Ensalada de habas frescas con papas

Hace unos días hice esta deliciosa ensalada de habas frescas con papas, lechuga, apio, jitomate deshidratado, albahaca fresca y seca, pimienta, hojuelas de chile, aceite de oliva (en el que venían los jitomates) y vinagre de manzana. Fresco y rico a la vez. Si la quieres más tibia, puedes prepararla mientras las papas y las habas siguen calientitas, y omitir la lechuga (a menos de que te guste la lechuga entristecida...).

Curried Chick Peas and Dahl

From PETA's website. You can find the original recipe here. 


I didn't have any orange juice concentrate, so I skipped that, and used less tomato just because I had some sauce left over from the stuffed peppers I made last night (recipe here). I added a bunch of other veggies I had in the fridge, like green beans, carrots and bell peppers, the last two mostly for the color. A *very* modified recipe, but it gives me the chance to link to PETA.  :)


The millet I made as homework for my Vegan Mastery Program. First time ever, and I overcooked it, but loved it nonetheless. 


Beautiful pottery, isn't it? It's by Adriana Serdán (website).

Leche de soya (¡y okara!)

Mis queridos maestros de cocina vegetariana y vegana, Pavol y Oscar, de Sukabumi, comida consciente, me dieron amable permiso de ligar esta entrada a su página, donde tienen la receta que yo uso. Píquenle aquí para experimentar la transformación de la soya más sublime que hayan conocido. ¡Salud!

La famosísima okara, de cerquitita.

Garbanzo and cilantro croquettes

I got the recipe from my friend Lee's Vegaloca blog. You can see her original recipe here. I made some modifications mostly because I didn't have all the ingredients. Firstly, and very importantly, I didn't use black eyed peas, but garbanzos soaked overnight and cooked this morning. I had no carrots, so I used some zucchini instead. I found that the garbanzos absorbed moisture, so I only added half the flour called for in Lee's recipe. I fried the first batch; for the following batches, I just added a little bit of oil and cooked them that way. 


The spunky taste combination of cilantro and onion is amazing. As I may have mentioned before, I'm a ketchup fiend, and this time was no exception. Yum, Lee, this was a great idea!!! 


(I may very well eat some of the uncooked leftovers raw with some lime juice and finely diced chili peppers!)  

Top 7 things I learned by doing Vegan MoFo/ Las 7 cosas que aprendí al participar en Vegan MoFo

English:

1. I have a rather short attention span.

2. What IS tempeh? 

3. I suffer from a serious lack of pretty serving platters. 

4. I don’t have nearly as many good cookbooks as I thought I did. In fact, I have... two.

5. This takes time to plan, time to execute, time to document and time to upload! HUGE production, Vegan MoFo.

6. Really cool people are doing this.

And finally...

7. Now I want every month to be November!   


Thank you, everybody, and hope to be reading you soon!


Y en español: 

1. Tengo un poder de concentración minúsculo.

2. ¿QUÉ es el tempe?

3. Padezco una seria escasez de platos para servir bonitos.

4. No tengo ni la mitad de los (buenos) libros de cocina que creía tener. Es más, tengo... dos.

5. ¡Esto toma tiempo de planeación, ejecución, documentación y "blogeo"! Qué MEGA producción, el Vegan MoFo.

6. Es gente muy chida/chévere/padre la que hace esto.

Y finalmente...

7. ¡Ya quiero que todos los meses sean noviembre!   

¡Gracias a todos, y espero que nos leamos pronto!

Vegan MoFo 2010: Ensalada de huevo sin huevo

Dejé lo mejor para el final. Esta receta, del libro (¿lo tengo que decir?) Vegan World Fusion Cuisine, es mi favorita del libro. Cada que la llevo a alguna fiesta, es un éxito inmediato y siempre provoca la misma respuesta: "No sé qué sea, ¡pero está delicioso!" La hago con ocara (pulpa de soya) en lugar de tofu, y he descubierto que me gusta con el doble de mayonesa vegana (viene una receta en el libro) y vinagre.

Y lo que sobre es un delicioso tentempié, en una rebanada de pan:

¡Que lo disfruten!

Vegan MoFo 2010: Amaya's Egoless Egg-Free Salad

I've saved the best to last. This recipe, from (do I even have to say it?) Vegan World Fusion Cuisine, is my all-time favorite from this book. Whenever I bring this dish to parties, it is an immediate success, and always elicits the same response: "I don't know what it is, but it's delicious!" I use okara (soy pulp) instead of tofu, and find that I like it better with twice as much veggie mayonnaise (recipe in this book, too) and vinegar.

And whatever is left over makes a good snack, on toast:

Enjoy!