Vegan weekend adventures in Ottawa fall 2023

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The fall season in Ottawa is a few weeks so you have to enjoy it. This summer was mostly rainy but it was heat wave weather at the end September straight to the colder windy days of October. If you are new to my blog I have lived most of my life in Vancouver and moved to Ottawa last year. I moved to Ottawa with my mom and last fall was dealing with her pancreatic cancer so I didn’t have time to enjoy Ottawa fall things. My mom passed away last October and this year I didn’t have many commitments which left me time to explore the Ottawa beauty and vegan food.  There really isn’t enough time to explore everything and work there is always something going on. I have also gone from not having much of a social life to having to vegan friends in the last couple of months. The beauty of Ottawa is it really is a big city small town at least in the vegan market community. Hotpotatoco one of the vendors at the market introduced me to one of my vegan friends that will be known as the other vegan g
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Vegan Mayonnaise airfryer bread

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I was curious if vegan mayo is good for baking so time for some experiments. I am not a baker and do not measure ingredients I like to experiment. This turned out amazing I have already made it twice slightly different method. Method one came out pastry like and method 2 was more like deep dish pizza crust. Both were excellent. 

I don’t measure ingredients but I’ll try to give you a recipe. 

Method 1: ingredients vegan mayo, flour, olive oil




Add 1 tablespoon of yeast and vegan mayo to 1/2 cup tap water in a bowl mix with spoon. Add 2 cups of flour and mix with hands keep adding flour until consistency looks like this


Cover with plastic wrap and let sit at room temperature. I put mine inside the Instant pot. After a few hours it will look like this.


This is a fun dough to play with it doesn’t fall apart easily. Add a little olive oil before shaping the dough. 


I tried cooking some but it was better after being in the fridge overnight. 


After letting it sit in the fridge overnight I stuffed some with cheese. 


Spray tray with olive oil. Cook in the instant vortex plus airfryer oven at 375 for 17 minutes. 




Method 2: ingredients vegan mayo, flour, olive oil, sugar, salt 

This method is similar to method 1 with a few differences. 

Mix 1 tablespoon yeast and 1 tablespoon sugar with half a cup of water. Let sit for 10 minutes. Add a pinch of salt and 2 cups flour and keep adding flour and mix until looks like this

           Cover with plastic wrap and place in fridge 

After a few hours I didn’t have a container to store my leftover air fried cauliflower and potato so I stuffed it inside the dough.


The dough is easy to hand shape.


Stuffed 2 and left a little plain to make something else tomorrow. 

Back in the fridge overnight and the dough combined together so had to hand separate the stuffed dough. 

 Coat tray and dough with olive oil cooking spray. Cook at 365 for 20 minutes.


This is delicious. Hope you enjoy let me know in the comments below or on Instagram @livingvancouverloca if you try this recipe. 


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