Creamy Curried Vegetables
Thursday, May 11th, 2006 by cyn
A super comfort-foody meal, which is the kind of meal I needed today. Spicy and creamy and yum.
A super comfort-foody meal, which is the kind of meal I needed today. Spicy and creamy and yum.
It’s like a muffin United Colors of Benetton ad around here. See how peacefully the coconut and pumpkin muffins are commingling? It’s a lesson to us all.
The theme of the muffins this week is “Let’s get rid of half-cans of stuff sitting around Cyn’s fridge, before they get all gross and moldy!” The coconut muffins are a remix of the cherry almond muffins. I used coconut milk instead of soy milk, as I had a half a can of it in my fridge, and then I put in a little less than a cup of some shaved coconut I had sitting around instead of the almonds. I was worried that my experiment would go hideously awry, but they turned out delish.
Then I made a half-batch of the pumpkin muffins to use up the pumpkin left over from the last pumpkin muffins. Yummy, and I have more room in the fridge, too!
Recipe for the Coconut Muffins can be found at here.
"Fettucine Alfreda" from Vegan with a Vengeance, except with orchiette instead of fettucine, and I added fake chicken strips to it. This seems more like mac and cheese than alfredo sauce to me, but it is mighty tasty, and perfect "God I'm going to die of hangover" food. (I had a sneaky hangover today - it wasn't so bad when I woke up (at noon), but then around 5 pm suddenly I had a huge headache and felt like I might boot and just generally wanted to die. But that might have just been the effects of studying for my statistics midterm. Then I went grocery shopping, which was less than fun. But then I went home and ate some soy jerky and some tofurkey deli slices and made dinner and ate dinner and felt a lot better.) Also, leftover salad. That salad has seen better days, my friends.
I did a crap ass job of "plating" this and got sauce everywhere.
Tonight I made the cauliflower to go with the samosas. It's the "Braised Cauliflower with 3 Seed Sauce" from Vegan with a Vengeance, and it's quite tasty. (The three seeds are fennel, mustard, and cumin.) Also, I feel better about my diet now that I actually have a vegetable going on. I like eating vegetables, but if I don't make a conscious effort, I will never ever make or eat them, and will end up living on pasta and tofu. (I've also been bringing a handful of berries with my lunch, in an effort to eat more fruit.) I had the mint-coconut chutney with two of the samosas, and leftover tahini sauce with the other two. Yum!
I totally left school early (5 pm) to make these samosas. Originally I planned to make the samosas and an indian cauliflower thing and have a whole indian meal going on, but once I started making the samosas I realized that was a crazy idea. These things took like, two hours to make. The recipe is "Potato-Edamame Samosas with Coconut-Mint Chutney" from Vegan with a Vengeance, except I didn't have enough normal flour for the dough, so I used two cups of white flour and one cup of wheat, plus wheat flour for when I rolled the dough out, and also I didn't peel the potatoes because, well, I forgot and also I'm lazy. Oh, and I couldn't find fresh coriander for the chutney, so I used dried instead. Despite all of this, the Samosas turned out super tasty, and because they're baked (and have whole wheat flour!) I don't even feel guilty eating them. These guys are super filling, though - I ate like, four and was totally stuffed.