Veg*n meal planning
OK, so post two took awhile! Never mind, two meals to make today as I'm languishing at home with no court work.
I'm about to do lunch (dinner is simmering for later, I'll get to that). It's going to be an easy one. I have corn cakes, rice cakes and oat cakes. I'm going to top them with hummus. Then I'm going to fry up some tomatoes in olive oil with garlic, basil, herbes de provence, balsamic vinegar, sea salt and red chilli flakes, and some spinach and put this mixture on top of the hummus-topped crackers. It's one of my favourite lunches. Om nom nom.
ETA: I used two corn cakes, one rice cake and three oat cakes and red pepper hummus. The tomato-spinach mix was not my best effort because I didn't cook it for quite long enough to simmer down the juices so it was very wet and made the crackers very soggy. Not that this made it less delicious, just messier to eat!
Dinner -- soup. I've discovered ready-made soup mixes and am loving using them. I've been using the Co-op one up till now, which is just called "The Co-operative broth and soup mix" and consists of "Pearl barley (30%), split yellow peas (20%), split green peas (18%), dried peas (14%), split red lentils (9%), aduki beans (6%), barley flake (4%)." It works pretty well though I find one type of bean -- I think the dried peas -- don't cook as fast as the others and are sometimes still hard. So I recently bought a different one from Waitrose, which they just call "soup mix" and consists of: "pearl barley, green split peas, red split lentils, yellow split peas, haricot beans, marrowfat peas, brown rice." Actually, maybe marrowfat peas are the same as dried peas and it won't make any difference. We'll see I guess -- in any event this time I had some leftover Co-op mix so I've used a combination of both.
I then put in an assortment of vegetables -- mostly root. Today I've used carrot, parsnip, potato, and onion... oops, forgot greens -- I've used cabbage and spinach in the past but I can't spare any more spinach as I'll need the rest for salad. I've also put in some dried mushrooms and sundried tomatoes. Then broth -- today I've used 9 litres of water and 8 teaspoons of vegetable stock for 2 litres of soup mix and all the vegetables.
I'll serve with bread and a salad.
ETA: We've decided I'll go to Kit's tonight and as I don't want to lug soup and salad with me, we'll eat them Thursday. We might have some vegetarian Turkish stew tonight -- there's a place round the corner that does a really tasty one with couscous, bread and salad for £5.40 per portion.
I'm about to do lunch (dinner is simmering for later, I'll get to that). It's going to be an easy one. I have corn cakes, rice cakes and oat cakes. I'm going to top them with hummus. Then I'm going to fry up some tomatoes in olive oil with garlic, basil, herbes de provence, balsamic vinegar, sea salt and red chilli flakes, and some spinach and put this mixture on top of the hummus-topped crackers. It's one of my favourite lunches. Om nom nom.
ETA: I used two corn cakes, one rice cake and three oat cakes and red pepper hummus. The tomato-spinach mix was not my best effort because I didn't cook it for quite long enough to simmer down the juices so it was very wet and made the crackers very soggy. Not that this made it less delicious, just messier to eat!
Dinner -- soup. I've discovered ready-made soup mixes and am loving using them. I've been using the Co-op one up till now, which is just called "The Co-operative broth and soup mix" and consists of "Pearl barley (30%), split yellow peas (20%), split green peas (18%), dried peas (14%), split red lentils (9%), aduki beans (6%), barley flake (4%)." It works pretty well though I find one type of bean -- I think the dried peas -- don't cook as fast as the others and are sometimes still hard. So I recently bought a different one from Waitrose, which they just call "soup mix" and consists of: "pearl barley, green split peas, red split lentils, yellow split peas, haricot beans, marrowfat peas, brown rice." Actually, maybe marrowfat peas are the same as dried peas and it won't make any difference. We'll see I guess -- in any event this time I had some leftover Co-op mix so I've used a combination of both.
I then put in an assortment of vegetables -- mostly root. Today I've used carrot, parsnip, potato, and onion... oops, forgot greens -- I've used cabbage and spinach in the past but I can't spare any more spinach as I'll need the rest for salad. I've also put in some dried mushrooms and sundried tomatoes. Then broth -- today I've used 9 litres of water and 8 teaspoons of vegetable stock for 2 litres of soup mix and all the vegetables.
I'll serve with bread and a salad.
ETA: We've decided I'll go to Kit's tonight and as I don't want to lug soup and salad with me, we'll eat them Thursday. We might have some vegetarian Turkish stew tonight -- there's a place round the corner that does a really tasty one with couscous, bread and salad for £5.40 per portion.