day 21

Last day of the challenge! It didn’t really seem like three weeks at all. Went by much faster than expected to be honest. Today was also mine and my boyfriens, Andre, four year anniversity. Cheers to us!

So today we wanted our favorite dinner, greek moussaka. It is really good. I have always used the box from Toro. It isn’t vegan, but I didn’t see that till after we had eaten. It was good, but I feel a little bad about not reading the ingredient list before I made it. It had a tomato sauce filled with soy mince in the bottom and a potato sauce on top. Usually it is made with cheese on top, but I desided to make it without any fake cheese. When I tried it on pizza it tasted and smelled like farts, so I didn’t want to risk it either. But it was really yummy without any topping too!

I had with me the usual baguette with smoked tofu on for school. My favorite thing to put on bread now a days! And quit a nice little mix of completely different tastes too. I got some plumbs from one of the girls in my class too. They were quite good now. Perhaps I’d better take a tour so Ulvik soon and pick some there. Those you find there are the bestest of the best!

It is fun to know that I managed to be a vegan for three weeks. But I will write a little ending soon.

day 20

Sencond last day of the challenge. It have really gone fast. I was bit busy and didn’t always have tine to look up and cook new exciting recipes. But I will definitly look up some more soon! I can be a little bit picky about new tastes, but if it have something I already like it might just work out great!

But back to topic. This day was boring. I had to work for a coworker that was going away, so it was pretty much from school to work with a little hour to make some dinner. So I played it safe with whole grain penne pasta and tomato sauce with several tomatoes and a handful of lentils. Since I was in a hurry I desided to drop the carrot and onions. It was yummy, but a little bit boring.

I had to lunches today too! One at school and one at work. At school I had with me a baguette with a little Sjokade on it. And at work I got a banana and a avacado. I just ate it like it was with a little salt on it for the taste. I had with me a mini box with soymilk to school. It is quite practical and it taste good too. But at work I just had some water to drink.

Since tomorrow is a special day an amazing dinner is needed

day 19

I can't even remember all I had to eat today! I better speed up before I forget the rest of the remaning days. Breakfast was oats with some yummy raisins, dried banana (fresh is the best, but I usually forget to eat them then) and Almond milk on top. Yup, I finally discovered Almond milk! It was okay for me, but it was a little to "thick" in it's taste. I still prefer rice milAk.

Lunch was yummy smoked tofu with cucumber on top. I planned to make the same for Andre, but he ate it all before he left for his first day of school. I had with me a little box of chocolate soymilk. I have fallen quite a lot in love with it.

When Andre came home from the town late in the evning, I made him some of my little pasta sauce that he ate on a baguette. It was the usual one, he just wanted something easy so I desided to make a little sauce with all the tomatoes laying around in the fridge.

I honesly can't remember what we had for dinner, so I'll update it later if it come back to me!

day 18

Okay, I am way to slow on posting now a days. School have just started again with all the classes and stuff so I have been busy. And on monday I wrote a really long text for the blog and pushed the wrong button and all got deleted. But back to topic.

So on monday I made my self a breakfast/lunch with "Sjokade". I was in a hurry and desided just to make it easy, but not very healthy. I was quite suprised when I heard that it was vegan, not even any milk powder in it! At school some of the people asked me "Weren't you vegan or something?" when they saw what I was eating. I liked their reaction when I told them that it actually was vegan. Always fun to mess with omni's mind!

Dinner was not very exciting, just a few baguettes with smoked tofu, salad, paprika, "cheese" and other goodies. Non of us was really in the mood for any cooking so we just made it easy. It was good! But it didn't really feel like dinner, but it had several diffrent vegetables on it. Ok for once in a while, but not to often.

I had a few apples and raisins for snacks during the day. I like fruit, but I forget to put it in my lunch to often. Well, I forget fresh fruit, I always carry dried.

Anyway, it was an ok food-day for me, a little boring, but what you gonna do?

day 17

So sunday started with left over pizza from saturday. It was great even the day after, much better than left over pizza with cheese in my opinoin! I know many people are "cheeseaddicts", but I think many would be suprised how good pizza without cheese actually is!

Later on we made some falafel. I deep fried it, but I couldn't get it to the right color. It got crispy and tasty, but a little black instead of golden. We had it with some fresh tomatoes, cucumber, potatoes and some chilisauce for dipping. I use a mix I got at an mideastern food store. I really like the spicy taste it have.

I plan to try to make some ministicks from my falafel mix for a snack. If it work it will be a great snack to bring to school, or when we're having a party. I plan to test out out some day soon. Hope it get as yummy as regular falafel.

Monday coming up soon!

day 16

I've been a little busy these late days, so I'm a little slow on posting here. Saturday I was supposed to have a few friends over for dinner, but it got a little chaotic so I made a vegan pizza. I made it a little like last time, but without the fake cheese. I also used two large carrots instead of one small, also dropped the onion so I didn't have to go to the store just for that. Filled it up with about 4-5 tomatoes and boiled it up with about a handful of lentils. I added a chopped paprika and a tomato on top of it. Everyone liked it, even a friend of mine that have never liked lentils before either. So dinner was a success!

I baked some bread for breadfast and ate it with avacodo and tomatos on. Personally, avacado is the best to put on bread. It it great to add to anything I'm having later if I don't eat all of it at once. A little salt on top is good too, as long as it isn't to much.

We had a few diffrent snacks later on too. Some vegan chocolate, homemade chips, and a few other yummy snacks. Sunday food coming up in a few minutes too.

day 15

So today today I had tofu. Well, tofuburgers. Deffinitly not the best veggie burger I've had, but if it had been a little more crispy I would consider to have it again. We had it with some rice, woked corn, onion and paprika. I added a avacado to mine as well. Topped it all with a little soy sauce and it got quite tasty. I really liked to mix avacado into the rice. Loved it so much that I even used some of the left over rice to blend with avacado. Still tasted good a few hours later. Perhaps I will make something similar tomorrow. But just for me, since my sweetheart, Andre, don't like avacado at all (more for me!).

We heated up some frozen bread for breakfast. I had mine with tufutti cheese, avacdo, salad and jam. But not all those on the same slice, that would be a little bit wierd. I had some chocolate soymilk to drink with this. In the store were I work we only sell Alpro and Rice Dream, but at kinsarvik I got a brand called Provamel. It is really, really good! Even Andre drinks it. I have so far only tried the one with chocolate taste, but gonna try strawberry and vanilla too soon.

I also had some oreo cookies. Long time since I've had those. Was nice to meet that old friend again. Perhaps I'll even look for a recipe for a vegan oreo cake. Who know.

My blog enties are getting a little short now a days, but tomorrow I'm having some friends over for dinner, so might be more to talk about then. I plan to go and look for something to make vegan "sushi" with. Hope I find something tasty then!

day 14

Two weeks! It dosen't seem like that long at all. I find it quite natural to not buy food that contain milk or eggs now, it is still a little hard to adjust to not buying some products that I used to love but it is much more fun to make it all from scratch.

So yesterday I had the usual breakfast that is easy to make when I am off to school, and that I don't have time to eat I bring for lunch. That work great, and is also a little moneysaver too. It is easy to make a piece of bread a little healthy with some paprika and salad on top, instead of cheese or buying the lunch at school like I did last year. That got really expensive. So now I am looking forward to get the laptop lunch boxes that I ordered earlier.

Yesterday I aslo made a pizza for dinner for when Andre got home. My first vegan pizza ever! I used Sheese mozerella style on top, but I didn't really like the taste when it melted. So next time no real or fake cheese, just sauce and tasty veggies. I made the pizza sauce myselfe, a little like my tomatosauce for pasta, but with 4 tomatos, a tiny carrot and lot less lentils. I also left out the garlic and onion, and added them on top after. I putted 2 tomatoes on top as well, And some paprika. Was yummy! In the dough I added some dried basil, oregano and my little "garlic and herbs" spice. It was really, really good! The only thing I regret was putting fake cheese on top. That one actually smelled a little fart when it got heated. But I think I will try make it like a baked in pizza next time.

And during the day I also had several cookies. I'm the only one that like them so I get them all to myselfe then. And I got these little mini boxes of soymilk that are so nice to bring to school as well. I like something else than water when eating so when lunch is coming they are nice to have in my bag.

day 13

Yesterday I was quite busy. Not much time to cook, so I made a tripple lunch that had had with during the entire day. We had a pub to pub walk from 4pm till 11pm. Was glad I had with me some extra pices of bread. Had them filled with salad, paprika and that vegan "roast beef" that I have completely fallen in love with. I have found it is nice to have a little box with nuts and dried fruit with me at all times. If I get hungry I just grab them out of my bag and eat a little.

That little hour I had at home I ate some pasta with homemade pesto in it. Since I had so little time Andre made the pesto. We used some salad leafes, fresh and dried basil, added some oregano, salt, pepper and olive oil. I prefer this one over the storebought pesto. Perhaps I will post a recipe for it another day when I got some more time.

I will post for day 14 as soon as I get up in the morning, a little tired at this point. Got no school tomorrow so can sleep long then! Cheers for that. Quite a shot note today, but tomorrow I will talk about my amazing vegan pizza!

tomatosauce ida-style

Had a bunch of tomatos that needed to be used fast, so today I got to make tomatosauce again. The picture are taken with my phone, so not the best quality.

Tomatosauce Ida-style

Ingredients:
1 teaspoon basil
1 teaspoon oregano
1 medium sized carrot
1/3 medium sized onion/red onion
4 cloves of garlic
5 tablespoon tomato paste
2 tomatos
1/2 dl dry lentils
2-3 dl water
olive oil


1. Chop the garlic, onion and carrot into small pieces. Then add to fryer with olive oil and herbs.
2. Fry the onion, carrot, garlic and herbs on medium heath for about 2 minutes before adding the dry lentils the the mix.
3. While the mix is frying, chop up the tomatoes, add the juices from the tomato to the mix and let the tomato pieces soften in the fryer, and smash them when they are soft enough. Mix it all good.
4. Let the mix boil for about 1-2 minutes, then add the tomato paste. Mix good, and then add the water.
5. Now let the mix boil until the lentils have normal size. Add the amount you want of salt and pepper. Taste, and more hebs if needed.
6. Let the sauce now boil until it have tickend.
7. Eat! =)


If you want it to be more omni-friendly, add less lentil and more tomatos. Usually I add one tomato per person dining, but here it would be able to feed 3-4 people, depending on how much each person want. I enjoy a spice on top called "garlic & herbs". So I recomend to try a similar spice in/on it if you have it in your kitchen. If you want more tomato taste to it but dont want to remove any lentils, add more tomato paste to the mix. I also use the glass the tomato paste was in for the water, and shake out the remaining paste.