Food!!!!

Well, today I made three new recipes from my new book Vegan Bites. Tonight we had: Organge-Teriyaki tofu, Yummy Yams, and Golden Homestyle Biscuits. Wow, these recipes were amazing!!! Very quick and easy, not to mention deliscious! The tofu was just spicy enough form the red pepper, the yams were deliscious, and the biscuits were perfectly crunchy and soft also, you could easily make the biscuits more savory or sweet. This book makes recipes really easy to make, and makes the perfect portion for just one or two people.

Vegan Recipe Books

Today I was given a new book called, Vegan Bites: Recipes For Singles by Beverly Lynn Bennett. All the recipes are single servings, just enough for one meal and some leftovers. This is great because it is a waste of food if we make more food than we can eat. I have yet to try any of the recipes but if you are a single serving young adult out there you should pick up this book and take a look at it.



Although, today I did make some vegan coffee cake, and wow was it good! The recipe is form the book Sinfully Vegan by Lois Dieterly.

My Grandmother's Crumb Cake
1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 cups unbleached white flour
1/2 cup vegetable shortning (preferably non-hydrogenated)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon Ener-G Egg Replacer
1/4 cup water
3/4 cup vanilla soymilk (or other non-dairy milk)

• Preheat oven to 350*F Coat an 8x8-inch square baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
• In a bowl combine the sugar, flour, and baking powder. Cut the shortening into the flour mixture with 2 knives until the shortning is smaller than pea-sized. Remove 1 cup dry mix and set aside.
• In a measuring cup, mix egg replacer with 1/4 cup water and add vanilla. Fill the cup the rest of the way with soymilk until in measures 1 cup. Add liquid to dry ingredients and mix just until combined
• Pour batter into prepared pan and sprinkle with resevered dry mix.
• Bake 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean
• Let cool completly before serving

I hope you enjoy the coffee cake, contact me with any questions!

Green Thinking: Toxics in Our Mind

Why do we only think of "going green" as something we do on the outside, and not on the inside? We need to be able to clean out our minds and hearts of "bad stuff" just as much as we should clean out our food!

As I have started college recently I have seen this bad way of thinking. So many people think it is ok to be passive, we have lost all the feeling we need to have. All of us need to see how to settle our minds and hearts and clean out the junk of our mind.

What can you do to clean out your mind, to see clearer and feel better? Find inspiring books or music; find what "lets off some steam" in your life. You want to find the place that lets you clear out your mind and start putting "good food" into it again.

Sometimes in life we get so many layers of junk and before we know it we can have so many layers that we can't even feel or think clearly, seriously and we don't even realize it until something jerks us into reality. BE REAL!

Energy saving on the web

How many of you have heard of Blackle, or Greenle?

Blackle is a search engine that is supposed to save energy, because it is black instead of the common white. Depending upon what monitor you have, it may save you energy! But for newer, LCD monitors, it uses more energy.

Greenle was not made to save you energy, but it was made to show you care by displaying links to sites such as WWF and Ekopedia.

Show your support for the enviroment by choosing to save energy, even on your computer!