Ghent-way macaroni salad

I stole the idea from Veganomicon’s Brooklyn deli macaroni salad, and made mine own euh, totally different, version:

Dressing: use half of the Vegenaise, and ad some soymilk, mustard, olive-oil.  Substitute the sugar by agave-syrup.

Salad: forgot about the peas and the radices.  And take some chickpeas instead.  And most of all: scrambled tofu.  I marinated the tofu with: balsamico, olive-oil, soysauce (dark and salt), garlicpowder, basil and thym.

And I’m totally excited, because tomorrow I’ll be going to the RockWerchter festival.  These are the bands I’ll be seeing:  MGMT, the hives, Editors, Kate Nash, KT Tunstall, Sigur Ros and RADIOHEAD!!!

 

Now, I’m really back

It’s strange how at some moments in a persons life, time can go really fast.  A lot of things happened the last days.  Nothing really special, but it seems I was almost never at home.  I still managed to prepare a few good meals.  Unfortunalety I can only show the pictures and no explanation.  It looks I didn’t found the time to write it down and now I have forgotten about it. 

But first some news:

The teenager’s schoolyear is finished.  She got an A.  Which is very good news because now she can start with artschool in september.

The last one is the potato-tortilla from ‘Vegan with a vengeance’.

The first picture has TVP in it, and the second is mushrooms-something.

And now as an present for my fellow bloggers because I didn’t find the time to read all of your blogs the last weeks, a nice faux cupcake (made by teenager):

To finish: the next weeks there will be less posts as usual.  Summer is calling!!!

 

 

I’m back

and really tired.  And so much work that still has to be done.  So, please, don’t expect to much of me the first days. 

But I had a nice weekend.

This is a picture of the castle we were staying:

Sorry, only joking.  This is the right one:

The first was actually our neighbour, and this is it’s backyard.

Chocolate cupcakes, with spots

Teenager is studying for the last exams: history.  When she’s finished tomorrow, we leave for a weekend of camping in the Ardennen.  We will be staying next to a castle, yes!  I’m really looking forward to it.  It’s not only us, but we’re going with a lot of friends (count more or less 50 people).  And only 5 vegetarians.  But guess, what’s most fun for me, teenager is taking 5 of her friends.  So, I’ll be responsible for 5 14-years old girls the whole weekend.

A lame excuse for the last days why I wasn’t able to make some descent vegan food.  I was really to busy with organising the whole thing.  Still, a few days ago I managed to make some rucola-pesto.  And used it in a risotto:

In real it’s way more greener.  The taste was also not quit good yet, so I don’t give a recipe.

But the next thing was a big hit:

Chocolate cupcakes (of course: Vegan cupcakes take over the world).

And so for my last grades I had to receive, they were really nice: 9/10.

I wish you all a nice weekend, and probably back on monday.

Broc Mac Daddy

What’s a teenager most favourite food, except french fries? 

A macaroni and cheese.

What’s one of the best vegan cookbooks?

Veganomicon.

I present to you:

Broc Mac Daddy  (8/10).

The day after I served it with some

Sauteed green beans with mushrooms (7,5/10).