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And can I also say that when this thread was requested I was under the impression it was a thread to discuss vegetarianism not to put down those that do eat meat, had I know this I would have thought twice. So I ask that this thread remain peaceful and minus the derogative remarks towards those that have a different lifestyle to you.
Keeping in mind there are some people who eat vegan/vegetarian on occasion and meat on occasion too, and do not need to feel excluded.
Hi Brontie... I certainly did not think that any of my communication to AngelPunks was rude I would have used a head banging on a wall rather than a smily face and a thumbs up if I was not being nice to her. Regarding the meat eating boofheads comment which I made last week: I made that in a vegetarian chatter thread to be read by vegetarians and I certainly did not think that the 'context' I used it in would have offended anyone reading it in this thread, that context being that my husband is beyond the regular meat eating boofhead attitude of many males who grunt "you have to eat meat to be a real man" around a BBQ.
I don't think this is the place for me anymore. Belly Belly has been a wonderful support for me whilst I lost my 2 babies but this is it for me. I am really upset that my communication has been taken this way. Best wishes to all of you.
We expect that BB members should show tact at all times. This means that you need to keep in mind that the vegetarian threads may be read by omnivores, that breastfeeding threads may be read by formula feeding mums, that large family threads may be read by only child families and so on. The context does not excuse rudeness and lack of tact.
:doh: Did not want the thread to go this way!
As a leveller - there are plenty of vegetarian boofheads out there too.
My peeve of this week?
The "twisties and ice cream vegetarian"
Common especially in teenagers, this is someone who hasn't really thought about nutrition, and is taking on vegetarianism as a fashion statement or fad diet, rather than a healthy lifestyle. Because, when you think about it, a twisties and ice cream diet is vegetarian, but definitely not healthy. I can't stand the assumption that a vegetarian diet is automatically a healthy one (conversely, I also can't stand the assumption that a vegetarian diet is automatically an unhealthy one) I dislike that these people give me and other nutrition-conscious vegos a bad name.
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Hey Krys - on an unrelated note - have you seen the facebook group "I used to live in Rocky, but I'm OK now" All my Rocky-native friends are in it, gave me a good laugh.
I know what you mean about cattle transport. In a way I wish I could look them in their big brown eyes and say "Not my fault, dude"
Ha ha ha! That is very funny.:
Hey Krys - on an unrelated note - have you seen the facebook group "I used to live in Rocky, but I'm OK now" All my Rocky-native friends are in it, gave me a good laugh.
Wow how frustrating... I joined another veg web site earlier on in the week but was stoked when I found this thread as sooo many people just turn it into a big debate and thinking BB would be different its frustrating to read this (ok tbh i skipped most of the drama)...
Can we all re-read Snugglybeans original post at the start?!
Krysallyss- I havnt tried any of the lamyong products, actually havnt even heard of them. What are they?? And where is Magicwok?? I hate seeing animals stuck in trucks and especially the cattle train it is so awful. I was reading another thread about buying free-range chickens and how its good they had a good life(non-veg thread) and it made me sad I just wish no creatures were born just for us to kill them.. ARGH! Also I think you might be meaning kuan Yin in the valley who does fake chicken? I ended up keeping one of their business cards in my wallet as I was forever rocking up there and it was closed :doh:
SnugglyBean- You are an inspiration to all us unheallthy vegetarians out there!! I do eat quite healthy in comparison to some people, but I know I could definately eat healthier! I am guilty of stealing a handfull of chips if DP has any :redface:
Any more tasty recipies? Whats cooking tonight?? Im thinking brown rice with lentil and vegies... I have a bunch of zucchinis and eggplant that needs to be eaten in the fridge.
Cherished- Come back! :)
Hope everyone is well :)
Yeah, Kwan Yin keep whacky hours. White Lotus in Melbourne is the same - we never got to say a proper goodbye when we left as they were closed for our last two weeks!
Green Gourmet is in Newtown, Sydney, for whoever asked.
Peach - I am *SO* not healthy or inspirational. My halo falls off frequently! I love VegeChips, and Leda do a good vegan Tim Tam and Gingernut bikkie - very handy with morning sickness!
Dinner tonight? Baked beans (out of a can) on toast. :lol: Dh won't be home, and I've been finding it hard to maintain any effort in the kitch :redface:
But, I do have tasty recipes everywhere! If I had zucchini and eggplant, I would dice them, lightly fry with olive oil and seeded mustard, splash of white wine and heaps of cracked black pepper. Serve over polenta. (Top with cheese and bake if you do cheese)
Great thread, if you can ignore the great debate :)
I have been vegetarian for about 5 years now. I first become vego because I was spending about half an hour every day in the meat section of the supermarket, trying to decide which meat to have for dinner, because they all looked so gross and I didn't really want to put any of them in my mouth. Then one day I thought - Hey! I don't live with my dictator parents anymore! I can eat what I want! I don't have to eat meat if I don't want to! So I stopped. I've been saving time and money ever since :)
To me, the thought of eating body parts is disgusting. I would no sooner eat poop than I would eat some previously living animals thigh, and I do see myself as the normal one and the people who eat meat and/or poop as being a little crazy. Come on! It's veins and muscles and tendons... yuck!
My DH unfortunately is a meat eater, but since I'm the fussy one and he doesn't care about food at all, I decide what's for dinner each night. There's rarely room for meat in the equation - he usually has it maybe twice a week and he's happy with that. I would like to convert him and I'm thinking I could use the upcoming baby as an excuse.
I have decided that our children will be vegetarians until they are old enough to make their own educated decision about it. I have been a bit worried about how a kid would go growing up vego when all the other kids eat meat, but this thread has put my mind at ease! Ally I like your post about how you bake vegan patty cakes for the preschool freezer - I didn't know they would allow such things, what a perfect solution!
I love the Vegie Delights range - and so does DH! They've got nothing on the Quorn selection in the UK though, I wish we had those!
Hi Vintrar! It's interesting what you say about eating body parts - I'm not so concerned about flesh, but cannot stand the thought of eating dairy - that is a cow's bodily fluid! Yuck! That's my weird little thing. Some people don't like peas.... :D
I love Vegie Delights too - I ate them even before I was vego, they were so good when I was living alone. I've just rediscovered the bacon - I don't know if it's got better, or if I just have changed my palate, but I love it. Especially in things, like a carbonara.
One time, my brother and his friends stayed and left behind a tin of apricot nectar and some apricot halves. I don't usually do tinned fruit, so wasn't sure what to do with them. So I had a go at apricot chickpeas, and they were SO good!
Moroccan Apricot Chickpeas
2 cups chickpeas, soaked and drained
1 onion, chopped
2 red capsicums, coarsely chopped
1 tin apricot nectar
1 cup apricot halves
2 cups stock
Moroccan spices to taste (cumin seed, coriander seed, ginger, cassia/cinnamon)
Put all those things in a casserole or slow cooker, for 1-2 hours or equivalent.
Sprinkle with fresh coriander, serve with couscous or brown rice, through which you can mix sultanas, olive oil, sumac, salt and pepper. Yum scrum.
Hi guys! Tonight we had vietnamese spring rolls. They were sooooo yummy. We fry up some Blue lotus tofu nuggets (sweet chilli flavour) and make up a sauce of kecap manis, lime juice, sweet chilli sauce, dash of sugar, and bit of water. Add some baby spinach, grated carrot, chopped herbs, bean sprouts etc. Roll it up in some vietnamese spring roll wrapper and eat eat eat! I love this dish. It is so easy and messy and yummy.
If you want to try an alternative to the vege delights then try the Frys range. You can get them in most supermarkets (eg. woolies) but they are in the frozen section. They make good burger patties, sausages, sausage rolls, shepards pies, schnitzel etc. Definitely have a try.
I am lucky in that DH is the cook and he is pretty healthy minded. We have a lot of simple dishes eg. pasta, curries, that are full of vegies and lentils etc.
We have DS as a vegetarian. We did get a dietician to give us advice on his diet when he started solids to cover all of our bases (she is vegan and has raised 3 kids vegan) but I admit I give him a multi-vitamin because I just want to be really sure.
OMG - Fry's sausage rolls - best hangover cure EVER! We usually have some schnitzels in the freezer too.
Has anyone had the Blue Lotus smoked tofu? Yummmm.... haven't seen it in Qld, but my local soopermarket in Melbies must have had a lot of vegan shoppers, there were great products there. Fried sliced of smoked tofu on a pureed vegetable soup (esp cauliflower, carrot and lentil) oh, yeah!
I haven't tried the smoked one. This was our first Blue lotus tofu/ Usually we just buy the plain one and marinate it ourselves. I know you can buy liquid smoke though which is marinade and you can use it on tofu, mushrooms etc.
Does anyone use malt extract (like malt for milkshakes), I was looking at it in the shops today and it is high in lots of B vitamins. Might try it out.
Peaches - lamyong you can get from chinese supermarkets. They make mockmeat products. Haven't had them but keen to try. I have tried some awesome mock fish and chicken before and have cravings Magic Wok is an sunnybank. But have just heard they are closing. :( They were awesome - chinese vegetarian food.
Huo Fo is near Magic Wok and similar - but no super friendly bearded dude! Kevvie Rudd hasn't responded to my letter yet (he usually does, or at least someone from his office)
I use liquid smoke a lot, especially in baked beans, or my Caribbean Beans (recipe to follow) Green split peas go really well with it too, they just match the smoky flavour so well. I did a pasta sauce with them last night. Lately I've been putting it in beetroot dip too.
Caribbean Blackeye Beans
Black eye beans
sliced onion
diced sweet potato
juice of 1 lime
2 tbsp brown sugar
6 chopped tomatoes (or a can)
stock
liquid smoke (2-5 drops, optional)
2 chopped long chillies (optional)
(I haven't added quantities, because I vary them every time I make it. Just make sure the liquid comes to the top of all the other ingredients, it always works) Dump the lot in the slow cooker, and away you go. Really really good with polenta.
I might have a go at the malt extract - I love that flavour. For a while earlier this year I was having carob, rice protein and banana smoothies (just a phase) and they were pretty good...
I called in to Mrs Flannery's on the way home from work today, to get more b12 tablets (I'm addicted to Thompson's brand) they had none, so I walked out with $60 worth of groceries instead. I can never resist their tamari almonds! I also bought some rice bran flakes, and couldn't stop nibbling on them when I was unpacking, so had them with dried fruit and soy milk for dinner.
Funny, because when my mum was pg, apparently she lived on Special K. I'm feeling like maybe I could do the same now...
Woolies natura brand has some tamari almonds. They are devine aren't they?!?
Thanks for the bean recipe - looks really good!
My god this thread makes me so hungry girls!! These recipies sound divine, im definately going to be trying out ALL of the food mentioned.
Welcome Vitrar!
Vegie delights... my downfall! There is something about the smoked deli round rashers and the bacon that I cant resist. It never lasts more than 2 days here. On a sandwich with avo is my favourite. And once I start I cant stop! This is going to sound so bad but I was eating one in the bath only the other night :redface: Who eats in the bath?! lol
I havnt been to mrs flannerys but I know ther is one at the hyperdome so I might check it out. My friend gets her wasabi peas from there... oh so addictive! And where do I find these vegan tim tams?!?!!??!?! I must try them!
I have tried pretty much nothing of anything mentioned(never even cook polenta!) so this thread will give me the motivation I need, as I LOVE food and eat alot(can you tell by the sandwich in the bath??) but I find Im just so sick of cooking all the same things.
Anyone been to 'Morroccan soup bar' in Melbourne? Another excellent vego eatery.
Hope your all having a great day :)
Hi girls - sorry I've been MIA, laptop needed repairing!
Last night was a boring curry night: peas, carrots, cauliflower, potato in coconut curry sauce with jasmati (basmati/jasmine) rice. No idea of what's on the menu tonight... have a few zucchinis in the fridge that need to be used - maybe zucchini soup! Love soup! Yeah ordinary I know...
Someone mentioned Soulmama before - I lived there during my pregnancy! The desserts are to die for. I wonder what soy cream they use, it's delicious. I love the chocolate and orange sago with soy cream!
Will be back later, keep the ideas coming!
We went to Soulmama on my hens' night, had a lot of cheeky fun!
Holly - I did a blistered zucchini and lemon pasta a while ago, posted about it in my BellyBuddies thread. Fried off garlic, added sliced zucchini on high high heat, til it started to blister, then juice of one lemon, dumped in heaps of rocket and then the cooked pasta. Yums.
There's two brands of vegan tim tams - one is the Freedom Foods brand, called Chocolate Hazelnut Delight, or Deluxe or soemthing. They're individually wrapped :redface: and have about a billion calories each, but they are SO nice!
The other is Leda brand, comes in a gold and brown package. Much more like conventional tim tams, not as naughty. Leda also make a great coconut biscuit and gingernut biscuit.
Which reminds me of a favourite dessert:
Vegan Chocolate Mousse
Melt 1 block vegan chocolate with 1 block silken tofu and 1/2 cup sugar (any sort - I just use raw) Whizz with food processor/mouli/egg beater until smooth. Pour into individual serving glasses, layered with coconut biscuit crumbs and some kind of strong fruit (raspberry, strawberry, passionfruit, caramelised pear etc) chill for 30-90 minuted, serve.
Snugglybean pack your bags- your coming to live with me and be my full-time cook! Dear lordy that sounds sooooooooo good!
Where do I find these Tim Tam substitute biccies??
Just finished lunch finally and Im so full. Made a quick pasta with zucchini, broccoli,onion,sweet potato and a bunch of herbs. Took me almost an hour to get DD to have her nap and in the process over cooked the pasta and the vegies were burnt around the edges... gave it a rustic feel :)
HollyM- I love making soups too, one of my fav is roast pumpkin and garlic
Butternut Pumpkin
Onion
Whole bulb garlic
Whatever vegies you have ie potato, sweet potato
Cut pumpkin into tiny bits, slice bulb of garlic through the middle leaving all the shell on, toss with oli oil and roast till nice and crispy on the edges.When done peel the garlic and mash then chuck it all in the one pot with vegie stock or just water then cook for however long you want. It can pretty much be eaten strait away but I usually give it half. Add a bit of chilli too for bite. You will be doing rancid garlic farts all night and the next day but its worth it :)
In the Czech Republic (I lived there for a while) they do a garlic soup - it is just smashed garlic cloves, caraway seeds and broth with flatbread strips in it. Makes you do shocking farts, but it it sooooo good!
Tim Tammys can be found at Woolies, my IGA also has them, Coles has been hit and miss. They're usually in the health food or gluten free area, as they are also gluten free.
Another nice bikkie to look out for (I find it in the 'naytura section of woolies) is the lemon wafers. I think the brand is something like Erskal. Last time I had them I am pretty sure they were vegan. Yuuuuuuum. But very morish.
Oh, yeah, naytura also do one called "flax snax" it's basically a flaxseed and pear juice mash up bikkie. Huge, yum, filling, good.
LOL at Peach eating in the bath! That does sound good though, deli slices and avo. Put a bit of tomato in there too, would be perfect. I know whats going on this weeks shopping list :)
Those Frys shepards pies are to die for, never knew they had sausage rolls though! I will be on the look out from now on. I love their schnitzels, though Frys can be pretty expensive next to vegie delights..
One of the easiest vego alternatives for me is lentils! I get vegie mince now and then, but lentils are a much cheaper and healthier option. I substitute mince with lentils in spag bol, lasagne, mex-lasagne, tacos etc.. They actually taste meaty in those meal, and I reckon they would be more filling too. So cheap too, I just get the canned brown ones at Aldi 99c a can, cheaper than $6 for mince and so versatile and delicious.
I would love to become a vegan but I am worried I would miss cheese a lot. Is the vegan cheese any good? Are there any cheap brands? Can you get vegan haloumi? I already use Soy milk instead of regular milk (not that I've had any in weeks, due to NVP). What about egg replacements for baking? Any recommendations there? Oh and are all those vegan alternatives a source of calcium?
I use no egg for cakes etc. It seems fine.
I am meeting up with some vegan friends next week and we are going to try some vegan cheese recipes. I haven't tried too many commercial ones yet - just the tofutti non-cheese spread which is nice - more like sour cream though
Take out tonight!
Grilled eggplant in terriyaki sauce with vegetarian fried rice, no egg.
Chocolate bavarian cake for dessert!
EVERYONE says "Oh, but I'd miss cheese..." Even I used to. Try 6 weeks without cheese, and you'll find that it's really not that important. Yeah, it tastes great, but it's really not that good for you.
The hardest part about being vegan is not giving up cheese. It's checking the labels on everything - savoury crackers, even plain ones, so often have dairy products in them. Popping in to someone's house, or an out of office meeting, not being able to have a cuppa if there's no soy milk (yeah, probably better off withut it!)
No, there's not an amazing vegan cheese. Cheezly is pretty good, if you *have* to have something, but at $8 a block, we just don't bother very often (did tonight, with nachos, and honestly, hardly noticed it) I make a great cheese sauce out of Tofutti cream cheese, and the Tofutti mozarella style slices are quite good in a toastie (but again, so exxy that it's a real treat food)
We've just adapted most of our meals to not have cheese in them at all, rather than substitute, and I miss it far far less than I thought I would. For example, a cheesy fatty potato bake of the past is now potatoes par-boiled then roasted with garlic, tossed with cherry tomatoes, green beans, crushed pistachios/pinenuts and dressed with olive oil and balsamic. Just as much protein, heaps of flavour, far less saturated fat. Anywhere that we would have had cheese, we just put in something else with heaps of flavour, like herbs, or lemon juice, or toasted nuts, sesame seeds or whatever.
Although I did get really drunk last year and eat some blue cheese. :redface: It was a funny morning after moment, remembering with a groand and saying "I can't believe I did that..." only it wasn't pashing a stranger, or dancing on a table, or convincing some Canadian tourists that I was a world air guitar champion... it was eating cheese. lol.
To make our vegan cheese we are going to be working from the 'uncheese' cookbook. Some of it supposedly is pretty good. The girl who owns the book swears by the grilled cheese sandwiches. She says it is just like a normal cheese sandwich. So there are definitely options.
I am trying to lose some weight and cheese is pretty much out for me. I want to go more vegan anyway. We were before but went back to vegetarian.
SB - I agree with you. It is so frustrating to have milk added to so many unneccessary things. Plus it seems so much harder for friends to cater for you.
I think I am going to go vegan but be more relaxed if we are out or at a friends house.
I have heard that uncheese is pretty good - I'm not a nooch (nutritional yeast) lover though, so never tried it. I wonder if I'm missing out.
Maybe I'll come to Rocky and you can change my mind, Krys :D
LOL. Well I will let you know if I am inspired after trying some of the recipes this weekend.
But woo hoo - only 6 months till I am back in Brisbane!
I'm barging in here again lol. We have been dairy free for 2 1/2 years now... we have found some things that work in a replacement way... like I use rice milk and sugar and reduce it on the stove top for ages to make sweetened condensed milk for deserts. I have also been known to blend silken tofu to replace sour cream etc....
I made fudge a few months ago reducing the rice milk to make the sweetened condensed milk and dark chocolate.
I've used the tofutti better than cream cheese to make cheese cake before.... it turned out fantastic. I used mostly that and blended tofu!
I made vegetable puffs today with a vegan puff pastry. Yummo, the girls ate them up and DH & I ate the left overs that were supposed to be for tomorrow... lol.
I'm barging in here again lol. We have been dairy free for 2 1/2 years now... we have found some things that work in a replacement way... like I use rice milk and sugar and reduce it on the stove top for ages to make sweetened condensed milk for deserts. I have also been known to blend silken tofu to replace sour cream etc....
I made fudge a few months ago reducing the rice milk to make the sweetened condensed milk and dark chocolate.
I've used the tofutti better than cream cheese to make cheese cake before.... it turned out fantastic. I used mostly that and blended tofu!
I made vegetable puffs today with a vegan puff pastry. Yummo, the girls ate them up and DH & I ate the left overs that were supposed to be for tomorrow... lol.
Thanks for the tips girls, will take them on board. I think I'll wait until the morning sickness subsides before I try anything new. At the moment it's hard to get anything down so I'm eating whatever I can stomach. Now that I think of it, the only dairy I consume is in junk food and the occasional creamy pasta sauce. I'll lose weight and be much healthier if I go vegan.
Hey Girls,
I gave up cheese for so long and then when we were in Canada for 3 months our local shop had the cheapest nice vegan cheese(which melts!) so we ate that... now Im back to eating it... make sure we get rennet free but still :redface:
Christy- Is tofutti silken tofu? I would love to make a veg cheesecake.
Definately frustrating with the label thing. WHY would biccies need shortening?? Why put milk in bread? Even though we arent vegan Im such a label nazi, good habit to be in though and its amazing the things Ive been eating forever and only recently found out have gelatin in them, cherry ripes for example. I miss marsmallows :( But would never go back to eating them.
Hi everyone,
Yum, reading all these recipes has made me hungry.
Peach - you can buy vegan marshmallows and kits to make your own marshmallows. I usually order them from the crueltyfreeshop (online) when I get a craving for vegan rocky road....They are pretty expensive though, but definately worth it for a treat.
Like SB, we got used to not eating cheese and other dairy products in our food. When I went vegan there was only one brand of soy milk widely available - Sanitarium of course. I started drinking my tea without milk when out as no one ever had soy milk, and even now I still drink black tea (I prefer herbal or green now though). We occasionally buy cheezly for pizza or nachos but it is expensive and we are used to those foods without cheese anyway. I did try the new soy whipped cream in a can recently. Quite sweet and nice, but it melts fast. I had it in hot chocolate and on apple pie.
I am a dark choc addict. My peeve for the week is companies who produce choc that they market as dark choc but add dairy too...Why does dark choc need butterfat or bloody non-fat milk solids?! :wall: It is almost impossible to buy vegan cooking choc in a supermarket now too. If I was a cynical person I'd say that there must be a conspiracy with the dairy industry;)
Vintrar - when preg with my first child I was a little anxious about how hard it may be to raise my future children as vegan. I can honestly say that so far (my DD is 5), it has been so much easier that I imagined. My DD pre-school teachers are fab. If they do cooking on a day that my DD is there, they always make a vegan food. When I thank them for being so considerate of my DD, they look at me as if I am mad, and usually say ' we wouldn't do it any other way'. Recently when a teacher wanted to do a session on nutrition with the kids she asked me to write down some vegan food sources of iron, calcium etc so that she could mention them.
I am off to munch on some choccie now! I have to go back over this thread and start writing down the recipes.
Hi Mum2missm,
So glad to hear that your vego journey is making you feel happy and content. In regards to your questions about raising your child vego, here are my thoughts:
Young children are dependent on us to make decisions for them until they are old enough to do so. Parents pass on their values and ideals to their children, so it is acceptable for you to raise your child with your vego ideals. Of course, it will be her choice one day. She wil reach an age where she will decide, but for now it is your decision. Don't feel guilty about that. My DD is 5, and I feel that I can be honest with her about why her dad and I are vegans. She knows that meat is a dead animal. She loves animals, and would never want to hurt them. I haven't told her about factory farms yet, but I have told her that the animals just want to live and be happy and that they don't want to be eaten. She also knows that her dad and I ate meat when we were her age. I told her that adults lied to me (and they did) about where meat came from. My godmother used to tell me that the cow just died of old age! I feel that I can't lie to my kids about that. So, yes, it should be their choice eventually, but it should be an informed choice.
On to food - my kids love pasta. I tend to make it with tinned tomatos these days, and I add eggplant, mushrooms, zucchini, capsicum, lots of garlic. I cook the egplant, caps, zucchini in my cafe style sandwich maker (or you could use a griller), then add it to the tomatoes. We use wholemeal penne usually.
They also like tofu. I used to buy packaged marinated tofu squares but they have gotten to be so expensive, so I buy plain firm tofu and marinate it. One marinade I make is - sweet chilli sauce, low salt tamari (or soy sauce or bragg liquid aminos), garlic, olive oil, fresh ginger. I marinade the tofu for a couple of hours in the fridge, then I cook it in a fry pan or the sandwich press. We have it with rice or cous cous. My kids also like potato salad with soy mayonnaise. I add sunflower seeds, red onion, and parsley. I also marinate portobello mushrooms in olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper and agave nectar (or maple syrup) then dehydrate them for 3 hours YUM . But you could grill them if you don't have a dehydrator (much quicker!).
They also like coleslaw. I use cabbage, purple cabbage, carrot, apple, celery, soy mayonnaise, caraway seeds. The soy mayo makes the cabbage palatable to kids. My kids also like curries and dhal. My DH makes a great dhal with brown lentils, green split peas, yellow spilt peas, red lentils, cumin, tumeric, salt, coriander seeds, tomato paste, fresh ginger, garlic. We have it with brown rice and pappadums. You could make dhal in the slow cooker too.
Pumpkin soup is also popular with my kids. I add sweet potato, carrot, red lentils and a bit of coconut cream, and I often throw in any leftover vegies like zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower.
Anyway, I will stop now before I bore you to tears!
Love it!:
Tomato olive lentil pasta bake sounds YUM! When can I come round and have some?
My DH is not into couscous :wall: but will eat pretty much anything else, so I don't complain.
Tofutti Better than Cream Cheese is a cream cheese substitute. It is the one thing I can't live without. For a quick dip, stir it together with pumpkin chutney or lime pickle - it is so good. Or I dissolve it in stock and thicken with cornflour to make a white sauce that even meat-eater get into - last year I made cauliflower with that sauce at a family roast - people were licking the bowl clean, while the left over meat sat there looking sad (was my family's first experience with me as a vegan - they're getting used to it)
Ali - all your ideas sound incredible! Coleslaw - yum. Not so much in winter, but lov it in summer. I also make a pasta salad, which has silken tofu, about 5 cloves of raw garlic, salt, mint, cucumber. flaxseed oil and a little bit of vinegar all blended together. SO refreshing in summer.
M2mm - it's interesting the bit about not eating death and suffering. We went veg because of the environmental impact that meat-eating has on the planet, but the spiritual aspect of not eating death or suffering is an unexpected bonus that came along much later.
Hi Ladies,
Hope your all well! Im feeling rather festive- have had a couple of sneaky wines since DD went to bed :)
Dinner tonight Thai green curry-
Garlic,onion,red capsicum,snow peas,garlic chives,eggplant,mushrooms,cashews in tasty sauce with jasmine. Tried a different tofu and was more like silken so dissapointed and I couldnt put it in or it would have turned to mush so Im going to make the mousse recipie mentioned earlier.
Hope everyone is having a good night :)
Oh Peach. I wish I'd had dinner at your place! I just made pasta tonight.
Does anyone have any good eggplant recipes? A guy at out farmer's market grows the most delicious little eggplants. I am looking for some inspiration, I have used them in curries and lasagne and pasta thus far.
Cheers Peach, enjoy the wine!
Cheers! :) Ive had to stop otherwise I will no doubt feel very seedy by the time DD is ready to feed.
Scroll back through the previous pages Aliash, Snugglybean posted an easy recipie for eggplant with zucchini.
I tend to do the same as you, just add it in curries, pasta etc. But this thread is inspiring me!