Pad Thai

Pad Thai Recipe!! (I used a base from myrecipes.com) 

Sauce:

1/4 c. low - sodium soy sauce

2 T. vinegar

1 t. hot sauce

1 t. maple syrup

Noodles:

2 c. shiitake mushrooms

1 c. grated carrots

1 garlic cloves, minced

8 oz tofu, drained and cut into small cubes

1 c. fresh bean sprouts

1 c. chopped fresh cilantro

1/4 c. dry roasted panuts

8 oz uncooked wide rice stick noodles (mung bean threads work also)

2 limes

Prepare the sauce by combining all ingredients in a small cup/bowl, stirring to get them well incorporated. 

Sautee the mushrooms and carrots together in water or a light spray of oil. Throw in the garlic, and tofu with the sauce that you just made. Sautee for 2 minutes, then add in the bean sprouts, cilantro, peanuts, noodles. Sautee for a few minutes. Serve with the lime wedges. I like to eat Sriracha on this too. :) 

5 servings

Cornbread Pic By Pic!

So here's a step by step instructional for cornbread!!! 

Gather up the ingredients. I forgott to put in the sugar thing here, but it would be there. :) 

My dry ingredients. Didn't get a picture of the wet mixed into the dry

And the finished product! I think this batch turned out very nice and I was happy with the colour. 

1 c. corn meal

1 c. flour

1 1/2 T. brown sugar

1 T. baking powder

1/2 t. salt

1 1/2 t. energ egg replacer

1 c. milk

1 t. oil

2 T. water

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Mix the cornmeal, flour, brown sugar, baking powder, salt, egg replacer. Make sure they're well mixed. then add in the milk (or water + milk powder), oil and other water. Pour into a greased cake tin, or 8x8 pan and bake for 30 minutes, until the top is nice and golden brown or just golden, depending on how you like your corn bread. We ate this with some chili, and we like to eat it with soup, or in the mornings with milk and maple syrup on it. Enjoy!

Microwave Blueberry Muffin

Sorry this picture isn't so great of it. It looks kind of pathetic but it was really good. :) Especially for a vegan microwave muffin.

3 T. flour (i used white flour)

1/4 t. baking powder

1/16 t. salt

1-2 T. blueberries

1/2 t. vanilla extract

1 T. coconut oil (or applesauce)

1 T. + 1 t. unsweetened almond milk (or milk of choice)

Mix dry ingredients, add wet. Mix until just combined and place in a mug. I didn't grease mine and it came out fine, but you may want to spray yours with Pam. It takes from 90-120 seconds. Pop out off the mug and enjoy! 

Mochiko

I'm excited to finally get this recipe up on here. This is the first of two parts to make a third part, the dessert called Daifuku. Daifuku is made up of a sweet bean paste middle, and then a glutenous rice flour outside. It is very good and a popular asian dessert. so here we go!

1 1/2 c. mochiko (glutenous rice flour)
1 1/2 c. water
sugar (depending on how much sugar you want, 1 c. - 1/4 c. )

Blend the mochiko, water and sugar in a microwavable bowl, and then microwave it for 4-8 minutes on high. Check it every few minutes to make sure it's coming along. It should become like jelly. Let it cool, then roll it out in corn starch, or potato starch so it can be handled. This can be eaten alone (depending on how much sugar is put in it) or you can roll it out, put a ball of bean paste in it, and wrap it up. The bean paste recipe is coming up. I like to not put any sugar or a little sugar in it when i use the bean paste since i sweeten the beans and it sweetens he whole dessert and trys to lower the calorie count here. haha!

ps if you want to add food colouring, go ahead, just add in drops before you microwave, stir, and check the colour. Put in as much or as little as you want! White is also okay (white you can get by not putting any coulouring in) also, black sesame powder can get a black colour, if that is what you desire.

Happy New Years + waffle chips?

School started for me on the 2nd (we got out early) and so that wrecked havoc on all my bloggin plans and stuff. Sorry I didn't get more recipes that I thought that I would. Some times I have more time that i think, and then it all washes over me and I wonder what's going on. But here's a recipe that's quick.

When ever we make waffles, we have some left over so we freeze them and collect quite a pile that we can pop in the toaster and have an instant Sunday breakfast. We had one of those breakfasts where we just put the waffles in and eat them, and we had some left over, so I chopped up the waffles and stuck them in the dehydrator, making nice crispy dried waffles! They were very good and I really recommend them with some sriracha or salsa.... It's easy to make, using left overs and is a nice treat for supper. For suppers we usually make something light, and eat light foods, since we're going to bed in a few hours. Enjoy and tell me how it works out! I promise I'll try to post more!