Peanut noodle salad, mushrooms, fingerling potatoes and white bean dip.

Ok, so it turns out that SO FAR, I have been a total Vegan MoFo slacker! Not in so far as cooking, but in so far as posting. (I had a calculus midterm this week, give me a break.)
Seven posts to follow, from the past week.



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This was a simple dinner, of the variety that I usually seem to end up making.
I love, love, love peanut sauce, and really liked this salad the last time that I made it, so decided to whip it up again.



Peanut noodle salad:
-Peanut Sauce (as I stated in an earlier post, you can find recipes for this stuff anywhere, you basically just have to fiddle with the proportions of the ingredients until you find one that suits you.)
-Noodles (again, depends on what you are going for. I like soba noodles a lot.)
-Veggies! These can be whatever you want, but it works best if they are fresh, and if you chop them up into fairly small pieces.
I have never been a huge fan of cucumber... but OMG, I bought one from the local farmers' market, and it was the best thing EV-AR! So sweet and flavourful. It was shocking. It was kind of expensive compared to what I am used to, but well worth it.

The rest of dinner!!



I tossed some fingerling potatoes, and cremini mushrooms in olive oil, and roasted them in the oven. YUM!

Then covered the potatoes in a huge glob of white bean dip (recipe taken from "Eat, Drink and Be Vegan".)
I've been extra into bean dips lately... they go on anything, and you can basically put anything in them, depending on what you are feeling like that day.
As long as you have the key ingredients:
-beans.
-tahini
-olive oil
-garlic
-lemon juice
Everything else can be adjusted. Try different types of beans, and different herbs and spices to suit your mood. I will elaborate on this in a future post.

Food! I love it!