Veganmofo15: #15/day 15 : to feed a president

So being Canadian, it is possible this challenge isn't as daunting as those USA bloggers. But I feel like Barack could get down with some veganized souther cooking, which is great because if he was nosing around that is what my roommate and I whipped up last night!

Jae made some Vegan Ribz from EverydayDish TV. With a basic BBQ sauce he googled, tomato paste, liquid smoke, sugar, and minimal spice (I rebasted my ribz and likely Mr. Obama's ribz with some good old hot sauce to add zip!).

To go with our ribs we whipped some potatoes WITH SKIN with some of our homemade coconut butter and almond milk. Jae also decided to add more carbs with some baking soda biscuits, a basic quick bread we cut using tall glasses and baked while the ribz cooked.

I sauted some frozen kale, carrot, corn and onion for the side with some simple herbs and more homemade vegan butter to add some greens. But for our other roommate with the diet restrictions we boiled some regular old green peas.

We paired the potatoes and biscuits with a white southern style gravy from Hot Damn & Hell Yeah.Dirty South Cookbook Zine my Roommates both love this zine, which is nice because I've owned it and drooled over it for years without making much. This gravy is great, click the link to find out where you can get your own. I guess I likely would have ordered an additional copy for the President to take home to Michelle (Seriously, why is Michelle not at this dinner? Or in this hypothetical, she is obviously the cooler half of this couple).


Since this dinner goes together so quick, I also made a giant batch of Yellow Rose Recipes couscous and chickpea salad for lunches this week. Which worked out great because I had a spare rib (puns!) to make a rib sandwich for lunch, added some of our sweet homemade onion pickles and homemade mayo to the mix too. Gotta love when everything comes together.

Gratuitous food porn below!

VeganMofo V: Recycling your leftovers take 2

 

So the other day I posted about the whole recycling your leftovers, as brought forward by one of my most loved zines The Cheap Vegan ( a sadly out of print zine.

 Issue 14 seems to be on etsy tho!

Where in the last post I turned some smashed beans and other leftovers into a rice bowl/burrito filling.

 

Now that leftover burrito filling becomes soup/gumbo! With the aid of some additional red onion, turnip, canned tomatoes, chili powder, cumin, another spoon full of kidney beans from the batch I made last week, and fresh garlic to pump up the garlic taste.

Start with chopping your new fresh onions and garlic. You want the onion to cook for a bit in some oil with salt/pepper before adding your garlic. While those cook, peel and chop your selection of turnip (or other fridge veggies). Once the onions are getting good, saute the turnip pieces to brown then toss in your spoon full of beans and some tomato liquid. Add seasonings. You want the flavours to blend a bit before you dump the whole can in, but we do want lots of liquid to help boil the turnip so they become nice and soft.

Once you have a nice soupy base thanks to the tomatoes mix in your bowl/leftover burrito filling (if you'd made it all into burritos then slice the tortilla into strips and save it to bake/top your soup bowls with). Now, if your burrito mix had diaya like mine did you'll want to stir the crap out of it as it cooks. The mixture wants to stick to itself but we want it to break apart into soup and get everything all mixed together. So keep string it occasionally and make sure nothing is burning at the bottom. I brought it to a boil and covered for 10 minutes before taking the cover off and simmering until the turnip were finished. Add additional seasons if it doesn't taste the way you want.

I like mine chunky, but smaller piece would cook faster

And voila! So now we have 3 different ways to eat the same thing. Alternatively, if you hadn't mixed your smashed beans with stuff on the first leftover day you could find a few dozen things to do with them. But this worked out well enough.

 

VeganMofo: Cheap Eats, Recycle your leftovers!

Making a large batch of foods definitely saves you on two major resources time and power. But sometimes eating the same thing for weeks (especially if you live alone, and you wind up with even more meals/portions) makes your stomach turn, or heck you get bored with whatever it was.

This is where leftover recycling comes in, a concept I first hear about from the amazing Cheap Vegan Guru Stephanie (author of the Cheap Vegan series of Zines).

 

Leftover recycling allows you to enjoy one meal for a variety of days in different ways and helps strench out your food and time budgets. 

This meal was a combo of leftovers from earlier in the week. I had made the AFR Not-refried beans earlier in the week, some leftover kidney beans from when I cooked up a lbs of them to make the beans + in sauce, plus some chick-in brown rice (brown rice cooked in vegan chick-n stock from bulk barn), steamed carrots from a meal I cooked for the boy and I and the crumbs of Kale chips.

The beans were used with chips originally, rice was a side for some meal same with carrots. So tonight's meal was essentially a bowl. Rice topped with the re-fried bean, kidney beans in sauce, kale chips, steamed carrots topped with some cock-sauce, salsa and Daiya.

 The result was a nice creamy dish that doesn't photograph well but tastes great. Alternatively, it would also be great in a wrap as a burrito. MMM burritos.

So there it is, recycling your leftovers one simple way. Stay tuned for more examples, because this made more than I could eat!

Simple Cheap Eats

Some leftover stew from Fatty Fatty Boom Boom! zine and leftover baked potato fried with some spices.

Halifax's Vegan Association Recipe Zine! Call out for Vegan Recipes, Stories, Articles etc

The Halifax Vegan Association (and yours truly) are putting out a vegan recipe zine for free distribution to the public. I'm hoping to get both zine copies printed to be sent up and maybe host a scanned version of the original for an e-zine and so other groups will be able to re-print and distribute the zine to spread the vegan love.

As such I will be hosting a Vegan Recipe Zine Workshop on Sunday January 31th 2pm-6pm at the Dalhousie Women's Center in Halifax N.S., including Pizza and a community Potluck.

More importantly, for the extended vegan community (This means YOU! Internet) I am still looking for any recipe submissions, going vegan stories, articles, art work or simple zine pages you would like to have published in this zine.

Feel free to send me submission via e-mail (bad_blanch_amanda at hotmail).

Stay Vegan!