I believe this should now become a vegetarian recipe thread!
My favourite is a gnocchi with a vegan almond mint creme sauce- and it does make an excellent creme sauce without milk products! Just make the gnocchi as it's normally made (I do have a good recipe for gnocchi if you can weedle it out of me
) or buy it premade and just heat it up as directed. To make the creme sauce heat up equal parts almond milk and olive oil (though you might need to experiment to get a sauce you like, I prefer a little less oil to almond milk) and then add crushed almonds, some freshly chopped mint and basil, sun-dried tomatoes, really whatever else you want to. I like to add freshly chopped lemony herbs. Then combine the creme sauce and gnocchi, and serve. It's nom-lisicious and cooks up in less than 15 minutes. Sorry it's not very... exact, but I hardly ever follow a recipe exactly when I cook and my creations always end up edible.
They aren't vegan, but ovo-vegetarian, but I also make what I call currydoodle cookies- a reason I shouldn't cook when bored. :cover: At my dorm/house at college we had to cook a meal once a week and I had to make snickerdoodles for the dessert. I mostly followed the snickerdoodle recipe but I used a modification of my personal garam masala spice mix and used the sweeter spices that are in it like cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice, a little ginger instead of just the cinnamon and sugar you use for snickerdoodles.
And I just used a little bit of vanilla soymilk and couple of egg whites from my free-range and certifiably organically fed chickens I had brought to school with me- they make a huge difference, they really do taste better when they come from happy and well-treated chickens.
Everyone in the house was a little unsure of them when I told them how I had made them but they were a HUGE hit that everyone loved. They loved my other "curry" dishes anyway! Haha.
I'm a huge fan of fusion dishes. I have a vast heritage (Punjabi, Slavic, Celtic, and Germanic) and a vast adopted heritage through friends/adoptive family I spend a lot of time with and places I lived (Brazil, various other Hispanic cuisines, lots of other Asian dishes) I LOVE to mix it up.