5 posts tagged “cooking”

Also, Veganomicon is on its way to my house!!!! Yay!!!!!!!!!!

vegetariantimes.com is my first go-to place to find recipes for a particular vegetable. They have just updated to allow users to save and rate recipes. Awesome. I found two great ideas for what to do with our turnips and luckily I have EVERYTHING i need for both recipes... cant decide which to make though...

Spicy Ginger Carrot Relish

So my friend Kelly recently shared a vegan oatmeal raisin cookie with me that she paid a whopping $3.29 for at Whole Foods.  It was so nice of her! I was excited that the cookies from a local Chicago vegetarian restaurant were being sold at Whole Foods. I guess they are trying to get a little more local when they can...

The cookie was good but Im sensitive to sugar and thought the cookies were overly sweet, and Im not really that big of a fan of raisins. And obviously I am a jerk who cant just keep quiet and say thank you for her sharing the cookie with me. I knew I could do better, and for way cheaper. I found this recipe at Vegan Family Favorites and decided to adapt it to my liking.

I used ground flax seeds instead of eggs/egg replacer, as I read about here on the Post Punk Kitchen website. I almost halved the amount of sugar, using 1/2c of each. Instead of raisins, I had a melange of different dried fruits which had been hanging out in my pantry just waiting for an opportunity to do something good in the world, like become part of a super delicious healthy cookie! Dates, apircots, pineapple, papaya, a little bit of coconut, a teensy smattering of cashews and a small handful of sunflower seeds... random dried fruit pantry items gone! I plopped them into the melted margarine so they could plump up a bit from the moisture while I was mixing the other parts.

I think they are fantastic. Not very modest of me, but I cant help it this time. They could even have a little less sugar and it would not sacrifice the taste at all. All of those dried fruits are sweet enough. Its fun for me to find out how many grams of sugar a recipe has and I use this calculator to do so. Not counting fruit sugars, just the brown and cane sugars, these cookies have about 19g... they would have had 33g. (Next I want to calculate the protein.) Ideally I wanted them to be something you could eat for breakfast even. And they are. *dusts cookie crumbs from shirt*

Crapola of a photo but the stew was good. Wednesday I was trying to use up ourCSA foods and I used a recipe from Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home (right) with a few omissions and additions like beans. =]
I feel like if Im eating vegetarian, I need to put beans in so I can show Im getting lots of protein? If I had followed this recipe to the letter (which I didnt) it would have only had 2.8g of protein per serving so I ramped it up with the beans.