The vegged up 'Here's what I had for dinner last night' thread

Daisies

I've decided to try veggie for a week. I eat a mostly pescotarian diet as it is and have decided to try cutting out the fish.

Yesterday had
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056090126

It was yummy. And had the leftovers for lunch today.

Today for dinner I had brown rice with chickpeas, feta, olives and sun-dried tomato pesto with salad. Yum yum

diddlybit

Gauge wrote: »

I received Yotam Ottalenghi's Plenty cookbook last week, so today I made two potato vindaloo (with Greek yoghurt, coriander and Tilda brown basmati rice)! It took several hours of chopping and grinding and simmering, I'm bloody wrecked after it. But it was SERIOUSLY yum. So fragrant and spicy!

Wow. Looks seriously good. How spicy is spicy? I'd love to make this but my poor girlfriend really isn't able for anything too hot.

Gauge

diddlybit wrote: »

Wow. Looks seriously good. How spicy is spicy? I'd love to make this but my poor girlfriend really isn't able for anything too hot.

It really wasn't bad at all- I think when I said spicy I mean more like flavorsome! With a bit of yoghurt mixed in at the end it was actually on the milder end of the spectrum.

Shenshen

Just had some steamed asparagus, new potatoes fried in butter and Hollondaise sauce.

Seriously YUM.

And it was the first time I've ever made Hollondaise sauce, I found an easy enough recipe - sooo easy, sooo yummy, and sooo utterly bad for you

Shenshen

Shenshen wrote: »

Just had some steamed asparagus, new potatoes fried in butter and Hollondaise sauce.

Seriously YUM.

And it was the first time I've ever made Hollondaise sauce, I found an easy enough recipe - sooo easy, sooo yummy, and sooo utterly bad for you

How do you make Hollandaise sauce?
I don't think I have ever tried it.

This thread is making me so hungary.

Shenshen

Moonbaby wrote: »

How do you make Hollandaise sauce?
I don't think I have ever tried it.

This thread is making me so hungary.

Well, most recipes will go on about having a bowl over a pot of boiling water and whisking till your arms fall off, but I found this gem :

2 egg yolks
3/4 stick of butter
1 tsp of lemon juice
salt to taste

Melt the butter and let it get bubbling hot.
With an electric whisk, whisk the yolks and lemon juice until the yolks go slightly pale (it'll look a lot like mayonnaise at this point)
Start slowly pouring the hot butter in while continuously whisking. Once all the butter is added, it'll be lovely thick and creamy.
Salt to taste and serve hot.

Takes about 5 minutes if you heat the butter in the microwave

Ouh!!!!!!!
That sounds lovely. I must give that a go tomorrow.
Thanks.

líreacán

Howdy folks, I'm not ACTUALLY a vegetarian...can I still come play here??? I would be what could be called a sympathetic vegetarian, I eat meat very rarely, maybe thrice a week or so, and I NEVER cook it!!!

Anyway, tonight for my dinner I made a very simple and quick tomato sauce, with garlic, oregano, dash of balsamic, dash of lemon juice, salt, pepper and a birds eye chilli...I grilled up two Linda McCartney sausages and cooked some spelt spaghetti, then mixed them all together and chowed down!!!

Even though I only put in one birds eye chilli, the tears were STILL forming in my eyes, might just use dried chilli flakes next time, but we had the birds eye in the fridge on its last legs, and I hate wasting food!

lalee17

I had a tofu salad with rice earlier. It took about 15 minutes to make in total!

Going to have a midnight snack of Quorn dippers + reggae reggae sauce... mmmm..

Censorsh!t

Had one of 'Dee's veggie burgers'. Yummy, and local too.

I've also recently got an addiction for bijous vertes lentils. For lunch I ate a whole tin of them

Gauge

I'm spoiling myself today, just in case the world ends tonight!

Had american style blueberry pancakes (with lots of maple syrup!) for brunch.
Curried lentil soup with garlic and coriander naan for dinner.
And banana + coconut butter for a snack!

--LOS--

Gauge wrote: »

I'm spoiling myself today, just in case the world ends tonight!

Had american style blueberry pancakes (with lots of maple syrup!) for brunch.
Curried lentil soup with garlic and coriander naan for dinner.
And banana + coconut butter for a snack!

That's spoiling yourself? I could teach you a thing or two

Gauge

You're right, it doesn't actually look too impressive but if you saw how excited I get about pancakes, you'd understand!

--LOS--

For example today I had two crisp sandwiches, first meal of the day :O

I felt pretty damn sick after that

Gauge

Another dinner from the Plenty coobook! The recipe is online too.

Black pepper tofu with buckwheat noodles. Mmmm. I used a different brand of Tofu this time- "Tau Kwa" by Unicurd. Really firm, easy to fry and just yummy. I think I overspiced it somehow though, it was crazy spicy, even for me!

Aoifey!

Today I had egg noodles (Blue Dragon) with green and yellow peppers, onions, mushrooms and Blue Dragon Chili and Garlic sauce. Mmmm it was delicious and simple.

all the stars

Most recent was

Yellow rice (rice, rinsed cold water, cooked with tumeric & veg stock cube)

Quorn steak bits (1st time having them) stir fried with orange/green/yellow pepper, garlic, red onion then added cream & curry powder to make sauce..

Differant....... but nice

mystique150

Soaked black turtle beans overnight and boiled until soft (40 mins). Chopped 1 chili, 1 pepper, couple of shallots and some garlic and fried with mustard seeds, cumin, sea salt and pepper. Added the beans and gently smashed them into the fried mix to take up the flavours. I then added a load of spinach and left it wilt into the mix. I then cut some coriander into the mix/

Mean while, I mashed a ripe avocado with chopped chili, cherry tomatoes, pepper and lime juice. Makes a lovely guacamole.

I then ate the lot in a wrap. Yum yum!

Absurdum

mystique150

Had a puy lentil soup last night. I fried an onion, garlic, cumin, celery and a bit of chilli. Added a half cup of lentils, chopped carrot and plenty of pepper. Left it simmer for about 40 mins and added in a load of coriander in the end as I have a it growing at the moment. Super filling and lovely with crusty bread. Cheapest supper you could ask for!

Tar.Aldarion

i had mash potato, baby potatoes, broccoli, carrots, gravy, spinach and feta quiche.

Gauge

I tried marinading and baking tofu for the first time! Marinaded it in tamari, agave syrup, ginger, and garlic and then baked it for about half an hour, ate it with stir fried veg and buckwheat noodles and it was yummy!

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Onions, garlic, red lentils, butterbeans, porcini mushrooms, kale, ginger, coriander, a chilli and stock made from vegemite. Sprinkled some toasted sesame seeds on top to serve. Glad I got to use up those butter beans without having to taste them, they've been taunting me from the cupboard for ages, thinking they were all that. Loads left as well but I think I'll have to add a tin of tomatoes or some more stock to lighten it a bit, ate a bowl an hour and a half ago and I'm still stuffed.

Wurly

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

i had mash potato, baby potatoes, broccoli, carrots, gravy, spinach and feta quiche.

Yes, Yes and Furthermore.... YES!!!

NYOM!

bythewoods

Had a lovely, lovely, LOVELY dinner today ... (It was due, to be fair, have been living off rice krispies all week!)

I marinated tofu in Tamari and cider vinegar, and skewered it with onion and cherry tomatoes before barbecuing the metaphorical life out of it. It was REALLY yummy. Like, reallllly reallllly yummy.

And I served it with Moroccan cous cous, steamed potatoes, purple-sprouting broccoli and a tomato-basil-cucumber salad. The best bit is I picked/dug the potatoes, broccoli, basil and cucumber from my garden just before cooking/ serving. Unbelievably good. Having a major food coma at the moment!

Breezer

Beans on toast. Nuff said.

cosmic

Baked potato with cheese and beans. Nom!

Tar.Aldarion

cosmic wrote: »

Baked potato with cheese and beans. Nom!

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, thats exactly what I out on my ones, but with sundried tomatoes too

cosmic

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

but with sundried tomatoes too

Oooh! Must give that a try next time!

Gauge

PIZZA!

Ready made wholewheat base + homemade tomato sauce + mozzarella, spinach, goats cheese and olives = YUM!