Home cookin' last month.

Yep, it's been a long time... there's quite a build up of food pictures that need to get off my phone! Seems I was cooking some yummy stuff at home last month... The last few weeks have been a bit of a take-away binge (which will follow, no doubt).

Chilli lime tofu from Vegan Yum Yum, served on brown rice with garlic sesame Chinese broccoli and snow peas.

PASTA! I rarely make pasta. This was linguini with a napoli sauce of onion, garlic, fresh tomatoes, tinned tomatoes, veggie stock, tomato paste, fresh basil, dried oregano, kalamata olives, salt, pepper and chilli flakes. Served with fried broccolini topped with toasted sunflower and pepita seeds.

Felafel wraps - store-bought Yumis felafel balls on Lebanese bread with mixed lettuce greens, tomato, Spanish onion, hummus and chilli sauce.

LAZY dinner - store-bought Tasty Bite chickpea masala on brown rice with steamed greens and chopped cucumber. You heat the curry sachet IN the same boiling water as the rice... while the greens microwave... too easy not to.

Rice paper rolls.

Dragon bowls.

Barbequed marinated tofu steaks (mumma's secret smokey recipe!) with garlic mushies, fresh corn and a mango, avo and pomegranate salad.

The first time I ever made pancakes from scratch! I'm a Vegemite addict so sweet breakfasts have never tempted me. However, a HUGE $1 bag of ripe bananas meant banana topped banana pancakes (with strawberry jam).

SURPRISE! My current favourite - toor dal on basmati rice with store-bought garlic naan.

Home cooking this week.

Dragon bowls! A summer standard on the weekly rotation. Base of quinoa, mixed lettuce leaves and baby spinach, fresh grated beetroot and carrot, chilli and soy fried tofu cubes, crunchy combo and alfalfa sprouts topped with an orange, ginger and miso dressing! This recipe is an old housemates and I thank her every day :)

My house mate Tess is an ice cream master. This was dark chocolate and fresh banana made on almond milk with agave. Basically a frozen smoothie of delicious. Next she made bounty! Dark chocolate with toasted coconut and it did not last long.

My life changed a few weeks ago when I saw the most GENIUS thing ever on Instagram. I love the flavour of hard tacos but am normally outvoted because they're hard to eat. We end up doing burritos instead. THEN, genius. A guy glued a hard taco shell inside a soft taco shell with refried beans! So you have the flavour of hard taco inside a tidy soft taco and oh my god. I made a TPV spiced taco filling (first time cooking with TVP, will stick to black beans next time...) Served with shredded lettuce, diced tomatoes, fresh made guac, jalapenos and tomatillo sauce (Mission brand from grocery store). You guys, do this.

Summer nights after work = quick felafel bowls. Mixed lettuce, diced tomatoes, Spanish onion, kalamata olives, cucumber, crunchy combo and alfalfa sprouts topped with fried Yumi's sesame felafel balls, hummus, fresh squeezed lemon and chilli flakes.

Made an old favourite - black pepper tofu! Served with brown rice and sesame fried greens. I was on the phone to my mum while cooking this which resulted in me forgetting the black pepper! I realised just after this picture was taken and ground up copious amounts onto the dish. So tasty, so moreish.

Indian pot luck.

After years of talking about doing a pot luck we finally made it happen. VEGAN INDIAN POT LUCK. It was a raging success with so many delicious noms. I made my new favourite - toor dal. I also put on a lot of basmati rice and papadums. Jeff cashed in at the Indian grocer and got three types of delicious roti - chilli, spinach and garlic. He also grabbed some lentil and potato stuffed pani puri which we baked instead of deep fried. Ellen and Chris brought the tastiest channa masala, spiced potato patties and salad. Finished the meal with a very non-Indian Tofutti neapolitan ice cream sandwiches. We spent a lot of the night talking about the next pot luck, I'm thinking Thai!

Another week of rabbit food.

I'm going to start actually posting my dining out food separately to eating in food. This is an attempt to make post navigation easier (for myself!)

Things I made all by myself this week.

Sausage hot pot - onion, garlic, thyme, oregano, tinned tomato, tomato paste, veggie stock, grilled veggie sausages, salt and pepper. Served with mash and greens. AKA comfort in a bowl.

Nachos - the cure of all hangovers. Corn chips, guac (avo, paprika, fresh squeezed lemon, salt, pepper and chilli), Tofutti soy sour cream, fresh diced tomatoes, sweet chilli sauce and shallots.

 Bangers and mash with steamed greens and onion gravy.

 

Breakfast of champions - rice cakes with avo, lemon, salt and pepper. Rice cakes with Tofutti Better Than Cream Cheese, tomato, lemon, salt and pepper. Chai tea.

Picnic times. Crunchy bread, crunchy chips, pumpkin and basil dip, hummus, Sicilian olives (my FAVE), fancy native olives, cherry tomatoes and plums.