Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Meatless Monday Potluck Lunch Party - Japanese Food

What did we bring to our #MeatlessMonday potluck party this time?

Here we go!
Meatless Monday Japanese PotLuck Party
Vegetarian sashimi.
They are made of konyaku, I was amazed how close the texture and taste to real sashimi.

Meatless Monday Japanese PotLuck Party
Vegetarian yakitori including mock beef and mock sausages.

Meatless Monday Japanese PotLuck Party
Tangy cold noodles salad. Glass noodles and shredded vegetables in sesame oil & vinegars.
Very refreshing!

Meatless Monday Japanese PotLuck Party
Vegetarian pork chop - again, really close to the real deal. I was completely shocked.

To go with the pork chop cutlet, I made this.
Colorful. Japanese vegetable curry for #meatlessmonday #potluck at work :)
Vegetable Japanese curry.
It went really well with the vegetarian pork chop.
I generally have no access to mock meat, so I try to make do without.
The curry has carrot, potatoes, baby corn, broccoli, and mushrooms. Very colorful!
I used my favourite S&B Japanese curry cubes.
Oh, actually I can't take any credits for this. My wonderful helper did it, I simply gave her instructions ;)

Meatless Monday Japanese PotLuck Party
Soft tofu with vegetarian "meat floss"

Meatless Monday Japanese PotLuck Party
Soy sauce konyaku noodles with mock shrimps.

Meatless Monday Japanese PotLuck Party
Cold spinach side dish.
Blanched spinach with soy sauce, black vinegar, manuka honey, sesame oil.

Meatless Monday Japanese PotLuck Party
Beansprouts spicy side dish.
Blanched beansprouts, spicy 7 spice powder, sesame oil, soy sauce, salt and pepper.

And the star of the show...
Toblerone Eggless Cheesecake
Toblerone Cheesecake!
Cream cheese & cream & melted toblerone on chocolate crust, topped with shaved toblerone.
There is no way it is no

Who says meatless means not good (or must be healthy?)?
Ahem!

We're having a break next week because Mid Autumn Festival Holiday.

'Til next time~!

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Meatless Monday Potluck Party

Meatless Monday Potluck Party - 14 September 2015
How to combat Monday blues?
We do it by having #MeatlessMonday potluck party every week and it works!
We choose a theme and plan what we're going to bring (we can't have 6 noodle dishes, no? Nobody would be able to work after that).

We love our #meatlessmonday so far.
It's exciting, it makes us look forward to Mondays, it challenges us, and it makes us realise that meatless does not mean not good!

So here's our menu this week.
The theme is Asian.
Meatless Monday Potluck Party - 14 September 2015
Mushrooms and veggies lettuce wraps.

Meatless Monday Potluck Party - 14 September 2015
How adorable! Tasty too!

Meatless Monday Potluck Party - 14 September 2015
Nam yue (fermented tofu) "pork belly", dried shiitake mushrooms, glass noodles, napa cabbage and beancurd sheets stew.

Meatless Monday Potluck Party - 14 September 2015
Vegetarian "pork belly"!
It's amazing how they can mimick the appearance and texture of the fatty part of pork belly.

Meatless Monday Potluck Party - 14 September 2015
Beancurd wrapped sticky rice cake and glass noodles in tomato broth.

Meatless Monday Potluck Party - 14 September 2015
Too cute!

What did I make?
I made gado-gado, a very popular Indonesian salad.
gado gado 1
Blanched: long beans, mini napa cabbage (because I dislike cabbage), beansprouts.
Boiled potatoes and hard boiled eggs.
Fresh tomatoes & cucumber.
Fried: tempe chunks, tofu puffs, crispy sweet potato or crackers.
Dressing: gado-gado peanut dressing + lime.

gado gado 2
Yum!
I made a version without boiled egg and dressing without garlic and shallot for our vegetarian friend (dressing = crushed roasted peanuts + salt + palm sugar + lime).

And our dessert!
Our dessert was given a freedom not to follow the Asian theme, because.. cheesecake.
We want cheesecake. Cheesecake is Asian. Cheesecake is everything.
Meatless Monday Potluck Party - 14 September 2015
It's no-bake blueberry cheesecake, with reduced sugar and no egg too!

Meatless Monday Potluck Party - 14 September 2015
So light and yummy!

Next week's theme: Japanese.
Looking forward to it :)