The way Jamie Oliver cooks has always been one of my favourites; he makes it look easy and his energy is cool. What I didn’t know was that he also has a nice selection of vegan recipes.
You can find his recipes at http://www.jamieoliver.com/. Not only can you sort recipes alphabetically by date or popularity, but you can also filter your search by ingredients, kitchen, difficulty (I love that :D), course, and occasion for dish type.
I did a search for “not too tricky” and found “Briam”, which is a Greek dish traditionally eaten with feta – I made the dish with vegan feta – it was delicious and easy to make.
Teenagers are hungry all the time – being vegan or not.
The trick is of course always to have something healthy in the fridge or freezer. We don’t want it to be too expensive either.
Not only for teenagers but I also like to have something just “to grab”; it is nice not to have to cook a full meal from scratch, but just something healthy and filling.
Here are some great suggestions:
Snacks
Having snacks around has been the best way to keep us all full between meals, or instead of meals when we run out of on time. The old wisdom that snacking ruins your appetite mysteriously doesn’t seem to apply to teenagers and young adults. Try these Simple and Satisfying Vegan Snacks.
Cook in Quantity
I keep vegan taco meat in my freezer and an extra bowl of pasta salad in the fridge when possible. Label the leftover containers to make them easy to find, especially if your wayward teenagers are as bad at feeding themselves as my brother is. Pre-cooked quinoa and wild rice are also excellent in salads and wraps.
Veggie Burgers and Veggie Dogs
Veggie dogs, or not-dogs as we call them in my family, are another easy and filling food. Paired with sprouted buns and homemade ketchup, burgers and dogs are an excellent treat, especially for those less inclined to cooking. Making the veggie burgers yourself can be pretty easy though, if you have a little more time than money, and store-bought has never tasted as good to me as what I make myself.
Cooking vegan you’ll need loads of tricks to cook or at least that is how it looks in the beginning. After you have some experience it gets easier and easier; still when we find recipe with milk, honey, butter or cheese we don’t give up, we just replace the foods. I think we have all tried to make our own cheese some with good result and some with lesser result, here are some good suggestions.
1. Make Your Own Honey Replacement
You don’t have to be a bee to make your own honey. Just mix 1 ¼ cups of granulated sugar with 1/3 cup of water and you have one cup of vegan honey. Replace the honey in a recipe with an equal amount of your homemade sweetener.
2. You Don’t Need a Churn to Make Butter
Believe it or not, making your own butter is pretty easy. You just need some specialty ingredients like lecithin, coconut oil, and xanthan gum and a mold to shape the butter in. Vegan butter can be made with soy milk or for a soy-free version, try my cashew-based vegan butter. You can even make it fancy by adding your favorite herbs or using cocoa butter to make a heavenly chocolate-flavored butter.
3. Avocados Can be Used as Butter
There’s a trend going on right now for avocado toast. Just mash up some avocado and season it with your favorite herbs, spices, or even hot sauce and spread it on your toast as you would butter. Besides toast, avocado can substitute for butter in baking or in puddings. Just be aware that you will taste the avocado, so be sure it’s a good match for your recipe.
One way to save money and get your food wast at a minimum is to know how to store your veggies correctly. Nothing worse than finding veggies that either are dry or gone half-rotten.
The “secrets” are
Keep the fridge clean (use non-toxic cleaning products once a week)
– Maintain a low temperature
– Wash your produce before and after storing it
– Switch out the towels on a regular basis to make sure nothing is lingering
– Use a towel made from anti-bacterial fibers like bamboo
It is not that there isn’t loads and loads of foods and drinks at airports but it is usually not vegan, on the contrary the foods there are often processed foods with loads of salt and sugar, very unhealthy to say it the least. Yes fruits might be sold there but that’s too little to eat. Just remember if you bring along fresh fruits yourself you must eat it before landing, you are not allowed to bring fresh fruit into a new country.
DivineBagsofCells recorded this video on a layover in Oahu Hawaii.
