So, I decided to take a walk to Real Foods (an excellent Edinburgh based health food shop with two branches in town) to get ingredients for gluten-free rolls so I could try to recreate at least part of my dream.
I used a recipe from the gluten-free-vegan-girl's website (an amazing site put together by a Norwegian girl with loads of lovely looking vegan and gluten-free recipes) for rolls using a mixture of buckwheat flour and brown rice flour, leavened with yeast and with psyllium husks for texture. This was my first time using psyllium husks- quite amazing when added to water, making a wallpaper paste textured mixture. It was also my first time working with gluten free dough - the big advantage being not a lot of kneading required!
Still a bit of rising time for the yeast though.
The rolls actually turned out really well - texture pretty good, with both crumb and crust, and the taste not bad (although different and blander than regular bread). Combined with olive oil and dukkah (a middle-eastern concoction of hazelnuts, sesame seeds, cumin, coriander, mint and chilli) it was actually pretty awesome:
Also for some extra excitement I made chocolate peanut butter balls:
Holy moly these bad boys are AMAZING. a mixture of peanut butter, vanilla extract and dates smothered in vegan chocolate. Think spherical vegan version of Reece's Cups. Wow.
Also have made another batch of raw chocolate. Tried last weekend making a mint version using peppermint extract, which just wasn't strong enough and the flavour didn't really come through. So, after doing some research, this time I used 100% pure peppermint essential oil - 4 drops was just right and the peppermint is just beautiful with the dark raw chocolate taste.
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