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

Zombienosh

no, it was a bag of pieces, just chunks.

entropi

Some soya mince in a tomato-based sauce, with diced onion and garlic. Topped off with garlic bread, for that garlic-y goodness :pac:

First time in a while I've had that actually! Putting the soya mince in a veg stock beforehand is nice, and seasoning it with some herbs works out well.

Zombienosh

what soya mince was it?
I've only had quorn before and thought it was ok texture was a bit washy so combining it with lentils helped touchen it up, haven't tried LMs or the soya mince you can get in health shops. anyone try that?

Tar.Aldarion

Zombienosh wrote: »

no, it was a bag of pieces, just chunks.

They were laovely, we had them in a sweet chilli & soy veggie stirfry with noodles mm. They are the same things as the satay skewers without the flavouring.

Zombienosh

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

They were laovely, we had them in a sweet chilli & soy veggie stirfry with noodles mm. They are the same things as the satay skewers without the flavouring.

ah! I've never seen the skewers in there. I love the texture of them I throw some garlic powder on them and fry them in coconut oil it even gets them crispy. waaay nicer than quorn chicken pieces.

entropi

Zombienosh wrote: »

what soya mince was it?
I've only had quorn before and thought it was ok texture was a bit washy so combining it with lentils helped touchen it up, haven't tried LMs or the soya mince you can get in health shops. anyone try that?

It was the Tesco brand one (dried), as it happens. Texture was not bad, sort of reminds me of the few times I ate mince when much younger.

Might try make some into burgers or something in future with breadcrumbs/veg/herbs etc.

Zombienosh

Didn't know tesco did any, I'm never near a real tesco, only the crappy ones in town.

Tar.Aldarion

Tonight I tried my hand at lasagne cupcakes. Layers of filo pasty, port salut cheese on top!

Zombienosh

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Tonight I tried my hand at lasagne cupcakes. Layers of filo pasty, port salut cheese on top!

O dear god, I want these.

What exactly did you do?

Tar.Aldarion

I layered filo pastry in cupcake tins, added the lasagne mince/veg/sauce (fried that up first) stuffs, more filo, more lasagne, then cheese on top. You're meant to use "wonton" pastry stuff or lasagne sheets. Filo was nice, but the stuff was breaking through the bottom.

Zombienosh

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I layered filo pastry in cupcake tins, added the lasagne mince/veg/sauce (fried that up first) stuffs, more filo, more lasagne, then cheese on top. You're meant to use "wonton" pastry stuff or lasagne sheets. Filo was nice, but the stuff was breaking through the bottom.

The best things are always messy.

--LOS--

Homemade falafel burgers, falafel but bigger! My family really like these, usually they're not so enthusiastic about veggie stuff but falafel is a big winner yay

Ms. Koi

Diet has hit a big chocolate wall but had a delicious vegetarian fajita in one of the pubs in the town. They recently changed their menu and they have five veggie options, five!!!
Vegetarian lasagne, hong kong noodle stir fry, penne pasta, vegetarian fajitas and thai vegetable curry. All come with chips and a salad, for €9.95, it's very impressive!

macrubicon

kellief wrote: »

had a delicious vegetarian fajita in one of the pubs in the town. They recently changed their menu and they have five veggie options, five!!!

Hi Kellief - where is this pub!!?

Ms. Koi

macrubicon wrote: »

Hi Kellief - where is this pub!!?

The Roost, Maynooth!

hardCopy

--LOS-- wrote: »

Homemade falafel burgers, falafel but bigger! My family really like these, usually they're not so enthusiastic about veggie stuff but falafel is a big winner yay


http://i.imgur.com/PuNi5fe.jpg

I had something similar. Pic is from last week, we finished the batch of burgers last night. I found it very hard to get them to bind. Topped them with spinach and fried halloumi.

--LOS--

hardCopy wrote: »

I had something similar. Pic is from last week, we finished the batch of burgers last night. I found it very hard to get them to bind. Topped them with spinach and fried halloumi.

wow looks so tasty. I find the falafel easy enough to bind, adding in some flour usually does it, in those falafel burgers I also added in an egg and they held very well. I think the hardest part is being careful when you're cooking them, turning them carefully etc. I normally coat the outside in flour and that makes them a lot more manageable. But when I was cooking those, my mother came over and pressed down on one like you would with a meat burger but you can't do that.

--LOS--

not feeling like too much cooking decided to try out the lamo recipe that's on the back of the jus-rol puff pastry sheets....

Zombienosh

Last night I wanted a treat since I passed my exam So I picked up a "Pieminister Heidi Pie"


Somerset goats’ cheese, sweet potato, spinach & red onion

It was awesome. I fried up some asparagus and garlic and had a little rice with it.

Pie was €3.99 in dunnes, Really nice, it's small so would be a part of a dinner or would do for a lunch but defo worth a try.

wha

I made these burgers, and they really are the most perfect veggie burger in the world... not too much hassle to make either! I do highly recommend.

http://ohsheglows.com/2011/07/13/our-perfect-veggie-burger/

Zombienosh

wha wrote: »

I made these burgers, and they really are the most perfect veggie burger in the world... not too much hassle to make either! I do highly recommend.

http://ohsheglows.com/2011/07/13/our-perfect-veggie-burger/

That looks amazing.
I'm going to make that, kale fries and all this weekend.

--LOS--

wha wrote: »

I made these burgers, and they really are the most perfect veggie burger in the world... not too much hassle to make either! I do highly recommend.

http://ohsheglows.com/2011/07/13/our-perfect-veggie-burger/

love that site, theres some great recipes on there, havent tried that though.

I was feeling semi-fancy for lunch :cool:



I warmed the goats cheese to make it extra tastey

--LOS--

Sometimes it's hard not to add cheese to things so I had some big mushrooms to use up and searched for a recipe for vegan stuffed mushrooms, this was the result, I omitted the garlic and leaks though coz I had none but it was so yummy...

Killer_banana

Stir fry with quinoa, smoked tofu and one of those frozen stir fry vegetable mixes. Basically I wanted to eat quinoa and was too lazy to go to the shop to buy anything to go with it. Was really good actually.

Tar.Aldarion

Sure that goes with it, everything does!
Pic not working for me.

--LOS--

works fine for me.

Made orange pan-glazed tempeh last night, recipe here

Killer_banana

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Sure that goes with it, everything does!
Pic not working for me.

True but my choices were stir fry or plain quinoa.

Works for me (and Los).

Tar.Aldarion

Hmm had to download it then I could see it!

--LOS--

Tar it's you not us :P

homemade satay from homemade peanut butter, sure why not, it's dead easy, I'm never buying satay sauce again, this tasted sooo good.

wonderboysam

--LOS-- wrote: »

Tar it's you not us :P

homemade satay from homemade peanut butter, sure why not, it's dead easy, I'm never buying satay sauce again, this tasted sooo good.

recipe plz!