I eat spaghetti squash with lentil bolognese. It's a pretty easy meal. The sauce is better if you use an immersion blender to puree some of the lentils into the tomato sauce, and then add the rest of the lentils to the mix. Technically, it's not pasta.
I also have a vegan instant pot cookbook that has some great recipes. This one:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-ve ... 1129963480. I really like the khichdi recipe, and there's a couple others in there we make a lot. I like the millet and cauliflower mash, though I don't think rhinosaur likes it as much as I do. I think that author has a bunch of non-instant pot vegan recipes on her website.
Indian food is always good. I have a couple recipes that I make, but we also go out for it. And try south indian too, it's amazing and completely different from north indian food.
Sometimes I just cook lentils, mashed potatoes, and greens for dinner. Sometimes instead of lentils I make beans. Sometimes instead of potatoes I make rice or grits (polenta), sometimes instead of greens I make broccoli. Which is a green, I guess? But yeah, this is the standard dinner at our house -- legume + carb + green. I like to do the lentils with carmelized onions and chopped portobellos, cook those down with salt and then add the cooked drained lentils, then a touch of balsamic vinegar to balance it. The beans I like to just stew with a chopped tomato or two and some diced onion, thyme, and salt.
Tonight we had a "mexican casserole" that had a masa base with a layer of seasoned black beans and then a layer of chopped peppers/onions/squashes, topped with another layer of masa and enchilada sauce. It was great.
Lentil shepherds pie is also pretty good if you want something hearty.
Do you eat tofu or tempeh? Both are really good in stir fry, with rice, of course. Tempeh I sometimes marinate/baste in sauce and bake in the oven. Even if you don't see it on a menu, most Chinese and Thai restaurants will have tofu if you ask and you can get that instead of beef or chicken in any dish.
Split pea and barley soup is really good in the winter. Eat with brown bread.
Quinoa bowls are also a relatively easy go-to. You can throw whatever you like in there. I usually do beans and sauteed veggies.
Also taco salads (with either bean base or lentils with taco seasoning) or falafel salads. We get frozen falafel balls from Trader Joe's.
That's it. That's all I eat.
