Hi, everyone. We are back for another What We Ate video where we show you what we eat in a day
as a vegan couple. This one is for last Monday.
For breakfast, I made some buckwheat and spelt flour crepes that we had with some sweet fillings.
Chocolate spread and also Kevin’s favourite filling for sweet crepes which is maple syrup
with coconut.
We also had a banana each along with the crepes and our usual cup of tea.
Throughout the day, we sipped on some Pu-erh tea.
It’s a new one that we’ve recently bought.
Pu Erh tea is a variety of fermented and aged dark tea produced in Yunnan province in China.
There are different varieties of Pu-erh tea and the one we bought for a start
is in the form of loose leaf.
It is also sold in the form of pressed cakes.
We are looking forward to trying other varieties of Pu-erh that have been aged for a longer
amount of time.
I am rinsing the tea first and from the lighter colour of the first rinse, it means that we
can steep this tea for a little longer, for about a minute.
A darker colour would only need about 20-30 seconds of steeping.
We are still learning about this tea and so far we've had a great experience from it.
Both Kevin and I instantly adopted it as our current and all-time favourite so far.
It is a very relaxing tea.
The variety that we bought has a mild mellow taste that we love.
This tea is not so much about the taste as it is about the Chai Chi which is the energy
of the tea.
Pu-erh also has a lot of health benefits.
It is very effective to lower cholesterol.
I will talk more about Pu-erh in the future when I’ve had the chance to try out other
varieties.
We did not really have lunch and we snacked on some fruits instead - a large mango between
the two of us and a couple of small Italian plums.
We helped ourselves to another cup of black tea with soymilk in the late afternoon while
working on our next videos.
For dinner, I had a couple of Chinese eggplant that really needed to be used.
So, I started by pan frying them while still thinking what I wanted to make with them.
I decided to go for a spicy sauce-based dish.
Can you guess what this sauce is?
I’ll give you a little hint.
It’s a British favourite.
I’ve veganized it and added some kidney beans and courgettes...or zucchini.
We had this with brown rice.
It was superb and we will be sharing this recipe quite soon.
So stay tuned.
So that was it for what we ate on Monday.
By the way, some of you have asked for the okra recipe that we showed in our previous
What We Ate video.
At the moment, we can’t find good okra for some reason.
They are somewhat mature with tough seeds inside which make them inappropriate for cooking.
I’ll be sharing the recipe as soon as I can find some nice fresh tender okra.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this episode.
See you very soon.