Curried veggies

This was my dinner today =)

Ingredients i used:
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
0.5 onion, chopped
0.5 garlic, minced (can use 1 too, i had 0.5 leftover from yesterdays hummus)
1 chilipepper, chopped
1 mushroom, in pieces
1 carrot, in pieces
3 small potatoes, in pieces
Some tablespoons of red curry paste
Soy sauce to taste
2 teaspoons tomato paste
Some dl of water
A little bit of leftover chickpeas
Pepper
Freshly squeezed lemon

I sauteed the veggies, adding water when needed, then i added curry paste, tomato paste and soy sauce and some more water and let it simmer a bit before adding chickpeas. When water was more or less evaporated it was ready to eat so i sprinckled on some pepper and freshly squeezed lemon juice =) It's probably yummy with rice, but i figured that out 2 minutes before it was ready to eat, so maybe i should start with boiling some rice next time xD

Pumpkin curry

Since i got myself a pumpkin now it's time to eat it =p (not much else interesting i can do with it xD)

So here's my first pumpkin dish of the year, inspired by the warming curry dish from vegetarbloggen.

I didnt measure anything at all, i just took something. Vegetarbloggen has however measured some stuff if you want measurements =p Also you can add anything you want ofc and how much of each ingredient that you want also.

Ingredients:
Vegan butter (i used alpro which i love =p oil is fine too or just water i guess)
Ginger, chopped
Onion, chopped
Garlic, chopped
Chili, chopped
Mushroom, in pieces, i sliced mine
Carrot, in pieces, i sliced it in rings
Pumpkin, in pieces, i had rectangles
Zucchini,in pieces, i had half moons
Water + vegetable bullion
Coconut milk
Curry powder
Bulgur (mine was whole, but other stuff like rice or so can be used also)
Chickpeas
Cherry tomatoes (or normal ones), in pieces, i cut mine in 4
Salt
Pepper
Coriander powder
Lemon

Heat butter in pan and add ginger, onion, garlic, and chili and saute on medium heat, then add mushroom, carrot, pumpkin and zucchini and saute some more. Add water, bullion, coconut milk, curry, bulgur and bring to a boil. Add chickpeas and cherry tomatoes and simmer on low heat until nice and ready xD Then taste with salt, pepper, coriander and lemon (or add them earlier whenever you feel like it).

Tadaaaa you got yummy dinner ^.^ (sorry for bad picture xD)

Choco-lemon-mousse

I've been seeing some other bloggers making chocomousse a while ago (this, this and this for example), so i wanted to try it myself too.

Since i was so lucky to have a plate of chocolate, an alpro whip-able cream, and a lemon, i decided to make choco and lemon mousse. I kinda failed a bit though, adding too much lemon to my lemon mousse so it became lemon sauce or so, so i added some (or too much) lemon mousse to my chocomousse, and it became chocolemonmousse.

Well, heres the ingredients and directions i used:
1 alpro cream or other brand (alpro one is 2,5 dl)
About 100 g chocolate (i used a 72%) can use more or less as you want too.
0,5 - 1 lemon (i used 1, and it was bit way too much i guess according to everyone else except me xD)
1 - 2 tablespoons powdered sugar

Whip the cream until its nice and creamy.
Melt as much chocolate as you want (i did about 80 g , and the remaining 20 g i chopped into pieces and mixed in later).
Press the juice out of the lemon (as much as you want) and the zest you want from the lemon. Separate the whipped creams into two bowls and add lemon to one and chocolate to the other and mix carefully so they are still fluffy.
Also add powdered sugar to the lemon one so it gets a bit sweeter and the chocolate pieces in the chocolate mousse =p
Then if you want you can have two separate mousses, or you can add the lemon mousse into the chocolate mousse like i did, until it taste good. I added almost the whole lemon mousse, so it got a pretty strong taste of lemon, might have been better with less lemon.
Put in glasses or so and put in fridge until serving (or eat immediately).

Enjoy ;p

You can use other tastes too ofc =p think caramel or peanuts might be good =D or strawberry or orange or pineapple =p

Beanmix with couscous

I had more leftover beans after making the bean brownies, and i had bean-burgers yesterday so i felt like having something different for dinner today. I searched some blogs and got the idea of making something like refried beans.

This ended up in me making this (which tasted awesome!):

Ingredients:
0,5 onion, chopped
1 mushroom, chopped
0,25 bouillon cube + some water
~100 grams (black) beans
2 tablespoons tomatopuré
Soy sauce
Spices: cumin, coriander, chili, paprika, onion, cayenne, nutritional yeast, salt, pepper

Couscous
0,25 bouillon cube + boiling water
1 teaspoon lemon juice

First i sauted the onion and mushroom in the water and bouillon cube, then i added the beans and the tomatopuré, and i tried to squeeze the beans a bit too =p Then i added the spices and soy sauce. Meanwhile make the couscous with bouillon cube and boiling water, and add the lemon juice to it. Then mix everything together =p I also added cucumber ^.^ Delicious! =D

Bonda

Someone wanted the recipe of bonda from my cooking book project so here it comes =p

This recipe is from the cooking book "Gourmet vegetar" written by Jane Prince.

I did some changes to the recipe though because i dont have whole mustard seeds, curryleaf, coriander plant, chickpea flour, or rice flour, so i had to replace these xD And i also fried in a pan with a little oil and not a bunch of oil like the recipe wanted.


I made recipe for 8 bondas i think if i remember correctly, i think i ended up with more than 8 xD And i ate all myself =p This is what i did (mixed a bit with what says in the book since i dont remember all xD)

Ingredients:
Vegetable oil
0.5 teaspoon mustard
0.5 onion
1 teaspoon fresh ginger, chopped in small pieces
1 teaspoon curry powder
1 green chili, nicely chopped
400 g boiled potatoes, in cubes,
A bit turmeric powder
0.5 tablespoon lemon juice
Coriander powder
Salt
More oil for frying/baking in pan

60 gram flour with 0.25 teaspoon baking powder
0.2 teaspoon turmeric
0.25 teaspoon chili powder
Some salt

(Ps: i added probably more of every spice than i said here and in different ratios xD so taste yourself how you like it before you make them into balls =p i like it spicy and yellow xD)

First set the potatoes to boil if you dont have any boiled potatoes laying around.
Then in a pan (wok it says in book but i dont have that so i used a saucepan or so instead) add oil and bake the onion, ginger and chili for 2 minutes and i think i might have had the mustard and curry in here too or i added it straight after.
Add potatoes, turmeric, 1 ts water, and let it fry for 2 minutes more until it's dry.
Remove the pan from the heat and add lemon juice and coriander and salt. Here you taste on it and spice more with whatever you feel there should be more of. I went a bit amok with the lemon juice so mine ended up tasting lemon xD I also liked the curry and mustard so i think i went a bit amok with them too =p And salt also ofc! I love salt! Could be i also did pepper, but i dont remember anymore.
So after it taste "perfect" then make it into balls using a tablespoon that is filled with much dough and then get your hands dirty by making them into balls xD
I somehow had time to make the flourdough earlier, i think while i was waiting for my potatoes to be ready, but if you havent made it yet, then make it now. Mix flour, baking powder, turmeric, chilipowder, some salt, in a bowl. Then add like 1 dl water a bit at a time until your dough is good. You can taste this dough too and add more of whatever you feel like. I think i wanted mine more yellow if it wasnt yellow enough =p I also did an error here and didnt add enough water (less than what it should be). I guess i made it like i made pancakes, but i like thick pancakes and i should have gone for thin pancakes consistency of the dough.
Dipp the balls in the flourdough so they get covered by the flourdough on all sides.
Fry the bondas in a bunch of oil on 180°C, or if you are like me and dont like to fill a pan full of oil or using a frying machine, then use a pan and fry them in a little oil (kinda tends to be much still since they need refill all the time, but still less than filling a pan @_@). Fry them on every side until they are golden.
Lay them on a paper so the oil can dry off and serve.

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

Sour smoothie ;(

In today's smoothie i added lemon so it's very sour =p I also added basil, so most of the taste is lemon+basil xD

Ingredients:
1 banana
3 (frozen) strawberries
1 ball of frozen spinach
1 orange
1 lemon
1 carrot
0,5 red bell pepper/paprika
2 cauliflower florets
Some basil leaves (maybe 5-10?)

Chana masala

Started to be a while since my last post now because i was a bit busy this week. I worked 4 days (normally i work around 2 days) and then its university too, so my days are kinda busy =p I like sundays though, they are nice to relax on ^.^ but often i feel they just fly away xD

Well, to the point of this post which is recipe of chana masala (i got pics from last sunday/monday when i made it, dont remember which day xD).

This recipe i found here on vegweb (english): Chana masala

Here is what i used, +- the same as if you follow the link xD

Vegetable oil
0,5 onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
0,5 tablespoon curry
Some garam masala
0,5 - 1 dl ketchup
1 - 2 handfulls of chickpeas (i dont really measure, i just pour in, but i guess it is half a can or so)
0,5 box of coconut milk
1/4 - 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice
Salt and fresh (black) pepper
0,5 tablespoon vegan margarin

Boiled rice to serve with.

Here is what i did: Fried onions in the oil until they were nice and shiny, then i added garlic, curry, garam masala, and ketchup. Then i added chickpeas, coconut milk, and lemon juice and let it simmer a bit. Then i added margarine and simmered some more. Then i add salt and pepper and served it with rice =D

I wanna make this today too! I love it! =D <3

Asparagus soup

Asparagus has been cheap lately so i bought some to make asparagus soup some days ago =D

The recipe i use i found in this book, and i have been making it many times! I make half of the recipe normally.

So heres the recipe. Credits goes to the author of the recipe ^.^


Asparagus soup

4 portions
450 g asparagus
3 tablespoons butter
6 shallots in slices (or normal onion)
1 tablespoon flour
6 dl vegetable stock or water
1 ss lemon juice
2,5 dl vegetable milk
1,25 dl vegetable cream (or just more milk, this is what i do =p)
Salt and pepper

Method:
Melt butter (or oil) and fry the onion for 2-3 minutes until its soft. Chop the asparagus, if you want the soup to look more "pro" (with decoration; like on the pic in the book) you can cut off the top and save it for later, but this is not necessary (i normally just use all in the soup). Add the asparagus in the soup and stir for about 1 minute. Add in flour and stir it for another minute. Add the stock along with lemon juice, and taste with salt and pepper. Let it boil for 15-20 minutes until the asparagus is tender. Cool down the soup a bit, then run it in a food processor. Put the soup back in the pan (you can sift out the pieces if you want that) and add with milk and cream and warm the soup, without it boiling. If you wanted the decorative tops of the asparagus, then melt the butter and fry the tops for 3-4 minutes until they are tender, and add them in the soup.

Enjoy ;)