Yummy Vego Meals

Dave and I decided we want to do vego once a week, apparently Michael Pollan (author of the omnivore's dilemma said that it would help the environment even just with not eating meat once a week).

So here I go:

Arborio rice, brown swiss & button mushrooms, leek and a sprig of thyme

Pumpkin, pinenuts & baby spinach
Caramelised roasted pumpkin


Risotto cooking on the stove

Our dinner:
Oven roasted pumpkin, pinenut & baby spinach salad with balsamic vinegar dressing served with mushroom risotto. (there's parmesan on it cos its not vegan but vegetarian)

And on another night, I got lazy so I just made a mushroom and corn kernal soba. It was actually really fresh & light. Didn't miss the meat. Or cos mushrooms possess what they call the umami taste, the fifth taste associated with savouries & glutamates.

Fresh Fish

"Hey I've got a surprise for you"

- Alex from the lab led me to the little bar fridge we had at work and pulled out a glad-wrapped item.

" A fish??" - me

" yep, caught it this morning" - Alex

"Wow!!!" - me

Was super excited as I told dave I had something special for dinner, first time someone ever gave me their catch.

Thought of thousands of ideas how to cook it and in the end settled for - its fresh so it probably doesn't need much. Rub of salt and olive oil.

Pan fried and served with a wedge of lemon and of course a dollop of awesome peranakan chilli from Singapore!