The vegged up 'Here's what I had for dinner last night' thread

tman

Always liked the thread in the cooking / recipes forum - if you're stuck for ideas of what to cook, you can just trawl through a few pages of that until you find something... So why not just copy them! (sorry if this has been done before)

Last night was a bit of a "meh" Veggie chilli (using Quorn mince), pretty much just cooked some shallots, garlic and finely chopped chilli then added the contents of a jar + the mince. Had some tortillas and nice wholegrain rice with it.

Going to put a bit more effort in tonight and make a green lentil lasagne from scratch... Gonna throw some bay leaves, courgette and green pepper into it, and maybe stick some wholegrain mustard into the cheesy roux sauce. First time that I've made lasagne in about 7 years, so wish me luck!:p

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Great idea!

Last night I cooked some rice, fried up some ginger and grated parsnip in a bit of oil and chilli powder, then mixed it all up. Then I wanted a real flavour hit so I mixed in a few spoons of country relish-delish

I have 50 sqillion heads of lettuce right now. My garden went beserk when I was away on holiday.

So it will salad till autumn for me I think.

Today was salad with grilled asparagus and halloumi.

Lunch was brie and grilled peaches on rice cakes.

I also found those veggie gummy strawberries Mameoo recommended.
Dey was good.

entropi

Moonbaby wrote: »

I also found those veggie gummy strawberries Mameoo recommended.
Dey was good.

You must tell me where!! strawberry is my all time favourite food stuff i dont care if they are jellies!!:D

DonnieScribbles

Cool, I was thinking of starting a thread like this, but with pictures! Mainly because I like looking at pictures of food.
Yesterday I had two Tesco veggie burgers with spinach and tomato salad. Not very inspired but we'd had no gas for the hob all week because water got into the gas lines so I could only cook with the oven. Looked pretty good on the plate though!

Today I made a curry. Fried some tofu in ginger and garlic, threw in some carrots, some pre-cooked cauliflower, tin of tomatoes, cooked red lentils and a bit of coconut milk. It was okay, a bit mushy. I ate it before I could take a picture though! There's loads left though so I'll probably photograph it tomorrow. I like taking pictures of my dinner

Master of Nothing

Master of Nothing wrote: »

You must tell me where!! strawberry is my all time favourite food stuff i dont care if they are jellies!!:D

My local shop.
Do you like strawberries enough for a 160miles round trip?

(I'll bring some for you Sunday)

Tar.Aldarion

Pics are good.

At the htoel I just had a huge plate of carrots, broccoli, green beans, peas in pods, tomatoes(couldn't eat them!), roast potato and bolied potato. Along with soup(which was lovely). I filled up on bread fearing for my main course. Didn't have a choice, but it was nice.

For second dinnersss, I had 2 garlic&herb quorn chicken fillets, onions and mushrooms.

Eviecus

I had roast potatoes, peppers, onions, carrots, parsnips and broccoli with garlic and rosemary etc. on them as well as a Linda McCartney Country Pie....deliciousness in a pie.

tman

Warmed up some of the (sexual) green lentil lasagne from last night for lunch, along with some leftover new potatoes which were fried up... Coupled with a dollop of alliole

Tar.Aldarion

Potatoes all the same size! yumyum.

I had 2 garlic&herb 'chicken' fillets, broccoli, onions, sweetcorn, mushrooms and boiled potatototototoess

maameeo

i robbed food from my mammys and walked around to my house with a tower of lunch boxes and a carton of milk!

any single veggie chefs around?

Eviecus

Mmm that lasagne looks so good! I'm gonna try make a vegan one over the weekend! Found some new melty cheesy sauce to make up and will try that!

Last night I had stew with lots of barley & lentils, peppers, potatoes, onions, carrots, broccoli...parsnips...think that's everything... :pac: Oh and some home made bread with seedy goodness in it.

I had sweetpotato, chickpea and spinach curry, with basmati and naan.

Sapsorrow

me n my boyfriend had a whole loaf of rye sourdough with hazelnuts topped with my homemade bread and butter pickles and courgette and tomato chutney. Was to lazy to make a proper dinner n felt really ill after all the bread!

Sapsorrow

oh ya and a bottle of my freshly racked off apple and elderflower wine

DonnieScribbles

Here is the re-heated tofu and cauliflower curry I made the other day. A night in the fridge made it taste better!

Apple and Elderflower wine sounds nice! My parents made plum wine once, though I think I was too young at the time to taste it :pac:

khrystyna100

khrystyna100 wrote: »

me n my boyfriend had a whole loaf of rye sourdough with hazelnuts topped with my homemade bread and butter pickles and courgette and tomato chutney. Was to lazy to make a proper dinner n felt really ill after all the bread!

Droolllllllzzzz...........Hurry up picnic!!!

I was sick yesterday...so a bottle of flat 7up and some rice cakes was it.
Back to the Halloumi and asparagus salad today.

Sapsorrow

Moonbaby wrote: »

Droolllllllzzzz...........Hurry up picnic!!!

I was sick yesterday...so a bottle of flat 7up and some rice cakes was it.
Back to the Halloumi and asparagus salad today.

Jesus you poor thing! You better today?

khrystyna100

khrystyna100 wrote: »

Jesus you poor thing! You better today?

Yep Flat 7up is magic stuff altogether.

So about these bread and butter pickles. There are more yeah? :pac:

Sapsorrow

Having friends out for dinner tonight so on the menu is:

Chickpea, sweetpotato and carrot madras with basmati rice
nann breads
Lime pickle
Homemade sweet cucumber pickle
Homemade tomato and courgette chutney
Raiti with homegrown cucumbers, fresh mint and corriander and vegan yoghurt
Leafy green salad from my garden
And of course lots of my new apple n elderflower homebrew (again...)

Sapsorrow

Moonbaby wrote: »

So about these bread and butter pickles. There are more yeah? :pac:

Lol ya lots don't ye be worryin bout that! They're amazin on veggie burgers had that last night for dinner (de linda mcCartny ones are amazing!)

DonnieScribbles

I'm bringing this thread back, because it's cool... and also because I made a really good curry today, one of my best ever I think and I'm pleased with myself :pac:



Cauliflower, potato, cabbage, red pepper in coconut milk, red thai curry paste, garlic and an assortment of spices! It was lovely...

Jim

While not a vegetarian myself I'm slowly adapting my cooking to eventually cut out meat.

Last night I made a delicious Lential Tikka Masalla. nyomnyomnyom.

Yehay! I like this thread.
I'm being given a new camera thingy this week. So I shall contribute properly then.

Tonight I had Mixed veg satay with beancurd, on noodles. From my local chinese.
Yes the back end of beyond now has a chinese!!! :D:D

Northsider09

Oh I'm drooling reading all these lovely dinner ideas:)

I'm definitely going to try the lentil lasagne this weekend - any heads up on the best "cheese" sauce to top it off with???

Tonight I was a total lazy cow and had a Blazing Salad's "Carribean Stew" accompanied by one of their fab Lentil Burgers, yummy yummy:D

And then I had some jaffa cakes (the Jacobs ones) which I recently found out on this site are veggie (and no dairy which is so important to me as I'm dairy intolerant)

DonnieScribbles

Jim wrote: »

Last night I made a delicious Lential Tikka Masalla. nyomnyomnyom.

Sounds interesting, how did you make it? I put lentils in my curries but they generally just add to the consistency or disintegrate altogether...

Tar.Aldarion

mushrooms peas carrots veggie mince and chips. :P

Jim

DonnieScribbles wrote: »

Sounds interesting, how did you make it? I put lentils in my curries but they generally just add to the consistency or disintegrate altogether...

I've tried making my own sauce a couple of times but it ended up being a complete disaster. I got the sauce at Tesco I think and its completly free of all meat/dairy/allergens (can't remember the name of it off hand). I usually just fry garlic, onions and mix veg and then add in loads of green lentils (maybe you used red lentils? iirc they tend to just pureé into a paste) and then add the sauce. Then add random spices etc. Simple enough.

DonnieScribbles

It was probably the Meridian Free From sauce that you were using, think I tried it once. Meridian stuff is usually good.
Yeah, I always use red lentils because they cook quicker and I'm impatient! They are quite good for bulking out the sauce though, especially if I've put in too much coconut milk or tomatoes... I might try green or brown lentils next time though for a more obviously lentil-y curry!

Gauge

Puy lentils are gorgeous in curry. Lovely texture and they taste YUM. I want some now...

I had quinoa and black beans for dinner last night. One of my favourites. I can't stop stealing spoonfuls of it while it's cooking...

DonnieScribbles

Oh, puy lentils! I had them in a soup once and they were lovely, must take note to buy some :pac:
Thanks for that link, might give it a go sometime. Have you ever noticed that if you stir garlic into quinoa the garlic turns blue?? Unless it just happens to me for some reason! Either way, it's quite fun eating blue garlic...

watna

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I'm not a veggie - I'd like to be but to be perfectly honest, I just like the taste of meat too much. I do try and restrict my meat intake though and we have veggie meals every second night, I'm always looking for nice veggie recipes!

Do any of you guys make homemade veggie burgers? Would love a good recipe.

DonnieScribbles

watna wrote: »

Do any of you guys make homemade veggie burgers? Would love a good recipe.

There's a thread about veggie burgers here:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055341890

They are a tricky one though! I can't remember ever successfully making veggie burgers Must try harder!

Shenshen

Egg fried rice with spring rolls.
Easy, quick and yummy indeed.

watna

watna wrote: »

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I'm not a veggie - I'd like to be but to be perfectly honest, I just like the taste of meat too much. I do try and restrict my meat intake though and we have veggie meals every second night, I'm always looking for nice veggie recipes!

Do any of you guys make homemade veggie burgers? Would love a good recipe.

Nice to see you here wattie!
You can give us vicarious cake thrills!:D

I had cheesy leek pasta yesterday. No idea what I'm gonna have today.....I have some of that Basil flavoured tofu in the fridge....

DonnieScribbles

Sweet Potatoe Soup! It's great. I had a fear of making my own soup for a while but I think I just got over it. It's based on this recipe that I handily came across after buying a bag of sweet potatoes. It's veganised though, olive oil instead of butter. I also omitted the onions and put some cumin and cayenne in there for more spicy-ness

Moonbaby wrote: »

I have some of that Basil flavoured tofu in the fridge....

Is that the Taifun stuff? I do like it in a sandwich, tis nice.

That is the stuff alright. I wouldn't have thought to put that in a sammich.
Soup looks delish.

Gauge

I had quorn chicken pieces/onion/pepper/yoghurt in a tortilla wrap with yoghurt... boring but easy to cook. Tomorrow my (carnivorious!) mum is coming to visit and I'm making her chickpea curry with bombay aloo- she liked it so much the last time she asked me to make it again Can't wait, I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.

LRN

I made a lentil quiche.. very good (and healthy)! Lentils, veggies, cheese, egg.. mmmm..
The recipe can be found here, if anyone is interested -- it's inexpensive, super easy, and tastes good as leftovers!
I would recommend squeezing the tomatoes before you throw 'em in, as they increase the 'wetness' factor of the quiche. Would also be good to add another half cup of cheese on top (but then again I could never get enough cheese). I used cheddar and it turned out great.. I also subbed in bell pepper for the broccoli.
It would also be a really filling meal if a crust were added.

LRN

DonnieScribbles wrote: »

Sweet Potatoe Soup! It's great. I had a fear of making my own soup for a while but I think I just got over it. It's based on this recipe that I handily came across after buying a bag of sweet potatoes. It's veganised though, olive oil instead of butter. I also omitted the onions and put some cumin and cayenne in there for more spicy-ness

Where did you pick up your sweet potatoes?

Does anyone know if they're available at Dunnes? I haven't seen them.. but considering that I haven't really looked all that hard, it's no surprise.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Tesco do them, they're super cheap as well

DonnieScribbles

Yep, Tesco's where I got mine. €1.89 or €1.39 depending on which bag you get.
Not sure if Dunnes have them. I'd say the Terryland branch probably does, Edward Square's veg selection seems a bit hit and miss. Assuming you're looking in Galway that is!
But definitely make that soup if you pick some up! Best thing that happened to me... all week :P

LRN

Excellent, thanks!

maameeo

Moonbaby wrote: »

I have 50 sqillion heads of lettuce right now. My garden went beserk when I was away on holiday.

So it will salad till autumn for me I think.

Today was salad with grilled asparagus and halloumi.

Lunch was brie and grilled peaches on rice cakes.

I also found those veggie gummy strawberries Mameoo recommended.
Dey was good.

yeay nom nom nom, i want them now!

maameeo

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

mushrooms peas carrots veggie mince and chips. :P

this dish sounds interesting, any sauce?

Tar.Aldarion

Sometimes I partake of a brown sauce, I must show you it some time, if I ever eat that meal again, unlikely eh :P

maameeo

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Sometimes I partake of a brown sauce, I must show you it some time, if I ever eat that meal again, unlikely eh :P

sounds like a special occasion meal tbh

Tar.Aldarion

One day somebody will be lucky enought to be cooked it by me, wowee!

maameeo

maybe if i have a meet up you can make us some

eh wowee?? (i worry sometimes )

Tar.Aldarion

woweeee, god you enver stop talking

maameeo

*never

iv been away from boards too long, gimme a break!

anyways, last night for dinner i had a cheese roll in a boulangerie in paris