Shepherdess Pie

So, time for a recipe again =p I had some leftover boiled potatoes, onion, tomato, carrots, cauliflower and chinese cabbage that needed to be used in the fridge, along with some freshly purchased, boiled and frozen black eyed beans in the freezer, so that sounds pretty much like a shepherdess pie to me (except it's normally made with lentils as far as i know xD) I didn't really measure or follow any recipe (but i looked at some recipes for inspiration), but just added what seemed to be a reasonable amount of each ingredient (typically the remaining of what i had laying around) xD

Ingredients (with +- my use in paranthesis):

Tomato sauce:
Onion (+- 0.5)
Garlic (1 clove)
Tomato (+- 1/4th cuz that's what i had, would have used more if i had more =p)
Carrot (2)
Cauliflower (+- 1/2 kinda small)
Chinese cabbage (+- 1/3 small)
Black eyed beans (+- 1,5 dl, other beans or lentils can also be used)
Canned tomatoes (1 400g can)
Tomato paste (+- 1 tablespoon)
Sugar (+- 2 teaspoons)
Bullion cube (1)
Spices (i used pizza spice, oregano, thyme, paprika, fresh basil, salt)
Water if needed

Mashed potatoes:
Boiled potatoes (i had like bit less than 500 g maybe?)
Vegan margarine (1-2 tablespoons)
Plant milk (i used oat milk, dunno howmuch though)
Salt and pepper

Chop veggies in small pieces, saute them and add canned tomatoes, tomato paste, bullion cube, sugar and spices (i added my basil at the end). Add water if needed. Simmer for a while then add beans (add earlier if not cooked). Make mashed potaoes (i guess everyone knows how to). Taste if they both taste good and add more salt or spices if needed. Pour the tomato sauce in an ovenproof dish and distribute the mashed potatoes on top. Here you can have some vegan cheese on top for extra yumminess =p Into the oven on 200°C for like 20 minutes or more =)

Enjoy =D

Todays dinner, tomatopasta xD

I guess time to start taking more pic of my food and actually add it fast into pc so i feel like blogging about it xD

Since i have a bunch of cooking books laying around (all vegetarian, no vegan =s) i decided to use my friend random number generator to generate a number, then i open all the cooking books on that side/number and pick the book/recipe that i wanna make the most (or have/know most of the ingredients of xD). Then i lay away the cooking book with a note in for that side so i can easily find my recipe, and generate a new number and choose one of the other recipes/books and lay it away and continue doing this until all the cooking books have a recipe to make xD I told myself i only need to do 3 of them each week though, else all my days are occupied by recipes already, and some of the recipes need like 10 ingredients i dont have, so not so fun then xD

Dunno if i will continue doing it, but i guess i should use the books more and not just let them sit unopened in the closet xD

So ye, first day i picked to make tomatopasta page 134 in the book "Verdens beste vegetar-retter" since i had most of the ingredients and was too lazy to go to shop and wanted a quick and easy meal =p

I did some changes though since i dont have balsamico vinegar and i dont eat cheese and dont have any vegan cheese. I also used lemon juice on bottle and not from a real lemon xD I was also too lazy to measure most of the ingredients, so heres what i used xD

Ingredients:
1 tablespoon olive oil
0,5 - 1 tablespoon soy sauce (since i didnt have balsamico vinegar and i have no idea what it taste xD)
0,5 teaspoon vinegar (wondering if vinegar could replace balsamico vinegar xD)
0,5 - 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Some fresh and some dry basil
Salt and pepper
1 tomato, chopped
Pasta, i assume its around 100g per person? i think i used 80 or so though =p

So i mixed the wet stuff + salt + pepper, then i added chopped tomato and let it mix or something while the pasta was boiling. Then when pasta was ready drained off the water of the pasta and added the pasta to the tomatothingy and mixed it and ate =p

I wonder what balsamico vinegar taste like xD This is a lunch meal btw, so im still hungry >.> Which means i can eat something more!! =D

Couscous with tomato and basil

Having a lot of pics of stuff i already made and didn't have time to post yet (more correctly is i didn't spend my time to post it xD time i had a lot of xD)

This dish i often make since it's so easy and yummy! Sometimes i do mushrooms with it as well if i have mushrooms that needs to be used. Then i chop mushroom and fry it a bit before i add the rest.

The recipe i found here on vegweb, but i don't really measure it anymore (but i use about 0,5+ dl couscous, 1 dl water, 1(or more) clove of garlic and 1 tomato, 0,5 vegetable stock, and a lot of basil xD), and i never added parsley (since we didn't have that and later i just forgot it was in the recipe). So thanks to the author for this very simple and yummy recipe! =D

Couscous with Tomato and Basil

Ingredients i use:

    1 teaspoon vegetable or olive oil
    1 clove garlic, minced
    1 tablespoons dried basil
    1 dl water with 0.5 cube of vegetable stock
    0.5 dl couscous
    1 chopped tomato
   salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

Heat oil and cook garlic until softened. Add water, basil and stock cube and bring to a boil. Add couscous and put off the heat. Let it rest for some minutes until couscous is soft. Add chopped tomato, salt and pepper and enjoy =)