Review of the week:

Hampton Chutney Co. (Soho)

Hours:
11am to 9pm, 7 days a week

Directions:
Between Crosby and Lafayette. Take the 6 train to Spring Street or the N or R trains to Prince Street.

Delivery notes:
Hampton Chutney Co. (Soho) delivers.
Delivery hours are Mon-Fri, 11am-4:30pm. Delivery orders may also be placed via their website.

Notes:
Serves classic and modern fusion dosas such as the classic masala dosa and grilled portabello mushroom, spinach, and roasted onions dosa.

Check out some of our past reviews:

Babette's - East Hampton
Pierre's - Bridgehampton
Bobby Van's - Bridgehampton

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My Sweet Vegan

I was almost as excited when I was asked to review Hannah Kaminsky’s new cook book, My Sweet Vegan as I was tearing open the package sent with the book inside.
Inviting, fresh and bright, there are full page colour photos for every of the 77 recipes! Flipping through the pages there were so many delicious looking recipes I was ready to try.

Cooking vegan for my relatives, I almost always have a pantry prepared for just about everything. So, with one hand marking the pages of the many treats I wanted to try and the other preparing to grease my cake pans, I sat flipping eagerly, reading over each of the recipe ingredients. Sadly, I found that many desserts depended on specialty items like vegan eggnog, soy creamer, instant potato flakes or specific name brands like Ricemellow Crème. Without any substitution suggestions, my only option was to call around to the health food stores in the city or shop online. Either way, I’d be waiting to buy the ingredients, and if out of the city I might be out of luck for a while and that was way more than my urge to bake could handle.

Although disappointed, I did find the Bananas Foster Cake. Now, I don’t know too many people who wouldn’t love a banana cake and with five bananas in the mix, this one sounded fantastic.

The cake recipe was perfectly simple to mix up and the batter was light and fluffy. Although my baking time ended up a little longer that what was recommended, the cake looked delicious, even before it was doused in rum. I’m sure the golden and moist cake would have been more than perfect stopping right there!

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