Uncle Sam left a lot of delicious leftover vegan ingredients. So far, I have made (listing only the ingredients she left behind):
a nice sambar (recipe earlier in the blog) using celery, onions, potatoes, carrots, zucchini
a mock chicken salad using tofu, celery, green pepper, Veganaise, and Bacos (served on spring mix--though that was on its last legs)
lentil soup using onions, potatoes, carrots, celery
cut cantelope as a side dish
I also ate her leftover bechamel/macaroni/fake meat casserole thingie.
It's been a lot of fun trying to use it all up so it doesn't go bad. It made me think that there should be a reality tv chef show where the contestants have to show up in a randomly selected US household and cook a meal using whatever happens to be in the fridge and pantry.
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I'm very glad you were able to use everything especially the zucchini, Momcat bought that thinking they were cucumbers. Did I mention that there were NO vegetables, fresh frozed or canned at Momcat's house before I got there? No fruit either, not even an apple or orange. I would like to challange Momcat to eat at least 3 non-white potato servings of vegetables a day for a month. To be fun Roothy, Kipsy and I should join in with 5 different vegetable servings a day (which is the minimum you're supposed to have). Which means you can't have all five as salad greens and only 1 serving of salad mixins, It has to be 5 different dishes of a regular serving size each so for instance, my smoothie in the morning which has 3 different frozen fruits thrown in counts as one fruit since the fruit combined is only 1 cup, the rest is soy milk and flax. Are you up for it everyone?
ReplyDeleteCan we do it after June 24th? Because Kipsy and I are going be eating pretty much nothing but salad greens and potatoes for the next two weeks! (Or does beer get to count as a vegetable?)
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, I was going to suggest we do it the month of July. (Beer doesn't get to count as a vegetable but you could argue for a grain though). I didn't include Chip on this but I think she along with her 3 kittens should try too.
ReplyDeleteIn that case, I am in like Flynn. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm in, too!
ReplyDeleteDid Kipsy and I tell you about going to a beer garden in Munich and ordering a plate of veggies, making VERY clear we wanted "no meat, no butter, no cheese"?
ReplyDeleteThey served a lovely, truly marvelous, plate of vegetables... with a fried egg on top.
We specified that we wanted a plate of vegetables. Eggplant would have been welcome.
ReplyDeleteI haven't bought a lot of food because I will be gone for most of July. I have eaten veggie fare when I eat out, When I get back from London I will put in some proper groceries. We are getting a Whole Foods market near Central Market which will help. How long does tofu lst - I have a package of that. and what do I put the nutritional yeast on?
ReplyDeleteYou can freeze the tofu. I mostly cook with my nutritional yeast.
ReplyDeleteI add nutritional yeast to my broths when making soups or steaming greens(then I eat the broth like a consume.
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