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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