Wednesday, November 28, 2007

French Silk Pie!!!



I found the nonvegan recipe for this in some weird magazine and was so intrigued that I decided to try veganizing it. This is a recipe that called for 6 eggs and required absolutely no baking. Isn't that gross? At least you don't have to worry about salmonella by eating mine.
It was amazing........probably the most decadent dessert I have ever made!
Here's a close-up.
Oh yeah........... and somehow I made vegan whip cream topping. I amazed myself!




xoxo

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

BLACK AND WHITES!!!






ummmm.....hi, I finally perfected my black and white halfmoon cookies! Im super stoked!
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Scalloped Potatoes and seitan


I so love my mom's scalloped potato recipe. I loved it when I was little, so much in fact that I veganized it and added "ham flavored" seitan. AWESOME. Its a total favorite in this house. I served it here with some broccoli and then devoured it.




We had this for dinner last night. Some nice rotini pasta with kale, broccoli, red peppers, olives, garlic, and onions. Topped with some lovely tomato sauce and marinated italian tofu.


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Sunday, November 4, 2007

Confetti Hash and Pasta........love


Brunch yesterday was great. I usually make three dishes for brunch because I'm such a pig, but I knew this was going to be filling. I created a lovely and colorful hash out of some leftover seitan, onions, peppers, peas, kale, and shredded potato. I basically let everything fry really well with some black pepper, herbs and salt and made sure to cover it to trap the moisture in. I threw a little nutritional yeast in towards the end with some soy sauce and I was left with a wonderful goopy potato hash. I made up some carrot ginger muffins to serve with it. I topped mine with salsa because we were out of ketchup. It was a nice dish for such a lazy day! I think I might sub some bran for some of the flour in the muffins next time to make them a bit healthier.




Dinner that night was a nice veg filled pasta with some canneloni and sundried tomato patties. The patties were good. I sauteed some sundried tomatoes, garlic, and green onions and then tossed them into a food processor with one can of canneloni beans, some balsamic vinegar, black pepper, basil, thyme, and nutritional yeast. I then put them into an oiled frying pan and fried until golden, semi-black. I have always found that frying any type of bean patty is difficult...you can NOT have too much oil. If you do, you end up with a mess because the patties will not stick together. Last night after I messed up a few, I tried lightly frying them in a dry pan. I think next time I will use a light coating of some cooking spray and that should do the trick.
Other than that small debacle, they came out pretty well and had a nice flavor to them because of the sundried tomatoes.
We both only ended up having one helping because it was so filling. Perfect!
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Thursday, November 1, 2007