What`s cooking Veg*ns July 2010!

[Keeta]

Tonight I made Asian rice noodles with homemade peanut sauce tossed with stir-fried onion, carrot, spinach, broccoli, garlic and ginger. Oh, and chickpeas! Totally not traditional, but I wanted extra protein and didn't feel like using my tofu. We also had corn on the cob because my 4-year-old can't stand to have it in the house and not be eating it. He is totally corn-obsessed!

[Vegan Princess]

Tonight we're having sauteed mushrooms, kale and sundried tomatoes over polenta. Salad on the side w/homemade italian herb dressing.

Cindy

[maciascl]

Almond meal pancakes with blueberries (that we picked yesterday) and MorningStar bacon

[kangamitroo]

potatoes, garbanzos, red onion, bell pepper cooked with cumin and chili. turned out super flavorful. i think i let the onion sweat longer than usual? so creamy.

with salad of cukes and romaine dressed citrusy

[wytchywoman]

[birdie.lee]

Last night's dinner was a stir-fry of homemade vegan sausage, leek, carrot, mushrooms, zucchini, & kale over savory brown rice waffles.

[4Marmalade]

Originally Posted by maciascl

Almond meal pancakes with blueberries (that we picked yesterday) and MorningStar bacon

Can you share a recipe for this? We eat pancakes for dinner quite often.

Tonight we are having a green and sprout salad with strawberry dressing and falafels. It is soooo hot here right now and I am having a hard time being motivated enough in the late afternoon to even think about dinner.

[Vegan Princess]

I'm jumping on the black bean, sweet potato nachos bandwagon tonight! Using this recipe:
http://www.recipezaar.com/recipe/bea...-nachos-368806

I think DH will be pleased.

Cindy

[maciascl]

Originally Posted by 4Marmalade

Can you share a recipe for this? We eat pancakes for dinner quite often.

I have gestational diabetes so these are the only pancakes I can really eat right now.

Almond Meal Pancakes
　
Ingredients:
2 cup almond flour (I also add about 1/2c of wheat germ or bran)
3 eggs
1/2-3/4 cup water or milk (for puffier pancakes, you can use sparkling water)
2 T oil
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 T maple syrup

Mix ingredients together and cook as you would other pancakes. I like to use a nonstick pan with a little oil. The only real difference is that they won't "bubble" on top the same way as regular pancakes. Flip them when the underside is brown.

The next time I make these I am going to try replaceing the eggs with a large mashed banana to make them vegan banana pancakes. I am sure you could easily sub tofu or flax eggs also.

[maciascl]

Tonight was yummy big salads with chik'n patties, strawberries, blueberries, feta, walnuts and balsalmic dressing.

[brooklyn_warbler]

Hi Ladies!

Trying to get back into the groove of posting/checking here -- My internet time has been really limited lately with a new little one. (Chessa -- it's going wonderfully, thanks for asking on the last thread! Our son Ilan was born in the tub after only 1.5 hours of active labor -- 5 hours total -- and I pushed out all TEN POUNDS 3 OUNCES of him in 15 minutes, kind of the most intense 15 minutes of my life, lol. Things are really starting to feel amazing these days, though it was a bit hectic/nervewracking for the first month-6 weeks. I'm pretty excited to have a son because I grew up with only sisters. I'm utterly charmed even though he's entirely genderless now, as a 10 week old!).

So this past week I made two awesomely summery dishes. First, a Mexicali chop which was in the latest issue of VT though it's not online yet -- a chopped salad with black beans, cukes, peppers, corn, avocado, celery, romaine, and a cumin-lime dressing (the dressing really made it).

Secondly, Pasta Caprese -- a really simple pasta with tomatoes, basil, and fresh mozarella. Standard idea but I really liked the technique used to make it (involved marinating) because it made it really flavorful.

Tonight I think I'm trying double broccoli quinoa from 101 Cookbooks.

[Vegan Princess]

Congrats Robina!!

Last night we had penne pasta tossed w/broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, garlic, basil and olive oil. It was quite yummy.

Tonight is an Amy's cheeseless pizza night as I have to leave early to babysit for a friend's little one. Those pizzas are so good! Our standard I-don't-want-to-cook meal, along w/a salad.

Cindy

[Keeta]

Holy cow, Robina, 10 lbs 3 oz!!!!! You go, mama!!!! I know what you mean about the first month or two - I think we really got our groove on about 3 months+.

Last night was kind of a shameful grocery store buffet - it was just too hot to cook and I wasn't inspired because DH and DS1 were going camping later, so we just noshed on tortilla chips, tzatziki, hummus and olives. It's not supposed to be so hot here the next few days, so I have a lot of cooking to make up for!

[caiesmommy]

Wow I still don't feel I have my groove back and ds is just shy of 4 and dd is just shy of 18m LOL.

I've been trying to do the pantry challenge in the F&F part of the forum. Yest I somewhat blew it though lol. We had friends over and made a huge feast.

-Tofurky sausages
-veggie hot dogs
-devilled eggs
-pasta salad w cherry tomatoes, basil, onion, boccochini cheese(VERY RARE FOR US TO BRING DAIRY IN THE HOUSE)
-potato salad w red onion, red peper, and a dijon apple cidervinegar dressing...and tons of dill frm the garden
-veggie ceaser salad(found a brand w no dairy and no meat WOOOHOOO)
and then we had those yummy coconut milk icecream sandwiches for dessert

Tonight were having gumbo with the leftover sausages

[jldumm]

tonight we are having friends over with grilled pizza three ways

homemade pesto and ricotta
margarita with fresh tom and basil from our garden
squash and chard from the farmers market and our garden

speaking of i better go get the dough started.

very excited about my haul from the market this week.
ill be back with the rest of the week later.

[brooklyn_warbler]

Tonight I actually made brown rice and goat cheese cakes, with fresh string beans and salad. So yummy!

[Keeta]

Tonight was a BBQ veggie feast! It was csa pick-up day plus Ihad some other veggies around that needed eating. We had tofu pups, grilled portabello mushroom caps, baby bok choi and a little yellow summer squash marinated in soy sauce and sesame oil and grilled on foil, grilled corn on the cob, and we boiled some fresh green beans on the BBQ gas burner. Then there was a salad with baby lettuce, radish, edible flowers, parsley, thyme and oregano. Oh and some fresh strawberries (some from our garden, some from the store).

[*LoveBugMama*]

Yesterday we had Quorn meatballs, homemade pastasauce and tagliatellepasta. (We got home from Sweden yesterday, and they have atleast 10 times the amount of vegetarian meatsubstitutes we have here in Norway. We have 3 Quornproducts here, they have atleast 16. So I bought a ton, and my freezer is full. Soooo great for the days where I am making meat for my son! )

Today I think I am going to make pizza. We can eat it while watching the finals in the Soccer WorldCup tonight. Go Spain!!

[simplyc]

I haven't turned the oven on in days to avoid adding to the 100+ degrees. So yesterday I did a large batch of oven cooking!
-Homemade sandwich buns
-Orange cinnamon rolls
-Graham crackers
-1 batch veggie burgers and 1 batch made into meatballs

Also roasted up some fries and we had veggie burgers and fries for dinner.

So tonight...minimal cooking! Making pasta e fagioli from veganomicon with our first homegrown tomatoes!

[seamama11]

I rarely post on this thread, but read it often for inspiration and ideas. I would love to have the recipe for the brown rice and goat cheese cakes...yum!
Tonight I am making corn chowder, salad from our garden, and fresh local bread.
Tomorrow I am making the black bean burgers from veganomicon, except we crumble them into a thousand pieces and put them in burritos with all the fixings....