Veganmofo: Simple eats

Yet another no measure recipe to share with you all.

Spaghetti, kale and bechemel!

This sauce recipe is loosely based of the lovely Joanna's from her book Yellow Rose recipe and a classic french cooking book i got through freecycle.



Ingredients:
2 handfuls of WW spaghetti.
1 hand full of kale, sliced with sears
2 fork fulls of Earth balance

Sauce:
2 giant spoon fulls of minced garlic (I'm using jarred stuff, fresh maybe 3-4 gloves?)
Enough olive oil to coat your cast iron skillet
5 fork fulls of earthbalance
enough WW flour to coat the bottom of your cast iron pan twice
Soymilk (enough to fill your pan and mix in your roux)
2 pinches of nutmeg
1 pinch of ground thyme
1 pinch of ground basil
1/2 pinch of ground sage
** ground is important for this smooth white sauce!**
as much fresh pepper as you can grind
Sea salt to taste.

First thing, is make you sauce by preheating your cast iron pan with oil. Then adding your garlic and some pepper saute until browned. Then melt your earth balance, I know it is a lot, but this is "french" cooking.

once your earth balance has melted, stir with your spoon and get your whisk ready. Being pouring flour (WW!!) directly into your pan and stir until it combines to form a paste or roux. Continue mixing ad adding flour until you have a thick paste that doesn't look like it'll take any more flour (If you do push it past the intake point, just melt more earth balance and stir like mad).

Now you can add your spices and stir some more to insure you do not have lumps. cook for a little while to toast your flour and flavour your roux.

Now comes the hard part, begin pouring in your soymilk and stirring to combine. You may want to do this in batches to make stirring and checking for lumps easier. once it is all combined turn your heat way down to let it simmer, stirring occasionally as skin will form and it will continue to thicken (add more soymilk if you want a thinner sauce).

Once the sauce is simmering bring your pasta water to a boil and cook your pasta.



While that is doing its thing, take your sears and cut kale into small pieces in a cereal bowl. Add your forkfulls of EB and microwave with pepper for 3-4 minutes covering the bowl with a plate.

When everything is done combine onto your plate, top with bacos, nooch and sesame seeds. Yum!



On a side note, winter and no-natural light makes me sad.

Homeward Bound

Vegetables in the pan


So I am back in Rothesay, although technically we now live is Quispam. Anyway, apprently the new arrangement here is now I cook all the family meals, Zane does garbage and Denise does the dishes. So this works for me, and everyone will be eating Vegan, I suspect loads of annoyance with Denise's refusal to try new things, but I am going to remain optimistic.

Now that school is over I am going to make an effort to post about all the residence cooking I did and I will try to keep a log of how this new cooking arrangement goes, so sorry for the lack of updates and long introduction.

Cooking the Vegetables

I just got in and Zane asked for Spaghetti, nothing fancy just some diced fried vegetables in a spicy tomato sauce. I had a pound of spinach left over form what Blake gave me before I left so I sliced it small and cooked it down into the sauce (this kid eats worst than I do, so some greens will do him good).

This dish's vegetables include 1 onion, 5 garlic cloves, 1 pound spinach, two hand fulls of diced green and red capsicums. Spice with some ground pepper, paprika and nooch.

Cooking Sauce
After the vegetables cook add the sauce (yeah I know, I used jarred so sue) cook until bubbly. Once your pasta is done combine and serve.


Enjoy