Yeung man cooking – Rainy Saturday Creative

I started off with toast for breakfast, but this morning I tried the vegan butter. I am a girl who loves real butter and won’t touch margarine with a 10 foot pole. I tried the Earth Balance butter and it was quite good. I also put some peaches on top. I probably won’t keep that up.

For a snack I did the gingerbread sheet pan pancake with peanut butter on top.

For lunch I did the Miss Kim’s Fried Tofu. I brought in all the components separate, tofu, sauce, rice. Yes, I have a hot pot at work, microwaves aren’t good for everything. First put in the tofu to try to re-crisp it. That didn’t work so well but it did re-heat it. Maybe I need to add a touch of oil. Then I put in the rice and sauce. Most people are still working from home, but my coworker and I have to work in the office but we sit far from each other. She came to visit my desk and said it smelled good.

I came home to cook a couple more things I didn’t get to on the weekend. The blistered green beans. I would say where from, but I would make so many changes it wouldn’t be the same. It was still good though. Then I made Wil Yeung of Yeung Man Cooking’s Ground Tofu Bulgogi. Just delicious! I had it for dinner tonight but this will be my lunch the rest of the week. The recipe called for 200 grams of tofu but my tofu block was over 400 grams, so I doubled the recipe. So glad I did. I love all the cooking I did, but I love this one the best. https://youtu.be/bOpzP0ldlBI

I think I am done cooking for a few days. I will still be posting what I eat everyday. Later this week I will make a pasta sauce to go with red lentil pasta I bought. I am just going to wing the pasta sauce recipe.

I once did a week of vegan years ago. It went fine. It was easier than a week of paleo or three days of Whole 30. I have no intention of being 100% vegan, but I want to eat more vegan meals. For me it is a way to challenge my bad eating habits and eat more nutritious food. I wouldn’t normally consider this. One, I believe moderation is best no matter what or how you eat. Two, more importantly for me, there is a new generation of vegan food creators. I mostly watch them on YouTube. Nisha Vora of Rainbow Plant Life, Wil Yeung of Yeung Man Cooking, Joanne Lee Molinaro of The Korean Vegan, and Andrew and Larisha of Make it Dairy Free. While you might still have some unusual ingredients, at least for us non vegans, their foods look much more delicious and approachable than the vegan foods of old where you might think you are eating like a rabbit.

I am thinking once a month I will do a week of vegan and outside of that one or two vegan meals a day. For now don’t hold me to that. At least this week I will do vegan. As usual I am over planning and over ambitious and when it comes down to it I wonder what I am doing. But it doesn’t have to be hard, I made it that way because there are so many recipes I want to try. I did three of them anyway. Gingerbread sheet pancakes by Nisha Vora, Miss Kim’s Fried Tofu by Ji Hye Kim of Miss Kim Restaurant in Ann Arbor MI, recipe published by Food & Wine Magazine, and Spicy & Crunchy Garlic Tofu (Kkanpoong Tofu) by Joanne Lee Molinaro of The Korean Vegan. I will provide all the links I can for right now. Web site, YouTube, recipe links.

The gingerbread pancakes are a part of a pdf link provided in the description of the YouTube Video:

Rainbow Plant Life web site

https://youtube.com/c/RainbowPlantLife

Pancakes https://youtu.be/LSiVJzaoej4

Miss Kim’s Fried Tofu https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/miss-kims-fried-tofu

The Korean Vegan https://thekoreanvegan.com/

Spicy & Crunchy Garlic Tofu (Kkanpoong Tofu) https://thekoreanvegan.com/spicy-crunchy-garlic-tofu-kkampoong-tofu/

The Korean Vegan YouTube channel https://youtube.com/c/TheKoreanVegan

Spicy & Crunchy Garlic Tofu on YouTube https://youtu.be/2VwK220z8Tc

Yeung Man Cooking web site https://yeungmancooking.com/

Yeung Man Cooking YouTube https://youtube.com/c/WILYEUNG

Make it Dairy Free web site https://makeitdairyfree.com/

Make it Dairy Free YouTube https://youtube.com/c/MakeItDairyFree

Breakfast was whole wheat toast with peanut butter and peaches

I the left the sauce for Spicy and Crunchy Garlic Tofu and on the right the sauce for Miss Kim’s Fried Tofu. By the way, I have always hated tofu, but crispy and fried tofu is quite good!

Spicy and Crunchy Garlic Tofu with rice.

It is my intention to post daily this week what I am eating. And if you want to do a week of vegan you can also keep it simple like with toast with toppings of fruit or vegetables, a nice rice bow, a salad. These recipes looked so good I had to try them!