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Biscuits

Notes: Makes 4 biscuits. Should be able to easily double (or more) the recipe.

Ingredients:
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/3 – 3/4 cup applesauce

Directions:
Mix flour and baking powder in bowl.
Stir in applesauce until a nice doughy consistency.
Bake in preheated oven at400 degrees for 10 – 15 minutes.

Vanilla Mug Cake

Ingredients:
6 tbsp whole wheat flour
2 tbsp raw sugar
1/4 tsp baking powder
3 tbsp water
1/4 cup applesauce
1/4 tsp vanilla extract

Directions:
Mix dry ingredients in one bowl, wet in another. Add wet to dry ingredients and mix. Add more applesauce if needed to achieve cake-like batter. Pour/spoon into mug.
Microwave 3 minutes.

Edamole

Notes: We both thought this was ok. Probably better as a sandwich spread or base layer in a taco or burrito then a straight up dip.

Ingredients:
2 cups frozen edamame (soy beans), thawed
1 tsp salt
2 whole small limes, juiced
a dash of cayenne pepper
1 tsp cumin
¼ cup fresh cilantro
1 whole garlic clove
½ whole sweet onion
1 whole tomato, diced

Directions:
Combine all ingredients except tomatoes in a food processor and blend until smooth, scraping sides as necessary. If its too rustic, add 1-2 tbsp water. Stir in tomatoes and serve.

Source: Happy Herbivore

Tofu Breakfast Scramble

Notes: I also included chopped green onions and frozen tater-tots that I microwaved to thaw and then through in the mix. This was pretty good.

Ingredients:
1 box extra-firm tofu
2 tbsp nutritional yeast
1 tbsp yellow mustard
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
½ tsp cumin
½ tsp turmeric

Directions:
Squeeze water out of tofu and place it in the center of a non-stick or greased or sprayed skillet. Break tofu up into chunks. Cook over medium-high heat for 3-4 minutes. Add remaining ingredients and stir. Cook and stir for another 5-10 minutes.

Pickled Okra

I just made this up as I went.

Ingredients:
okra from a friends garden
1 cup vinegar
1 cup water
2 tablespoons kosher salt
1 tablespoon raw sugar
Crushed red pepper flakes
Black pepper
Lemon pepper
1 clove garlic peeled and crushed
1 jalapeno sliced

Directions
Place okra, garlic and jalapeno in glass jar.
Mix and boil remaining ingredients in sauce pan. Once boiling, remove from stove and pour over the okra in in to the jar. Let cool. Once cool put lid on jar and place in refrigerator.

Baked Chocolate Doughnuts

Notes: Really good.

Ingredients:
1 cup plant-based milk
1 tsp lemon juice
2 tsp vanilla extract
3 tbsp pure maple syrup
¼ cup light brown sugar
2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
¼ cup unsweetened cocoa
½ tsp salt
½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
¼ cup vegan chocolate chips
1 cup confectioners sugar
1 tbsp pure maple syrup
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp plant-based milk

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350F. In a small bowl, whisk 1 cup non-dairy milk, lemon juice, 3 tbsp maple, light brown sugar & 1-2 tsp vanilla together until foamy and bubbly. In a large bowl, whisk flour, cocoa, salt, baking powder, baking soda and chocolate chips (crushed). Pour wet into dry and use a spatula to combine. Spoon into a greased 6-donut pan. Bake 15 minutes. Meanwhile, make icing by whisking the last ingredients together (confectioners sugar, 1 tbsp maple, 1 tsp vanilla and 1-2 tbsp non-dairy milk). Submerge cooked, but cool, doughnuts into icing and let glaze drip off. Transfer to wire wrack for drying.

Source: Happy Herbivore.

Mighty Bean Muffins

Note: I take four cups of old-fashioned oatmeal, and put it in my blender, and make my own flour. You’ll get two cups of flour this way.

Dry Ingredients:
2 cups of oat flour
1 t of baking powder
1 t of cinnamon
4T of raisins (optional), or any type of dried fruit (I also love prunes)

Other Ingredients:
2 very ripe bananas
1 cup of mashed beans (any type will do)
½ cup of unsweetened applesauce
½ cup of water
6-8 dates
Juice from one lime or lemon
Take all wet ingredients and put them in the blender. Allow them to puree until you have a tan looking “batter.”
Put into a bowl and add the dry ingredients. Stir until moist. Let stand for five minutes.

Directions:
Spoon into silicone muffin pans, and fill 2/3. Place in a preheated 400 degree oven for 20 minutes, or until the muffins test “dry.”

Enchilada Stack

Not sure what you’d call this.
3 corn tortillas layered with vegetarian re-fried beans and chopped fresh spinach. Covered with enchilada sauce.
I spread a thin coat of enchilada sauce on the bottom of and oven dish and cooked for around 20 minutes on 350.
Once out of the oven I topped with sliced olives and cilantro.

Pictured above served with home-made guacamole and home-baked tortilla chips.