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VeganMoFo: Semi-Wordless Wednesday II

September 25, 2013 at 9:04 pm · Filed under Food, vegan ·Tagged Appetite For Reduction, burger, cabbage, Eat to Live, eggplant, Food, indian, kelp noodles, lemonade, Moroccan, Please & Thank You, Practically Raw, salad, soup, spaghetti, spinach, stirfry, strawberries, tempeh, Thai, tofu, vegan, Vegan On The Cheap, Vegan Soups and Hearty Stews for All Seasons, VeganMoFo, zucchini

Last week’s Semi-Wordless Wednesday turned out pretty well, so here’s another random assortment of things I have made!

Pad Thai Salad with kelp noodles, adapted from Appetite for Reduction, and orange-glazed tempeh

Avocado Cream Soup (better than it looks) and Zucchini Spaghetti alla Marinara (best raw marinara ever) from Practically Raw

Oh She Glows’ Strawberry Lemonade

Thai Veggie Burgers from Peas & Thank You, topped with pineapple and sriracha mayo

Moroccan Chickpea & Lentil Soup and Cheese Herb Corn Muffins fro Vegan Soups & Hearty Stews for All Seasons

roasted tofu and dry-sauteed cabbage

Reuben salad with roasted chickpeas, sauerkraut, pickles, and Healthy Thousand Island Dressings from Eat to Live

Southwestern Black Bean & Corn Chowder from Vegan on the Cheap

Almond Butter Sesame Kelp Noodles from Practically Raw with Sesame Garlic Marinated Tempeh. Loved the noodles, not so much the tempeh.

Baigan Bharta and Quick Indian-Style Spinach & Chickpeas

Green bean, tempeh & mushrooms stir fry with brown rice

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VeganMoFo: Dyspepsia Diet Stage III

September 11, 2013 at 7:58 pm · Filed under Food, vegan ·Tagged Appetite For Reduction, cheese, chickpeas, dal, dyspepsia, Food, Oh She Glows, soup, vegan, Vegan Soups and Hearty Stews for All Seasons, VeganMoFo, yogurt

As I mentioned in the first post about my dyspepsia diet, I stayed in Stage II a bit longer than originally planned, because I didn’t feel ready to move on. By this point in the plan I was feeling much better and had the inflammation/acid issue under control, so it was more about adding healing and soothing foods like miso, lemon, turmeric, root vegetables, and fruits. I was able to reintroduce most foods at this point except the major culprits. I also started taking papaya enzyme and artichoke leaf extract since they are supposed to help with digestion.

I welcomed acidic fruit back into my life in the form of kiwi, on yogurt topped with Nature’s Path cereal.

Oatmeal is good for the stomach all the time, so I made a savory oatmeal bowl with tempeh, greens, roasted mushrooms and Oh She Glows’ Butternut Cheese Sauce, which I loooove. I usually use canned pumpkin instead of the butternut, just for ease.

I had some fennel from the CSA to use up, so I sauteed it with carrots, peas, and chickpeas and seasoned it with ginger and turmeric. Served over Caulipots from Appetite for Reduction.

Asparagus was in season at the time, so I used some in the Asparagus and Spinach Soup from Vegan Soups and Hearty Stews for All Seasons, subbing kale for spinach. The soup also contained wild rice, mushrooms and summer squash, and was light yet hearty at the same time. On the side are Cheese and Herb Corn Muffins from the same book, which are quite good and freeze well.

To use root vegetables and lentils, which are supposed to be good for the stomach lining, I made the Red Lentil and Root Vegetable Dal from Appetite for Reduction. I really liked the texture of this dish, but the flavor was a little off for me. The recipe calls for parsnips and turnips OR rutabaga. I went with rutabaga, and I think the root vegetables were a little sour when combined with all the spices. I love turnips, so I’m sure I would like the dish more that way.

Stage III eating was very similar to how I usually eat, just without the more acidic/irritating ingredients like vinegar, mustard, tomatoes and pepper. It wasn’t difficult to find delicious food to eat in this stage, and by the end I was feeling much better! Afterward, I incorporated ingredients I had been avoiding very slowly back into my diet, and I am happy to say that in the six months since then I haven’t had any tummy troubles!

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CSA’s & Laptop Lunches

October 12, 2009 at 5:34 pm · Filed under Food, vegan ·Tagged biscuits, black eyed peas, bread, cheese, corn, CSA, Eat Drink & Be Vegan, figs, gravy, Jake, Laptop Lunchbox, quinoa, salad, sandwich, soup, squash, tempeh, The Uncheese Cookbook, vegan, Vegan Soups and Hearty Stews for All Seasons

Geez, it’s been a long time since I posted my foods! I’ll try to keep my rambling and descriptions short, since I’ve got a lot of pictures!

8-27 CSA: corn, rosemary, pears, zucchini, cucumber & lavender

onions, figs, tomatoes, beets, squash & honeydew melon

When I got this CSA box, I was actually growing tired of snacking on fresh figs. Gasp! I’m spoiled, I know. I decided to make a poached fig salad, based on a recipe I found online that I can’t find again now! Which is a shame, cause it was really good. The fresh figs were poached in a whole bottle of port, then the wine was reduced down to a syrup. There was also a simple vinaigrette, pisatchios, shallots and faux feta cheese. The poached figs were STRONG, but good. I also had some herbed pumpkin seed crackers.

I had taken note of the Teriyaki Quinoa recipe in Eat, Drink & Be Vegan during my August cleanse but didn’t get a chance to try it then. I’m glad I tried it afterwards, because I love it! It’s so simple – just cook the quinoa and mix it with the sauce. I served the quinoa with stir-fried veggies (seasoned only with tamari and ume plum vinegar), and instead of sprinkling with sesame seeds as the recipe called for, I used some sesame gomasio that I had bought for no specific reason.

Quinoa close-up! Looks like…quinoa…

I had a huge heirloom tomato sitting around doing absolutely no good, and I decided I wanted to slice it up for a grilled cheese sandwich. There’s a big hole in the middle cause the tomato had a big, tough core that had to be cut out.

I wanted to make bread machine bread for my sandwich and…FAIL. I modified a multigrain bread machine recipe that I found online and it really didn’t rise at all. It was edible but incredibly dense. I don’t know if the recipe was bad or if it was the fact that I used the time delay feature and the ingredients sat there for hours before the machine started mixing.

The cheese in the sandwich is the Gooey Grilled Cheese from The Uncheese Cookbook, which I love. I also love pickles on grilled cheese. On the side was broccoli and cucumber with goddess dressing, and oven-baked beet chips.

I had corn and squashes left over from the CSA box, and thought they would make nice side dishes for black-eyed-pea gravy and biscuits. I have no idea where I got the gravy idea from, but it worked out.

For the biscuits, I used Happy Herbivore’s Whole Wheat Low Fat Biscuit recipe, and they turned out quite well! I rolled mine out and cut them into circles with a glass though, rather than just dropping them like the recipe calls for. That way you get the flaky sides, and they’re easy to cut in half.

Gravy close-up! The gravy turned out okay, but it was a little too acidic and the onions weren’t cooked enough, so I need to work on it a bit before I have an official recipe. For the creamed corn, I just cooked some corn kernels till tender, blended up some of them in the food processor, added it back to the pan with some soy milk and cooked a bit just to thicken. The squash and zucchini were sauteed with probably a pinch too much red pepper flakes.

9-10 CSA: lettuce, thyme, zucchini, swiss chard & grapes

tomatoes, plums, mushrooms, peppers, tomatoes, garlic & oranges

There’s nothing particularly special about this salad, except that it was topped with Annie’s French Dressing, which I had never seen before and like a lot.

With the abundance of tomatoes in this CSA box, I thought I ought to try my hand at making gazpacho. I’d had gazpacho before a number of times but never made it. Turns out it’s ridiculously easy to make! The blender does most of the work. I followed the recipe from Vegan Soups and Hearty Stews for All Seasons and it was perfect.

On the side is a slice of Bianca’s awesome Whole Wheat Beer Bread. I grew up eating beer bread, and this totally hit the spot. I added FYH cheddar and some rosemary just cause I could. I also totally screwed up and mis-read the recipe. I thought the bread only baked for 30 minutes, so I pulled it out then, let it cool, and was totally surprised that my first slice was completely raw in the middle! Then I re-read the recipe – doh! It bakes for 55 minutes. The slice on my plate up there went in the toaster oven just to finish, which is why it looks funny, and the rest of the loaf went back in the oven. Read your recipes all the way through, people!

9-24 CSA: swiss chard, lettuce, cucumber & more lettuce

beets, tomatoes, red onions, grapes & peppers. I also got a galia melon but it didn’t find its way into the picture.

Another sandwich, this time on store-bought sprouted bread. I had an avocado ready to use, and thought it would go perfectly with the CSA tomato and lettuce in a great sandwich. I was thinking along the lines of a BLT, so I sauteed tempeh then glazed it with soy sauce, maple syrup and liquid smoke. Delicious! The sandwich also had red onion jam, spicy mustard and a slice of vegan cheese. Those nuclear chips in the front there are Buffalo Chips from Food Should Taste Good. They didn’t really taste buffalo-y, but they were tangy and spicy and good. If you haven’t tried Food Should Taste Good chips yet, do so! They feel so much lighter than other chips, and their flavors are fun and imaginative.