Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Vegan Sloppy Joe Love


Vegan Sloppy Joes

I know it’s the middle of summer but apart from gorging myself on peaches I pretty much eat like I always do.  After not being shunned last week when I admitted to not being a salad person, I now feel comfortable coming out about my favourite type of comfort food.   The keywords are saucy and warm.  Last night before bed, I was craving sloppy joes and when I got up this morning I just had to make them for breakfast.  In the last few months I’ve enjoyed two recipes - one from Veganomicon using lentils and another featuring tofu from La Dolce Vegan.   I had a fairly lazy cooking week and definitely wanted to try a new recipe.  In the interests of time and my grumbling tummy, I decided on a recipe from another Sarah Kramer book - How it all Vegan and substituted tofu for the tvp.  It was really satisfying (read saucy) and for me, it had the perfect blend of spices.  And the best part is that no-one else in my little family of three likes sloppy joes so I only had to give up the heart-shaped toast to my daughter and the rest of the pot was mine!  I guess nobody else in the family appreciates the slop like I do.  Maybe it’s the dill pickle?    

The recipe consists of two parts; first blending all of the sauce ingredients – tomatoes, tomato paste, olive oil, garlic, onion and spices together and then frying up the green pepper, onion, tofu, dill pickle, spices etc in pan.  Add the two parts together and simmer for as long as you can hold off.  I served this with whole grain toast instead of the traditional bun but you can do whatever you like.  I stuffed myself.   

8 comments:

  1. Oh, a heart made from toast! How wonderful! Yum! Sounds delicious. From a fellow "not a salad person" person.

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  2. I love my heart toast! And Maggie liked it too. I had to make four more hearts to go around.

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  3. Looks and sounds delicious and I love the heart-shaped toast ;-) I have never made sloppy joes nor remember eating them as a kid, but they sound good. Since I got "How it All Vegan" from the library last week, this might be the perfect time to try it. I never use TVP so I'm glad to know the tofu sub. worked.

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  4. I've just started to look through this book too Kathryn. The recipes appear to be very home-style cooking which is nice for casual meals. Yesterday I made a really, really, yummy banana bread from the book that I would recommend. It's gone already!

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  5. Mmm! Yes, I think "home-style" is a great way to describe this cookbook. Most of the recipes look delish' and I think will be great for winter with all the comfort food. Some of the baked goods are a bit too heavy on oil for my taste (er, waistline) but otherwise I think I'll use many of the recipes.

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  6. Yes, I think these books are popular for a reason and I just noticed that in the back of at least one of them there are sections for making non-food items as well. It's really interesting.

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  7. I made this the other night and loved it!!! Sooo good!!! I'm so glad I saw your post because otherwise I would have probably passed this up (not being a sloppy joe eater before) and it's one of my favorite vegan recipes yet! Tyler really liked it, too. I had the left-overs at work yesterday at a luncheon with my friends/co-workers and they were all oohing-and-aaahing over how yummy it looked ;-)

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  8. You did? I'm so happy you loved it. That makes me happy.

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