2023 Vegan Storecupboard Challenge

leftatthetrafficlights

Ethiopian lentils and rice for dinner today - couldn't be bothered with anything else as it was late and very hot!! 😵‍💫 

Courgettes are still coming thick and fast so I'll be doing more stuffed ones tomorrow - I'm thinking artichokes, preserved lemons, green olives and some cashew/macadamia 'cheese' 🤔 I'll serve them with roasted tomatoes as we've got a few big ones to use up and a green salad. 

leftatthetrafficlights

Decided its too hot for putting the oven on so chopped the courgettes, cooked them with onion, garlic, fennel seeds, green olives, preserved lemons and walnuts and I'll add fresh tarragon and lemon rind when I serve it. I've cooked barley groats and rye berries in stock and I'm making a rocket and watercress salad with black grapes and watermelon to serve with it. 

leftatthetrafficlights

Having banana blossom and black bean enchiladas tonight - nomnom!! 😋 

Got quite a bit going on over the next few weeks so my presence here will be erratic at best after Wednesday- just wanted to say thanks for popping in to the journey and I'll 'see' you when things go back to normal!! 🙄😂

tooldle

Curry here. Green beans from the garden, potatoes and fridge gravel (one carrot and finely chopped cauliflower). Two portions cooling for the freezer.

shandyclover

If anyone has any ideas I was given a giant marrow by in-laws and don't have much experience cooking them. Also DD always on the lookout for a bargain, bought 20 cans of banana blossom when it was reduced in Aldi. I know it has been used in pubs for vegan battered fish, but anyone else have experience making other things?

Brie

shandyclover said:

If anyone has any ideas I was given a giant marrow by in-laws and don't have much experience cooking them. Also DD always on the lookout for a bargain, bought 20 cans of banana blossom when it was reduced in Aldi. I know it has been used in pubs for vegan battered fish, but anyone else have experience making other things?

If you go back to leftatthelights post on 1 Sept you'll see stuffed courgettes.  There's a picture of the finished product too that look right yummy!  Marrows are just big courgettes essentially so anything you can do with one you should be able to do with the other.  

tooldle

Spicy mixed bean lasagne for us tonight. Wavering on rustling a green salad to go with it.

leftatthetrafficlights

@tooldle - sounds good! 😁 I'd deffo add the salad!! 😉 

@shandyclover - I use banana blossom in a variety of dishes (frequently tomato based such as chilli for enchiladas, tartiflette, pizza toppings etc) - I pull it to bits by hand - just make sure that you take out what I believe are the stamens (they look a bit like fish bones with a ball on top 🤔) as I didn't once and it freaked me out!! 😂 

Anyway, dinner tonight was Miso soup with home grown courgettes, carrots, cavolo nero, yellow french beans and peas, store bought mushrooms and endamame beans plus hm tofu served over a bed of rye, oat and barley grains, home grown japenese greens and grated radish topped with a bit of pickled ginger  - lush!! 😍 

leftatthetrafficlights

Dinner tonight was okara burgers in a tomato and basil sauce, harissa baked cauliflower with rose harissa bean puree, millet and buckwheat cooked in stock and a rocket with balsamic salad... very lovely but I feel very stuffed!! 😂😂😂

leftatthetrafficlights

Mixed grains tonight (barley, rye and oat groats) with home grown scarlett beans and home grown cabbage - one of my favourite autumn/winter meals!! 😋