What I ate today for vegans 3!!

[Kobanidaughters]

New thread for all the deliciousness!

@KobaniDaughters yes! Cooking for friends is one of the things I miss the most too. Luckily, the teenage DDs are here in lockdown as DH is not a foodie. He eats to live rather than the other way around. We form a gang of 6 with our local close friends, and it's quite a challenging group to feed (2 hate mushrooms, another 2 despise peppers, 1 hates aubergine, 1 vegetarian, 1 vegan and so on) but I always find something that caters for everyone and love the challenge of thinking of something that works for everyone!
I've never even thought of audio books being directedI'll give them a try and come back for more recommendations. I am obsessed with cricket, so I listen to a lot of cricket based podcasts and it's good to change it up
See how you get on with one roasting tin, but I find the roasting tin portions mean that if I'm cooking a recipe for 4 I need 2 tins. The cauliflower recipe from the other night said a large roasting tin but also to spread everything out. There's no way I'd get all of that in one tin that would then fit in my oven!

Today was
B: toasted panettone spread with naturli, cherry alpro yogurt
L: lentil, chickpea, chilli soup with 2 slices of wholemeal toast and more naturli
D: green roasting tin sticky rice tray bake, swapping the butternut squash for sweet potatoes and adding a couple of tablespoons of toasted sesame seeds. With broccoli
S: rose chocolate creams

My best friend is on the FODMAP diet due to IBS - it’s a huge challenge catering for the two of us together but I love rising to it! Actually we have him and his husband over for a BBQ tomorrow so mid meal planning for that

A little boring because 2nd fast day this week
L: veg and lentil soup
D: jackfruit Indian flavoured tamale

Had some squirty coconut cream in my coffee as a treat

Oh and banana/date/coffee smoothie I shared with DH (he also had almond butter in his)

Kobani My menus might be seen as boring, because I used to have IBS so do (my own version of ) Food Combining most of the time, it works brilliantly for my gut.

B. leftover smoothie.
L. leftover veg curry soup, Tofu yoghurt with a pumpernickel.
Sn. HM brownie type carrot cake, S. Salad plus spelt toast with pnut butter

@ppeatfruit your menus aren't boring! We eat quite differently I think so I always find them interesting, with lots of things I've never tried, like pumpernickel bread, and you put ingredients together that I wouldn't have thought of.

Generally I'm getting loads of inspiration from you all.

@PartTimeDomesticGoddess I should admit I did cheat with the gyoza - I bought the wrappers. But if you do that, they are not faffy at all, and quite pleasing to fold and shape. I can't speak to the faff-factor of making the dough yourself yet, though I do want to try that one day. I used to make ravioli quite a bit but I haven't tried eggless pasta dough since I went vegan.

@KobaniDaughters I listen to audiobooks a lot. I like listening to them when I'm doing things - cooking or housework, or driving somewhere. I've got two on the go at the moment - Oliver Stone's memoir, and the new David Sedaris. I tend to like to read fiction but prefer audio for non-fiction - unless it's something I have to pay very close attention to. And I am so fussy about narrators too - though looking at reviews on Audible, I'm definitely not the only one!

Pizza night tonight. So far today I've had:

B: sourdough toast with tomatoes and Naturli
Mid morning snack: leftover fried rice.

Agree I find @ppeatfruit menus fascinating - the variety is very different and my word you had a carrot cake style of brownie? Doesn’t sound boring at all!

@AlmightyBob you should be fussy about narrators - it’s a REALLY hard job to do so only the best should be doing it. Some of my favourite narrators to work with and listen to are:

Dominic Hoffman
Jayne Entwhistle
Bahni Turpin
Adenrele Ojo
John Lindstrom
John Lee
Rebecca Lowman
Fiona Hardingham
Olivia Mackenzie-Smith
Vikas Adams

Harriet Walters is also amazing (sadly haven’t worked with her though....yet!)

What an interesting job @KobaniDaughters!

Thanks for the sympathetic posts. I’m ok, everyone has their troubles x

Yesterday
I can remember the rest of the day but had my favourite for dinner. Black pepper tofu with pak choi!

B: Banana
L: Thai noodle salad
D: takeout and family zoom

No-ones menus sound boring.

B: vanilla cashew yoghurt
L: guac and crisps, OMG burgers courtesy of DS in a bun with grilled onion and tomato, potato and green bean salad, spaghetti squash and olive salad, Meyer lemon cheesecake

And then nothing else cos it was loads and I am stuffed!

Well I composed a good post yesterday but it was impossible to post (maybe MN office doing it's Site Work). Thank you all for saying my menus aren't boring.

@ppeatfruit another one for the chorus of nobody's food is boring. I love how different some of your meals are to everyone else's!
@AlmightyBob I was planning to use bought wrappers when I get round to them to be honest. My guess is that the dough would be ok to do but rolling/shaping them could be tricky!
What did you have on your pizza last night?
@KobaniDaughters I made bitchin' sauce!! At least I made this recipe that claims to copy it www.blissfulbasil.com/bitchin-sauce-copycat/#wprm-recipe-container-30640. Of course, I have no idea if it's like the one you buy, but it's very tasty 😋

Today DD17 becomes DD18! Yesterday I prepped some of the lovely food we have planned for today, as we can't go out to celebrate/she can't celebrate with friends

Yesterday was
B: 2 slices of sourdough toast with naturli and tomato. Alpro cherry yogurt
L: green soup with toasted pumpkin seeds that needing eating up sprinkled on the top
D: jacket potato with nooch and bitxhin sauce, big salad
S: toasted hot cross bun with violife cream cheese, apple slices with peanut butter, dark chocolate fingers, bourbons, cake trimmings and a bit of tasting other things that were cooking...

@Kintsugi16 love the sound of black pepper tofu and pak choi! Do you have a recipe that you follow?

B. Finished smoothie with some figs
L. Large grated carrot\turnip\spring onion, salad with mustard\basil olive oil dressing. with end of curried soup (I hate waste ) Oh and a pumpernickel!
Sn. some carrot brownie. S. Salad baguette with almond butter.

Oh yes Kobani I'm fascinated by your job, I listen to the radio a lot. The acting\reading has to be much better when it's being listened to! I loved Martin Jarvis's Just William readings.

Thanks @ppeatfruit it’s good work but not ultimately what I want to spend al my time doing, I’m an actor’s director and I miss pissing about in rehearsal rooms and planning shot lists and being on set or building immersive experiences but very grateful that in the current climate I have work at all and can do it from home.

Also do you make your own pumpernickel? I always love it when I get it but nobody else in the house does so I get it so infrequently

@PartTimeDomesticGoddess I’m so impressed!!! Glad it turned out well

Just to echo I love hearing everyone's menus they all sound so varied and interesting, v inspiring.

B 2 sl Burgen Bread and jam
L hm lentil soup
M 3 Bean chilli and pitta bread

100g dark choc with orange from coop

Hope everyone has a good week xx

@PartTimeDomesticGoddess
I follow an Ottolenghi recipe for black pepper tofu that I have greatly adapted over the years, the pak choi is my own addition.
I’m not too bothered about the oil in the green roasting tin book but find some of the recipes a bit ‘off’ and lacking in protein. I know I bang on about protein but we’re a very active family!

Today:
B: Banana
L: not a lot!
D: pitta, roasted veg with hummus, salad and sweet potato wedges. Not what I had planned but the hummus is going out of date.

Lots of food today, celebrating a lockdown 18th for DD. I had 2 slices of sourdough toast with peanut butter and kimchi for breakfast
Then I had bitchin sauce and tortilla chips, a few crudités, Richmond sausage rolls (with hm rough puff pastry frozen at Christmas), vegan duck mini spring rolls and jackfruit based fake pork belly squares (both Sainsbury's), a baby leaf salad with grapefruit, salted pecans and avocado salad with a grapefruit dressing. She's mostly vegan, not not always and requested her favourite ever smoked salmon and prawns with horseradish creme fraiche. So I veganised the horseradish creme fraiche (agree with you @AlmightyBob about the funny aftertaste but the horseradish dealt with that! Vegan horseradish was from Ocado). And I did carrot slivers for smoked salmon for me. Was a bit vinegary but had promise and will experiment with that some more.
Also made the tiramisu which has turned out pretty well. I'd like to tinker slightly and make it a bit more boozy and the coffee a bit stronger but quite impressed. The mascarpone replacement is a ganache made with dairy free white chocolate and cashews, and I was slightly sceptical but it really works. Happy to share the recipe if anyone if @AlmightyBob or anyone else is interested
Am stuffed, but nonetheless thinking of the carrot cake with cream cheese frosting in the fridge

That sounds like a wonderful birthday meal @PartTimeDomesticGoddess congrats for 18yrs of keeping another human alive and thriving!

B: last of the cashew yoghurt
L: rice cakes with mashed avocado, fresh mango
S: seaweed and dried mango
D: leftover spaghetti squash salad, corn on the cobb and some fermented cashew cheese

@Kintsugi16 is the Ottolenghi recipe this one?
ottolenghi.co.uk/recipes/black-pepper-tofu-a

I've often wanted to make it - it looks so good! I would need to take the black pepper down quite a bit though (five tablespoons seems mad! But I know it's supposed to have heat)

@PartTimeDomesticGoddess yes please to the tiramisu recipe - I trust your judgement! In other sweet news, on a whim I bought a couple of tins of Carnation vegan condensed milk on the weekend, just because I saw them on the shelf, and am thinking about some kind of banoffee pie or millionaire shortbread.

I had spinach, grilled artichoke, red onion and garlic mushroom on my Saturday pizza. Slightly overloaded the toppings, easy to get greedy when you're hungry and you've made everyone else's first. For the dough I use an old Jamie Oliver recipe, been using the same one for years - equal parts plain and strong white bread flour, salt, yeast, olive oil, water. Over the years I've farted about with different proving times, including a 24 hour fridge prove, and different hydration, and have ended up going back pretty much to the original method and recipe.

Yesterday was:

B: Breakfast fake mcmuffin
L: banana, two satsumas, handful salt and vinegar peanuts
D: three bean chilli, rice, guac and salsa

Yes @AlmightyBob

I only use 5 garlic gloves, 2 normal chillies and 2 tablespoons of black pepper.
Obviously replace the butter, coconut oil works well and frozen chopped shallots (Waitrose sell them) are a real time saver!

I serve with Jasmine rice and usually pak choi

Kobani Our family is a bit luvvie too btw! I have looked at a recipe for pump. but it's easier to buy! I only eat rye and spelt bread. I do make bread occasionally ( I keep thinking I must do it more but don't seem to get round to it, also there's not much room in our freezers).

B .3 Pears\soaked dried apricots\apricot juice\filtered water, linseeds. smoothie.
L. 4 ryvitas, pnut butter leftover carrot salad with baby greens.
Sn\S. Some carrot brownie cake with tofu yoghurt.

@PartTimeDomesticGoddess I missed that it's your daughter's 18th birthday - oh wow. Not the birthday celebration you would have planned in other circumstances but you did her proud by the sound of it.

I forgot not mention it too!
Happy 18th Birthday

B: Toast and marmite which I regretted when I did some exercise! Should have had oats
L: A very small dish of leftover takeaway from Saturday.
D: Chilli, not what I’d planned but DS is on a late shift so needed something that will reheat well.