Today is the first day of my ExtraVeganza pilot. Please check out my introduction post if you’re hearing about this for the first time!
Although I actually started this morning, tonight is the official kick-off of “Gnoe’s Vegan Adventures” with Happy Herbi’s Eat Good, Feel Good workshop. Under Daphne’s guidance we’ll be cooking and eating a 100% plant-based dinner. Like you, I have no idea yet what it’s going to be! Be patient and I’ll tell you about it tomorrow.
I didn’t get all the ‘necessary’ preparations done for this project. I desperately need to organize my ExtraVeganza tab in Netvibes to make searching for vegan recipes as easy as possible. There’s still menu planning going on and I’m in the process of making ‘breakfast’ and ‘lunch’ lists with options to pick from. But here’s today’s menu so far.
Menu
Breakfast: porridge with ‘Oat Dream’ milk
Lunch: Experimental Bento #129
Dinner: Happy Herbi’s surprise dinner
As might be expected the oat milk went pretty well with the oats in the gruel. I did use some artificial sweetener, which of course obscures the pure taste a little.
Experimental Bento (#129)
This ExtraVeganza! Kick-off Bento is pretty experimental — not because it’s vegan (I’ve had more of those, i.e. #128, #125, #121, #111, #78), but with all other sort of new things I’m trying.
I’ve never had frozen fruit before (‘mixed forest fruit’), finally cooked up those soy beans I bought in a whim AGES ago and put them in a veggie stir-fry (with leek, cauliflower, carrot, shallot, mushrooms, courgette, garlic and fresh ginger), and tried two new Japanese recipes from The Vegetarian Table cookbook I spoke about earlier this week: rice patties (made of leftovers) and a spicy soy-lemon sauce. The sauce was a bit too strong for the patties, overwhelming their subtle taste. I’m in a hurry now (I have to leave for the Eat Good, Feel Good workshop) so I’ll need get back to you about the recipe!
Other goodies in my vegan bento: gherkin, pickled ginger, mustard cress and pecans.
That’s it for today, see you tomorrow!
Graasland 
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donderdag 27 januari 2011 bij 16:19
Uniflame
I am curious about the rice patties recipe :) So I will be coming back for that ^^
vrijdag 28 januari 2011 bij 19:39
Bek
I have the same pink hart shaped cups and I do put frozen raspberries and blueberries in it for my bento too. Jinx!
Bought the pink cups and the berries at Albert Heijn. Bet you do also…
zaterdag 29 januari 2011 bij 11:12
Chinoiseries
Bento may be experimental but it looks good! Those rice patties I’d gladly eat even without a dressing :) How did your workshop go?
zaterdag 29 januari 2011 bij 16:52
Gnoe
@Uniflame: I hope to post about them soon! There’s just so little time in a day… :\
@Bek: You’re absolutely right! Scored the heart-shaped cups at AH around Valentine’s Day — which is almost coming up again btw ;)
@Chinoiseries: The patties were a bit dry without a dressing but they might not be when you eat them right from the skillet. My draft of a post about the workshop is almost done!
zaterdag 29 januari 2011 bij 17:27
ExtraVeganza! Day 2 ~ About Snacks and Fastfood « Graasland
[…] Slices of Taifun almond-sesame smoked tofu with tomato, mustard, capers and fresh herbs (thyme & parsley). The mustard was a bit too sharp, overwhelming the tofu. But it was funny to notice this combination tasted slightly Japanese! It was the tamari soy sauce and sesame of the smoked tofu combined with the bite of the mustard and ‘pickled’ capers. Still, next time I will use some other toppings, like the leftover spicy soy-lemon sauce from my Experimental Bento. […]
maandag 31 januari 2011 bij 00:01
Heather
Your lunch looks terrific. Great dishes by the way.