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!

Meat Balls

So I threw together some ingredients that I found in my pantry, rolled them into balls and stuck them in the oven. 

1 can of hominy

1/2 c. rice

1/2 can tomato sauce (3 oz)

1/2 the plastic thing of saltines

seasonings of choice

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. 

So I food proccessed the hominy, added in tomato sauce, mixed in rice, crushed the saltine and mixed it. Then i added the seasonings which included sriracha, dill, garlic, onion, curry powder, and soy sauce. 

I put them on parchment paper and stuck them in the oven for about 15-20 minutes, turning them at 10 minutes. They will be nice eating with sriracha, or some of your favourite hot sauce! 

Christmas Mashed Potatoes

I know I already have a mashed potato recipe on here, but here's a Christmas style that we did for our Christmas dinner up in Canada! 

3 pounds yukon gold potatoes
1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk at room temp
3/4 teaspoon salt (plus more for the water)
Several dashes fresh black pepper
1/2 t. basil

Okay, so you will want to peel the potatoes, cut them into chunks and then cover them with water. Put the salt in and bring them to a boil. Once they've reached a boil, simmer them for about 12 minutes and check to make sure that they're tender. Drain all the water out of them and start mashing! Add some unsweetend almond milk at room temperature. I have 1/2 a cup there, just to be able to start with something, but I usually add some more (I don't know how much, it goes in dashes at a time) until it's nice and creamy, likeyou like it. Add in the black pepper and serve warm. Add some salt too if you want to! Enjoy! 

Holidays!

I just wanted to wish you guys a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! I will try and get some pcitures of our Christmas meal up on here! (let's see, can't count on it, i'll be gone before we know it ^.^)

Stuffing

I made my own little portions of stuffing this year so I can have somethign that is vegan. This is the recipe for the stuffing that i made. I'll post a picture later.

1 c. bread crumbs
1/2 c. onion
shakes of polutry seasoning, and vegetable rubs
1 t. soy sauce
water to make it wet

Take a little oven roaster thingy and put the onion and polutry seasoning and roast it at 350 degrees for 5-10 minutes, watching it. Mix it in with the bread crumbs, and then put in the liquids. Add liquids to what seems wet enough (usually it will have butter in it) because it will just bake out. That's your stuffing recipe that i use!

Then I take some vegan meat, and then put in the stuffing in the vegan meat.

Spaghetti Sauce

I can't believe I haven't put this recipe up, but here it is!

1/2 onion
2 cloves of garlic
1 can of tomatoes (i use garlic and herbs, or italian {check to make sure its vegan})
1/2 c. vegan meat (I use tvp or textured vegan protein)
1/2 t. dried basil
1/2 t. italian seasoning
3/4 t. salt
1/2 t. Chicken seasoning

Saute the onion, garlic in some water. Add the tomatoes, then add the vegan meat of choice. Make it come to a boil and then add the seasoning of choices. Serve with some pasta noodles or angel hair. I like to have whole wheat noodles on hand. I get mine at walmart.

Brushetta

eat some on some kind of homemade French bread. It's really nice for a light supper.

6 tomatoes
1 garlic cloves
1/2 c. onion
3 sprigs of basil
1/2 t. salt

Slice the tomatoes and mince the garlic cloves. Do the same with the onion. Chop the basil very small and sprinkle with salt and other seasonings of choice. Mix all together. I like to stick mine in my refrigerator.

Chips

We like to make these on a Saturday night for snacking, or nachos!

6 small corn tortillas
salt
spray oil

Preheat the oven to 350. Cut the tortilla's into 8ths. Put on a greased or parchemnt papered baking sheet. Lay the tortilla triangles out and spray lightly with Pam spray oil or something like that. Sprinkle salt over them and place them in the oven for 10 minutes. Eat with salsa, guac, or vegan cheese!

Vegetable Soup

Here's a nice go to soup that I like to use. It's the veggies that i have either in cans in my pantry, or my refrigerator.

1/2 small-medium onion
3 stalks of celery, prepared
1 can tomatoes
1 c. frozen peas
water
1 bay leaf
1 t. garlic powder
1/2 t. onion powder
1/2 t. dill
1/2 t. dried basil


In a small saucepan, saute the onion and celery in some water, making them tender. Pour in the tomatoes and bring to a boil. Add the frozen peas, and water (add to how runny you want it). Then add the seasoning. Don't forget to take out the bay leaf when you serve it!