non-tex mex bean recipe and fried rice

[Guest guest]

I made vegan bbq beans the other night. I used navy

beans, but you could use kidney, adzuki, cranberry,

black eyed pea, or even lentils. I adapted the sauce

from one of my grandmother's recipes to be vegan. I

don't know where she got it, but she was famous for it

in the family. Here goes:

 

I used a 2 quart crock pot and cooked these for about

4-6 hours. It only has one temp setting, but I bet

you could use a " low " setting and have this come out

fine.

 

4 cups cooked great northern beans (or whatever- this

is about 2 15 oz cans)

 

1/4 cup canola oil

1 small onion (or shallot, or scallions) chopped,

(about 1/4 -1/2 cup)

3/8 cup ketchup

3/8 cup water

3 Tablespoons lemon juice

1 Tablespoon vegan sugar (whatever you usually use-

molasses or maple syrup would probably work fine, too)

1 1/2 Tablespoon Annie's naturals Worchestershire

sauce

1 1/2 Tablespoon table mustard

1/8 teaspoon ancho chili powder(or whatever pepper you

prefer- ancho is very mild.)

 

combine all ingredients in crock and cook for 4-6

hours. Serve with veg and brown rice.

 

Here is a fried rice recipe that my hubby and I like a

lot. I often add some cubed baked tofu (it's in the

ingredients as " optional " ) but you could leave it out.

I adapted this from Vegetarian Times Edamame Fried

Rice.

 

4 cups cooked brown rice (cold leftover rice works

best)

1 lb frozen veg (we like peas and carrots)

1 lb pkg edamame- cooked/thawed according to package

directions

12 oz oriental style baked tofu, diced *** optional

***

1/3 cup soy sauce

1 small onion (or shallot, or 4 scallions) chopped

2-4 cloves garlic, minced

gumball size hunk of fresh ginger, chopped (or less,

depending on your taste)

1 Tablespoon Canola or sesame oil

 

1. Heat up the oil on medium heat.

2. add garlic, onion, and frozen veg, and heat

through. (about 4 minutes)

3. add tofu, rice, ginger, soy sauce, and edamame and

heat through (about 5-10 minutes) and EAT, EAT, EAT.

 

will your husband eat tomato sauces if they don't have

pieces of tomato in them? Mine does not like

tomatoes, but will eat tomato-based pasta sauces so

long as they are not " chunky. "

 

Also, have you tried him on Seitan (gluten)? I have

made this for mine with a red wine gravy based off a

coq au vin recipe I used to make back before veg, and

my hubby loved it. I'm going to try to adapt my

mother's beef bbq recipe for seitan next.

 

-m

 

--- Heather O'Neil <diamyst wrote:

 

> I have noticed that a great deal of the recipes on

> the two vegetarian lists I belong too are

> southwestern/mexican in flavour.

>

> My DH doesn't like Mexican at all, doesn't like

> anything much that contains tomatoes either, or

> salsa, chillies etc.

>

> He is very fond of beans but not black ones. Hates

> TVP and tofu. I'm fighting a losing battle I feel.

>

>

> Any suggestions for meals that vaguely resemble meat

> ones to try on him? Also need a receipe for a

> tried and true " brown " gravy. He is more receptive

> to new foods if I can smother them with gravy or

> ketchup.

>

> Heather in Ontario

>

[Guest guest]

I have tried him on everything I can think of. He is a meat and potatoes man all his life. There are some vegetarian recipes he eats and likes that have cheese and eggs but I would like to get some vegan meals in there too.

 

His like of dislikes is HUGE, likes small. Lots of nights he refuses dinner and has peanut butter sandwiches, which are good for you but this man works a 14 hour day of intensive labour, 7 days a week. He needs food.

 

He loves meatloaf type dinners, shepherd's pie, meatballs. I make them with beans, grains, eggs and cheese with gravy over it or a ketchup type sauce. He can sniff out two grains of tvp, I swear so no chance of sneaking that in at all. I have tried soooooo many recipes and I can't hide things with spices because he doesn't like spices either. Garlic, bit of cayenne salt and pepper period. What is a woman to do?????? The other thing is, the man has no teeth, soooo, no hard crunchy food either. We're not young by the way but not dead yet either.

 

Heather in Ontario