Wednesday 5 September 2018

VeganMofo 2018 #5: Recipe Round-Up: Quick-Fix Vegan


Time for another round-up from Quick-Fix Vegan, by Robin Robertson. This book is full of quick and easy recipes that take 30 minutes or less to make, and it is a book I highly recommend to anyone starting to dip their toe into vegan cooking. But it is a great book for anyone. You can see my other round-ups of it here.

Black Bean and Green Salsa Burritos: I used a bought Tomatillo salsa to make these, that sadly I no longer seem to be able to buy. It was super mild, and suited my sensitive palate. With mild in mind, I also left out the green chiles and only used a teeny sprinkle of chili powder in the beans. I wrapped it all up in some tortillas with some cheesy mayo (in lieu of sour cream), spinach, olives, and tomatoes.
Rating: :)

Black Bean and Green Salsa Burritos


Black Bean Sunburgers: These came together so easily, and held together really well. They have that slightly smooshy bean burger texture, but tasted great. I served mine on a bun with some mayo, spinach, ketchup, and cheesy sauce for a tasty lunch. I made a half batch of these, for two patties, as I had half a tin of black beans that I needed to use up. Excellent use of it.
Rating: :)

Black Bean Sunburgers


Vietnamese Tofu Wraps: The tofu is glazed in a lovely sauce of hoisin, soy, and a teeny little bit of sriracha, and is totally snackable! I managed to restrain myself so I had some left to make the wraps. They are quite filling, with mayo (goes really well with the sauce on the tofu), carrot, cucumber, and fresh coriander for freshness. I left out the bottled jalapenos.
Rating: :)

Vietnamese Tofu Wraps


Indian Shepherd's Pie: This staple is given a makeover, with a filling of kidney beans and vegetables with a tomato and coconut curry sauce. It has a lot of vegetables in it, which I really liked. The topping is made of a blend of mashed potato and cauliflower. This says it serves 4-6, though I didn't find it particularly filling. It should be noted that the casseroles take less than 30 minutes to prepare, but not including baking time, so you still need to leave some time before dinner to start making them.
Rating: :)

Indian Shepherd's Pie


Country Gravy with Bits of Onion: This is so quick and easy to make, and a good dark gravy. I used dark soy in mine, so it ended up a bit salty. If you do this, cut out the added salt). I also didn't have soy creamer, so just used some thinner oat milk. It still thickened up fine. Ready to pour all over potatoes or roast vegetables or whatever you wish.
Rating: :)

Country Gravy with Bits of Onions


Three-Nut Cheeze Whiz: Forgive the unassuming photo of this absolutely delicious sauce. It is so quick and easy to make, you are never far from a quick cheesy sauce for all your mac and cheese (or other) needs. It uses cashews and tahini (technically more of a seed than a nut?), as well as almond milk... though I strayed further from the nut theme by using oat milk. With a hefty dose of nutritional yeast, of course!
Rating: :D

Three-Nut Cheeze Whizz


Hoisin Peanut Sauce: Two of my favourite things! This is another quick recipe to tasty sauce land. So good for pouring over things, or it would also be great for dipping as well.
Rating: :)

Hoisin-Peanut Sauce


Cute Kitty Photo of the Post

Gizmo and Sahara


I have a lot of photos of Gizmo and Sahara near each other, they were super good friends. Here they are sleeping on my bed!

13 comments:

  1. Everything looks great; I guess this means there's another Robin Robertson cookbook I need to check out, haha! I haven't made any dark gravies, so I'd definitely love to try the country gravy!
    Gizmo and Sahara, what sweethearts! <3

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    1. They are so sweet together.
      I definitely recommend checking this book out, it has a lot of great and easy things in it.

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  2. Those wraps look amazing! And there is no way I could resist your gravy, salty or not.

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  3. Yum. That tofu wrap looks amazing.

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  4. You know I checked this book out from the library but I must not have made much from it because these all look outstanding! Especially the Vietnamese tofu wrap and the hoisin peanut sauce??? Yum two of my favorite things!
    I'm loving the sweet picture of Gizmo and Sahara!!!

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    1. I've had this for ages, but I still like going through it and finding new things to try.

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  5. I need that gravy in my life!!!!

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  6. Holy crap!! I signed up for Mofo and just now remembered! Ha!

    Anyway, everything here looks amazing, and I'm now reminded that I need to break out Quick-Fix Vegan!!

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    1. Haha, time goes too quickly. How are we already into September?

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  7. That Indian pot pie looks super yummy!

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