food w/ pics - some favorite vegan(ized) dishes

these have been accumulating

[tofu pad thai]

i use an approximation of this recipe (eggs ommitted and lots of fresh chillies and/or chilli flakes instead of chilli sauce, plus peanutbutter)
here's another good (more traditional) one

[jab chae]

this is probably one of the few non-spicy but vegetarian korean dishes, and it's one of my favorite foods: it's so filling yet somehow light tasting, a cold salad-type dish with delicious veggies and sweet potato noodles plus a strong sesame flavor. here (scroll down) are good step-by-step instructions on how to make it, with lovely pictures (i do something similar, except fry onions and carrots, mushrooms, and spinach separately and i use shitake and white button mushrooms).

[chocolate coconut-caramel cake]

this was a 2-layer chocolate cake filled with a coconut-caramel cream (coconut jelly, sugar, soymilk, corn starch and vanilla), with chocolate glaze (melted chocolate, soymilk, rum essence, vanilla) and (store-bought vegan) caramel icing.

[roasted zucchini in lemon-garlic-mustard marinade]

this is a personal simplified variation of the already simple south-italian "antipasto" marinated roasted veggie recipe (see chilli eggplant below): roast thin slices of zucchini, then combine with olive oil, finely chopped garlic, lemon juice, whole-seed mustard, salt and pepper

[roasted eggplant in chilli-garlic-oregano marinade]

i've mentioned the perfection of this and i posted this recipe before
(but i was wrong there, the vinegar one should use is not "balsamic" in the traditional italian sense - rather, you need a good white vinegar)

[roasted eggplant and roasted zucchini sandwich]

(there's also a little bit of pasta with creamy mushroom sauce in this picture; no recipe for that right now, sorry)