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Kitchen Sink Dinner Fun

30 Apr

A few things I always have on my shelf are: cans of beans, tomato sauce and dry quinoa. So when I’m too lazy to fill an empty fridge I can always rely on these to have a meal on hand.

Kitchen Sink Dinner Fun

  • 1 can of chickpeas (or other beans)
  • 1 c mushrooms
  • 1 small onion, chopped
  • 1/2 c tomato sauce
  • 1 T nutritional yeast
  • 1 T ground flax
  • 1 t salt
  • 1 t sriracha (optional)
  • 2 T feta/daiya (optional)
  • 1.5 c precooked quinoa (optional)
  1. Saute mushrooms and onions on a coated pan for around 5 minutes
  2. Add chickpeas, nooch, flax and salt
  3. Once chickpeas are heated add the tomato sauce and feta or daiya
  4. Remove from heat and combine with quinoa if you want a more stick-to-your-bones meal

Serve as is, on a bed of lettuce, or atop pasta. It makes great leftovers hot or cold!

other ideas for additions: meat crumbles, tempeh, rice, raisins, other veggies on hand

sin quinoa

con quinoa

Question: What do you always have on hand in your pantry?

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Casey

Mini Stuffed Vegan Peppers

20 Mar

Every so often when I go to the supermarket I buy the little tri-colored sweet peppers off of impulse.

I’m not sure why I keep doing this because I don’t really like their taste on their own.

I guess I’m just swayed by their adorable miniature-ness.

Well, the same thing happened again this weekend but this time I had a solution.

Mini stuffed sweet peppers (v)

  1. Slice peppers in half and place on a baking sheet
  2. Heat the soy crumble, onion, and a little bit of taco seasoning over a skillet on medium heat
  3. Once it was cooked through, combine with tomato sauce in a separate bowl.
  4. Stuff peppers and top a sprinkle of Daiya cheese
  5. Cook in oven at 350 for 10 minutes
  6. Top with spicy yogurt (optional)

Keeping with the mini theme, these pepper needed a mini oven. So I stuck them in the toaster oven.

Perfect little party poppers for the March Madness weekend.

For the spicy yogurt (a great spicy sour cream swap)

  • about 1/3 c Plain greek yogurt (I used Oikos)
  • ~1/2 t taco seasoning
  • dash of cayenne (or sriracha)

Super-Spicy addition of choice: Sriracha or Cayenne?

I’m all about the sriracha :) (Whole Foods sells a true vegan/organic one too)

x

Casey

Where’s the Nostalgia?

14 Mar

Who has two thumbs and a BSBA?

This girl does.

Undergraduate is officially behind me and I have a BSBA in Marketing with a minor in Sustainability to put under my belt. Though I’m technically a graduate I don’t actually walk until June. But I’m not about to let rain on my parade.

Nothing fields to odd or nostalgic except for when I walked out of my final class ever. I think it’s just weird to know I will never be in that setting again. Confines between classroom walls for two hours that is.

No time yet to completely enjoy and let this graduation moment sink in. Back to work and then a slew of interviews in the coming weeks.

I’ve been kind hanging out at coffee shops and bookstores lately. Call me a hipster but it’s becoming my jam.

Here’s what I have found time to eat:

Buffalo Seitan from Nomadic Garden

Sorry, Watercourse foods, but this is way better than yours.

And it’s not fried.

I cannot wait to go back to Neat Market this weekend and pick up another bucketload of seitan and other goodies.

Denver Seitan Company Soyrizo Tortilla Pizza

Daiya, tomato, tomato sauce, arugala.

Can we talk about how I am excited for Daiya new cheese wedges and all of the other new products that debuted at Expo West this weekend. Lots of great stuff coming out of the natural foods industry. And I’m determined to sample it all one meal at a time.

x

Casey

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