Impatient Floret

Vegan Port wine ball with almonds, this was last holiday season, already looking forward to fall! Have over 100 recipes, need to re-test some, take pictures of the rest, and figure out how the other day I deleted a picture from instagram, but today it eludes me. Working with an old app, old phone, old ipad, so perhaps another file was updated that removed the delete button. Who knows!

Full English, all plants. (befueggs and quinoa sausage not pictured)

Meals are being made and I just keep freezing the left overs. Spinach and Artichoke Casserole This was good split between the two of us on a hungry day, but would also make a great side for maybe 8 spoonfuls. Grease a pie plate and add the mixed combination of: 2 handfuls cut spinach 6.5 ounce jar marinated artichokes drained and minced 1 cup rehydrated, slightly seasoned (broth), broken into smaller pieces soy curls 2 cups crushed tortilla chips 2 mushrooms, minced 2 green onion stalks, sliced 1 cup bechamel (oil, flour, nutritional yeast, almond milk, salt, pepper, garlic) Bake about 350f for 45 minutes, or until browned, or bubbly. The Hotdogs I steam in parchment and foil wrappers. These might do good on a grill or a stick over fire but I have not tried it. I fry it in a pan to give it crispy edges all around. I eats like a hot dog, but don't expect that elastic molded-meat pull to it. This is more like if you made food out of play dough. 1 1/2 tbsp toma...

Sweet Potato, Carrot, and Red Lentils Baked a sweet potato and carrot, sliced, oiled and salt and peppered for about 40 minutes at 350f. While those were going, cooked red lentils in twice their water, simmered for 20 minutes, drained and rinsed, then cooked with garlic, onion, paprika, butter, red pepper flakes, and broth until reduced and thickened.

Grits smothered in chickpea and hen of the valley. Hen of the valley is a mushroom I recently tried, if you don't have them, just use mushrooms you can find. Cook some grits to your liking, cover and set aside. Put 1 TBSP oil and 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes in a pan and heat it up, then add about a cup of sliced or diced mushrooms, and about 1 cup cooked garbanzo beans (chick peas). Sprinkle in some garlic, back pepper, onion, smoked paprika, and salt; if it gets too dry, add 1/2 cup bean cooking water, and 1 tsp "butter"). Cook it back down until you get the sauce texture you want. Serve immediately. Dish the veg's on top of the grits. Husband missed shrimp and grits, I thought this was an interesting way to hit that note.

Sautee minced onion, grape tomato, and 2 tsp garlic, split this between the casserole and rice dish. Ziti Casserole In a bowl, combine package of soft tofu tube of soyrizo 1/2 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp pepper half package par-cooked ziti 1 tsp oregano Stir very well, pour into greased glass pan, cover with foil. Cook about 400 for 25-30 minutes. LET REST before cutting. It needs to set. The Jambalaya was just pre-cooked jasmine rice, onion, tomato, veg sausage, veg burger, paprika, heated through in a large pan with some added veg broth.

Holiday  Nibbles 1. German Chocolate Cookies Mix wet first: 1/4 cup oil 1 flax egg 1 tsp vanilla 1/4 cup packed brown sugar Then add: 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 tp baking soda 1/4 cup cocoa 1/4 cup chopped pecans 1/4 cup sliced coconut 1/4 cup chocolate pieces 1 cup flour Bake 375f for 11 minutes, makes 1 dozen. Will get some missing pictures up after more batches are made again this season.  2. The gingerbread  from first book, but fixed and still fun! 1 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp baking soda 1 1/2 tsp ginger 1/2 tsp your choice (cinnamon, cloves, mace, nutmeg, allspice) 1/4 cup 'butter' 1/4 cup molasses 1/4 cup brown sugar 1 sp vanilla 1/8-1/4 cup water (just enough to make a ragged dough) 350f 11 minutes  3. Chocolate-filled Cookie Wet first: 1/4 cup oil 1 flax egg 1 tsp vanilla 1/4 cup packed brown sugar Then add: 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 t...

Started out by making some  breakfast muffins  (cherry and sprinkles for me, orange and cranberry for him). The base muffin: 1 cup flour 1/2 cup sugar 2 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 1 banana  enough veg milk to make it into a batter (between 1/4-1/3 cup) 1/4 cup additions 400f for 20 minutes. Makes six.  Second up was the seasoned potato skins . Seasoned up the potato skins (from the potatoes to be mash), and baked them about 375f for 20 minutes. Third, the rainbow bread rolls. Just standard yeast, flour, yeast sweetener, water, salt. After first rise, I divided dough out, added color drops and rolled them all up onto a tray to rise before baking. Fourth was this gem of a pumpkin pie courtesy of Anarchist Kitchen. I tried the low calorie version. Made it day of, threw in fridge for an hour and then in freezer for a tiny bit instead of chilling it the right way. It was basically pumpkin pudding. Really good, didn't have ...

The fridge is still in limbo. It was broke since we received it, the company has sent a guy out to repair it several times. It went from not cooling in the refrigerated area, to now freezing just like the freezer. This has been going on since March, lovely. So certain things I used to keep in the fridge, I had to switch out. Today is pizza, individual packets of yeast since I cannot keep a large bottle of yeast atm. In a large bowl place yeast, honey or sweetener on top of yeast 1 cup wheat flour on top of honey 1 cup of water that was heated for 31 seconds in microwave (warm like baby milk) Stirred this up, added 2 more cups wheat four and 1 tsp of salt Stirred well and placed into a microwave or other covered area, over night. In the morning, II kneaded it just to get it mixed and conditioned. Poured a TBSP or so of oil on ball, spun the dough around to get coated by oil. Letting it sit until about an hour before baking. Will then roll it out to preferred size, place...

So we moved into this house about March, about 6 months ago. Bought all new appliances. Microwave was wrong kind, got replaced. Refrigerator has been broke entire time (first the refrigerator part wouldn't go cooler than 65f, now it won't go above 20, after about 11 visits it looks like they may finally replace the whole thing). Also no recipes this week because I managed to sprain or tear Achilles tendon. Been trying to stay in bed off feet, aside for needing restroom and food; but haven't been cooking this week, apologies! So I been trying to keep shelf stable items in pantry, and still eating stuff out of freezer so we will eventually have less foods to move to knew fridge. Received a book for my birthday: the Homemade vegan pantry Veg dogs made with vital wheat gluten. Enough info in this book that I foresee making lunch meat out of marinated seitan. Very excited.

I baked some pieces and fried some pieces. Sliced eggplant into discs after removing skin. Then sprinkled salt on them and let them sit a half hour or so. Finally blotted moisture off before egg dipping and bread coating. Marinade/Egg Dip 2 tbsp soy amino 1/2 tsp pepper 3 tbsp nutritional yeast flakes 1-2 tbsp water Bread Crumbs  (there was extra, and didn't get wet clumps, so saving it for tofu breading) 1/3 panko 2/3 regular bread crumbs 2 tsp paprika 1 tsp marjoram 1/2 tsp powdered onion 1/2 tsp powdered garlic 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 tsp cayenne 1/4 tsp black pepper The pieces minced and baked in oven after marinade went on to toasted bread with sliced and toasted tomatoes, like a bruschetta. The shallow fried discs went onto sandwiches with tomatoes, lettuce, avocado salsa/mayo. The Magical Left-over Stew Today there is a head of purple cabbage begging to be sliced and sauteed , add some cooked pintos , veg shwarma , leftover raw spinach , some m...