Recipe Round-Up: Vegan Cooking For One

Vegan Cooking For One by Leah Leneman is one of my older cookbooks, but I have been trying to give them some love lately as well. It is pretty cute if you really are a vegan cooking for one, with weekly recipe plans and shopping lists so you can use up that whole tin of beans over the week in different ways. I have never followed a weekly meal plan though. Sometimes I cook just for one with it, other times I scale up recipes to serve a few or to have leftovers. I have found that a lot of the recipes are pretty substantially sized, so you may just get some leftovers regardless! You can see my previous round-ups here.

Peanut Buttery Stir-Fry: This is a pretty easy stir fry, with tofu, vegetables, and a nice savoury peanut butter sauce. As I was cooking for more than one, I quadrupled the recipe. I switched the vegetables a bit, using baby pak choy instead of the cabbage, adding some spinach for fun, and also some mushroom stems that needed using up. Rather than cooking the peanut sauce separately, I just blended everything up with my immersion blender and added it to the stir-fry at the end to heat up. This was very saucy, which made it excellent over rice.
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Nutty Plum Crumble: I like that this book has lots of single serving dessert recipes. This crumble was a bit of a miss though. In part because I think my plums were very tart, especially after cooking, and there is no sweetener added to the filling. I like tart, but this was a bit too much. The nutty crumble (which had oats and peanut butter in it), was nice but a bit dry. Ice cream was needed.
Rating: :|



Grilled (Broiled) Spiced Peach: This is cooked under the grill aka broiler for my US friends. Skinned peach is slived, sprinkled with sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg, and grilled/broiled until everything is super hot. It made a nice little snack. I served it with some Rice Soyatoo Whipped cream.
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Balkan Stew: This is a simple stew with lots of vegetables and served over brown rice. I used a zucchini in place of the capsicum. It wasn't so much a stew in the end, it needed a bit more liquid for that, but it was nice and satisfying.
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Curried Chick Pea and Sweetcorn Chowder: This uses some left over curried chickpeas from a previous recipe, blended with soy milk, water, and corn. It was okay, but lacking on its own. I think some chutney and flatbread would have improved it.
Rating: :|



Spaghetti Ticino: This is a filling and satisfying creamy pasta dish. The sauce is full of mushrooms, peas (instead of capsicum) and smokey bacon bits, and the spaghetti is tossed in margarine and nutritional yeast before serving as well. Yum.
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Cute Kitty Photo of the Post



The face of a stoic and sad cat, who is meanly not being let out in the catmax because it is time to go to bed.