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

fillefatale

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

What did you use in the ragout to give it a smoky taste, smoked paprika? Looks lovely.

Cannot help you on the wedges, I'm afraid! (Maybe parboiling or some kind of light batter?)

I usually use smoked paprika, but could only find cayenne pepper last night which worked just as well, and then a few drops of hot sauce.

I find sweet potatoes would get too soggy with parboiling, maybe you can only get them crispy by deep frying

cosmic

fillefatale wrote: »

I find sweet potatoes would get too soggy with parboiling, maybe you can only get them crispy by deep frying

The last time I made sweet potato wedges with dinner, I wasn't paying attention and completely messed up my cooking times. The wedges were done way before anything else so I had to take them out of the oven just as they were almostly perfectly, to stop them from burning. Then, when everything else was nearly cooked, I popped them back into the oven for 10 minutes. When the time came to take them out they were all crispy! I hadn't planned on that but it was a welcome result Maybe give that a try next time?

FouxDaFaFa

Kind-of enchiladas. Salsa and cheese on top. Chickpeas, tomatoes, spring onions, sour cream and cheese inside. (The sour cream was light and the wrap was wholemeal but healthiness is a futile enterprise with this one).

skylarkza

I got a new cookbook this week - Isa Does It (Isa Chandra Moskowitz of Vegenomicon fame - I love her taste so have a small collection of her books)

First dinner from it:


It's Caulifower and Linguine with an Oil-Free (homemade!) pesto and breaded tofu.

Twas most nommy.

FouxDaFaFa

Plantain with lots of sriracha and baked egg in avocado.

fillefatale

What did you all have for Christmas??

I made a mushroom wellington, butternut gratin, the usual roasties, and my brother made roasted tomato soup (vegan).

I've posted the recipes here if anyone is interested!

chinacup

Salad with mixed leaf, red+yellow pepper, an apple and some seed+nut sprinked on top, GoodLife lentil pattie in burger bun with some cheddar and ketchup. Eeeeasy mate. Under 20mins.

FouxDaFaFa

"Balumpki" is my new favourite word, it's ridiculously fun to say.



These are stuffed cabbage rolls baked in a tomato sauce, basically. I stuffed them with a mix of lentils, garlic, buckwheat, quinoa, cumin, black pepper and chillies.

Sauce is a pretty basic tomato sauce with leftover shredded cabbage, raisins and onions.

I used this recipe.

It was really nice, I'll be making that again. Kind of reminds me of a Chinese Yuk Sung.

chinacup

One of those "throw everything together and see what happens" experiments that came out surprisingly well!
Tofu fried up in coconut oil with lemon, garlic, ginger, onion, chili, garam masala and a dollop of natural yogurt and trail mix to top. Stuffed in a pancake made with half and half ground almonds/flour. Served with veg.

Tar.Aldarion

Vegan eats:

Potatoes cooked in a bottle of ale, almond milk, nutritional yeast, parsley, garlic, shallots, scallions. Roasted the corn and did chili lime butter for it (too much :-o), and then a salad with a lovely dressing made from mayonnaise, agave syrup, mustard, cayenne, lemon juice, orange juice.




lentils with cheesy tomato sauce, breaded tempeh.

--LOS--

tar we don't all have massive monitors :P


My favourite breakfast - banana, soy milk, peanut butter and chia seed shake



Made some basil pesto



Then a simple lazy day meal with that

--LOS--

I've seen a lot of different recipes for this, some even make the egg yolk, but I cba with that, I just dipped tofu in some soy sauce and fried and the sauce recipe is:

Lemony Hollandaise Sauce
4 Tbsp margarine
2 Tbsp all purpose flour
Pinch of turmeric for color
1 cup unsweetened soy milk
Pinch of cayenne pepper
2 Tbsp nutritional yeast
Juice of 1/2 lemon
Salt and pepper to taste

--LOS--

Sticky orange tofu & bulgar

Sauce recipe here, but I didn't have all those ingredients to hand so my sauce was just squeezed orange juice, soy sauce, ginger and sugar, worked the same.

Zombienosh

Your food always looks so good. I'm having some veggie shepherds pie for lunch/dinner.

loveisdivine

I posted this in the cooking & recipes dinner thread, hope its ok to post here too!

Crispy salt and pepper tofu bites, grilled pineapple salsa/salad with avocado and cantaloupe, cauliflower "rice" with a coconut and soy dressing and a glass of grapefruit juice on the side It was one of the yummiest dinners we've had in a long time.

--LOS--

oh that looks and sounds so good, how do you do cauliflower rice?


I had an incredibly simple peanut chickpea stew, based off this. If you have peanut butter and a tin of tomatoes you can make this and then add whatever you like, I don't bother pre-cooking the potatoes or anything, everything in the one pot and let it do its thing, also good because I have very limited cooking facilities.

loveisdivine

I followed this recipe for the basic rice then added some shredded coconut and a my own soy dressing with ginger, garlic and chillies.

http://www.everydaymaven.com/2014/ginger-coconut-cauliflower-rice/

loveisdivine

Saturday nights vegan dinner was veg & tofu stir fry in homemade General Tso sauce with steamed chinese buns (I used to stuff them but left them plain this time and it was delicious)





Sunday was a veggie roast with stuffing and gravy. Last night was veggie burger and chips. No pics for those!

Tonight I'm hoping to do a vegan chilli Pics will follow!

FouxDaFaFa

Kind of blurry but I made some chipotle chilli last night and it was lovely.

chinacup

Tonight, my first attempt at a stirfry! And last night a coconut, chickpea, nut, potato and brocolli curry, to be honest it came out amazing which was a v pleasant surprise indeed! Edit: the picture doesn't do the curry any justice .. =P

loveisdivine

Gnochhi, mushrooms and spinach with a roasted red pepper and almond creamy sauce. Garlic toast with fresh parsley.

The sauce with pureed almonds was a definite success

padraig.od

How did you make the almond & pepper sauce? Sounds delicious.

loveisdivine

I used the recipe below. But I used raw almonds instead of roasted cashews and roasted peppers from a jar instead of fresh. I also added a pinch of chill flakes, a squeeze of lemon and some water to thin it down a bit. Then I just added it too the fried mushrooms and onions to heat it through and wilt the spinach. I didn't use garlic as I had garlic toast instead

http://www.sumptuousspoonfuls.com/smoky-red-pepper-cashew-cream-sauce/

padraig.od

loveisdivine wrote: »

I used the recipe below. But I used raw almonds instead of roasted cashews and roasted peppers from a jar instead of fresh. I also added a pinch of chill flakes, a squeeze of lemon and some water to thin it down a bit. Then I just added it too the fried mushrooms and onions to heat it through and wilt the spinach. I didn't use garlic as I had garlic toast instead

http://www.sumptuousspoonfuls.com/smoky-red-pepper-cashew-cream-sauce/

awesome. Love almonds in everything!

Feu

great recommendation.! defo gonna try tis sauce, been looking for one like it for a while.

loveisdivine

Forgot to add I soaked the almond for a few hours first so they would break down easier.

It really was delicious

loveisdivine

Last nights dinner was so yum! I wish I had made more

Cripsy Tofu (again!) this time in a sticky sweet chilli sauce, with brown vice vermicelli noodles and an avocado spring onion salad.

padraig.od

Where are you getting the tofu from? What form does it come in? All I can find are frozen chicken style lumps.

loveisdivine

We get ours in Supervalu. They have 2 types, one is in the fridge section and the brand is Cauldron. Its organic, costs about €2.50 for the pack and although its already "firm" you still need to press it for a few hours.
The other is a Biona organic one that is in the gluten free section and it comes in a jar. Its quite expensive though, about €4 and I don't really see the difference between them as they are both organic.

sok2005

Made tofu, veg & cashews in a peanut sauce for dinner yesterday. Was a hit with the whole family.
Tofu and I have a rocky past but I think i've finally realized how to make it to my taste. I pressed it for hours them marinated it before stir frying. The kids devoured it and my 2 year old can be picky.