Halfway through Vegan May

Vegan May is over the halfway point now and still going strong!

We've been out of the house for dinner the last four days and have still managed no problem, it just takes a bit of creativity.

Thursday
Went over to Erin and Emma's place for dinner and I totally forgot to tell them we're vegan this month. Thankfully Emma is vegetarian and knows I am too, so when I emailed her the day before she was like "No worries, what I'm going to make is vegan anyway!"





It was awesome, she made an indian daal curry and another cauliflower, mushroom and potato curry, along with fried rotis and basmati rice. I couldn't stop eating it all, my mouth is watering just thinking about it now!





Friday
We had our friends Luke and Jenn over for dinner at our place. I needed to make vegan food that is still palatable (and hopefully better than that) for omnivores, with very little time (less than an hour between me getting home from work and them arriving).

Solution - baked enchiladas (inside: mushroom, red capsicum, broccoli, kidney beans, taco seasoning) with homemade guacamole and salsa! They didn't even know it was vegan until we told them and they loved it. Then dessert of maple walnut brownies which took about 5 mins to throw together and bake. Mmmmmm.

Saturday
We were invited out to dinner at James and Sal's new place for James's birthday. It turned out to be a dinner party of about 30 people with huge platters of beef and chicken (which did look pretty good). I told them we'd gone vegan a few days before and offered to bring our own food because I really didn't want to be a burden. They took me up on that, so I made us stuffed eggplant (with chickpea, tomato, coriander, moroccan seasoning) as well as vietnamese rice paper rolls (fresh mint leaves, vermicelli, tofu, carrot, cucumber and red capsicum).

Of course we got to have vegan-related conversations with the people around us at dinner, but everyone was sweet and very supportive.

Sunday
We did vegan yum cha at Bodhi with Niamh for brunch after I ran the SMH Half Marathon! It was perfect, just walking across the road from Hyde Park to the restaurant as it was opening at 10.30am and having all vegan yum cha - it was nice to go out and be able to eat anything they put in front of us!