Nothing Rhymes With Vegan Scallop Linguine

It's come to my attention that I completely missed the opportunity to riff off a few puns about beets in the last post, but what are you gonna do? No need to beet myself up over it... And of course, I'm a huge fan of puns, you could go so far as calling me a pun-dit and I could pun-tificate all day long on the glory of wordplay and humour. But today's post is about vegan scallops and linguine. Punning about scallops is the equivalent of finding a word that rhymes with orange and the closest I could find so far on that one is "storage"...

Anyways, onto the food! Last week, I was searching online to find a good cauliflower recipe and stumbled upon this wonderful dish courtesy of the Vegan Homemade Blog and I absolutely had to try it out. And I immediately had the brilliant idea to pair it with linguine and a vegan Alfredo sauce. A lot of the recipes I found were either too complicated or had ingredients that were too difficult to find. I eventually found this one on Vegan Dad's blog. I pretty much had everything in my pantry and the only things that I needed to re-stock were the tofu, sea salt and white wine (I went with a Pinot Grigio from Pelee Island by the way). The best thing about this meal was that both recipes were super easy! 

Here are some pics:

Chopped King Trumpet Mushrooms

Marinating the Mushrooms. I couldn't find vegan fish sauce, so I substituted that with soya sauce and a splash of sesame oil and it turned out awesomely!

Finished Dish - Scallop Linguine!

Krista's empty plate! See how nice I am, I share my food with my wife, I'm not shellfish...

Beet Feast

Last night, Krista and I had dinner with our future roommate Karen and we had quite the feast! We made Beet Risotto with Rapini (we substituted veggie stock and omitted the cheese), Roasted Yellow Beet Salad with Warm Maple Mustard Dressing (you'll see in the pics that we didn't have yellow beets...) and Karen made a spicy Mexican soup with white beans (sorry recipe not available for this one). And it was washed down with beer and a refreshing melon and white wine cocktail. Again I don't have the recipe for this drink, but it was included with Karen's weekly fruit and veggie delivery from the Ottawa Good Food Box. Karen just started receiving the deliveries a couple weeks ago and we've been really inspired to create recipes based on the food they send us and so far the results have been pretty good! Anyways, here are some pics from our meal last night. By the way, sorry that I'm too lazy to add them in chronological order...

Halfway Done Risotto

Dinner's Served!

Steaming Roasted Beets

Karen's serving Krista some spicy Mexican soup

Tempeh for the salad

The First Post...

So, I've decided to start a blog about my cooking adventures with my wife Krista. One of our favourite things to do is cook together and I figured it'd be fun to put all of our recipes and pictures in one spot. Bon Appetit!