Blue Corn Bread (Vegan)

This corn bread doesn't use flour and it doesn't really rise. I bet there are plenty of good recipes on the web, but I really liked this one tonight with our chili. Maybe it is less than a real bread, and more of a thick pancake. Whatever it was, it was yummy and I am sure we will make it again.

11/2 cup blue cornmeal
2 eggs worth of egg replacement
3 Tablespoons dried maple syrup (less would be fine too)
2 Tablespoons baking powder
1/4-1/3 cup frozen corn
1/2 cup of soymilk
1/4 cup olive oil

Cook in a preheated oven at 350 degrees in an oil cast iron skillet for 25 mins. 

Squash Pizza (Vegan)

Pizza is my one of my Favorite Foods and we have it every week during the winter cold. Yummy.

Cornmeal Crust (Frozen section of the market)*
1 Butternut Squash
1-2 Leeks or in a pinch onion
Olive Oil
Some Tomato or apple
Squash seeds pan roasted or Walnuts/Pine nuts/Almonds

Slice one or two leeks and heat in Olive Oil until wilted. Add chopped, peeled Butternut quash (seeds removed).
Cook for 10-15 mins. Meanwhile, preheat oven (425) and pan dry roast nuts, and make salad.

Blend in blend squash and leaks in blender. Most of the squash will be thinned down for soup tomorrow. Spoon enough squash to cover the crust.  Put some tomato or apple slices on the squash. Add nuts. Cook in preheated oven for 13 mins at 425 Degrees.

*Vicolo brand Ingredient has Organic Wheat, Organic Cornmeal, Organic Soybean Oil, Yeast, and Salt. Whole Foods carries it.

 

Creamy Tomato Bazil Soup (Vegan)

Sunday, January 9, 2011 at 2:57pm

It's a great quick meal out of the pantry. It is also a good" make a head"  meal since the longer the flavors have to mingle, the better. It's even good cold in summer.

I tend to make cornmeal pizza the same night.  I  cook the garlic for the pizza at the same time I am making the soup and  I use some of the tomatoes and pinenuts for pizza.

Creamy Tomato Bazil Soup
32 ounce of Organic Tomatoes.(ex. crushed with Basil in the can, frozen or fresh)
1 can of Organic Coconut Milk
3-7 cloves of garlic
Good Virg. Olive Oil
Basil if you have it.
Roasted Pinenuts (optional)
Saute the garlic in olive oil. Add tomatoes and some of the basil along with the coconut milk. Simmer until hot or dinner time. Add pinenuts and basil as garnish right before eating.

Parsley & Strawberry Icecreamy (Vegan)

1 cup Eden or non-sugar soy milk
1/4 cup honey makes it sweet. I think it would be good without the honey.
10 oz bag of Organic Strawberries frozen
1/2 cup (more or less) of parsley.  If you want, copy it up a little before hand.
( Mint would be good too.)

Why Parsley? Well, those who know me well know that is my cure all and one of my fav things. It keeps me going when skies are blue. (I love the gray.)

That is because it has:

+ beta carotene
+ vitamins B12
+ folate,
+ "more vitamin C than the equivalent amount of orange."
+ "contains immunity-enhancing phytonutrients like luteolin that curb inflammatory processes in the body," + and other organic compounds, including myristicin and folic acid.

Information is from Parsing Parsley. Psychology Today. March/April which is quoted on:
http://achsnews.blogspot.com/2010/03/health-benefits-of-parsley-featured-in.html

Olive Tapenade (Vegan)

4 Clove Fresh Garlic crushed
8 oz of Capers (1/2 a jar)
12 oz Olives – chopped
Olive Oil - Enough oil to mix it up and then to cover the top of the jar.

Either chop by hand or use a food processor.