Whatcha Makin'??

[silva]

I made eggless ribbon noodles from Walmart with an onion gravy, spinach, and peas, zucchini on the side.
I tried to make it oil free . I dry fried the onions, blended whole wheat flour, thyme, sage, garlic powder with water and mixed till thick. It was sooooo oil free, just- mleahbbbbbb.
So I added a couple spoons of Just Mayo, and it was delicious

 

[silva]

oh--yesterday I opened a can of butter beans. They are NOT like the gigande beans I had from the olive bar! Butter beans actually taste like exploded lima beans. They have a sort of mealy texture, are big but rather thin. The gigande beans were a bit larger, but a lot fatter, with a dense and creamy inside.
I know fresh cooked would be different, and the gigande were marinated, but even taking that into account, these are two different beans.
I do not like butter beans

 

[Skylark]

Thes are some of the upcycled bracelets I have been making.

 

[MadamSarcastra]

This will be continued tomorrow... it's already after 8:30 PM....

Was thinking about what to make because I now have a sh*t-ton of lentils. I already have more than half of a huge onion & plenty of baby kale.... I was just gonna buy one carton of veggie broth, I looked on the bottom shelf & saw cartons of soup, one of them being roasted garlic/mushroom/lentil. "Oooh! Yeah, I'll make something like that!" In fact, I'm gonna roast the largest of my red peppers along with the bulb of garlic. I'll just do that tonight & start on the soup tomorrow... there's too much to prep & no time to do it.

At least it's a very cool day to use the oven... and the kitchen's gonna smell awesome!

 

[silva]

I made black bean brownies- secret truly is to use chocolate chips. When you don't bite into a chip you taste black beans

Made a black bean salad. Celery, cukes, peppers, corn, black beans. A drizzle of balsamic.

 

[Skylark]

I made black bean brownies- secret truly is to use chocolate chips. When you don't bite into a chip you taste black beans

Good call! I am planning to make vegan brownies for my church’s bake sale/garage sale next year after seeing the popularity of the non-vegan brownies this year.

Did you melt the chocolate chips and mix the liquid into the brownie batter?

 

[silva]

Good call! I am planning to make vegan brownies for my church’s bake sale/garage sale next year after seeing the popularity of the non-vegan brownies this year.

Did you melt the chocolate chips and mix the liquid into the brownie batter?

Black Bean Brownies - (No Flour Required!)
I used this recipe, using date syrup rather than maple. I've been making date syrup with a cup of dates, cup of water blended. I used a bit over what it called for. I also added chopped walnuts, and should have used more chips! She says " omit at your own risk". They are good, but really, when you don't get a chip, you taste black beans!

She has a blondie recipe using garbanzos I'd like to try next

 

[Skylark]

Black Bean Brownies - (No Flour Required!)
I used this recipe, using date syrup rather than maple. I've been making date syrup with a cup of dates, cup of water blended. I used a bit over what it called for. I also added chopped walnuts, and should have used more chips! She says " omit at your own risk". They are good, but really, when you don't get a chip, you taste black beans!

She has a blondie recipe using garbanzos I'd like to try next

Ooooh thank you!!!

 

[MadamSarcastra]

Black Bean Brownies - (No Flour Required!)
I used this recipe, using date syrup rather than maple. I've been making date syrup with a cup of dates, cup of water blended. I used a bit over what it called for. I also added chopped walnuts, and should have used more chips! She says " omit at your own risk". They are good, but really, when you don't get a chip, you taste black beans!

Is there room for adding unsweetened cocoa powder? That could help to boost the chocolate flavor if you want to keep the chips whole....

 

[silva]

Is there room for adding unsweetened cocoa powder? That could help to boost the chocolate flavor if you want to keep the chips whole....

Oh yeah, you add cocoa. The chocolate chips are stirred at the end.
It's a really simple recipe, using a food processor

 

[MadamSarcastra]

Continuing from yesterday... makin' green lentil soup with mushrooms, roasted garlic & roasted red pepper....

Got the garlic & pepper-roasting taken care of last night... I'll purée those & add them in when the time is right.



I've got two cups of lentils & a bay leaf simmering in a little over one quart of low-salt veggie broth (I have another carton, can add more if need be)... that's gonna be about 30 minutes....

Meanwhile, I'll chop onion, scrub & slice mushrooms, etc.... But I only have one working burner, so I'll need to put the lentils aside long enough to sauté the other stuff.... Then everybody gets to play nice together!

 

[Val]

Continuing from yesterday... makin' green lentil soup with mushrooms, roasted garlic & roasted red pepper....

Got the garlic & pepper-roasting taken care of last night... I'll purée those & add them in when the time is right.

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I've got two cups of lentils & a bay leaf simmering in a little over two quarts of low-salt veggie broth (I have another carton, can add more if need be)... that's gonna be about 30 minutes....

Meanwhile, I'll chop onion, scrub & slice mushrooms, etc.... But I only have one working burner, so I'll need to put the lentils aside long enough to sauté the other stuff.... Then everybody gets to play nice together!

Wow! Never seen garlic roasted like this, in its husk...

 

[MadamSarcastra]

Wow! Never seen garlic roasted like this, in its husk...

I've dry-roasted it (to put in a grinder for my own roasted garlic powder), I've roasted the individual cloves in olive oil as well... but this is the easiest, requires very little attention... hack the top off the head (LOL), almost half-way, put cut-side up in a small baking dish, drizzle with evoo, & bake....

And then, when the bulb is cool, just squeeze, and out pops the garlic!

And of course I saved the top of the bulb I cut off... I'll sauté those bits with the onion & mushrooms.

 

[PTree15]

oh--yesterday I opened a can of butter beans. They are NOT like the gigande beans I had from the olive bar! Butter beans actually taste like exploded lima beans. They have a sort of mealy texture, are big but rather thin. The gigande beans were a bit larger, but a lot fatter, with a dense and creamy inside.
I know fresh cooked would be different, and the gigande were marinated, but even taking that into account, these are two different beans.
I do not like butter beans

I loathe lima beans, so I have always avoided butter beans.

 

[Skylark]

I loathe lima beans, so I have always avoided butter beans.

IMO butter beans and limas are very different, but I do like both.

 

[silva]

Oh darn! I was just at the store that has the marinated gigande beans on the olive bar! I wanted to try them again!
I thought butter beans tasted different from limas, but the ones in that can didn't! they tasted like limas but bigger and more lima taste!

 

[MadamSarcastra]

Mmmm, vegan broccoli-cheese potato skins!

Pre-baked the naked skins like I'm supposed to....




And the last couple times I made these, I've just combined all the filling ingredients... works wonderfully. It's a mix of chopped broccoli, diced onion, Daiya cheddar-shreds (chopped finer), a little walnut-parm, extra nooch, and a couple scoops of my (thawed) "pub cheese"....




They're in the oven a second time, and my god, the smell is maddening!

 

[Skylark]

We’ll see if this quidditch snitch sells.

 

[MadamSarcastra]

Happy accident/experiment, new condiment! I knew the "kale-antro" pesto was too thick to put on hard shell tacos... and I still had the Tofitti non-dairy sour cream... plus I got Just Ranch last night (still out of Teta so I couldn't make my own)....
I mixed some of all three together & WOW!! Score!

The taco filling, I know, is already going to be good.... that lentil soup is very tasty, and I scooped some out with a slotted spoon to add to already-cooked (in low-salt veggie broth) quinoa....

Just chopped a little bit of fresh onion & sliced four lovely golden grape tomatoes for toppings.... I'm gonna drink a beer & make some tacos!

 

[Val]

Making a biryany curry with red rice.