Vegan Store Cupboard Challenge

ToastLady

Needed to use up half a cauliflower, so made a bake with potatoes.
Either roast or steam/boil cauliflower florets until cooked, place in oven proof dish. Make up a bechamel sauce using milk of your choice, and the water from the cauli if steamed and pour over. Parboil some thinly sliced potatoes and place over cauliflower. In a pan heat up a little oil, add some chopped garlic, finely diced chilli and some oregano, and saute for a min or two. Drizzle over potatoes and bake in oven about 180C for about 30 mins until potatoes are brown and crunchy. You can add grated cheese over the top and bake for another 5 mins if you fancy. 

The leaves and stalk from the cauliflower were made into a soup with some carrots, onion and some roasted squash from the freezer and cannellini beans, veg stock and some dried herbs. Made too much bechamel sauce so that went in too, and then blitzed with hand blender. 

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Sounds lovely toastlady! 😁 cakes sound good too - I'm not much of a cake person but I absolutely love citrus so may have a try at some point 😉 
Yesterday I had some mash to use up so added some finely chopped red onion, grated Greek style cheese and a couple of dollops of horseradish then flattened it out on a baking sheet, drizzled with olive oil and put it in the oven for 20mins - I served it with a spoonful of red cabbage relish and it was comfort food in a bowl! 😉 
I have some cabbage wat in the freezer so will start some injera today - that should be ready by Friday- I'm going to pull out one of my unidentifiables from the freezer (seem to have lost a label or two recently 🤔) for today's food so it could be interesting!! 😂  

doingitanyway

Delurking @squirrelgirl to say injera is great. I don't have any Teff (I know you can substitute but not keen) but may try for some later in the week if I can muster up the energy to cycle to the health shop. 
Enjoy your injera when you make it

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I've got to admit I've never tried anything other than teff for injera - I don't think that anything else would get that amazing sour taste which offsets the heat of berbere spice perfectly 😉 I use the natural fermentation method too and the smell drives the other members of the household nuts but just signifies upcoming deliciousness to me! 😂

ToastLady

Squirrelgirl the lemon and orange loaves are really nice, I used 2 large lemons zested and all the juice, and the orange was pretty big, so both very citrusy. I am very much a citrus person, no thanks to sticky toffee or chocolate cakes or puddings....yeugh.
I confess I had to google injera, sounds nice, but doubt if I'd be able to get teff. Your mash sounds yummy. 
Know all about unidentified objects in the freezer, thought I'd taken out stir fry veg with bulgur the other week, only after I had eaten it, because the veg was chopped so small, realised that it was stuffing leftover from Christmas. It was lovely as a stir fry though.

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Glad its not just me toastlady!! 😂 it was a tomato based sauce in the end - really couldn't be bothered with much so just whacked a big spoon of pesto in it, blitzed it and had it as soup 😉 
I've got some hm houmous in the fridge that needs using up - I'm deciding whether to just have a mezze plate - some olives, flatbreads, balsamic beetroot etc or to have it with mini jacket potatoes and leaves 🤔 I'll see how I feel later I guess! 

ToastLady

Been meaning to make hummus for ages, but keep forgetting to buy tahini on my very infrequent shopping trips. Think I'll give it a bash with some peanut butter today, as I have plenty of that. 
Really missing salad leaves and crunch at the moment, as we are not allowed out of our district and have to go to local shops. There are only two, both are quite small and the selection of vegetables is quite basic, so having to make do with whatever they have in stock. Shredded cabbage, grated carrot, sprouted beans and pickled veg are featuring a lot on my plate at the moment. 

joedenise

Even with being able to get salad stuff our salads usually include shredded cabbage, grated carrot & pickled veg!  Not the sprouted beans though.  Think I really ought to have a go at doing some as not done that for years now and used to love them.

ToastLady

Does on mine too joedenise, but usually have a bit more variety. Luckily I have plenty walnuts in the freezer for sprinkling over too, but nothing else in the nut department. I'm trying to start off a new batch of sprouts every other day, just a little though, so that I have a steady fresh supply. Have chickpeas and brown lentils soaking today, and will start the sprouting process tonight/tomorrow. 

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squirrelgirl said:

I've got some hm houmous in the fridge that needs using up - I'm deciding whether to just have a mezze plate - some olives, flatbreads, balsamic beetroot etc 

That sounds lovely and summery.