#american food
Smoked brisket flavored chips
Coconut yogurt + Blueberry jam + Toasted Rice
Sweet!
Roast Chickpeas & Aquafaba Mayo
If it’s this easy to make snacks & mayo at home, why buy store bought?
Chickpeas: roasted at 350°F for 40 minutes, coated in vegetable oil, salt, pepper, and paprika powder.
Vegan mayo recipe from Yeung Man Cooking. I ended up with mustard seeds in my mayo because I used whole mustard haha
Pizza, using Vegan Cheese Fondue
Yummalicious.
Tried out Edgy Veg’s cheese fondue recipe! Approved by my cheese-addicted non plant based friend with a big sparkly nod. With leftovers you can make pizza and mac & cheese too.
As a note, this is the fondue before adding wine.
Okara Burger Patties
Soy pulp left over after making soy milk? It’s got many uses and transformations - this is one of them :)
As long as there is a good binding ingredient you’re all set to add other veggies and flavor profiles! Would recommend playing around for flavors you want.
Recipe adapted from Health Origins. If you don’t have psyllium husk, you can also grind up chia seeds or flaxseed of equal amount.
Potato Smash - VCR Bangsar
Cheeseburger - Huckleberry
Nasi New York Lamb - Salty’s HQ
TPCheeseBurger - TPCB
Dirty Bulk - TPCB
Fire Dragon Monster Burger (Chicken Burger) - Texas Chicken
Cheese Fries Bolognese - Babarittos
Biscella Brownie - My Cookie Dough
My parents are so unfestive. Not to say that its a bad thing, but growing up and coming back from the breaks, I was so jealous to hear all the amazing stories for the things people would do with their families during Thanksgiving/Christmas time that I would resent them. But now looking back, it sucked but I also came to appreciate the things I have and not so much have this tangible concept of having things just for the sake of it.
And with that, I take on my own experiences and put more money doing that. That’s how I feel its supposed to be done.
But this Thanksgiving, my family invited over a pastor (who they met through our church) in which I have never met in my life. I am so MIA from home that I always come home surprised to the new things that they do. But to make matters short, he’s a priest but he’s Nigerian (just like ourselves) and they invited him over for dinner. He was so humbled by it for he has only been in the US for like 5 years now and he has never had a real Thanksgiving Dinner. So it was nice for him to come over and eat a mix of both Nigerian and American dishes along with share us stories about Nigeria in the current day and a lot of the things he experienced as a priest in both Nigeria and America. From arm robbers to drama in the church, the stories were interesting, different and never ending. We laughed and chatted for around 5 hours (because Africans love to talk) and it was time to go. Honestly it was a great time.
And what made it quite different this year compared to last year was that I didn’t have to cook! Took that Megabus home on Thanksgiving for them tickets were mad expensive. Whose paying $80 one way when I could pay $25 to come home the day of and not have to worry about cooking too?! ME.
