Tuesday, 29 November 2011

New recipes and my fail safe in a hurry dinner

My Veganomicon Cookbook finally arrived! I have been waiting three weeks, excitedly checking the mailbox each day, and it arrived on Saturday. I was a little nervous opening it in case it was not what I expected – but it was better! So many delicious vegan recipes to try. After much consideration I decided to try the Eggplant -Potato Mousaaka with Pinenut cream.


This is a seriously delicious meal. I was so excited however that I actually forgot to take photos as I was making it, which was kind of  missing the whole point!
To be honest it took me at least an hour to prepare even before cooking, as it involves baking the veges, making a tomato sauce, and the stunning pine nut cream, – but it was really worth it.

If I had been on top of things, I would have taken  photo like this:  (Photo care of Post Punk Kitchen website)

In general, being a busy working mum, I don’t have that much time to cook after work – the family would be starving. I often resort to a fail safe in a hurry but super healthy dish – rice and vegetable stirfry. Tonight, being one of those busy nights I was able to whip one up in about 20 mins. I tend to use absolutely anything I can find in the fridge, so tonight we had

Cooked Brown rice (approx 2 cups)
Carrots        Broccoli
Red onion
Tofu marinated in a lemon sauce (pre bought)
I stir fry this in a gluten free soy sauce.



When everything was cooked (just lightly, I hate soggy vegetables), I also chopped up some sundried tomatoes, and quartered pitted black olives.

It suits the whole family, fills us up, and there are always leftovers for my lunch – yum.