A Salad of Sorts...

Alrighy, then.  Let's see, you'll need a base of chopped iceburg/lettuce.
Toppings are warmed:
Rice
Sun dried tomatoes
Cooked onion, carrot, broccoli
Raisins
Shredded low-fat coconut
Avocado

Drizzle with sugar free maple syrup, and sprinkle with nooch.

Adapted from The Tolerant Vegan

Corn Chiliiiiii!

Dude.  I am so exhausted, but also couldn't be more content with my life.  (Ok, so I got some bad grades today, but that was not unexpected...)  I won't disclose why I'm feeling like this, but life has just gotten better.  Let's just go with... I have some EXCELLENT friends :)

Alright, and now the food!

Adapted from 86 Lemons

Veggies

• Onion
• Carrot
• Sweet potato
• Frozen corn
• Canned diced tomatoes (no salt)
• Celery
• Red bell pepper
• Garlic

Seasonings:

• Cumin
• Chili powder
• Home made veggie broth powder

Beans - any kind will do.
Corn starch slurry
Seitan, of course.

[Vegan] Meaty Beans

Saute some chopped onion, and add TVP.  Add enough water to rehydrate the TVP.  For seasoning, add in a splash of soy sauce, paprika, bbq sauce, vegan worchestire sauce, chili powder, home made veggie broth powder.
Add in cooked beans (I used a mixture), along with canned tomato sauce.
Top with goat cheeze.

Adapted from Hell Yeah It's Vegan

Meatball Sub

Alright... So.  For the sandwich, toast a hotdog bun.  Heat up some tomato sauce (I blended sauteed onion, garlic, canned tomatoes, Italian seasonings, and sugar free maple syrup) with a few lentil balls.  Top with some goat cheese and fresh arugula!
Adapted from Live Learn Love Eat

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Paella (Thingy) with Chorizo-Seitan

You know what?  I'm tired, I wanna go to bead, and this stupid internet isn't uploading the other two pictures that I got.. so.. yeah.  I just won't fight a battle not worth fighting...
Ok, really, I'm not in that bad of a mood... life is good.  (Aside from physics, but that is a whole different topic that I don't care to breach at the moment).  Can you believe it's almost Thanksgiving?  Wow!  Time flies!

Adapted from Vegan Fur Ninja

For the seitan, mix:
1 1/4 cup vital wheat gluten
nutmeg
stevia + molasses (as brown sugar replacement)
paprika
fennel seeds
3/4 cup water + vegetable broth powder
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
2 cloves finely chopped garlic.

Mix, adding water as needed.  Plop onto a baking sheet and bake at 350 for 30 minutes, until it becomes scarily poofy.

for the Paella:
Saute chopped onion, bell pepper, carrot, and garlic.  Add in enough rice to make the amount of food you want, and 1.5 times water as rice.  Seasonings are smoked paprika, bay leaf.  Other stuffs included fire roasted tomatoes, tomato paste, white beans, frozen pean, roasted red bell peppers, cloves, liquid smoke, butter extract, chili powder, and olives (all stirred in after the rice finished cooking. 

Chilli Quesadilla

Good gosh, I'm so sleepy right now.

 

 

Thus I will leave you with a yummy quesadilla and then call it a night...

Adapted from Floral Foodie

Saute 1/2 small onion, a few slices of bell pepper, and 2 cloves garlic.  Add in 1/2 cup cooked kidney beans, 1/2 cup Soyrizo, 1/2 tbsp cumin, chili pepper, diced tomatoes, home made veggie broth powder, and 1/4 cup TVP.  Add in enough water so the TVP is rehydrated, and let simmer for a few minutes.  Spread inbetween 2 tortillas, and bake for a few minutes.  Easy and yum!

Lunch Wrap + Blueberry Muffins

Double whammy today! 
A) I'm proud of myself for starting to be braver about eating raw foods - like onion.  I used to be so scared to eat raw foods like onion and cabbage, because I thought it would mess up my stomach (don't ask).  However, my courage is slowly returning.  Thus, I put raw onion in my lunch wraps, and am loving it!
B) Have been searching for frozen blueberries for a llllllooooong time, and finally found them!  I don't like fresh blueberries (I know, don't hate), but decided to try frozen.  Voila, I like 'em!

And with all of that...

Muffins are from HHL, changes are whole wheat flour, baking blend stevia in place of sugar, omitted orange juice and oil, gingerbread cookie tea, and no almonds.  24 mini muffins at 35 calories per muffin.
The wrap is adapted loosely from VegBurgers.  It consists of:

• avocado
• raw red onion slivers
• silken tofu blended with lemon and cilantro,
• iceburg lettuce
• smoky cashew-pesto cheese, using this pesto recipe (omitting the oil, using water instead, and omitting the miso), and adding sun dried tomatoes to it
• tofu, pressed, cooked on the panini press after being smothered in bbq sauce (omitting the oil, omitting the bourbon and adding vegan worchestire sauce and rum extract)

And I suppose that I should go ahead and add in here that I made a pizza with the bbq sauce:
Pizza crust topped with bbq sauce, paninied mushrooms and red bell pepper, arugula, and the cheese from above.

Chilli with Sour Cream

 

More soup, catching up still...

 

As far as I remember, this was pretty tasty!

 

 

Side note on my life:  Homecoming is tomorrow.  I, obviously, don't have a date, and am not going (will probably be fast asleep when the dance starts at 9).  Is it weird that I'm proud to scoff at people who waste time/money on that stuff?  ;)  I literaly told someone "Why would you spend $100 on homecoming?  Do you know how much tofu that would buy?"  That totally got so many laughs from my friends... :D

 

Anyhoo...

 

Chili, adapted from Vouge Vegetarian

 

Veggies:

• Onion
• Garlic
• Carrots
• Canned, diced tomatoes

 

Seasonings:

• Vegan worchestire sauce (annie's is vegan)
• Cilantro
• No chicken broth powder
• Chili powder
• Cumin

 

Other:

• Setian of choice
• sour cream, to serve (use stevia, add the nooch - deeeelish!)
• Pinto beans
• Corn starch slurry

It's Pizza... No, It's Quinoa... No, It's Pizzaquinoa!

So, I made this Pizza Quinoa casserole...

 

 

It was the PERFECT start to a 4 day weekend!  What flavour!  Excellent!

And, now since I have a bit more time to type tonight, I will take advantage of that and rant for a bit.  I think all of my friends, and I now that I think about it, have senioritis.  It's bad, and the year is not even half overwith yet.  I feel like my emotions inside are kind of rolling around, like a giant wad of tangled thread.  It's like of weird - I'm either laughing or about to cry or both.  I'll stop now, and move on to food...  so I don't get too depressed.

 

Adapted from Food Doodles

 

In a casserole dish, combine:

• 1/2 cup dried quinoa, cooked with 1 cup water
• 1/2 onion, finely chopped and sauteed
• 2 cloves garlic, chopped and sauteed
• 1/3 red bell pepper, finely chopped and sauteed
• 3 tbsp home made ketchup (heavenly stuff - use stevia for the sucanat to reduce calories)
• 2 tbsp tomato paste
• 1 tbsp each freshly chopped basil and oregano
• 1 tsp sumac
• 1 tsp fennel seeds
• 2 tbsp nooch
• a few drops liquid stevia

 

bake at 350 for 20 minutes or so

Sweet Potato Balls and Spaghetti

So, I've got some pasta for you guys tonight!

 

 

Although I made this ages ago, I seem to remember that is was super yummy, sooo..

Quite a good first 'meat'ball recipe for me!  They stuck together, which was really nice.

 

Sweet Potato Balls from Fat Free Vegan

Sauce from Ambitious Kitchen

 

For the sauce: blend until smooth, and heat:

• 1 roasted hatch chili pepper
• 28 oz can salt-free tomatoes
• 3/4 cup chopped onion, sauteed
• 5 cloves garlic, chopped, sauteed
• 2 cups water
• Chick'n bouillon for 2 cups of broth
• Cumin to taste
• ~1/4 cup cilantro

For the 'meat'balls, mix together, shape into balls, and bake at 350 for 30 minutes:

• 3/4 cup chopped mushrooms, sauteed
• 1 small sweet potato, peeled, boiled, mashed
• 1/2 cup cooked quinoa
• 1/2 onion, chopped, cooked
• 3 cloves garlic, chopped, sauteed
• 1 cup chickpeas
• 1 tbsp flax meal
• 1 tbsp nooch
• oregano, paprika, fennel, sage, liquid smoke to flavour

Serve sauce over pasta, topped with 'meat'balls

 

Roasted Pepper & "Feta" Pizza

Featuring bell pepper made two ways...

 

 

And the fabulous feta cheese!  I swear, this stuff tastes like the Tofutti Herbed Cream Cheese.  Weird.  But good.

 

Pizzapizzapizza for me!  (And you, if you make it)

Adapted from Simply Scratch

For the sauce, blend:
1/4 cup tomato paste
1/2 roasted red bell pepper
Fresh basil and oregano
1/2 cup sauteed onion
1 clove sauteed garlic

Spread onto a pizza crust, top with bell peppers cooked in a panini press, feta, and fresh oregano leaves.  Cook until heated through.

Very Full Burritos with Salsa and "Feta"

Wraps are so frustrating to photograph... sorry.. (it doesn't help that I was hungry!)

 

 

I promise you, though, these were excellent.  Filling, flavourful, and just messy enough.

Adapted from Oh She Glows

On a panini press, cook sliced onions and mushrooms with some chopped garlic.

Mix with heated:

• diced & cooked potato
• black beans
• chopped basil & parsley
• nooch
• paprika

Pile into a wrap, and top with feta and salsa

Weeeeird Pizza #2

Tofu fingers.. on a pizza?  Sure!

 

 

It actually worked out really well.  Quite intense goodness!

Adapted from Veg-Bergers

First, make some mini tofu logs, about as big as your pinky.  In one bowl, mix 1/3 cup soy milk with 1 tbsp dijon mustard.  In another bowl, mix 1/2 cup cornmeal, paprika, thyme, basil, and oregano.  Dip the tofu in the milk, then coat with cornmeal.  Bake in the oven at 350 for 20 minutes, until firm.
Spread a pizza crust (cooked for a few minutes in the oven) with tomato sauce (from a can), and sprinkle with nooch.  Top with broccoli, sun-dried tomatoes, orange pieces, and tofu.  Bake for 20 minutes at 350, until broccoli is cooked.  Serve with ketchup, incase the tofu falls off. ;)

Herby Soup

 

Okwowthisblewmymindaway.

Somanyfreshherbs.  Yay!

 

 

Adapted from Taste of Home

Veggies:

• Celery (I'm trying to make myself like celery... here goes!)
• Onion
• Carrots
• Garlic
• Crushed tomatoes

Seasonings:

• LOTS of fresh oregano and basil
• dried thyme
• veggie chicken bouillon
• A few drops butter extract

Other:

• Brown rice
• White beans
• Seitan
• Corn starch slurry

Cheesy Quesadillas

Adapted from Keepin It Kind

Blend until veeeery smooth: this queso cauliflower sauce, minus the miso, jalapenos, and hot sauce, and sauteing the onions and cauliflower before blending.
On a tortilla, spread ~1/2 cup sauce, jarred salsa (or make your own - that's what I'll do next time!), and the best cheese in the world; fold in half.  Cook in the oven or on a panini press until heated through and crispy, about 20 minutes.

This should make about 4 quesadillas.

Rice and Lentil Soup

And the latest addition to out of seasoning cooking...

What?  I had a giant bag of lentils that needed to be used up! ;)

Adapted from All Recipes

Veggies:

• Carrots
• Onions
• Spinach
• Garlic
• Crushed tomatoes

Spices:

• bay leaf
• chopped fresh oregano
• chopped fresh basil
• nooch
• chili powder
• celery seed
• a splash of vinegar
• vegetable bouillon

Etc:

• lentils
• brown rice
• seitan
• cornstarch slurry to thicken



Sloppyyyyyyyyyyy Joes!

So, I was volunteering at a food pantry last Friday... and they were going to be closed to the public for the next 4 days, so they needed to give away all of their bread and desserts.

They had piles of it.  I mean, PILES.  Probably over 2000 loaves.

Unfortunetly, they were not able to give it all away - clients took all that they could for their families, but there was still leftover bread.

So, about 750 loaves of perfectly good bread were thrown away.  I took a few loaves home, mostly for M to make PB&J sandwiches, but... what a waste.  It killed me.

Adapted from Robin Robertson

• A handful of mushrooms, finely chopped
• 8 oz tomato puree
• ~1/3 cup TVP
• Fennel seeds
• basil
• sumac
• garlic powder
• sage
• paprika
• Italian seasoning
• Burger buns, cheese, pickles to serve

Sautee the mushrooms, and add remaining ingredients and simmer for ~30 minutes, until the TVP has absorbed the tomato.  Serve on buns, topped with pickles and the best cheese in the world.

Chilli Cheese Dogs

Oh, yes I did.

(yes, there is a hot dog under all of that!)

Adapted from Mommy's Kitchen

I used white wheat buns by Nature's Own (100 cal)
Yves veggie dogs (50 cal)
Topped it with cheese.
Pickles.  Duh.
And chili...

a wee bit of finely chopped carrot and onion, sauteed,
cooked white beans,
tomatoes, crushed in a Vitamix,
TVP,
molasses, garlic powder, liquid smoke, steiva extract, paprika, and chili powder,
finished off with a spoonful of cornstarch to thicken.

MMMMM......

BBQ Baked Tofu and Pintos

Ok, I have a confession to make...

I CAN'T GET ENOUGH BBQ SAUCE

Dang, that stuff is so addicting...

Adapted from That Was Vegan and The Wednesday Chef

Alright, first up, cut up enough 1/4 inch-ish tofu slabs to cover a 9*13 casserole dish.  This should be about 1 block, depending on what size you buy.  Then press the tofu.  Lay the tofu in a single layer in the casserole dish, and *smother* with bbq sauce (can you tell I'm trying to use it up?)  Bake for 20 minutes at 375, flip, bake for another 15 minutes, then broil for 3 minutes. 

While that is going, saute up a chopped small-ish red onion, and a chopped bell pepper - about the same amount of bell pepper as onion.  Mix the veggies with ~3 1/2 cups cooked pinto beans, 1/4 cup ketchup, 3 tbsp molasses, 3 tbsp sugar free maple syrup, ~1 tsp liquid smoke, 3 tbsp apple cider vinegar, 1 tbsp paprika, 1 tsp dried mustard, and a 4oz can of hatch chilis.  If you can get your hands on fresh hatch chilis, all the better, but I couldn't :(.  Anyhoo, spread this over the tofu, and then top with sweet potato tater tots (again, I WOULD link to a recipe here, but they turned out kind of bad...) - or, you could just smaaaaaaaaaall dice sweet potato and mix with cinnamon and call that done...

Bake this entire thing for about 20 minutes.  It should be nice and bubbly!

BBQ Tofu Salad

Yay!  Tofuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!



 You have no idea how long I have been wanting to say that.

Yup.



I'm dead serious.

Adapted from Keepin' It Kind
First up, tofu: Cut one slab of tofu per person, press, and then slather with this bbq sauce (using 6 oz tomato paste, not 4, and no need to cook it).  Bake for 30 minutes at 375, and slather with more bbq sauce.
Base: lettuce.
Add in the tofu, black olives, canned mandarine oranges, broccoli, avocado, and top with this dressing.