Mar 27th – Vegan Lent – Day 43

Following yesterday’s pretty damn awesome Indian meal out you may think I’d have steered clear of more of the same. Instead it just seemed to whet my appetite more and lunch – today’s highlight – was a madras-style mixed lentil curry soup…

Madras lentil soup

But, by the time dinner came around I realised I needed some greens and also to empty my fridge shelf as heading away for the Easter break. So another green salad with an avocado on the side played second fiddle to my vegetable-sausage baguette:

Sausage roll with green salad with satay sauce dressing and an avocado

Mar 26th – Vegan Lent – Day 42

Highlight of the day was without doubt a curry out in Bradford at the oldest curry house in the city. Here’s my spinach daal with tandoori roti which were superb (be back there soon no doubt!)

spinach daal with a spoonful of someone elses masala (well it would have been rude not to try)

Mar 25th – Vegan Lent – Day 41

Making use of some leftover jasmine rice from the thai curry the night before and some spare lemongrass and galangal in the fridge I plumped for another stir fry. And it was pretty damn tasty having been finished with a dash of coconut milk!

Tofu, green bean, red cabbage, carrot, lemongrass stir fry

Mar 24th – Vegan Lent – Day 40

It’s Sunday so after a long walk I deserved a snack to keep me going:

pigging out – bagel with marmite and cucumber and a slice of homemade bakewell tart

and then onto dinner which was a shared affair with me failing to make gado gado (sorry!) and plumping for quesadillas instead while my housemates made thai green curry and our visitors brought black bean sauce with dipping vegetables.

Bring-and-share dinner (thai green curry, quesadilla and vegetable slices with spicy black bean dip

Mar 23rd – Vegan Lent – Day 39

Eeek, sorry this post is waiting for photos which I think are on my SLR but needed to post it now to get the order right for WP.

Watch this space (after Easter) and I’ll get the pictures up here (pineapple and apricot energy bars so it’s worth the wait!)

Mar 22nd – Vegan Lent – Day 38

Noodles for lunch and then a quick snack

tea break – onion bagel with marmite, engevita and cucumber

then for dinner a desire for more spice led me back to something mexican-esque:

pre-…

flash fried vegetables, avocado, rocket and shallot guacamole thing

and post-assembly

adding a little bit of engevita and we’re done

Mar 21st – Vegan Lent – Day 37

Leftovers for lunch with a bit of salad to spice things up

Sweet potato, butternut squash and pea risotto with green salad

Then for dinner as many colours of vegetables (i.e. what I had left in the fridge) that could fit into one stir fry…with some pretty cool black noodles

Pepper, tofu, peanut, mushroom onion, beansprouts, french bean and onion stir fry with black udon noodles

 

Mar 20th – Vegan Lent – Day 36

Leftover pizza for lunch (mild office jealousy successfully induced)

mixed vegetable wholewheat pizza

then for dinner, a butternut squash, sweet potato and pea risotto

pea, sweet potato and butternut squash risotto

and since I was already cooking I thought I’d use up some basil and tomatoes in a sauce and freeze it

arrabiata sauce

 

 

Mar 19th – Vegan Lent – Day 35

Mmm dinner can’t come soon enough. Had a real craving for pizza today so decided I’d make one: wholemeal pizza dough with herby-tomato sauce and butternut squash, onion, mushroom, tomato and yellow pepper:

Homemade vegan pizza – from thought to eat in an hour too

and a pretty awesome rocket salad on the side

 

rocket, celery, mixed toasted seeds, tomatoes and pepper

and together half of them fills a plate, which means the rest is lunch tomorrow – hooray!

plating up pizza and salad

 

Mar 18th – Vegan Lent – Day 34

More salad leftovers for lunch today: this rice is pretty damn tasty (it’s an Ottolenghi recipe)

Rice, mango, coconut, and lots-of-other-stuff-salad