non vegan making vegan dinner
hello i living out west and i have grown very fond of a girl and while I am not vegan she is and wants to make me a vegan dinner but i would like to catch her off guard and make her a vegan dinner. there is a problem my house is FULL of diary and meat products, not only that but i have recently lost my job. so if anyone out there can please help me with making a vegan dinner out of some of the vegan ingredients that i could find around my house i would be very thankful.:confused::)
Re: hello! and help! non vegan making vegan dinner
Bit late I know, but another time you could steam the cabbage, carrots and some other veg lightly, cook the noodles (if they're vegan), and make a sauce with peanut butter, water and some of the jalapenos. Mix everything together and you will have a nice noodle dish which can be eaten cold.
Here's an "official" recipe for that type of sauce
http://vegetarian.about.com/od/sauce...eanutSauce.htm
Re: hello! and help! non vegan making vegan dinner
Harpy - that sounds delicious, but I don't have any noodles in the house!! - unfair.
Re: hello! and help! non vegan making vegan dinner
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Aphrodite
Harpy - that sounds delicious, but I don't have any noodles in the house!! - unfair.
:D You could always make a thick version of the sauce and dip raw vegetables in it - like satay, yum.
Re: hello! and help! non vegan making vegan dinner
Re: non vegan making vegan dinner
i've had a lot of practice with this... consequently for the past 2 years, about ~2/3rds of my meals have been vegan...
the trouble with cooking "vegan" when you are used to non-vegan seams to me to have been the erroneous thought that one must over compensate for the lack of meat/dairy... i feel like i've had to learn to cook all over again. i don't recommend starting off with a meal that traditionally would be very dependent on meat... i've been very dissapointed with at least half of all meat/dairy substitutes... but at the same time there are plenty of meals where meat and dairy played little role in the traditional form anyways, so they are good places to start...
salads, spagetti/marinara, soups, stews, curry, bean chili...