While there are some commercial vegan condensed milk products available, like the Nature’s Charm sweetened condensed coconut milk, it’s very easy to make dairy-free condensed milk yourself. All you need is a slow cooker and a few simple ingredients. Use this condensed milk with Thai iced tea and coffee, Vietnamese…
Dessert Recipes
Man Sampalang Cheum – Cassava in Syrup with Coconut Cream
One of my favourite things to eat in Thailand is nam kaeng sai (น้ำแข็งใส), or mixed ice desserts. These refreshing bowls are typically comprised of your choice of an impressive variety of toppings combined with shaved ice (or sometimes crushed ice), coconut milk, and simple syrup. These toppings can include…
ขนมบ้าบิ่น Kanom Baa Bin: Thai Coconut Cake
Kanom is often a word used to prepend names of mainly sweet snacks in Thai language, hence we have kanom chan, kanom krok (the coconut half-globe pancakes that every tourist seems to discover), and many more. This isn’t a hard and fast rule, however. For instance one exception is the…
Khanom Chan ขนมชั้น Thai Layered Dessert
Khanom chan is unlike any Western dessert you’re likely to come across, but if you like sticky and tacky East Asian sweets then this is most certainly a recipe worth your time and effort. Yes, it’s time consuming – once the dough is prepared, each of the many layers is…
Apple, Plum, and Żubrówka Bison Grass Vodka Sorbet
A couple of summers ago, after extending an invitation to a friend to come around for afternoon cocktails, I found myself lost in the booze aisle in Tesco. I knew then nearly as much as I know now about spirits, which is to say next to nothing. I texted the…
Vegan Miso Caramel Recipe
The idea of this sweet, rich sauce isn’t mine by any means, but I’m throwing my stamp on the concept with this easy recipe for vegan miso caramel. Imagine salted caramel, only with a bold umami flavour. Imagine decadence, only using a less annoying word than decadence. Imagine if the…
Vegan Jammie Dodgers (Linzer Cookies)
There are a few types of cookie that look pretty enough to dupe people into thinking they are difficult to make. Jammie dodgers, or linzer cookies if you’re stateside, fit that bill. Actually, the hardest part of any cookie-making is enduring the loss of cookie dough as it bakes into…
Sweet Potato Balls (Kanom Kai Nok Krata) ขนมไข่นกกระทา
Despite a common belief by many Westerners that vegetarianism is impossible to communicate in Thailand, and that fish sauce goes in everything, the Thai language has a word to indicate veganism that is universally understood. เจ translates in English to je, or jay, and means no animal products. The concept…
Vegan Cream Cheese Ice Cream
It’s already the beginning of March, and only a few weeks from that glorious weekend when the clocks change and we get an extra hour of sunlight in the evening. In Britain winters are defined by half a millimetre of snow, beachwear (British people try to dictate the weather by…
Drunk on vegan beer ice cream
Well, okay, not exactly drunk. Just happy. Because beer ice cream. WHAT. This stuff is good (and I think many non beer lovers would agree). A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of an afternoon at the Clarkshaws Brewery open day. If you were there, I probably talked…
Strawberry Lavender Ice Cream
Little indicates the coming of summer in the UK more than the arrival of local strawberries. Don’t ask me how that works, since it seems like summer is actually non-existent on this mass of land, but I’ll take what I can get. If you’ve never eaten lavender, it tastes nearly…
Sugar Frosted Rice Fritters
Rice flour based sweets are common throughout Eastern Asia, and this recipe is a great example of how they are often incredibly straightforward and easy to make. This simple Indonesian rice fritter recipe utilises black sticky rice flour to produce a soft fried puff of dough, which is then coated…
