Vegan Pancakes

:) Here's a link to amazing vegan pancakes. :) omnomnom

Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies

Hello! :) I made these cookies yesterday and they seem to be going pretty fast. I made a double recipe, since an average can of pumpkin has about 2 cups of pumpkin in it. You can find the link here. I think it's originally from Vegan with a Vengeance, but I don't own the cookbook because I'm kind of a jobless high school student who does too much with her life and has no money. Soooo, if you can, please buy the cook book.  If you can't, then totally just make it from the link and enjoy.

TIPS:

• I made mine a little big, so I baked them for 20 minutes instead of 16. 
• The dough is a little gooey, but don't panic. They're softer cookies, so they're supposed to be like that.
• Make sure you grease the baking sheet enough. Since they're soft they might stick a little
• They're great with pumpkin spice coffee or hot chocolate. ;) yum.

Vegan Spinach Quiche

This is an amazing recipe. I made a homemade crust instead of buying a premade one. I also only used a pinch of Daiya because that's all I had and about 1 teaspoon of nutmeg instead of a 'pinch' and it tasted really good. Here's the link right here.

Basic Nooch Pasta Sauce

This is my quick and easy sort of 'cheez' like sauce for rotini. :)

2 TBS Olive Oil
1.5 TBS Nutritional Yeast
1 TS Oregano
1TS Basil

I stir all of the ingredients together, put in the microwave for about 15 seconds just to warm it up, then mix it in with a cup or two of rotini noodles. I love to mix a cup of mushrooms and 1/8 of an onion stirfried in olive oil and 1 TBS of garlic in with the rotini also.

Chinese Dinner

Hello! :) So, yesterday I made a Chinese food dinner with lo mein and orange tofu. It all got eaten so fast, I couldn't get a picture, but here are the links to the recipes.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/no-pain-lo-mein-recipe/index.html
This is just a basic lo mein recipe. I used angel hair pasta and liked the texture.I didn't have any fresh ginger or mushrooms, so I just used powdered ginger and added extra snow peas. I also doubled the soy sauce and sesame oil, as the stated amount didn't seem to cover all the noodles well.

http://melissaraydavis.hubpages.com/hub/How_to_Cook_Tofu_Like_the_Pros
I've been a vegetarian for years, but still haven't mastered tofu. However, this definitely helped. I 'dry fried' the tofu, then covered it in some of this marinade (http://www.food.com/recipe/spicy-orange-tofu-136875) and sauteed it. The tofu was firmer with a chewier, meatier texture that I really liked. I also subbed the pepper for a few squirts of hot sauce, just because I didn't have any on hand, and again the fresh ginger for powdered ginger. After dry-frying, I let the tofu sit in the marinade for about a half hour before sauteeing it. :)

So, overall not the most healthy meal on the planet, but really if you add more veggies than necessary to the lo mein then all you'll be 'overdosing' in would be sodium, and unfortunately with Chinese food it's hard to avoid that. :)

Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegancookierecipes/r/chocchipcookies.htm
I added 1/3 a cup almond milk to the entire mixture and they tasted amazinggg!!! The perfect baking time is about 12 minutes.

Classy Vegan Mac and Cheeze

1 box pasta shells
1 package silken tofu
1/2 cup vegan mozzarella 'cheese'
1/2 cup vegan margarine
1 cup baby spinach
1 tbs oregano
1 tbs garlic
Bread crumbs
Pepper

Boil water and start making pasta as you prepare cheeze sauce.
Put 'cheese', tofu, spinach, margarine, garlic and oregano in food processor. After processed to a creamy consistency, place in saucepan on low, stirring constantly until heated.
Preheat oven to 450.
When pasta is done, drain. Grease a glass pan with a little olive oil. Put pasta into pan, mix in cheese sauce. Sprinkle with bread crumbs, pepper and a little more oregano. Bake for 5 minutes. :) Serve.