FOOD FETISH

Delicacies Now

Words: Anukriti Anand

Vegan Chocolate Slice

IngredIents

• 2tbps flax seed • 5tbsp water • 110ml extra virgin, cold pressed coconut oil • 160gms jaggery powder • A pinch salt • 60gms cocoa powder • 115gms refined flour/oat flour • 1 tbsp vanilla extract

MetHOd

• Make a powder out of the flax seeds and add in the water. • Leave it aside for 5 minutes. This is your flax egg or your egg replacement • Meanwhile, warm up the coconut oil slightly and add in the jaggery and cocoa powder • Sift in the flour and salt. This is a one bowl recipe! • Fold in the flax egg mixture and pour into a baking tin & bake at 170 for 18-20 minutes

Food Fetish

Food Fetish

Power Packed Salad

•2 lemons, juiced and zested •1 big clove garlic •1tbsp black peppercorns •1.5tbsp sesame seeds •¼ cup olive oil/any neutral oil •Salt to taste

•Add juice and zest of lemons, sesame seeds, black peppercorns and garlic in a blender and blend into a fine paste •Add the oil and blend one more time to emulsify and set aside

sALAd

•4 cups mixed greens •½ cup sprouts •1 beetroot, cut in thin slices •½ cup cherry tomatoes, cut in half •2tbsp seeds (a mix of whatever is available)

MetHOd

•Tear the salad leaves into bite sized chunks and toss with the sprouts, beetroot and salad dressing top with cherry tomatoes and seeds and serve cold

Mushroom Farfalle Pasta

IngredIents

• 2 cups dry pasta • 1tbsp olive oil • 500gms mushrooms • 2 to 4 garlic cloves • 2 small onions • 1tbsp chilli flakes • 2tbsp nut butter • 1 cup soy/any plant milk • 1.5tbsp(fresh) or 1tbsp(dry) oregano • 1tbsp toasted almonds

• In a medium pot, bring water and 2tbsp salt to a boil • Add the pasta once it reaches a boil for the duration specified on the pasta packeage • In another pan, heat olive oil with onions till they translucent • Add garlic and chili flakes and saute till fragrant (if using fresh oregano add now) • Add the mushrooms and wait for them to leave water • Add the nut butter to the pan and let dissolve with the mushroom water • Add the soy milk (and dried oregano) and let it cook together • Once it reaches the sauce consistency desired, add the cooked pasta • Add salt to taste and serve garnished with toasted almonds

Food Fetish

Food Fetish

Mississippi Mudpie Cake

IngredIents

coffee ice cream

•300gms full fat milk •150gms fresh cream •50gms sugar •2tbsp milk powder •2tbsp instant coffee powder •1tbsp vanilla extract

Peanut Butter chocolate ice cream

•350gms full fat milk •150gms fresh cream •50gms sugar •2tbsp milk powder •140gms peanut butter •2tbsp cocoa powder •1tsp vanilla extract

the BaSe

•10 Oreo biscuits •6tsp melted butter

hot fudge Sauce

•½ cup brown sugar •¼ cup cocoa powder •¼ cup butter •¼ cup milk •1tsp vanilla extract •Pinch of salt

MetHOd

•In a heavy bottom pan, weigh out your milk +cream + sugar + milk powder + vanilla extract. (This step remains the same for both ice creams) •Whisk everything together, put it on the heat and bring it to a boil while stirring constantly. (Please be careful and don't let the milk scald. •Once it comes to a boil, turn down the heat and let it simmer. KEEP STIRRING DON'T STOP! (We have to reduce the mixture to a 3/4th since it needs to be creamy)

For the peanut butter and chocolate ice cream

•Once it's reduced enough and it's beautiful and creamy, add your peanut butter and cocoa powder, whisk. •You can also add it to the blender and blend till smooth. Let it cool slightly, put it into your large containers and contact wrap it with cling wrap. •Freeze overnight.

For the coffee ice cream

•Once the base is reduced enough, whisk in the coffee powder while still warm( Not boiling hot) and repeat the same process. Cool it off, put it in a container and contact wrap it. •Freeze overnight.

equIpMent requIred

•1 heavy bottom pan •1 spatula •2 large Containers •Electric hand whisk •Blender •Weighing machine •Cup and spoon measures •Round cake tin 8"

Green House

Urban JUngle Fever!

Trapped in the chaotic concrete buildings of city life, there is nothing better than bringing the refreshing positive energy of the lush greens, right inside your home. Together with their aesthetic and healing presence, both your space and your experience of it will be transformed in the best possible way. Flip the pages for 5 inspirational urban jungles that have been care for and assembled together by genuine plant lovers, who share their motivation behind creating their own green paradise and impact that it has had on their life.

Research: Arushi Chaturvedi

Green House

Carla Hora (@a_londoners_urban_jungle)

“There are some fantastic feelings which plants give us, but more importantly, they can teach us to be more patient, more caring and to pay more attention to details. There’s this peaceful feeling which comes with plants, a calming effect, or even a sensation of protection. My day starts with checking them while sipping a cup of coffee: looking for overnight growth, atypical changes in foliage and if they need to be watered. I do not have a dedicated watering day as every plant has its own needs. They usually get fertilized weekly while actively growing and I keep the humidity levels quite constant. The aesthetics of my urban jungle depend on the mood I am in when the urge to rearrange them kicks in, but it always revolves around each of their light and humidity needs. In general, I either opt to display them like artefacts in a museum, or cluster them to create visual delimitations between different areas, offering intimacy.”

Green House

Ines osborne (@home.plants.and.three.cats) “Bringing the outside in has become a bit of a fixation. My inspiration comes from two quite different sources: childhood memories of how both my grandmothers crafted incredible green spaces in small inner-city terraces (Porto, where I grew up) and the magnificent Victorian and Edwardian orangeries and sunrooms, where the line between indoors and outdoors is almost impalpable. I try to recreate this sense of fusion between urban and natural space in my home too, not only through plants, but by using natural materials like rattan, and choosing heritage green tones. Of course I would say that adding a plant – or 150 - to any space improves it. But it’s not just aesthetics: like gardening, indoor plant care is very restorative too. Plant care really is a pleasure, not a chore: it helps clear my head, especially after a demanding week at work. You’ll often find me on a late Saturday morning with chilled music in the background, a hot coffee brewing, and a sharp pair of scissors in hand for any plant in need of a haircut – and that’s my happy place.”