Okay, I have, like, literally two seconds to type this.
First: The burger recipe below uses 4 oz of tofu, whereas tofu comes in 16 oz packages. I will be putting a vegan "egg" salad recipe on here next time, to use up all the extra tofu. It's good, so don't shy away from new things!
Second: I will be explaining more about homesteading later, in a couple of posts, though I have described it a little in my first post (Labeled "Homesteading"), but I didn't go into depth. So I'll do that next time.
{Sigh}
Okay, I'm officially done now.
Bye,
-DarkHawk09
P.S., I'm currently reading a biography on Juliette Low, (Founder of Girl Scouts), and it's really good. I was surprised, I don't normally like biographys, but this one is good!
-DarkHawk09
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Recipes. I am now putting recipes on the blog. Full meals, so it's not like, I type a recipe for vegan chili, but no cornbread. Anyway, most of these recipes are vegan, but some of them are veg because I've only been vegan for less than a year, and I can still taste the lovely spinach pie. Our spinach pie recipe uses, like, five cups of cheese. I'm only slightly exaggerating. If any one knows a vegan spinach pie recipe, please drop a line! Anyway, the recipe I'm typing today is vegan veg burgers.
A little involved, but tasty. All of you non-veg/vegan people out there might want to try this. I promise, they taste sooo unbelievably good. But they won't be firm like the ones you can get at the store. They are still delicious, though. Now, to flip through my cookbook (Kids Can Press The Jumbo Vegetarian Cookbook) and find the correct recipe.
You will need:
1 cup water
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup bulgur, cracked wheat, or couscous (We use couscous :)
2 large carrots, shredded
4 oz firm tofu (The firm part is important)
1 egg (We use egg replacer, or flax seed)
3 Tbsp chopped fresh mint or parsley
3 Tbsp finely chopped green onions
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
1/3 cup dry bread crumbs
1/3 cup all purpose flour
2 Tbsp ketchup
2 tsp mustard
2 Tbsp olive oil
Instructions:
1: Put the water and salt in a saucepan. Bring water to a boil. Add couscous and shredded carrots. Remove from heat. Cover pan, and let stand for fifteen min or until couscous is soft and the water has been absorbed. Drain mixture in a sieve.
2: Put tofu in mixing bowl. Mash it with a fork until it is crumbly. Add the couscous mixture, egg, mint, green onion, and cayenne pepper. Stir well. Add the bread crumbs, 1/4 cup of the flour, the ketchup and mustard.
3: Heat the oven to 400 F. Divide the mixture into 4 equal parts. With your hands, make each part into a patty about 1 inch thick.
4: Put the remaining flour on a plate. One by one, place the patties in the flour and turn over to coat both sides.
5: In a large nonstick frying pan, heat the oil over a medium heat. Add the patties. Cook for about four min. on each side or until nicely browned and a bit crusty.
6: Using a spatula, transfer the patties to a non-stick cookie sheet. Bake for five min. or until heated through.
Okay, that is the recipe, but I have a few things to add.
1. If you make the patties a bit smaller,(okay, a lot smaller) you can make like seven instead of four, and they are still huge. Plus, you don't have to use the oven, just the frying pan.
2. We never use the mint/parsley.
Alright, now a home recipe:
ROASTED POTATOES
You will need:
4 to 6 potatoes (red, and/or purple potatoes are good, and a nice change)
2 to 3 tsp olive oil
1 to 2 tsp garlic (Optional)
salt to taste
Instructions:
1: Chop potatoes into about 1 inch pieces. If the eyes on the potato are sprouting, then peel. If not, than wash off the dirt, and try it with the peel. (It's good!:)
2: Pre-heat oven to 425 F.
Put potatoes in a mixing bowl, and sprinkle olive oil and garlic onto them.
Mix well. Put salt in the potato mixture.
3: Spread potatoes out on an oiled cookie sheet. Bake for 15 min, or until golden brown.
4: Remove from oven, and put on a plate layered with paper towels, to blot off the excess oil.
It's very good with ketchup! (You might want to make extra; there won't be leftovers, I guarantee!)
Info tidbit: Roasting veggies brings out the natural flavor, brings all the sugars to the surface, and is much healthier than deep frying them!
You can roast just about anything, potatoes are obvious, but one can also do broccoli, parsnips, radishes, sweet potatoes, apples, asparagus, zucchini, cauliflower, green beans, mushrooms, rutabagas, summer squash, and beets are just a few options. (My fave are sweet potatoes and apples :)
Okay, for your meal, you've got veg burgers, and potatoes, chop up an apple, or an orange and set it out on a plate with the rest of your dinner. I personally enjoy baked beans with this particular meal. We get our baked beans out of a can, the SAY vegetarian on them, but they ARE vegan. Soy milk is a good choice for a drink, or water. I normally have juice with dinner, but be careful; you should only have 1 serving of fruit as a juice.
So, there you have it! One dinner! Involved, yes, but a whole lot better than a
"Big Mac"!
Peace out,
-DarkHawk09
A little involved, but tasty. All of you non-veg/vegan people out there might want to try this. I promise, they taste sooo unbelievably good. But they won't be firm like the ones you can get at the store. They are still delicious, though. Now, to flip through my cookbook (Kids Can Press The Jumbo Vegetarian Cookbook) and find the correct recipe.
You will need:
1 cup water
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup bulgur, cracked wheat, or couscous (We use couscous :)
2 large carrots, shredded
4 oz firm tofu (The firm part is important)
1 egg (We use egg replacer, or flax seed)
3 Tbsp chopped fresh mint or parsley
3 Tbsp finely chopped green onions
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
1/3 cup dry bread crumbs
1/3 cup all purpose flour
2 Tbsp ketchup
2 tsp mustard
2 Tbsp olive oil
Instructions:
1: Put the water and salt in a saucepan. Bring water to a boil. Add couscous and shredded carrots. Remove from heat. Cover pan, and let stand for fifteen min or until couscous is soft and the water has been absorbed. Drain mixture in a sieve.
2: Put tofu in mixing bowl. Mash it with a fork until it is crumbly. Add the couscous mixture, egg, mint, green onion, and cayenne pepper. Stir well. Add the bread crumbs, 1/4 cup of the flour, the ketchup and mustard.
3: Heat the oven to 400 F. Divide the mixture into 4 equal parts. With your hands, make each part into a patty about 1 inch thick.
4: Put the remaining flour on a plate. One by one, place the patties in the flour and turn over to coat both sides.
5: In a large nonstick frying pan, heat the oil over a medium heat. Add the patties. Cook for about four min. on each side or until nicely browned and a bit crusty.
6: Using a spatula, transfer the patties to a non-stick cookie sheet. Bake for five min. or until heated through.
Okay, that is the recipe, but I have a few things to add.
1. If you make the patties a bit smaller,(okay, a lot smaller) you can make like seven instead of four, and they are still huge. Plus, you don't have to use the oven, just the frying pan.
2. We never use the mint/parsley.
Alright, now a home recipe:
ROASTED POTATOES
You will need:
4 to 6 potatoes (red, and/or purple potatoes are good, and a nice change)
2 to 3 tsp olive oil
1 to 2 tsp garlic (Optional)
salt to taste
Instructions:
1: Chop potatoes into about 1 inch pieces. If the eyes on the potato are sprouting, then peel. If not, than wash off the dirt, and try it with the peel. (It's good!:)
2: Pre-heat oven to 425 F.
Put potatoes in a mixing bowl, and sprinkle olive oil and garlic onto them.
Mix well. Put salt in the potato mixture.
3: Spread potatoes out on an oiled cookie sheet. Bake for 15 min, or until golden brown.
4: Remove from oven, and put on a plate layered with paper towels, to blot off the excess oil.
It's very good with ketchup! (You might want to make extra; there won't be leftovers, I guarantee!)
Info tidbit: Roasting veggies brings out the natural flavor, brings all the sugars to the surface, and is much healthier than deep frying them!
You can roast just about anything, potatoes are obvious, but one can also do broccoli, parsnips, radishes, sweet potatoes, apples, asparagus, zucchini, cauliflower, green beans, mushrooms, rutabagas, summer squash, and beets are just a few options. (My fave are sweet potatoes and apples :)
Okay, for your meal, you've got veg burgers, and potatoes, chop up an apple, or an orange and set it out on a plate with the rest of your dinner. I personally enjoy baked beans with this particular meal. We get our baked beans out of a can, the SAY vegetarian on them, but they ARE vegan. Soy milk is a good choice for a drink, or water. I normally have juice with dinner, but be careful; you should only have 1 serving of fruit as a juice.
So, there you have it! One dinner! Involved, yes, but a whole lot better than a
"Big Mac"!
Peace out,
-DarkHawk09
Random Randomness
I learned how to spin on Saturday, at a knitting group called the "Yarn Yankers". I can knit, and now I can spin! You know, spinning? Like on a wheel? Ooh! Like, um, what's her name? That princess or whatever, uh Sleeping Beauty, um, Briar Rose right? Okay, so I'm not all that big on princesses, but anyway, I learned how to spin on a wheel like that, and a very nice lady,(Whose name I will not put here without permission) let me borrow one of her spinning wheels so I could practice. She is extremely generous, and also let us borrow a big bag of alpaca fiber. Well, what else do you spin with? Cotton? Well, that might work, except that I was only able to grow one cotton ball off of my sickly little plant :(
You might be thinking "Why don't you just use cotton balls from Wal-Mart?" I will answer: Because they are not cotton balls, they are:
Chemicalized-Junk-Some-Poor-Delusioned-Person-Thought-Was-Cotton. Well, a lot of them are! Plus, I'm into organic, and most cotton balls that I see are FAR from organic. Organic, for those of you that don't know, means pesticide free. That is a good thing.
I also made a decision. I am going to do "Attachment Parenting" if I ever have a chance. Basically, you hold your child 24/7. They sleep in the bed with you, and everything. There are these special pouch type things, so the baby is hanging on to you, like, while you are, I don't know, doing dishes, on riding you bike, or whatever. Or in my case, writing your poetry. And working around the farm. Hm. Dangerous sounding? Yeah, farm work is a very dangerous thing. So, maybe I should keep my baby away from that? But "Daddy" and I could take turns, so it might work out. Right? Wrong?
{Sigh}
*Grabs head and sits in universal defeated position,*
{Sigh}
*Then comes up with brilliant idea, and sits up*
I know! No! No! No, I just lost it. But I'll tell you when I remember...
It's raining right now, and I'm glad my weensy little cactus is in the house.
You know, mom says I might publish a poem book before anything else. I don't know...
I do have a lot of poems though. Hm.
Anyway, I really need money to pull this homesteading thing off. Maybe publishing a book would be a good start? We have like two neighbors who need babysitters, but they both have happy-to-babysit-grandparents in the area. I can't exactly make over two million by selling lemon-aid. Believe me, if I could, I would. Yeah, two million. I could be totally of my gourd, but I think that is the amount I'll need to get a decent chunk of land, and have enough to do whatever fix-ups needed. And still be able to eat. Because, I'm also planting a garden as my main food source, but it will take a looong time to get decent soil around here. So Again, I might be totally crazy, but I want to be doing this by the time I turn twenty. I'm twelve. And eight years really isn't all that long to do all of this. It might seem like it, but it isn't. So if anyone has useful suggestions, be my guest.
{Sigh}
I don't even have a garden right now.
Oh yeah, one more thing, there is a family living down the street from us, and they have horses, (We all live on one acere horse property. Personally I think that is to small for the comfort of the animal, but whatever)
and I was thinking of asking for some of the manuer for my compost. It really isn't disgusting, I promise. I'll explain about compost later, like next time I come on. I really have to get off now.
Bye!
-DarkHawk09
You might be thinking "Why don't you just use cotton balls from Wal-Mart?" I will answer: Because they are not cotton balls, they are:
Chemicalized-Junk-Some-Poor-Delusioned-Person-Thought-Was-Cotton. Well, a lot of them are! Plus, I'm into organic, and most cotton balls that I see are FAR from organic. Organic, for those of you that don't know, means pesticide free. That is a good thing.
I also made a decision. I am going to do "Attachment Parenting" if I ever have a chance. Basically, you hold your child 24/7. They sleep in the bed with you, and everything. There are these special pouch type things, so the baby is hanging on to you, like, while you are, I don't know, doing dishes, on riding you bike, or whatever. Or in my case, writing your poetry. And working around the farm. Hm. Dangerous sounding? Yeah, farm work is a very dangerous thing. So, maybe I should keep my baby away from that? But "Daddy" and I could take turns, so it might work out. Right? Wrong?
{Sigh}
*Grabs head and sits in universal defeated position,*
{Sigh}
*Then comes up with brilliant idea, and sits up*
I know! No! No! No, I just lost it. But I'll tell you when I remember...
It's raining right now, and I'm glad my weensy little cactus is in the house.
You know, mom says I might publish a poem book before anything else. I don't know...
I do have a lot of poems though. Hm.
Anyway, I really need money to pull this homesteading thing off. Maybe publishing a book would be a good start? We have like two neighbors who need babysitters, but they both have happy-to-babysit-grandparents in the area. I can't exactly make over two million by selling lemon-aid. Believe me, if I could, I would. Yeah, two million. I could be totally of my gourd, but I think that is the amount I'll need to get a decent chunk of land, and have enough to do whatever fix-ups needed. And still be able to eat. Because, I'm also planting a garden as my main food source, but it will take a looong time to get decent soil around here. So Again, I might be totally crazy, but I want to be doing this by the time I turn twenty. I'm twelve. And eight years really isn't all that long to do all of this. It might seem like it, but it isn't. So if anyone has useful suggestions, be my guest.
{Sigh}
I don't even have a garden right now.
Oh yeah, one more thing, there is a family living down the street from us, and they have horses, (We all live on one acere horse property. Personally I think that is to small for the comfort of the animal, but whatever)
and I was thinking of asking for some of the manuer for my compost. It really isn't disgusting, I promise. I'll explain about compost later, like next time I come on. I really have to get off now.
Bye!
-DarkHawk09
Salad!
Homesteading. I could daydream about it all day. I DO daydream a lot, but about a few different things. The primary ones being homesteading and Fang. (I'm obsessed with Fang. And his wings. Long story, read my other blogs.)
Anyway, I had this great salad today. It was made of red lettuce, bean, alfalfa, and clover sprouts. I put organic honey mustard dressing on it. Yeah, I am vegan, but I'm relaxed in the favor of honey. It really is very healthy, and I do my best to think of the bees when I eat it. It doesn't hurt the bees, actually they normally have more honey than they need in their hive.
So sprouts are, like, the imprints of life. No, really! Because they are brand new sprouted vegatables the energy of the sun, water ect. is still fresh. I'm also thinking about becoming a raw foodist. Incase you couldn't tell from the name that means that you eat only raw food.
{sigh}
I've gotta get off the web (again) now. (Again), I'll fill in more about the whole raw food thing later. I need to eat dinner. I'll probably eat a (tasty) fake hot dog on a whole wheat bun with katsup. For those of you who wonder what a vegan eats. Some people think I live off of grass. They're crazy.
{sigh}
-DarkHawk09
Anyway, I had this great salad today. It was made of red lettuce, bean, alfalfa, and clover sprouts. I put organic honey mustard dressing on it. Yeah, I am vegan, but I'm relaxed in the favor of honey. It really is very healthy, and I do my best to think of the bees when I eat it. It doesn't hurt the bees, actually they normally have more honey than they need in their hive.
So sprouts are, like, the imprints of life. No, really! Because they are brand new sprouted vegatables the energy of the sun, water ect. is still fresh. I'm also thinking about becoming a raw foodist. Incase you couldn't tell from the name that means that you eat only raw food.
{sigh}
I've gotta get off the web (again) now. (Again), I'll fill in more about the whole raw food thing later. I need to eat dinner. I'll probably eat a (tasty) fake hot dog on a whole wheat bun with katsup. For those of you who wonder what a vegan eats. Some people think I live off of grass. They're crazy.
{sigh}
-DarkHawk09
Homesteading
For those of you who don't know, homesteading is about living off the land. I've found some awesome resources to help me along the way. Back to Basics is a wonderful book. It does have things like how to skin a rabbit, or how to butcher a pig, though. And since I'm vegan that is not helpful. Or nice to read about. Yuck.
Countryside is a wonderful 'zine with lots of info in it. They had a truckload of interesting articles. One of them was how to make a couch. The couple who wrote the article were having company over and realized they didn't have enough chairs, so they took some leftover wood, and slabs of foam and a blanket. They threw together a couch that served it's purpose. Later they fixed it up by adding a small trough so the seat would not keep sliding off, and a few other things. I really admire their ingenuity.
There's endless stuff to write about homesteading, yoga, organic food growing, veganisim, and many other things that I want to incorperate into my life, but I have to get off the web right now and do... something else. I'll fill in more later.
-DarkHawk09
Countryside is a wonderful 'zine with lots of info in it. They had a truckload of interesting articles. One of them was how to make a couch. The couple who wrote the article were having company over and realized they didn't have enough chairs, so they took some leftover wood, and slabs of foam and a blanket. They threw together a couch that served it's purpose. Later they fixed it up by adding a small trough so the seat would not keep sliding off, and a few other things. I really admire their ingenuity.
There's endless stuff to write about homesteading, yoga, organic food growing, veganisim, and many other things that I want to incorperate into my life, but I have to get off the web right now and do... something else. I'll fill in more later.
-DarkHawk09
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