My dinner today - Moussaka

Today was really busy at work, there kept coming costumers xD Unlike yesterday when we went hours without any customers xD It's nice though that so many wanted to visit our store today =D

I didnt really have time to eat or drink at work after 11 or so, but i drank a bit orange juice (more like orange pulp xD) after we were closed before i left.

Then i testdrove with my dad around. This time we went to an island i havent been before called Bjorôyna or something. It was pretty nice there =D I wanna drive back there another time =p

When i got home after some chilling i made moussaka =D It was in some recipe collection i found in my local shop (rema 1000, they have like monthly recipe collections in their shops).
This was so yummy i wanted to have the recipe on my blog =p

For about 2 persons:
Red sauce
0.5 onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, chopped
TVP, i think i did like 1.5-2 dl or something, soaked in warm water along with a veggie bullion, and i also added some taco mix and a little bit of nutritional yeast, but thats not neccesary. Other vegan minced meat style can work also =p then no need to soak unless its dry like TVP
1 tablespoon tomato puree
0.5 can chopped tomatoes (1 can = 400 g)
Salt and pepper to taste

White sauce
25 g vegan margarine (i used alpro <3)
25 g flour
4.5 dl plant based milk (i used oat milk)
1 garlic clove, chopped
Nutritional yeast, to taste. I think i used maybe 3 tablespoons or so
Salt and pepper to taste

1 eggplant
Vegetable oil

For the red sauce: saute onion and garlic, then add TVP, tomato puree, and chopped tomatoes and simmer for a bit. Taste with salt and pepper.

For the white sauce: melt the margarine, stir in the flour, then add bit and bit milk while stirring. Simmer for a while and add nutritional yeast, salt and pepper to taste.

Cut the eggplant in 0.5 cm thick slices. You can also salt the eggplants if wanted to get out the bitterness. I was too lazy to do this xD

Grease an ovenproof dish and add a layer of eggplant, then a layer of white sauce, then layer of red sauce, then eggplants and sauces again until out of all. Finish with a layer of white sauce. Put in oven on 200°C for about 40 minutes. After removing from oven let it cool for about 10 minutes before eating. Yummy with a salad as side =D

 

And it was really yummy even if the pics arent the best xD

Nachos

In the first days of easter vacation my sister had made non-vegan nachos, and after the lasagna success i decided to make vegan nachos ^.^

This time i kinda did measure, but since its 6 days since i made it i kinda forgot all, so could be recipe is bad xD

Nachos

Ingredients:
0,5 - 1 onion
Around 2 gloves of garlic
0,5 - 1 bell pepper (paprika) (optional)
1,5 dl TVP (i think this is what i used xD)
0,5 - 1 vegetable stock (i dont remember what i used)
1 jar of pasta sauce (i know jarsize differ a bit, so take as much or little as you want xD)
0,5 dl (or more) water
Spices, for example basil, oregano etc xD (i think i added cumin and paprika powder and other stuff too xD)
Corn
Tortilla chips
Vegan cheese for topping (optional)

Method:
Fry the onion and garlic until soft and add the bell pepper, TVP mixed with stock, pasta sauce, water and spices and boil for a bit. Put a layer of tortilla chips in a pan (you can spray the pan with oil) and then some corn then a layer of TVP mixture and then more corn and top it with vegan cheese (if i remember correctly i added some olive oil on top also). Bake in oven on 200°C - 225°C for 5-15 minutes (i did 10) until the cheese is melted (if the cheese does it lol).


I did 2 layers, and the tortilla chips ended up soft then so if you want soft tortilla chips then add them in layers but i wont do this again xD I think i will use the white sauce from the lasagna recipe as topping next time, since i liked it and i think it would fit =p So its kinda like nacho-lasagna xD

I will make this again for sure! =D

Vegan lasagna

Some days ago i found a recipe of vegan lasagna here, so i wanted to test it out! I haven't eaten lasagna for some years now (except for a vegetable lasagna that kinda failed since it didn't taste so good xD), so it was cool tasting "normal" lasagna again! =D It failed a bit though since the lasagna plates weren't cooked good so they were still hard, so next time i will use more water in the recipe and hope they cook then, or cook them longer =p I also got empty of the white sauce at the end, so i had to make a bit more =p And i skipped the pine nuts, and added basil and oregano in the TVP mixture for more taste ^.^ (for those who don't know, TVP = textured vegetable protein, the kind i used was TVP mince which is mince consistency, but there are chunk(ball) consistencies also but i think mince fits the most in this recipe)

Here is the recipe copy-pasted (and changed some stuff) from Like a Vegan her blog, all credits goes to the author of the recipe and not to me since i just followed the recipe (more or less). Btw there's more cool recipes on the blog worth checking out i think =p

Meaty Lasagne

Difficulty: Medium
Serves Four


Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups TVP
• 3 stock cubes (i used vegetable stock cubes ^.^)
• 1 tablespoon minced garlic
• 1 small red onion, finely chopped (other colors should work aswell xD)
• 2/3 to 1 large jar of tomato pasta sauce (+spices like oregano and basil if you want ^.^)
• 1/3 cup vegan margarine/butter
• 1/4 cup plain flour
• 1/2 cup soy milk
• 3 large sheets of instant lasagne (oh shit it needed to be instant? xD that explains why mine weren't cooked xD)
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Handful of pine nuts (can be skipped =p)

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C
2. Prepare the TVP as per packaging and crumble in the stock cubes, mix well.
3. In a large frypan, fry the onion and garlic until onion starts to turn translucent.
4. Add the TVP mixture and combine well, keep stirring over the heat for about 3 minutes.
5. Throw in the pasta sauce, you should base how much you used on your personal preference. (and maybe some water also if your mixture is pretty "dry" =p)
6. Set the TVP mixture aside and melt the margarine in the microwave.
7. With a fork, whisk in the flour and microwave for a further 1 minute. (lol after 10-20 sec mine was boiling like hell, so be careful with this =p)
8. Whisk in the soy milk until the sauce is creamy.
9. Add salt and pepper to taste (add some garlic too if you’d like)
10. In a greased 8×8 oven-proof dish, add a layer of the TVP mixture to the bottom followed by 1 1/2 of the lasagne sheets. Chuck a layer of white sauce, then more TVP, then lasagne, then TVP and finish it off with a nice thick layer of white sauce.
11. Sprinkle with pine nuts and bake for about 20 minutes.

Hope you enjoy ;) i did for sure! xD Now gotta buy more TVP though, but i think i will test it out with red lentils maybe, that might work as well =p