Onion soup is a broth-soup made from caramelized onions, sherry, and (traditionally meat-based) broth. It is usually served with bread and croutons where are placed on top and then browned under a broiler. I’ve replaced the sherry in this recipe…
Licorice wands are one thing, but any party can have too many sweets—we need some savory foods too! These are one of my absolute favorite party snacks. Marmite is the ultimate umami and even if you aren’t a Marmite ‘lover’, the…
I’m sure you all probably know that biscuits are basically cookies outside the US— Though they are usually crispier in texture, like shortbread or gingersnaps. I can assure you Professor McGonagall isn’t offering Harry Potter a bready biscuit to go…
I don’t believe there is anything more quintessentially Harry Potter than Pumpkin Pasties. It may surprise some of you that I have been making vegetarian cornish pasties for ages, long before I picked up The Sorcerer’s Stone, you’ll see a…
Rock Cakes are a British treat made popular during World War II as a recipe that went along with rationing. They are a cross between a cookie, scone, and fruit cake—usually containing little or no egg, less sugar, and dried sweet…
Jacket Potatoes, or Baked Potatoes stateside, are simply spuds baked whole with skins intact. They are baked, cut open, fluffed up, and sometimes filled with extra toppings. Returned to the oven and you’ve got double-baked potatoes. Jacket Potatoes were the…
It’s not easy being a wizard, even the professors have to get away from the bustle and the endless grading of scrolls of Hogwart’s. While students often opt for a big mug of butter beer, the professors’ order is a…
Spotted Dick is a difficult dish for Americans to understand. All jokes aside, Spotted Dick is an English steamed pudding. More like a hot, moist pound cake than American pudding. When Americans talk about pudding, we think of those little…
I may be a Disneyland girl through and through, but I have to say I’ve been horribly tempted and torn by all the images of Diagon Alley at the Wizard World of Harry Potter in Orlando Florida! Apparently, Hollywood will…
Though, I couldn’t manage to pick out a theme for Vegan MOFO 2013, I decided months ago what I would be doing for Vegan MOFO 2014. Being obsessed with magic, an absolute anglophile, and having a wealth of source material…