Tomato soup and olive tapenade

Yoyo. Had some leftover tomato puree i wanted to use, and some black olives, so why not make tomato soup and black olive tapenade then :D (actually i made the black olive tapenade yesterday and had leftovers today, but it was yummy together so heck why not xD)

For the soup i used:
Tomato puree
Water
Dried mint
Olive oil
Vegetable bullion
Alphabet pasta (other pasta also works)
Salt
Pepper
Lemon juice

Basically i just boiled the ingredients until the pasta was done :p and ye i didnt measure the ingredients xD

For the olive tapenade i used:
Black olives
Garlic
Vegetable oil
Salt
Pepper

This i blended. Also here i didnt measure.

This tapenade is perfect on roasted bread with vegan margarine on :D

Very delicious :D

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

Sundays lunch and dinner

Seems it's been a while since i've posted any food that i've made, so i guess it's time for a little update =p

Yesterday i decided to make pizza since i had bought some out of date pepperoni slices from vbites for half price (and violife cheese since i wanted to put the pepperoni slices on pizza).

I had some leftover yeast too so i also made cinnamon rolls with that, and some without cinnamon because my boyfriend doesn't like cinnamon, but seems he didn't want to taste them either :x I made half portion and dropped the cardamom, but added some vanilla sugar instead. I also used 1/3 whole wheat flour to pretend to be healthy (and used 1/3 extra sugar cuz it fell too much into my measuring cup... so much for being healthy :x). Personally i liked the cinnamon rolls and seems someone else in my boyfriends house also dared to taste (most of the time they don't dare to taste what i make), and they liked it too =) I ate like half of them and i still had half over that i put in the freezer so they wouldn't go dry. It's nicer with my family in Norway, they would have eaten all =p

So to the pizza. This one was kinda fail. First off i used to much whole wheat flour that it is darker than most of the dark breads (i think 50% is when they can call it dark?). The crust kinda tasted like dark bread (healthy ftw xD). Personally i didn't mind, but i think i'll use more white flour next time and less of the whole wheat one xD Secondly, i first baked it too short so the crust tasted like sponge, so i had to bake it more. Thirdly, the crust was glued to the pan, so i kinda had to do some effort to get this dark bread crust loose so i could eat it.

Failures aside it was still yummy =)

I'll be so nice that i'll provide +- recipe too =p

Dough:
2-2.5 dl medium temperature water
0.5 bag of yeast
1 teaspoon sugar
1-2 teaspoon salt
1-2 tablespoons vegetable oil
Some pizza spices and nutritional yeast (optional)
Flour until nice consistency

Mix ingredients, knead it and let it rise for some time (i did some hours), then shape to pizza shape =) Use more flour if needed.

Topping:
Pasta sauce
Shredded vegan cheese (i used violife for pizza, it didn't shred though :x)
Onions
Bell peppers
Pizza spices (i think i used oregano, but it didnt say on the box what it was)
Corn
Canned mushrooms
Vbites pepperoni slices
Tomatos
Nutritional yeast

So i guess basically slice and dice and put on what is wanted =p Started with tomato sauce, then cheese then veggies then more cheese =p Into the oven on max temperature (remember to use something below the dough in the pan or pizza stone :x) until it's ready (which depends on oven temperatue and some other stuff and is hard to know, but 20 minutes in my case wasnt enough xD).

Since only me liked the bread crust i pretended it was bread and added chocospread on it xD

Dark bread is always yummier with chocospread ;)

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

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 puree with carrots in pasta sauce

This is bit old post, but finally imported picture to pc so now i'll post =p

I wanted to make broccoli puree for some days =p Before i've made broccoli pesto with pasta a couple of times, but now i wanted to use carrots instead of pasta =p So i went into my closets and found some stuff i wanted to use xD Tasted pretty good too so here's the blog about it =p

The measures are +- what i used (i didnt measure), and i ate everything myself xD

Ingredients:
0.5 broccoli, simmered
1 dl green peas, i used frozen so let them thaw with the broccoli
0.5 onion, in slices then in half moons
1 carrot, peeled in strips
Little bit of red bell pepper in pieces
Pasta sauce (i have no idea how much xD)
Mustard to taste =p
1 tomato, in boats
Chickpeas, maybe 1 dl, i used frozen ones, but canned works too
Yoghurt, i used alpro =p maybe some tablespoons
Soy sauce, to taste
Salt
Pepper

Directions:
Simmer broccoli with some of the onion (if you want) until tender (i used like half a slice of the onion), then add peas at the end if they are frozen.
Meanwhile i simmered the remaining onion in some water, then added pasta sauce, peeled carrots, red bell pepper and the tomato. Then i added mustard to taste, and when it was almost done i added chickpeas.
Now the broccoli should be done so i pureed it in my food processor along with some yoghurt. I also added some of the water it boiled with to get a lighter consistency. Then i added soy sauce, salt and pepper and enjoyed =D

Very yummy =D

Provencal bean stew

Made this recipe from one of my cook books, and it was really delicious, so i wanted to share =D

I edited the recipe a little bit (not so much xD), heres what i did. I think it should be for about 2 persons (but i ate everything myself @_@)

Ingredients:
1 onion, i sliced mine in two, then in slices
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 red bell pepper, in slices, here i also cut in two then in slices
0.5 chili, chopped
200 g canned tomatoes (half a can)
1 tablespoon tomato puree
1 400 g can white beans (i used tomato beans, but other beans probably works also), here i also added the liquid that was in the can =p
Water to desired consistency (mine got maybe bit too much soupy, but i like it like that xD)
1 veggie bullion
1 tablespoon basil spice
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 teaspoon dried rosemary
1 bay leaf
Salt and pepper to taste
About 0.5 dl black olives, pitted and chopped in half (i didnt measure what i used, probably it was more, and i also added the olive liquid into the stew for extra taste)

Directions:
Saute onion until soft, then add paprika, garlic and chili and saute for about 10 minutes more while stirring every now and then. I sauted in water, so if low on water add more =p Then add canned tomatoes, tomato puree, beans with their liquid, water, bullion and spices to taste. Put the lid on the pan and simmer for about 30 minutes. Then add olives (and olive liquid if you like that) and simmer for 15 minutes more. Then enjoy ^.^

Sorry for the bad photo btw :x

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)

Pizza!

I kinda started eating pizza way more rarely after becoming vegan, mostly because im used to pizzas with meat and cheese, so the carrot pizzas werent really the same xD (+ i mostly had tiny crust and a huuuge layer of filling and no "meat" or "cheese", so wasnt really pro xD). So other food was mostly more tempting.

Ofc there is a bunch of vegan meat and cheese options, im mostly just too lazy to buy it cuz i dont wanna spend too much money so i just didnt make it xD But it really is possible to make any kind of pizza as vegan version as you can see from the menu of this vegan pizzeria Sfizy Veg in Berlin (one day i wanna go there! xd). Why use meat/cheese when you can do a more animal friendly option =D

Well, i got inspired by some blogs to use bearnaise sauce on the pizza, so i wanted to try that. Here are some of the blogposts that inspired me: Brennheit and Harrypizza from veganeren, and the pizza from hverdagsveganeren.

Sadly not all bearnaise sauces are vegan, so check before you buy! In Norway these from Toro are vegan: lett bearnaise sauce (light), and krydder bearnaise sauce (spiced).


So ye, here for the "recipe" aka what i used for this pizza xD But as you all know, you can put whatever you want on pizza =p

Pizza crust/dough (mom always makes pizza saturday evenings so if i want i can have some of the dough so i just used the one she made =p)
Tomato sauce (i just use pasta sauce from jar, but homemade sounds more pro =p)
Pizza spices
Vegan bearnaise sauce with a bit of nutritional yeast (this time i used the spiced one and 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast, next time i will try the light one, nutritional yeast is optional, can skip it too ofc, i also added salt and pepper in it)
Mushrooms (i used canned)
Corn (i used canned)
Pineapple (i used canned)
Green bell pepper
Olives
Sun dried tomatos
Cherry tomatos

Then i putted in oven on 225°C for a while until i felt it was ready xD


It came out very well, so i think i'll make more of this =p It's probably the best pizza i have made for years =D

Tomato coconut curry leftover dinner

First i just wanna mention my legs still dont wanna run, but they dont mind walking for some reason >.> I wonder why xD

So over to todays dinner =p I had like half a can of tomatoes, 1/4 green chili, 3/4 can of coconut milk and half a broccoli i didnt know how to get rid of, so i figured to just mix it all together and see what happened xD And it actually turned out very well! So if i ever end up with lots of leftover stuff again i will maybe make something like this again =p

I guess the basis of this dinner would be the canned tomatoes, coconut milk, random vegetables and spices where the spices and vegetables can be changed to whatever you feel like or have xD I wanted mine kinda curryish =p

Here is what i used but ye, use what you have or want =p
Margarine/oil
2 mushrooms
1/4 onion
0.5 - 1 cm ginger (i guess its about 1-2 teaspoons xD)
1/4 green chili
1 carrot
1/4 red bell pepper
5 cm zucchini
1/4 broccoli
1 tomato
1/2 can of tomato
1/4 can coconut milk
Spices (no spesific order xd): curry, coriander, mustard, turmeric, cumin, chili, paprika, salt, pepper

I sliced mushrooms in 0.5 cm thick slices then divided them in two on the middle. The mushrooms i had on medium heat with the margarine/oil until they were "ready". Meanwhile i finely chopped the onion, ginger and chili. When the mushrooms were "ready" i added this. It's smart to stir every now and then btw =p The carrots i chopped in 0.5 cm thick circles that i divided on the middle so they became half-moons (i was artistic today xd) then added them, then cut the bell pepper in pieces and added them, then i cutted the zucchini in 0.6 cm thick circles that i divided in 8 pieces and added (artistic ftw xD) then i chopped broccoli and added that and i assume i let it stir for a bit until i felt the vegetables was ready for tomato (some minutes or immediately, i dont remember xD) So then i added can of tomato and chopped the other tomato and added that one too. Then i added coconut milk and let it all simmer for a while. Then i added the spices after taste, and let it simmer until all vegetables were tender =p

I could probably shorten the wall of text above to: "chop and add vegetables!" but that would be boring since im in wall of text writing mood atm =p

Ah now i remember, after spicing it nicely up i figured i would serve it with quinoa, so let it simmer while i made quinoa =p Rice or other stuff would probably work just as fine, but today i felt like using quinoa =p

Here is a picture of the deliciousness =p

Now i still need to use the rest of the broccoli, onion, ginger, mushrooms, red bell pepper, 2 kg carrots, 1/2 can coconut milk and the rest of the zucchini xD but i already got plans for some of them (cuz of the cook book project) xD But maybe i make this again to get rid of the rest of the broccoli, cuz that broccoli is "hard" to get rid of and i always wanna get rid of it xD and i always wanna have a broccoli in the house aswell xD im weird xD

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 =)

Veggie-soup

I wanted to use some vegetables to make a soup so i just mixed alot of random stuff =p Its 1 month ago so could be i remember bad xD

Veggie-soup

Celery
Carrot
Potato
Veggie bullion/stock + as much water you need
Tomato if wanted
Paprika/bell pepper if wanted
Leeks/onion/garlic if wanted (i regret i didnt use onion)
Peas/lentils/beans/pasta if wanted (i used some frozen peas i had xD)
Spinach if wanted (<3 spinach, i used frozen ones)
The spices you want ^.^ for example salt and pepper

Cut the vegetables in pieces and boil it until its tender, then if you want you can do it in a food processor (i did that now, but normally i don't do it). A lot of variation possibilities depending on what you have and like ^.^

This soup tasted like a vitamin bomb or so, probably because of the food processor  xD But was also yummy ofc =p

Some dinner i had =p

I've been sick since Sunday now (throat infection or something) so i have been weak and tired, and it hurts in my throat when i swallow, so haven't been posting a lot lately and i haven't been cooking a lot lately either, but i looked through the pictures i have taken earlier and i found a picture of my dinner last Tuesday, so i guess it's time to post it =p

I had been working at a place kinda far away from home (30 min with car or 1 hour 30 min with bus xD), so i asked my bf if he could make some dinner for me, and he cooked up some potatoes and chopped some zucchini and peeled some carrots, so i used that in a mix with onion, bell pepper, cucumber, salad, tomato, and a frozen mix with peas, cauliflower and more carrots. Worked out pretty well with soy sauce on top of course ^.^

Thai tomatosoup

Recently i found a recipe on a blog that i wanted to try: Thai tomatosoup

This soup was very yummy, so i will make it again later ^.^

So ye, heres the recipe, translated by me, but not written by me =p Credit goes to the author of the recipe ^.^

 

Thailandsk tomatsuppe

1 onion
2 cloves garlic
some fresh ginger
1 box chopped tomatoes
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 box coconut milk
1 tablespoon sugar
salt
some oil

* Chop onion, garlic and ginger and fry it for 5 minutes.
* Mix it with the rest of the ingredients, stir well, then let it boil (at this point the coconut milk gave me a huge urge to put curry in it as well, so i did that xD).
* When it just started boiling, pour the soup in a food processor until its smooth.
* Put the soup back in the pan and let it boil for 5 minutes. If the soup is too thick you can add some water.

Yammie! =D

Cauliflower-thingy xD

Last night i was fooling around on internet and i found this recipe: Raw cauliflower couscous

So for breakfast this morning i decided to make something similar since i had a cauliflower that needed to be used soon =p

The ingredients i used are:
Cauliflower
Cucumber
Cherry-tomatoes (or normal ones)
Sun dried tomatoes
Zucchini (optional)
Salad
Soy sauce

But of course you can skip some ingredients or add some =p Use what you got ;)

I putted the cauliflower in the food processor until it has a couscous-like consistency (actually it was until the cauliflower stopped spinning rofl xD) Then i fried the zucchini a bit on each side in oil (i guess you dont need to do this if you like raw zucchini). Then i chopped the cucumber and tomatoes and salad and added everything on my plate and putted soy sauce on top ^.^

I forgot to take picture of the first plate, but plate 2 i remembered, but then i had no zucchini and salad left, but it was still yummy! =D maybe even more yummy =p I will definitely make this again if i have more cauliflower to be used ^.^

Ratatouille

It took me a while to find out what to have for breakfast/dinner today, but i finally found out! =D Ratatouille! =D I think it's the first time i make this, but i've made minestrone soup before, which is somewhat similar i think =p

Some days ago i bought zucchini and eggplant since they were cheap (only 19 kr/kg! normally they are 30+ or 40+ xD), and i wanted to use something with these ingredients, so ratatouille is a perfect choice then ^.^

Well here's the recipe that i found on vegetarbloggen (norwegian): Ratatouille

I recommend you to check out more recipes from there aswell! =D

Here's what i did, more or less following the recipe (i also add some ingredients not in the original recipe):

Ingredients:
1 garlic
0,5 onion
0,25 zucchini
0,5 red bell pepper
0,25 eggplant
0,5 carrot (or one small)
1 small potato
0,5 - 1 stalk of celery
Some olive oil

5+ dl water + 1-2 vegetable stock cubes
1 small box tomato paste/puree
1 chopped tomato
Around 1 teaspoon sugar
Around 2 teaspoons vinegar
Dried spices: basil, oregano, and whatever other spices i have and wanna add
Salt and pepper

Here is what i did:

I cleaned the vegetables and cutted them in cubes, then i fried them in oil for some minutes until all was nice and shiny, then i added the stock, tomato puree, the chopped tomato and the spices and let it boil. Then i added the sugar and vinegar and let it boil more until the vegetables were tender. Then i added salt and pepper to taste.

And the result:

Yammie! =D

I hope they will have zucchini and eggplant in promotion the following week too ;D