decided it needed a standalone post of it’s own. What am I talking about? Homemade substitutes for buttermilk. Let’s face it, who keeps buttermilk at home? Who can afford...

Hello everyone, Wayne the Mad Food Scientist here.This time out, I’m making Raisin Irish Soda Bread. I was chatting about my previous loaf of Irish Soda Bread with Mick from the U.K and he suggested taking dried fruit and soaking it in tea, then adding the rehydrated fruit into...