Vegan meeting at Pygmalion March 2016

The norwegian vegan society arranges vegan meetings the first sunday of every month in a restaurant. This sunday we were in Pygmalion, which is a cosy ecological restaurant in Bergen. They have several vegan options here and i struggled with what to order because of the many choices and i'm really sucky at making decisions. I ended up with a delicious vegan burger, served with hummus and baked potatoes. Other vegan options they had were soup, wrap, wok, salad, and cake. The burger patty is made with lentils and this dinner was quite filling. I kinda wanted ketchup with it as well (they have available), but i was too lazy to go get it or to ask the waiter to go get it for me =p

We were quite many people at this vegan meeting. Probably like 50 or so =p I stayed there to 19, and then there were only 4 people left other than me =p I met old and new people, had some nice chats, and delicious food =D I'm a bit sick atm though, having a cold, so i hope i didn't spread my sickness to any other people (although i probably did and they all will be sick now because of me :x)

Anyways, it was nice getting out of the house and meet some fellow vegans. Looking forward to next time =D

My lunch today - potato and carrot burgers

Hows it going with everyone?

Here i'm sitting at home trying to get some studying done xD

Just had my lunch, which today was some potato and carrot burgers that i found in a cookbook that i got while i was in school. The book is called "Fra boller til burritos" (from buns to burritos).

I had the burgers along with some lettuce, bell pepper and pastasauce. The pastasauce was from a jar, but mixed with juicing leftovers and some extra spicing xD

Ingredients for the burgers:
1 boiled potato, mashed (mine i guess was medium large)
1 carrot, grated (mine was medium large again =p)
0.25 onion, finely chopped
0.5 tablespoon flour
0.25 dl plant based milk
Salt
Pepper

Mix together the ingredients, form burgers and fry in pan until slightly brown on both sides =)

Enjoy ;p

My dinner today - veggieballs

Today for dinner: veggieballs (from veg-veg.no *norwegian*) with salad, tzatziki and oven roasted cherry tomatos (on 200°C for i dunno how long xD). 

Quite yummy =)

Broccoli-potato-carrot burgers

I've been having a lot of broccoli that i had problems getting rid of lately (actually it was 1 big broccoli xD), and since i also bought 2 kg carrots today (on top of the 1 kg i already have) and had some leftover boiled potatoes in the fridge, i decided to try to make broccoli-potato-carrot burgers =p And they turned out great! (except for that the first batch was too soft since i didnt use maizenna in them, more flour might have been able to fix it aswell)

I took inspiration from the recipe of broccoli brugers that are on veganmisjonen her blog (here is link to my blog that got link further to her blog haha).

Like always i didnt really measure good so i'll give an estimate ;)

Ingredients:
0,5 broccoli, steamed/boiled
1 medium sized boiled potato
2 carrots, grated
1 vegetable stock cube
I think 1 dl oatmeal, or maybe it was 0,5 ;p
0,5 - 1 dl flour
1 tablespoon maizenna
Salt and pepper to taste (i only used pepper since the stock cube is already pretty salty)
Some vegetable oil to bake in


Directions:
Chop the steamed/boiled broccoli and potato into pieces with a foodprocessor for example and might aswell add the vegetable stock cube here aswell so it is into pieces also (i tried to pulverize it a bit first). Then add the grated carrot (or if you have an awesome foodprocessor like mine, then grate it on top of the rest with the food processor ;D hehehe). Mix it nicely together and add the oatmeal, flour, maizenna, salt and pepper and mix it more nice together. I guess it's smartest to let it rest/cool a bit here, but i was too lazy so i just heated some vegetable oil in a pan and fried the burgers some minutes on each side until they were ready ^.^

Then munch munch time ;p (i ate it with mashed potatoes, salad and some vinaigrette made of mustard, vegetable oil, soyamilk and vinegar i think (the vinaigrette was gifted to me since i like it so much! ;D))

Now i'm empty of broccoli, might buy some more later this week though =p hehe

Broccoli burgers

I had some broccoli since it was cheap and since i wanted to make the broccoli burgers that i found on veganmisjonen her blog. This is a great way to get rid of leftover rice and broccoli (i mostly have problems with leftover broccoli that sometimes turns yellow/brown xD)

Here is the link to the recipe that i found on veganmisjonen her blog (norwegian): Broccoli burgers

For the english speaking people who follow my blog, here is a short version:

The ingredients i used was:
ca 1 small broccoli or half a big broccoli around 200-300 g, steamed (or boiled) and food-processored into small pieces (i tried in the blender first time, that didnt work too well xD)
ca 2 dl boiled rice (i think it is about 1 dl dry rice)
1 dl oatmeal
1 stock cube
Some oil
Some flour to make it stick better together

So i just mixed the ingredients, and shaped it into burgers and fried them =p

The first time i boiled extra much rice (with a stock cube in) to have next to the burgers as well, the 2nd time i used leftover rice for it.

The picture is from the first time i made them, the 2nd time i just ate them like snacks xD

The coolest part is ofc that they are green! =D

Zucchini burgers

Today i wanted to make something (new) with zucchini for dinner since i have some zucchinis in my fridge, so i searched on the internet and found this recipe: Zucchini Patties that i found on vegweb.

I'm not so good on following recipes though, so i mixed it with the amazingly yummy mexican burgers from veganmisjonen her blog (the recipe is removed so i cant link to it anymore, but it kinda use beans and not zucchini).

The end result: Yummy!! =D

I didn't really measure carefully, its kinda like take what you got/want xD I guess this credit goes to the vegweb recipe, veganmisjonens recipe, and my mixing together skills xD


Zucchini burgers

Ingredients:
0,5 - 1 grated zucchini (i had like 0,5 left)
0,5 - 1 onion, finely chopped (i used 0,5)
1 clove garlic, minced
1 box of mushrooms (fresh ones might work as well, or you can skip it completely or use more or less =p i only had boxed mushrooms, my boxes are pretty small btw)
0,5 box of corn (if you have/want/like it xD we had some (around 0,25 box) spare in the fridge so i just added it xD you can skip it aswell)
Some parsley, or in my case i used spring onion, or leek could work as well, or you can skip it xD (="green stuff" in the method below)
Dried oregano (and maybe some other spices if you like, for example basil, coriander, chili, paprika/bell pepper (i think actually fresh one would rock! xD), cumin, or other stuff, add what you have/want/like =p)
0,5 - 1 vegetable stock cube (i used 0,5)
Salt and pepper to taste
Oatmeal or bread crumbs (i used oat meal, i think maybe 0,5 - 1 dl depending on how wet your mix is, i didnt measure, i just added)
Flour (to make it stick together better, just add till its nice consistency)


Method (if its still needed since most of it is in my ingredient list Oo)
Add the grated zucchini, the chopped onion and the minced garlic together in a bowl and add the box of mushroom and the corn and the green stuff and the spices and the stock and the salt and pepper and mix together at the end or in between (i did in between =p). Add the oatmeal or bread crumbs and the flour until you got nice consistency. Fry them in a pan with oil on medium heat on both sides till they are ready ^.^

  

Since they were so yummy i ate almost all myself! xD But i guess its better sharing on 2 or more people, specially if you have a side-dish with it =p

I kinda liked it more with zucchini than with beans, since its more "fresh" taste then (if i remember correctly xD), so i think its time to put zucchini on my regular shopping list =p If you don't have zucchini you can use beans instead, for example kidney beans =p