Friday 21 September 2018

VeganMoFo 2018 #21: Menu: Greek To Me And You from Veganomicon

This is the second time I've made the main part of the menu, but I hadn't properly documented the individual elements so I wanted to make it again. I knew it was going to be good! The book of course, is the famous Veganomicon, by Isa Chandra and Terry Hope Romero. I have the original edition, but they have also released an updated and revised 10th Annicersary edition. You can see other things I have made from Vcon here. On with the menu!

The menus are set out with a combination of three to four dishes to make up your main plate, then they also have a suggested soup and dessert. I didn't make the soup with this menu, but I had made it previously. I swear I had already blogged it, but I cannot find the post to link to so I shall include it here.

French Lentil Soup with Tarragon and Thyme: This filling soup will serve four as a main. It is full of lentils, carrot, onion, tomatoes, paprika, and - of course, tarragon and thyme. This uses the dry herbs, making it very pantry friendly. Apologies for the photos, according to my records I made this 10 years ago (!!!), when I apparently thought plonking a bowl on top of the TV guide on the table and having people's feet in the background was fine.
Rating: :)

French Lentil Soup


Now, on with the recently made actual menu! Which is made up of three parts.

Lemony Roasted Potatoes: Because I get lazy sometimes, I did not peel the potatoes and these turned out 100% fine! Wedges of potato are bathed in olive oil, garlic, broth, and lots and lots of lemon juice before being baked. I did need to turn up the temperature a bit during the baking, and bake them for a bit longer.
Rating: :)

Lemony Roasted Potatoes


Easy Stir-Fried Leafy Greens: This is a base recipe that you can use for any sort of green. For this menu, it suggests a blend of dandelion and kale. I can't get dandelion leaves here, so I went with all kale. I just tore up the kale, rather than slice it up. It has an Asian flare, with ginger, garlic, rice wine, soy, and sesame oil (I did not use the chile oil option), but it goes well with pretty much everything. I've also included a photo of an earlier time when I made it with baby bok choy.
Rating: :)

Easy Stir-Fried Leafy Greens (Kale)


Easy Stir-Fried Leafy Greens


Mediterranean-Style Baked Lima Beans: I love these huge, creamy beans. You need to start from scratch with dried beans for this recipe. They are soaked, simmered, sauced, and baked. The sauce is tomato based, with some onion and carrot and a range of different seasonings. It all comes together for a beautiful flavour.
Rating: :)

Mediterranean-Style Lima Beans


Everything together!

Greek To Me and You Menu


Lemon Bars: I made a half recipe of this, in an 8x8 inch pan, lined with baking paper. The filling in this uses agar flakes, and sets up really well for slicing. I only needed about 7 minutes instead of 10 for my agar to dissolve. The full recipe, using a 9x13 inch pan, says it makes 12 bars. As you can see, I cut six bars from my half recipe and they are HUGE! But they are lovely and tangy. As a note, this recipe is identical to the one that appears in Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Bars (except they have reduced the size of the servings by cutting it into more bars in that one).
Rating: :)

Lemon Bars


Cute Kitty Photo of the Post

Dim Sim and Sahara


Sometimes Dim Sim is willing to ignore proximity if there is sunshine involved.

12 comments:

  1. The lemony Greek potatoes are my favorite recipe from that book! Well, that an the lentil Joe's. I've made both recipes so much I have them memorized!
    Ha, Dim Sim made sure she had most of the sun!

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    1. I remembered that you loved them as I was making them. :)

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  2. That's hilarious about the TV Guide/foot photo. I totally know what you mean. When I look back at some of the really old pictures on my blog, I have to cringe. I used to looooove that lemony roasted potatoes recipe. I should make that one again.

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    1. I am hardly a great photographer now, but at least I know that you shouldn't have feet in the photo!! Looking back is funny.

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  3. Glad your photography skills have improved! No more feet and tv guides for you! lol

    This looks yummy, but doesn't scream Greek to me. Very odd name. I guess the beans are the most Greek. I also think they looked the yummiest.

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    1. It is odd that this is the Greek menu. I too assume the beans, but also I am guessing the lemon? I know there is a Greek soup that has a lot of lemon in it.

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  4. The lemon potatoes look great, and the lemon bars sound like such a delicious treat! More sunshine kitties, hooray!

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  5. This menu sounds so good, especially the potatoes and those lemon bars, wow. (Your comment about feet in photos made me laugh. It can be hard to get a good/appetising picture when you really just want to start eating ASAP!)

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    1. Haha, yes. Back in the day I thought nothing of background, I just wanted to get to my food!

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  6. This post inspired me to make this menu! I didn't make the soup or the lemon bars, just the beans, greens and lemony potatoes. OMG those potatoes!! Best potatoes ever!!

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  7. I should also say that I used the last of my oregano in the potatoes, and subbed in dill in the beans. It was SO good - I want to always use dill now!! (although I should probably try the original recipe at least once...)

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