1st a snack I love to have....
Banana's, berries, w/ peanut butter Rye Crackers
Quick simple and is really tasty. I'm not big on the rye crackers by them selves but w/ the peanut butter and bananas....I love them. They are high in fiber and protein!!!! Plus you can get a couple servings of fruit with them.
4 Rye Crackers
1 Tablespoon peanut Butter
1 Banana
Berries of you liking
Fried Tofu w/ sweet & sour mixed veggies & lo mien
1 pack firm tofu (drained, frozen. thawed and redrained)
Sweet snap peas or Green beans
carrots
Red, orange sweet peppers
Pineapples (fresh or canned in pineapple juice)
Lo mein noodles
Sweet & sour sauce
I fry my tofu ahead of time. It can sit for a while. I cook it when I feel like it the same day I am going to eat it. Then later when I want to through the rest together it is all done. I normally used frozen peas & beans so unthaw them. Throw all the veggies in together. Boil the lo mein seperaly. When the lo mein is almost done throw in with the veggies and it will finish cooking off in there. Add the tofu so that it reheats and then add your S&S sauce.
Banana Bread
This recipe turned out great. It came from the PPK website. Its one of Isa's recipes so you now its going to be good!
Baby Bella & carmalized onion sammies
This sammie is from Sarah Kramers book The Garden of Vegan. The only thing different I do is I purchase baby bella's and slice them up thin. I don't like the mushroom texture or the black oil that portabellas leak off. Plus I don't ass the goddess dressing. But these are really good try them. The recipe is on page 56.
Strawberry Cake w/ tofutti cream cheese icing
This strawberry cake turned out pretty good. It came from The Joy of Vegan Baking the Strawberry Cupcake recipe on page 87. The tofutti cream cheese icing came from the same book page 231. It was a tad bit liquidy though. I added extra toffuti cream cheese to get it to thicken up some. When you mix up the batter to this came it is an awesome red. I wish it would stay that color. But the flavor is good and it turns out a light pink brown color. The toffuti cream cheese icing is awesome on it. I can't wait to try it on a carrot cake!
Chocolate Chocolate Chip muffins
These are from the book Vegan with a Vengeance. This recipe always turns out yummy and very chocolatey. Definitely try this recipe! (Sorry I can't list the page number I can't find my book...)
Shepard's pie
This recipe originated from Rachael Ray's 30 minute meals. But I changed it up a lot. So I am going to post my recipe and click on her name for the link to her recipe.
Ingredients
Potato Topping
2 to 3 pounds Pototoes
2 Table spoons tofutti sour cream or cream cheese (I used the Toffuti sour cream)
1/2 cups Veg stock or soy milk (I used stock this time)
Salt & pepper
Filling
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 pack ground boca crumbles
3 Carrots
1 Cup sweet peas
1 onion
1 pack tempeh of choice
2 Tbsp Smart Balance Light
2 Tbsp flour
1 Cup veg broth
2 Tsp Vegan Worcestershire sauce
1 Tsp Paprika
Instructions
Boil potatoes. Strain and add the tofutti sour cream, stock, salt, & pepper and mash.
while potatoes ate boiling. Add oil to skillet over medium heat. Add the Onions to cook down some and after onions sweat down some add the carrots so they can become tender. After carrots get tender but still have some texture left add Boca burger and tempah to brown. Add peas. Let cook 5 minutes. Make a well in the center of the mixture. Add smart balance & flour let cook a minute. Whisk in veg broth & vegan worcestershire sauce so that it forms a gravy. Pour mixture into an over safe pan if you didn't cook it is one. Place the mashed potatoes on top. Sprinkle w/ paprika. Broil for 6 to 8 minutes. Till the potatoes are crusty. Serve....
Pinto Beans
I just started cooking beans from scratch. This batch turned out great. I froze a big bowls full. And then I made these for dinner.
Pinto Beans- Boil water then turn off. Let set for an hour or two in the hot water with a cover over it. Strain and rinse. Let cook for 3 to 4 hours. Don't cook till done if you are going to freeze them. Freeze in there broth.
Pinto beans w/ bread or Corn bread
Finish cooking beans with pepper, salt, and onions. (Onions are optional). Cook beans till desired tenderness. In a cup or bowl melt smart balance or add oil and some flour. I part butter to one part flour. Depending on how much bean broth you have to thicken. About 1 Tbsp of Flour & oil pour cup of fluid. Add some water to you cup to thin out flour mixture. Then add slowly to beans. This will thicken them. Make sure the broth doesn't scald the flour mixture because then it will not mix in and will leave chunks of flour throughout your food. Which is not good..... Add a good amount of pepper.... This serves really good with corn bread. But when I don't feel like making corn bread we have it on regular buttered bread. Even when I do make corn bread I make the sweet corn bread and I have it for dessert and have my beans on regular bread. After it thickens it is ready to serve.
