Supper/Dinner Time! What's on the menu ?

[Emma JC]

I have seen High Carb Hannah make those too. Do the rice paper wraps taste like rice?

They taste mostly like the spicy peanut sauce that we dipped them in. It is a pretty neutral flavour, I would say.

Last night my honey came up with another amazing meal... Roasted Chick Pea Couscous

A can of chick peas, drained, rinsed and roasted with a tiny amount of oil in a large frying pan with spices like paprika, cayenne etc.
Then he chopped two larger fresh picked tomatoes and combined them with lots of chopped fresh basil and a bit of gourmet rice vinegar.
He chopped a few garlic cloves and dropped them into the veggie stock for the couscous itself to which I had added some fennel seeds and some more cayenne and then the water/garlic mix and let it sit.

Served with the couscous on the bottom, then the tomato/basil mixture and then the roasted chick peas on the top. On side a whole grain seedy piece of baguette.

It was amazing and he is still talking about it this morning.

Emma JC
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[Emma JC]

The day before yesterday I experimented with Wakame seaweed- this was the first time I ‘prepared‘ them at home. I bought them dry, just added hot water and, just after a few minutes, they really increased in volume. I then rinsed them, added leftover chickpeas and put a light soy sauce and a little mustard as dressing.

It was a quick and impromptu seaweed salad, but better than I expected. I understand seaweed like Wakame is a good source of iodine, which, according to Dr Fuhrman (“Eat for Life“) is one of the nutrients that vegans need to be more conscious about (besides vitamin B12) -as many of us are at a higher risk of not getting sufficient amounts of it through our regular plant-based diets (particularly if you are outside Japan and trying to avoid other more easily-available alternatives, like iodized table salt).

Wakame is definitely a great source of iodine and I would just suggest that you be careful as too much iodine can be as harmful as too little.

I was buying it by the very large bagful from a local restuarant and putting it into almost everything. Just a few small dried leaves but it was almost everyday in my noodley soup etc. I started to get pains in my thyroid area, investigated and found that wakame is one of the highest sources of iodine (of all the seaweeds) and that it was possible that I had overdone it. I have no proof that this is true as I did not go for a blood test. I did back off eating it at all for three or four months and the pains went away. Now, I put a few very small amounts about once every 10 days or two weeks.

So please just be careful, it is not like nori or kelp and yet you still need to be careful with all seaweeds and be aware of the amounts you are injesting.

Emma JC
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[Raven]

They taste mostly like the spicy peanut sauce that we dipped them in. It is a pretty neutral flavour, I would say.

Last night my honey came up with another amazing meal... Roasted Chick Pea Couscous

A can of chick peas, drained, rinsed and roasted with a tiny amount of oil in a large frying pan with spices like paprika, cayenne etc.
Then he chopped two larger fresh picked tomatoes and combined them with lots of chopped fresh basil and a bit of gourmet rice vinegar.
He chopped a few garlic cloves and dropped them into the veggie stock for the couscous itself to which I had added some fennel seeds and some more cayenne and then the water/garlic mix and let it sit.

Served with the couscous on the bottom, then the tomato/basil mixture and then the roasted chick peas on the top. On side a whole grain seedy piece of baguette.

It was amazing and he is still talking about it this morning.

Emma JC
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Sounds yummy!

 

[Mazen]

Wakame is definitely a great source of iodine and I would just suggest that you be careful as too much iodine can be as harmful as too little.

I was buying it by the very large bagful from a local restuarant and putting it into almost everything. Just a few small dried leaves but it was almost everyday in my noodley soup etc. I started to get pains in my thyroid area, investigated and found that wakame is one of the highest sources of iodine (of all the seaweeds) and that it was possible that I had overdone it. I have no proof that this is true as I did not go for a blood test. I did back off eating it at all for three or four months and the pains went away. Now, I put a few very small amounts about once every 10 days or two weeks.

So please just be careful, it is not like nori or kelp and yet you still need to be careful with all seaweeds and be aware of the amounts you are injesting.

Emma JC
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Thank you Emma JC for this advice: absolutely, I have also read that excess iodine can be detrimental and one has to be very conscious too about how much one consumes. Definitely I will not have it every day - there is a lot of information out there on what is the recommended daily allowance and what is too much (tolerable upper intake level), like on Harvard Medical School public website, here…Iodine. Disclaimer: This is by no means professional medical advice; for that, please consult with your doctor or certified nutritionist for guidance.

 

[Mazen]

Yesterday I went out with my wife and had an ‘afternoon tea’’ with lots of vegetarian side dishes and sweets - including ‘red coleslaw’ sandwiches, mushroom tacos and indian sweets. Although they were on the whole healthier than other alternatives offered out there, I overdid it and It became in fact ’lunch and dinner ‘ in one . Need to develop more discipline with open-ended buffets (even if they are plant-based), particularly because of the sweet dishes

 

[Raven]

I have ordered vegan lasagne in my shopping. 3 different brands so I can compare them over the next few days.

 

[Raven]

Actually, I feel too full up from lunch as I made veggie noodles so I will just have a sandwich with a side salad.

 

[Emma JC]

we picked up some new vegan cheez slices at the vegan store, along with 4x Future Farm burgers as it is the only place left to buy them from

with the cheez we made grilled cheez and pickled jalapeno sandwiches and then I made some silken tofu onion chip did and had that with a few chips on the side - oh, also a small container of ketchup to dip my grilled cheez in

Emma JC
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[Brian W]

Sausages, mushrooms, cauliflower, broccoli, small boiled potatoes and lightly minted gravy.

 

[shyvas]

A cream of courgette/onion/cabbage and white bean soup with yeast flakes and a drizzle of evo.
Leftover spinach lasagne and a tossed salad.
Pink plums.

 

[Emma JC]

my honey made tabouleh last night (whacks of it) and we had it with an amazing rice he also made and falafel and a very garlicky sauce that I made - a dinner plate instead of all inside a pita


Emma JC
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[Col]

Starter: Onion rings with the breadcrumbs and mix I made at the weekend
Main course: Vegetable stir fry
Dessert: Frozen banana ‘nice cream’

 

[PTree15]

I'm trying this vegan fettuccine Alfredo recipe with a few tweaks: mainly doubling the garlic powder, onion powder and nooch flakes, and prepping the soy curls the way I usually do, with Sweet Simple Vegan's broth cook-down method. I tasted the sauce and it's quite good! I'm going to add some spinach to the meal as well, and I'll be using spaghetti instead of fettuccine because I don't have fettuccine. This recipe is a keeper. The sauce is made with almond milk and a roux, rather than cashews. I'm going to test it on my parents and see what they think.

 

[Raven]

Dessert: Frozen banana ‘nice cream’

I was just thinking I was craving this. The strawberry version.

 

[silva]

my honey made tabouleh last night (whacks of it) and we had it with an amazing rice he also made and falafel and a very garlicky sauce that I made - a dinner plate instead of all inside a pita


Emma JC
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So glad you said this--I've been wanting to make tabouleh and I too end up with "whacks of it". Luckily my son likes it more than me!
I need to replicate your dinner
Do you bake falafel? I can't remember the trick to making moist oven falafel, and I don't fry

 

[Raven]

I'm going to make curry noodles with carrots, broc, onions, cabbage and peas.

 

[shyvas]

I'm having an aubergine & taco crumb (Butler's) bake with a white cabbage/avocado slaw. It's baking in the af as I'm typing.
Fresh fruit for dessert.

 

[Emma JC]

So glad you said this--I've been wanting to make tabouleh and I too end up with "whacks of it". Luckily my son likes it more than me!
I need to replicate your dinner
Do you bake falafel? I can't remember the trick to making moist oven falafel, and I don't fry

I do bake the falafel - for about 12-15 minutes in the oven at 350. I do cheat and use a falafel mix - Casbah - so all I have to do it add water.

We had more tabouleh last night as a side, and scooped up with thinly sliced whole grain seedy baguette. We used the leftover bulgur and mixed it with chick peas and freshly chopped tomatoes and sauted it all together with some spices. There is still lots of tabouleh left

Emma JC
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[SuicideBlonde]

Curry roasted cauliflower, tricolor quinoa, homemade red lentil hummus and naan.

(Picture added after I made my bowl. I added hot sauce, pumpkin seeds and olives)

 

[Mazen]

I have been having ‘ light’ dinners in the past few days: with ‘Dahl’ (Indian lentil stew); small portions of rice; spinach soup (with potatoes and carrots) and whole barley - it was all very good- and a nice way of compensating for the ‘ open-buffet’ I had last Sunday :- )