Vegan weekend adventures in Ottawa fall 2023

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The fall season in Ottawa is a few weeks so you have to enjoy it. This summer was mostly rainy but it was heat wave weather at the end September straight to the colder windy days of October. If you are new to my blog I have lived most of my life in Vancouver and moved to Ottawa last year. I moved to Ottawa with my mom and last fall was dealing with her pancreatic cancer so I didn’t have time to enjoy Ottawa fall things. My mom passed away last October and this year I didn’t have many commitments which left me time to explore the Ottawa beauty and vegan food.  There really isn’t enough time to explore everything and work there is always something going on. I have also gone from not having much of a social life to having to vegan friends in the last couple of months. The beauty of Ottawa is it really is a big city small town at least in the vegan market community. Hotpotatoco one of the vendors at the market introduced me to one of my vegan friends that will be known as the other vegan g
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I made Vegan Hackspod mung bean vegan egg recipe with Urad dal or Split black Mapte Beans

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I love VeganHackspod’s Mung bean vegan egg recipe. Here is a previous blog comparing it to Justegg-vs-mung-bean-egg-using-vegan.html

I wondered if  different lentil would work I didn’t cook lentils much myself before I was vegan but my mom always did. I only had Urad Dal or split black mapte beans a couple of times. My mom would save it for special occasions telling me it took longer to cook. I remember it being so creamy as a soup. It was only $3.99 for the bag about the same price as mung beans. Looking at the instructions they don’t take longer to cook and I looked up some recipes online they are used in pancakes. 

I soaked them after four hours they are so fluffy and expanded so much. The washing was a little more work for these than the mung lentils because it’s hard to tell if it’s skin or dirt on them maybe that’s what my mom meant by longer cooking. 

The next day I blended the lentils with some spices and plant milk. I used ripple milk and I used the magic bullet to blend so it wasn’t perfect but I liked the added texture. 

 

I don’t have a big pan right now so I cooked them in a pot to start with this took around 15 minutes. I added some vegan butter to the mix and after 10 minutes some more plant milk. 

I wanted to know if this mixture would be a good omelette so after 5 minutes of cooking I took some out to cook in my mini cast iron pan later.  It set so well I could see baking this as a quiche or vegan egg bites in the future. 

I cooked the cooked mixture with some veggies then I added some vegan cheese. I think it turned out pretty well. 


After the scrambled mixture cooled it also looks pretty good. I did find it has a slight bitter taste to it if there aren’t any veggies in it but that could be the spices I used. I like this recipe I will make it again. Let me know if you make this. 

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