What I ate today for vegans 3!!

[Kobanidaughters]

New thread for all the deliciousness!

I do like essential oils! The tofu quiche was almost home made - I buy ready made pastry, but the filling I made myself. Silken tofu, tiny bit of black salt, smoked paprika, garlic powder, turmeric and 2tbsp plant milk.

I also made a big batch of hummus and fear I have killed my Vitamix :(

I'm still here @ppeatfruit! Were you feeling lonely?
I've had another lovely weekend which involved visiting old old friends in Yorkshire. I went on the train so as to leave the car with DH for his cricket dad duties. Friends live in a town called Malton, which it turns out has an amazing vegan cafe. It was closed this weekend, but my friend stocked his fridge and I ate my way through mixed salads (potato, carrot and butter bean salads, plus a couple of slaws), a filo pastry Moroccan pie and part of a burrito. I bought a loaf of sourdough and some flora plant butter/marmite for breakfasts and we drank far too much and ate loads of crisps/nuts. Also from the vegan cafe I had 3 different cakes! One Apple strudel, one carrot cake and one chocolate/berry cake. All of which were incredible.
Train journey back yesterday involved a last portion of mixed salads, and there was a Leon at Birmingham New Street so I got a roasted veg with aubergine and sumac onions from there. DD18 cooked dinner last night when I got home, which was a large mixed salad, garlic bread and spaghetti with ragu. The ragu was from one of her recipe books, no lentils or veggie mince but chopped nuts for the protein element. Was very tasty
Oh, and on the train on the way up on Friday I took leftover Dan Dan noodles but forgot cutlery, so had to improvise and use a couple of coffee stirrers as chopsticks 😂

Waves to @KarmaViolet and @vincettenoir too
Have you arrived safe and sound @KobaniDaughters?

Hello everyone sorry very manic here trying to get everything done before we fly tomorrow!

Sending you good vibes @KobaniDaughters 😊

B: Monday smoothie
L: rose harissa chickpeas
D: potato and fake feta bake, beetroot, cherry tomatoes, kohlrabi slaw, Bombay carrot salad
S: Apple, dark chocolate orange rice cake, mango sorbet cornetto

Wow your Yorkshire weekend sounds goooood Part I always leave my car here when I travel to Eng. it's so much more freeing isn't it?

I find houmous blows me right out, so I don't eat it . Violet I make a white bean and \garlic \beetroot dip which does the trick when I'm in a dip mood! I love silken tofu for lots of things too, it's impossible to tell the difference between it and dairy cream.

Kobani Sorry I was thinking you went last weekend. have a good trip.

B. Apricot,lemon, apple, ground linseeds smoothie
L. Finished my pesto\lettuce soup with oat crackers and yeast spread.
S. Bowl of spelt flakes\rice puffs and almond milk\molasses.
Sn. steamed green and broad beans.

Yesterday
B: toast
L: avocado, leftover salsa, hummus and a mini Higgidy no-pork pie - don't think I would buy those again, the taste is good but the filling is very dry.
D: leftover quiche and potato salad

Do you just use violife feta @PartTimeDomesticGoddess or is there a better one on the market?

I LIVE on hummus @ppeatfruit!

Yesterday I finally finished shooting my film so we went for Mexican and a beer at lunchtime to celebrate and I had the most amazing mole over roasted veg and a grilled cactus salad

Squash stuff with chilli for dinner

I even meant to tell you we've found one we prefer to @KobaniDaughters 🤦‍♀️ I think you have a sainsburys to shop at and it's their own brand. Discovered accidentally by DD18, and we both prefer it. Texture is a bit more crumbly and therefore a bit more like I remember the real thing being.
That Mexican meal sounds incredible! I've never eaten cactus before, what's it like?

FD today
L: lentil and veg hotpot
S: protein shake
D: spiced aubergine and tomato bake sprinkled with nooch, tenderstem

@ppeatfruit it's years since I did a train journey that long and I have to say I really enjoyed it. The only thing that was not freeing about it was the price, which was 

@KarmaViolet - that's what I thought of the higgidy pies too. Good pastry but a bit dry

Train price was shocking (emoji fail)

I did get the idea Part I always remind myself that the fuel costs a lot with cars, plus the parking, ( oh and the fines ) repairs, servicing, taxes etc etc.I have to use one here and I HATE it. It sort of makes a hypocrite of me trying to be green.

B. Finished apricot smoothie with some pumpkin seeds.
L. French green bean salad bowl with crumbled pumpernickel.
B. fried mushroom,garlic, onion on toast with salad.

Kobani Are you in the mainstream business? DD1 works for Carnival in London. You're not travelling yet then.

@ppeatfruit trying to break into it!
@PartTimeDomesticGoddess hard to describe, not as slimey as okra but more so than most veg, very light flavour

Second FD yesterday

L: sweet and hot veg curry
S: protein shake
D: roasted cauliflower with spiced veg (new potatoes, cherry tomatoes, peas)

Yesterday:

B: toast
L: avocado, hummus, leftover potato salad
D: Full of Plants seitan in red lentil coconut curry sauce

The seitan tastes good but I wasn't able to knead it long enough - it escaped from the magimix and even resorting to the bread maker didn't make it work!

I'm trying to picture seitan Karma !
Good luck with that Kobani It can be a double edged sword (like most employments I suppose) Though dh had mostly good times with HBO Europe.

B. End of apricot smoothie, figs and dates.
L HM . Smoothie with strawberries, raspberries, apricots, lemon, dates with almond butter and almond milk YUM!
Sn. Choc, hemp dessert,
S. Spelt sandwich of olive oil, yeast spread with cucumber

B: porridge with flaxseeds, raspberries and Oatley yoghurt
L: chickpea tuno sandwich
D: Linda Mac burger, sweet potato wedges, coleslaw and rocket

B. Finished the strawberry smoothie with dates and grapes.
L. Oaty crackers, yeast spread, peanut butter. large green salad.
S. HM chopped steamed beetroot, with bean dip sauce and pumpernickel.

B: overnight oats with raspberries and seeds
L: aubergine curry, rice, beetroot, satsuma
D: M&S nut roast (yellow stickered from freezer), 1 Richmond sausage, roasted new potatoes and cauliflower, tenderstem, carrots, peas and gravy
S: collective yogurt (raspberry) and 2 ice cream sandwich bar things (they were small!)

I had to go into work yesterday and then met friends, so I was out from 7am and hadn't made a packed lunch. It feels like an extraordinarily extravagant day but pre-pandemic I used to do this quite regularly!

B: Pret very berry croissant - it's a good thing I only have to go into work occasionally at the moment, I could live off these
L: avo baguette
S: another very berry croissant
D: pizza, 2 Lucky Saint beers

Sounds lovely to me @KarmaViolet! I'm not near a Pret very often, but I like their frozen plain croissants which I get from Tesco

B: dates, greggs sausage roll
L: root veg and lentil curry
Friends for dinner again - yay! We had olives and hot nuts for nibbles. Then Meera Sodha's spaghetti with basil, chilli, lemon and pistachios, green salad, garlic bread and caprese salad. Nectarine tart and vanilla ice cream for pudding.

I made this vegan mozzarella and it was really nice. Made quite a lot more than I would want though, will do a half qty next time. Haven't tried it in a toastie yet so don't know what it's like when hot, but worked well for the salad (and my breakfast sandwich)

veganhuggs.com/vegan-mozzarella-cheese/

The nuts were really good too (take them off the baking tray as soon as they're cooked though)

www.allrecipes.com/recipe/230159/sweet-salty-spicy-party-nuts/

Oooh lucky you Part I can't wait to have people round to eat, (even it's just a vegan brownie and a cup of tea !) Is the mozzarella made with soya? (sorry I try not to link these days).

It Sounds like you DID live on those croissants yesterday Violet

B. Apricot, dates, ground linseeds.apples,lemon smoothie
L. Pumpernickel, yeast spread with cucumber,carrot, basil garlic,shallot veg. juice
S. HM beetroot dip with bean, shallot salad

Pret do frozen croissants in tesco???? So much to look forward to when we move back

Sorry am not on much, quarantining with the parents and mum is embracing my vegan needs way better than normal!

L: farm shop bought spanokopita and mushroom strudel with side salad
D: HFW roast squash and chickpeas in spicy apricot sauce with couscous and kale salad, roast rhubarb and chocolate cherry ice cream
S: Brazil nuts

@ppeatfruit the nozzarella (as we're now calling it 😂) was soaked cashews. I did use soya yogurt though

@KobaniDaughters hope the quarantine isn't driving you all too mad. Food sounds lovely, am hankering after a spanakopita myself lately...

B: tomato, pesto and nozzarella granary sandwich. Strawberries
L: leaves, cucumber, tomato, artichoke hearts, beetroot, olives, nozzarella
D: spoonful of mejadra with loads of roasted veg - rose harissa cauliflower, half an aubergine served with rose harissa yogurt, courgette with spicy cashews and cashew cream
And lots of snacks! Plant collective raspberry yogurt, 2 chocolate digestives, salted nuts, crisps, magnum, vegan Kit Kat (sainsburys, loved it)