Recipe Round-Up: Vegan Cooking For One

It has been a while since I have posted a round-up, but now that my travels have calmed down for a bit it is time to get back into the cookbooks! Today's Vegan Cooking for One is an older book, and one that I don't use very often. It is actually quite clever, with weekly menus and shopping lists designed for the lone cook, so that you don't end up with odds and ends left over. The servings are often very generous. I have posted previous round-ups from this book here. The book is divided into summer/spring and winter/autumn recipes, all of these come from the latter.

Scrambled Tofu and Leek: This is a standard scramble recipe, with turmeric and mustard and soy, but I like the addition of the leeks. It is served with toast, which I made avocado toast because that is the best.
Rating: :)



Baked Maple Apple Halves: The book includes a Sunday dessert in each week's menu. This has only four ingredients, and smells lovely during baking (while it takes moments to assemble, it does need to bake for awhile). Servered here with some vanilla soy ice cream.
Rating: :)



Irish Stew with Frozen Tofu: This was a big serving, and very hot and satisfying. She uses yeast extract (aka Vegemite in this neck of the woods) for a lot of her stews, which lends a great savoury flavour. The tofu is frozen and then defrosted to give it a different texture. Plus, biscuits on top!
Rating: :)



Jambalaya: This was verging on meh, I have made much better versions of this recipe from other cookbooks. I subbed zucchini for green pepper here. It also had coconut and walnuts in it.
Rating: :|



Savoury Eggplant on Toast: This is one of the Sunday lunch recipes, and is a different take on savoury toppings for toast. It is quite simple, eggplants and onions sauteed and seasoned. I found that there was too much onion compared to the eggplant in this dish, you need to reverse the ratios.
Rating: :|



Tempeh and Sweet Corn Roast with Tahini/Mushroom Sauce: Another big and satisfying hot dinner. I needed to add a bit of extra tomato paste and water to the roast, otherwise the mix was a bit dry even before baking. The sauce was nice, I love tahini.
Rating: :)



Baked Pears: This is very simple and plane, literally just a pear roasted with some sugar, Nuttelex and ground ginger, but the result was nice. Definitely great served with ice cream.
Rating: :)



Noodles with Creamy Leek and Mushroom Sauce: The leeks and mushrooms were great in the sauce, but I had to thin it out with a fair bit of extra soymilk, otherwise it goes very gluggy and isn't at all suitable to mix through noodles.
Rating: :)



Millet and Vegetable Stew: Even though I decreased the millet from 1/2 cup to 1/3 cup, this isn't really a stew because it was not brothy at all. It was more like a pilaf-style dish, which was fine. It had miso and sage and veggies in it, so was tasty.
Rating: :)



Curried Chickpeas: This was OK, but there are much better curry recipes out there, that are not necessarily a lot more complicated than this one.
Rating: :|



Cute Kitty Photo of the Post



Here is a very sleepy kitten, all tucked in. He is actually sleeping on top of my laptop bag, which was on the bench at work, and then we tucked him in with a blanky.