Last weekend the AFL (Australian Football League) Grand Final was held in Melbourne which could be compared with the American Super Bowl in terms of it being our biggest football event for the year. We didn't have any plans for the day and I knew my guys would be watching the game so I spent some time in the kitchen making football styled food to feed our faces with.
It had been ages since I last made a batch of these popular vegan sausage rolls from where's the beef. I couldn't stop thinking about these delicious morsels since being reacquainted with them at the recent Planet VeGMeL 3rd Anniversary potluck (check out the online zine here that was made for the occasion). The mixture of pecans, breadcrumbs, oats, silken tofu and seasonings is extremely tasty and quite easy to put together if you can get your hands on some vegan puff pastry sheets. I highly recommended these sausage rolls, they're pretty legendary around the Melbourne veg*n blogosphere.
We also enjoyed a Mexican styled pizza and I used my standard pizza base recipe topped with tomato paste mixed with Tapatio hot sauce, onions, garlic, mushrooms, Redwood cheatin' pepperoni, olives and mozzarella style Cheezly.
The man asked me to make mini dogs as well as many other things that didn't end up making the cut. We had them in mini rolls with Cheezly, caramelised onions, ketchup and American mustard. I never manage to take a decent shot of our hot dog meals, this is no exception but I thought I would include it anyway.
Wow, looks delicious!
ReplyDeleteThanks Annie, and thanks for stopping by!
DeleteOh, those vegan sausage rolls are so pretty and sound delicious! Plus, puff pastry makes everything better!
ReplyDeleteThey really are delicious and I adore puff pastry too.
DeleteI need to invite you over to our house for game day! Definitely way better eats than I come up with (mostly chips & salsa, to be honest...) Love those sausage rolls and, yum, mini dogs!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you put on quite a feast Jes! There was talk of making a variety mini foods at one stage which is how the dogs came about.
DeleteThose sausage rolls look easy and awesome. Can't wait to try them!
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Thanks for stopping by Dawn, I hope you try the sausage roll recipe!
DeleteVegan sausage rolls may be some of my favourite things in the world. There's a couple of places over there that sell some amazing ready-made ones, so I've never had a crack at making them myself. I could definitely go some of yours though - they look sweet!
ReplyDeleteThat's great if you can buy great ready-made ones over your way. We are pretty hooked on this recipe as are a lot of vegos in Melbourne.
DeleteI am still yet to try that sausage roll recipe... or maybe I have, I can never remember and anyway, yours look lovely but I really have my eye on that pizza, yummo!
ReplyDeletePizza is always such a great comfort food and so versatile. It can be as healthy as your recent gorgeous ones or a bit junkier like this.
Deletegreat footy food - I had some leftover sausage rolls that I took to the grand final viewing with my family - am experimenting with other recipes but really Cindy and Michael's is my favourite and I still think it is amazing after making it more times that I can count. The hot dog looks better than one I had at lord of the fries recently.
ReplyDeleteIt is such a great recipe, I always find myself going back to it. I haven't tried LOTF dogs because I am so wary of tasteless manufactured sausages. The man wasn't keen when he tried one of the LOTF dogs, we usually stick to a burger when we visit.
DeleteThose sausage rolls are one of my favourite recipes! Yours look perfect. I can't think of a better football food!
ReplyDeleteIt's one of my favourites too, I made so many batches last year but have slowed down on them a bit lately. They are great football food, I probably made them this time last year too!
DeleteThis looks like perfect football food :) Hawthorn is my Dad's and thus my team so it was a big grand final this year...sadly with the wrong result though!
ReplyDeleteIt was a yummy selection of footy eats. We were barracking for Hawthorn on the day and were a bit disappointed with the result but at least it was a good close game.
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