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It’s World Animal Day today, coinciding with VeganMofo! Not only that, in the Netherlands it’s also unofficially “Don’t-Eat-Animals-Day”: EetGeenDierenDag. All Dutch are called to refrain from eating meat or fish today, even if it’s only for a single day in the year. If every inhabitant rose to this challenge, that would save 400.000 animals in JUST ONE DAY.*
So I hope all my fellow countrymen are joining! Several canteens from major companies will also only serve vegetarian food – yay! I wish they would do that every week for Meatless Monday though… There’s always a next step. ;)
I was too late in realising I should have invited a bunch of people for dinner and now I’m going out tonight. But I’m putting it in my calendar for next year, which will be a Friday!!! Nothing wrong with early planning. ;)
Back to the present. Here are the organic vegetables we scored in our CSA this week and the meals I plan to cook with it.
- Lollo rosso lettuce
- Carrots
- Runner beans
- Red mustard
- Corn cobs
- Celery
- Tomatoes
Menuplan Thursday October 4th (World Animal Day!) – Tuesday 9 th
I still had some carrots so they’re priority no.1! This is what I came up with. World cooking!
- Thai carrot soup, cumin bread (freezer stash) and salad.
- Indian saag (spinach), leftover dal tarka (lentils), basmati rice and papadums with chutney or soygurt-mint sauce.
- Turkish beans (taze fasulye), carrot-walnut salad with soygurt dressing (cevizli havuç salatasi) adapted from Lokanta cookbook and pide bread or a grain dish.
- Pasta avocado, peas and seaweed (instead of pickleweed) from Puur Plantaardig (p.82).
- I plan to make a dessert with some local pears that are ripe now — any suggestions?
- And with this week’s celery I finally hope to try my hand at some eggless salad.. Recipe recommendations much appreciated!
So, what will YOU be eating tonight?
Tonight I won’t be eating at home. I’m going to watch ‘Japalicious’ foodie films on the Camera Japan festival in Rotterdam: Eatrip (documentary) and Our Homeland (fiction). Alas, neither will be vegan but there is a Buddhist monk in the first one… And of course I won’t be eating animals today anyway! ;) On Saturday I’ll be going to the festival again, with Mr Gnoe and friends. Then we’ll be eating at a world restaurant, Bazar!
Any eggless salad recipe you can recommend? Or a pear dessert?
I’d love to hear it!
Last week’s menu is pimped with pictures, if you care to have a look.
* According to the host of EetGeenDierenDag, Wakker Dier.
I’ve got a lot of vegetables left over in my fridge, so it’s time for some serious menu planning!
Amelishof CSA vegetables week 43
Last week’s veggies:
- red Batavian lettuce
- cilantro
- pointed paprika
- (Batavian) endive
- leek
- celery
Amelishof CSA vegetables week 44
This week’s greens:
- pumpkin
- lollo bionda lettuce
- Elstar apples
- parsley
- kohlrabi
- green beans
Menu plan Wednesday November 2nd – Tuesday 8th
You’ll even find vegetables on the menu from my CSA loot further back!
- Wednesday: eating out with birthday boy @variomatic in Hotel de Goudfazant (Amsterdam)
- Thursday (Mr Gnoe’s piano night): leek-fennel soup (veganized version of Vega Gerechten p.134) & veggie dog with greens
- Friday: spicy sweet potato soup, chili con ‘carne’ tacos and fennel-orange salad with black olives (Vega Gerechten p.150 & 179)
- Saturday: Indonesian dinner! Osèng-osèng kohlrabi, sambal goreng tofu & green beans with white rice (Vegetarisch Indonesisch Kookboek p.50 & 94)
- Sunday (Dexter-5 Night with Elsje): garlic-Jerusalem artichoke soup, garlic or rosemary bread from Vlaams Broodhuys, 2 types of hummus (red beet & pumpkin), cooking pears and red beet salad with walnuts and balsamico (Vega Gerechten p.81, 61 & 188)
- Monday: Ethiopian lentil dish (cutting from Leven, lente 2011) with ‘faux sour creme‘ (La Dolce Vegan!), pita bread and kohlrabi salad (Groentegerechten p.32) OR Indonesian leftovers with nasi goreng
- Tuesday: eating @ mother-in-law’s
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