Pumpkin + mac & sauce

This year my parents surpriced me by buying a pumpkin (i guess i had asked/spammed for one so more likely they buy then ofc xD).

The bad thing in norway is they only got pumpkins week before halloween and not the rest of the year, atleast not that i have seen, and you have to buy a superbig one then. The one i had was probably 6+ kg.

I was too lazy to carve it out for halloween, so i just ate it =p Like every day for a week, so got a bit tired after a while xD So i tried different things, and what i found out worked best was pumpkin pieces in curry or soup, or grated pumpkin in different dishes (i tried in sauce and lasagne). In muffins/pancakes was also good =p What wasnt good was oven roasted, but could be i did it badly.


This i made twice (with and without cauliflower). I dont remember exactly what i did, so ill just put what i think i did.

Mac & pumpkinsauce:

Ingredients:
Macaroni (or other pasta)
Margarine
Onion
Garlic (optional)
Cauliflower (optional, and can also use other veggies)
Grated pumpkin + maybe pumpkin puree if you got that (i had leftovers)
Flour
Non-dairy milk
Stock cube
Nutritional yeast
Salt and pepper

Boil macaroni. Saute onion and garlic and cauliflower (could be i used water also, i dont remember). Mix in some flour and add milk, grated pumpkin, stock cube and let it simmer. Add nutritional yeast and salt and pepper.

Yammies! (yes it looks like puke, but tasted very good =D)

Ratatouille-nacho-hybrid XD

Long time since i made/ate this but it was awesome so i'll post recipe since i wrote it down when i made it xd And yes im still alive, just havent been updating blog in like forever xD


So ye, wanted to use eggplant i had laying in the fridge, normally was gonna make some pasta thingy with eggplant and red bell pepper, but my sis had leftover taco shells, so i figured i would be using them in recipe, so instead i took inspiration my nacho recipe lol xP

Here we go!

Ingredients i used +- since i didnt really measure =p Feel free to skip or add anything you like if you want to make something similar
1 onion, diced
0,5 eggplant, 0,5 cm thin slices, into 1-2 cm pieces
1,5 vegetable bullion cube + water
1 jar pasta sauce
Some water
Some tvp (maybe 0,5 dl?)
1,5 red bell pepper, (i ovenroasted 1 while 0,5 raw, pieces)
0,5 zucchini, grated
1 carrot, grated
Spices: paprika powder, cumin, coriander, onion powder, nutritional yeast, salt, pepper
0,5 can corn
Taco shells (in pieces) or tortilla chips
Taco sauce

I sauted the onion and eggplant in the bullion water, while ovenroasting a bell pepper where i had removed the green part (i forgot name xD) and seeds on 200°C grill function until all sides were blackish and then i removed skin and chopped in pieces. I added pasta sauce + water (for more wetish consistency)+ tvp + grated carrot and zucchini and the bell pepper pieces and let it simmer nicely. Then i spiced it and let it simmer some more. Then i added corn into the sauce. I crushed taco shells and laid a layer in the bottom, then putted the sauce on it, then a new layer with crushed taco shells, and then some taco sauce on top. I putted in oven for 15 minutes on 200°C.

For some reason the bottom taco shells tasted bit cheesy (it was all softish xD).

Bit more veggies than normal nachos i guess xD But thats cool ;p