Veggie Sunday Dinner – November 14, 2010
Posted on November 28th, 2010
Theme: Gyros!
Guests: Jesse, Norma, Dan, Jen, Me
Menu: Gyros, Greek Salad, Greek Treats
Recipes:
Gyros: Writing this two weeks after the fact (I didn’t have a blog then!) so I’m sure I’ll miss stuff (and be even more vague than usual). I wouldn’t even bother writing it, but I want to at least share the seitan recipe. HERE IT IS. I’ve always enjoyed my own homemade seitan, but this is lightyears better and is going to be the basis of all seitan I make in the future! Anyways, I followed the recipe, sautéed up a bunch of it with onions and served it up on pita with some yogurt sauce I made by mixing yogurt, fresh dill, cucumber, garlic, onion and a freshly squeezed lemon. I bet I put in salt in pepper too.
Greek Salad: The greek salad was very straight forward: roasted peppers, onion, olives and feta over greens. Dressing was made by mixing balsamic, more fresh dill, garlic, olive oil and a dash of maple syrup.
Pastries: For dessert I cheated and purchased a small variety of treats from Pan Hellenic Pastry Shop. Highly recommend treats from there! I’m surprised I haven’t been there before and will be returning.
Well, I’m working on the google extension post and will document the future veggie dinners in more detail with pictures.
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Veggie Sunday Dinner, November 21 2010
Posted on November 24th, 2010
A few weeks ago I decided that I would open up my Sunday night vegetarian dinners to my friends. This gives me a chance to cook for large groups, challenge myself with new recipes and hang out with people I enjoy at least once a week. I plan on documenting my Sunday nights in this blog alongside the technical crap.
In future posts I hope to have more descriptions and photos of the food, but to start things off, here are the details from last Sunday:
Theme: American
Guests: Jen (myself), Jesse, Norma, Dan, Jen (other Jen), Mikey, (Pilsen) David, Kathy
Menu: Veggie Burgers w/ homemade refrigerator pickles and smoked gouda, mustard greens, potato salad and sundaes (sundae fixings provided by Norma)
Recipes:
Potato Salad: This is what I did, very roughly (anyone who watches me cook knows that I’m not much of a measurer if I’m not trying out a new recipe): chopped up, boiled and cooled 4 big russet potatoes, mixed together in separate bowl: 1 cup(ish) mayo, a bunch of yellow mustard, maybe about 3 tbsps – until it reached the level of yellow I wanted, 2 stalks celery sliced thin, a few tsps of white balsamic vinegar, 1 tsp sugar, salt and pepper to taste, a few tbsp each of chopped fresh parsley and fresh dill, 1/2 red onion chopped small. Mixed those things and then tossed with potatoes. Threw in fridge and stirred every 1/2 hour or so.
Refrigerator Pickles: I love making these to have around, and they are fairly versatile. I sliced up a cucumber left over from last Sunday’s veggie gyro dinner super thin on the mandolin along with one jalepeno and 1/2 red onion also sliced on the mandolin, put them in a bowl with about 2 or 3 cloves of minced garlic, about 1 tsp sugar, several tbsps of apple cider vinegar (emptied my bottle, might have put in more) and a good handful of dill that I tore off a giant stalk acquired from Stanleys during gyro week. This all went in a bowl that I topped off with water. I think in this case, the more vinegar the better, but about 1/2 and 1/2 water and vinegar seems to work perfectly. These turned out super spicy and very tasty.
Veggie Burgers: Here is the recipe I used. After reading the comments, I added in the oatmeal and it was still very thin. I couldn’t really form it into patties and ended up making the burgers “sloppy” style. Overall, I loved the flavor and thought it went great with bbq sauce, smoked gouda (for the non-vegans), my pickles and fancy tomato from whole foods. However, I’m going to continue searching for a veggie burger recipe that is better. It tasted good but I can mix together rice and beans and toss them on a bun any day.
I might also post some previous Sunday recipes, but who knows! This coming Sunday I’ll be in Philly eating at @jesteria’s parent’s house, so the next Veggie Sunday meal won’t happen until a week after that.
Bon Appetit!
Stander