Monat: November 2018

Chickpea omelette

I never really made omelettes before I was vegan – it was really only something I would eat at a restaurant. Vegan omelettes always seemed a bit weird to me. It makes sense that you can easily replace eggs in baking, but in an omelette, basically the only ingredient is egg.

However, I found a video recipe for chickpea omelettes and finally tried to make it. It turns out vegan omelettes are delicious!

Omelette recipe: (makes two omelettes)

2 tbsp flaxmeal + 5.5 tbsp water, left to sit for 5 minutes
1 cup chickpea flour
1 tbsp nutritional yeast
1/4 tsp turmeric
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp black salt
1 cup broth

Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.

Heat a 35 cm/14 inch nonstick pan at medium heat with some oil. Then pour half of the batter into it and cook on one side for about 3 minutes, until the edges start to brown. Then use two spatulas to flip. Cook on the other side for 1 minute, then turn off the heat and add your fillings. Then fold the omelette over itself, remove from the heat, cover the pan and leave to sit for 3-5 minutes.

For the fillings, choose whatever you like. My favourite combination is soy chorizo (Trader Joe’s soyrizo is delicious, a few other brands have something similar), mushrooms, onions and vegan cheese.


The moment we’ve all been waiting for

Esther and Curtis finally kissed this week.

How long have we been waiting for this moment? Two years? These two have been dancing around each other ever since Curtis returned to Ferndale a year and a half ago (and even before he left the show the first time!). We had to sit through months of them looking at each other longingly, culminating with Finn offering to pay him $10,000 just to leave town. Then there was Curtis’ desperately boring relationship with Becky. Thank god that’s over. Anyway..

Also this week, Nicole decided to make up for not celebrating Halloween by wearing something approximating a polar bear costume.

I rarely have anything to say about people’s outfits on this show, but I had to mention this one. It’s November in Auckland, not the dead of winter in Invercargill/Antarctica.

Damo took Dawn to a beauty salon before her wedding, which caused her skin to have an allergic reaction, and made Damo’s face look like this:

“Never trust a business with an unnecessary z in the title.”

In the end, Dawn and Ali got married without a hitch, so that was lovely.

Kylie decided that she absolutely has to marry Dylan, a man who she’s been with for barely a month, who just attempted suicide two weeks ago, and who has three dead wives, one of whom is her sister. What could possibly go wrong?

I guess she and Frank got married after being together for only two weeks, so this shouldn’t be too surprising.

Last but not least, Damo took Donny and Pele to the zoo, and left Pele, a four year old kid with diabetes, at the zoo alone, assuming that Lincoln would come pick him up. So responsible!