Vegan MoFo Day 19: Lamey McLame Pants

Last night, I literally had about 30 minutes to get dinner cooked and in ma belleh. So I lamed out and cooked a frys chicken burger and some smash.

It was good because I love dirty food like that but it was so amazingly lame that I didn't bother taking a pic.

So salvation lies in an old photo of dinner from about a month ago.  I made the Portobello Feijoada from Viva Vegan.  I LOVE this book but I really haven't tried enough of the recipes yet.  I made this recipe a while ago when I had friends over for dinner and it went down really well.  So I'd been dreaming of it for a while.  I bought the dried beans, got the TVP chunks and even remembered to soak the beans overnight so I could crack on the next day.  It takes a while to make this dish but it is so worth it.

I served it over brown rice, with some diced avocado on top. I was gonna make guac but I literally had none of the ingredients to go in it, except the avo!  Rubbish.  It didn't matter, it was still great. 

This recipe makes LOADS and I didn't bother halving it this time, I just ate the leftovers for lunch for a few days.  So. Good.

Tonight I am cupcake making for a party, so hopefully I'll have pics of them for you tomorrow.

Happy Friday all!

Laterz
xXx

Vegan MoFo: 20 MoFo'ing posts!

I got to 20 MoFo posts! huzzah!! What the eff is goig on with blogger and the pictures - I've edited this bitch about 10 times and the pics still look funny! ah well.

I was planning to make canneloni tonight, but instead of being a good girl on my day off and doing housework and going to spinning class, I sat on my arse and watched Californication and Entourage instead. So I needed something that was a bit less of an effort for dinner.

I went for some tvp mince and mashed taters. Easy, quick and pretty good. I also learned that gravy browning has to be mixed with water first and can't just be sprinkled into to hot mince as you get gross brown lumps that you then have to spent 10 minutes picking out with a spatula if you do that! grr.

I had some buttercream left from the viennese whirls so I HAD to make some more biscuits! I used a recipe for shortbread that I found on get sconed, only I had to use 3 cups of flour not two - as it was way too soft to roll out. I think it's because the margarine I use is a lot softer so next time, I'm going to try cutting the margarine by a third and see if that helps.

I also added some lemon zest and lemon extract to the dough and cut them out as butterflies. I added some lemon zest to the buttercream and some ground ginger and sandwiched the biccies together. They are super YUMMO and were perfect with a coffee.

Cooking to: AC/DC - Black Ice (did I mention I got AC/DC tickets for April? HURRAAAHHH)