vegan mofo: Vegan Plant – part deux

I still need to finish up my reviews from Vegan Planet from last week’s cookbook challenge.

I bought a bag of adzuki beans almost 6 months ago, but I never used them simply because I wasn’t sure what to do with them. So I thought it was perfect that Vegan Planet had a recipe for a saute with winter squash and adzuki beans. Against my better judgment, I used a hubbard squash from the farmer’s market instead of butternut. I adore anything and everything with butternut squash. I wasn’t sure what hubbard tasted like…while it’s okay, it lacks that sweet flavour that I adore in butternut. So while this dish was just ‘okay,’ I think it would have been better if I listened to the author and used butternut.

I also made the polenta chili casserole (without the ‘cheese’). We thought this was just alright…we both felt that we would have preferred chili with some cornbread, but that’s just how we roll I guess. I based the chili on her 3 bean chili (with a lot of added spice) and it was pretty good.

vegan mofo: Vegan Planet

Continuing on with the PPK cookbook challenge, this week’s selection is Vegan Planet. This is a gigantic cookbook that I’ve had for almost a year, but sadly I’ve only made maybe 2 or 3 recipes from it.

The first thing I made for the challenge was the three bean dal. This was alright. I found it a bit bland so I added a lot more spice and some curry powder. I found the cooking time off for the split peas…mine were still pretty hard, but perhaps that’s just the kind I happened to buy. Excuse the horrible picture…it was late.

Next up were the sweet potato and black bean enchiladas. I like this…I really enjoyed the sweetness of the potatoes in with the spiciness of the salsa (we have quite hot salsa in the house). Hubby ate it, but said he prefers my cheesy enchiladas….but I don’t really think you can compare the two.

Vegan MoFo: Trying out Vegan Planet

Recently I checked out Vegan Planet from the library. Unfortunately I am unable to renew it as someone else has requested it…so that’s hardly enough time to really get a feel for the over 400 recipes contained within. But I have tried a few dishes so far.

Cajun spice-rubbed tempeh. I adore tempeh. I adore Cajun spice. Match made in heaven.

We wanted some bread to go with soup I was making. There wasn’t time to make a yeast bread, so I tried the Irish soda bread. I’ve never had soda bread before…it’s a lot like what I would call bannock, and in fact the ingredients are pretty much the same.

The tofu vindaloo is also excellent and comes highly recommended, we both adored it.

My computer is supposedly being fixed today or tomorrow, so I should have it back home soon…along with photoshop so I can actually edit pictures again. Yay. Once I am a computer owner again I will also resume frequenting your blogs.