Eating Vegan with Crohn's Disease

Polenta Potatoes

Swig of olive oil
1 onion
3 Yukon gold potatoes
2 large carrots
2 celery stalks
Garlic
Sea salt
Bay leaves, thyme, black pepper
Veg stock
Quick grits

Chop the veggies and saute in the olive oil. Add herbs and spices. Cook a bit to mingle flavors. Add veg stock and simmer for 30 mins. Mash veggies. Add quick grits and stir occasionally for 5 mins. Kill the heat and eat. Make great left overs.

Fatigue

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Meal Planning

When I make my shopping list I write down the dishes I want to make for the week, adding each of their ingredients. The first dish is based off of what I already have in my kitchen so I’ll finish the old produce first. The goal is to waste less so I buy less.

Irritable #4

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Disappointing Chips

Now for sale at Table Top. It’s like eating a mouthful of dill and washing it down with a tidal wave of salt.

Beechwold Salad

For best effect, dance in your kitchen to Joy Division, Closer, during preparation and consumption of the following salad:

2-3 dates, chopped
1/4 c toasted almond
1 avocado, smush it around with the other stuff
Some lettuce or other leafy green
1/3 c shredded cabbage
1/2 c garbanzo and/or kidney beans
2 T olive oil
Drizzle red wine vinegar to taste
Spices, salt, pepper, nut yeast to taste, stir it around until the avocado starts making a cream sauce with the oil and vinegar

Eat alone.

Ginger Snausage Dumplings

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Ginger Snausage Dumplings

1/4 tube Gimme Lean vegan snausage, pinched into chunks
Spoonful of sugar
Thumb sized chunk grated ginger
Green onions, chopped, to taste
10 wonton wrappers

Mix the snausage, ginger, sugar and green onions together in a bowl. Spoon the mixture into the center of a dumpling wrapper. Wet the corner of the wrapper and pinch it shut. Steam 10 mins. Good with a dipping sauce but I don’t have a good recipe for that. SORRY.