Vegan Sweet Potato Curry Pie

My family just loves Curries and we love Shepard's Pie. So, I wanted to combine two of our favorite dishes to make a curry pie.

First I baked 5 sweet potatoes in the oven for 1 hour. Then I took them out of the oven to let them cool. 

While they are cooling combine the following ingredients in a pan:

1 large onion, chopped

5 carrots, diced

Cook the onions and carrots in 1 cup water until soft. Then add...

1 bag frozen peas

2 cups spinach

1 cup cauliflower

2 cups red pepper

1 can light coconut milk

2 cups chickpeas

1 cup chopped beef seitan (leftover from dinner)

2 T mild curry powder
1 T tomato paste

Then simmer for 15 minutes.

Once the potatoes are warn peel . Add 1 cup of coconut milk. Mash the potatoes. 

I did the cooking and baking in one pan. So, I layered the mashed sweet potatoes over the curry mix. 

Bake for 25 minutes in a 350-degree oven until bubbly and crisp on top.

Caramelized onion with seitan pepperoni and daiya cheese pizza

Hand tossed pizza dough

topped with home-made seitan pepperoni

fat free caramelized onions

tomato sauce

daiya cheese

Home-made seitan

recipe from Vegan on the cheap

Caramelized fat free onions:

I cut 1 onion in slices, placed in a pan of water (about 1 cup) 

cook down 4 or 5 times on Medium heat

 Letting the onions turn lightly brown

(this process can take 10 to 15 minutes)

Seitan Dinner: Mashed Potatoes with Chickpea gravy

This meal was inspired by the cookbook Appetite for Reduction.  

The recipe Silky Chickpea Gravy. I did modify the recipe to reduce the fat and salt. So how did I do it? I cooked 1 onion chopped in water until soft. Then I added a clove of garlic and 1- 1/4 cups veggie broth. In the pan I cooked for 3 minutes. To thicken up the gravy I added 3 cups cooked chickpeas. I blended the chickpea mixture in the Vita Mixer for 1 minute. The gravy was divine! I will have to make this again! The boys and Ed LOVED this dinner!

Seitan BBQ Sandwich

Yummy BBQ Sauce

Jake persuaded me to make my own BBQ sauce in order to make this BBQ sandwich. Jake was up to something! I created the best BBQ sauce ever! This even tops the few sauces at the store that do not have chemicals, sugar, and salts added to them.

Thanks to the Skinny Bitch: The Ultimate Everyday Cookbook I was able to make the best home-made bbq sauce!

YUMMY!!

Project Seitan

Project Seitan: Success!!

 

My adventure began yesterday, I decided to make some Seitan! So I found a recipe from Bryanna Gorgan. The cooking took the better part of the day like most good things! I must say this Seitan was a HIT in my family!!  

I thought Ed was going to hate it. But, He said he liked it. The boys ate tons of it! Jake actually said this is so good I would like to eat it in a BBQ sandwich. JT said that he thought I made "real" meat but knew that I could not. Being that our home rule is only Vegan food will be served in this home. 

Next time I plan on making this Seitan more like chicken. Then I can see if I can make some un-chicken nuggets for the boys and hot un-chicken wings for Ed!

Brazilian Black Beans with Brown Rice

Seitan Yummy!!