Sequestration Meal #553

 

It's pineapple season. Are you excited? I built a whole meal around them! So what we have here is pineapple-cucumber salad (recipe veganized from Belly Full), carrot-celery slaw (recipe from I Heart Umami), and something called bulgogi soy curls (recipe from Connoisseurus Veg) with rice and a couple of veggie gyoza I had in my freezer.

Fresh pineapple is always so exciting to me, even more so because now I pretty much never buy it out of season. So I've been waiting quite a while for this deliciousness! This recipe is great--sweet, spicy, and juicy. I just subbed some vegan honey for the honey; the rest of it was already vegan.

The carrot-celery slaw was easy and pretty great, too! Celery is basically a year-round food, and nice and cheap. So are carrots. This is budget food without feeling like one is depriving oneself of stuff.

The soy curls aren't bulgogi--gochujang doesn't belong in bulgogi--but they were tasty and I enjoyed them. All in all, a victory in these frustrating times.

As always, if you need to avoid gluten, ensure your soy sauce is gluten free. I tagged this as gluten free because it so easily can be, but it also so easily can have gluten. Take care of yourselves!