Category: vegan/veggie/ar

Perfect Potluck

Actually, every vegan potluck I’ve been to has completely rocked. And this one was no exception. Outside, at the park, nice Spring day and a ton of excellent food. This thing happened way back on Sunday. I know, that’s like 5 years ago in internet time. Also, I’m a dumbass and didn’t take any pics. But that’s okay because other people did.

I brought these crustless quiches. I did make some changes to the recipe. I used olive oil instead of cooking spray in the pan. Also, I doubled the recipe, but instead of doubling the mushrooms I added broccoli. Oh, and I think I sprinkled some extra nutritional yeast in there. And, I tossed together a quick citrus grain salad that was basically just wild rice/brown rice blend mixed with some quinoa, scallions, toasted walnuts, tangerines and blood orange with a sesame citrus dressing.

Thanks to Ashley Nicole to pulling this together. I’m sorry more of our vegan lunch group didn’t make it. They missed out!

Teese Pizzas

We finally busted into that Teese log this weekend. First, we tried a bit cold straight off the log. Not bad! The taste is very similar to a mild mozzarella, well, as far as I can remember. 🙂 The texture was a little softer than Vegan Gourmet, but it had been sitting at room temperature for a while. Here’s a weird thing…when handling it to grate, it’s REALLY oiling feeling on your hands. But, it doesn’t really taste that way, cold or hot. They are not lying. It totally melts! We cooked these pizzas at 425 degrees F and at about 18 minutes we started getting some melting going on, but the bottoms were going to get too brown so we finished under the broiler. And as you can see, it melted up just fine!

Hamburger Pizza: ketchup, mustard, crumbles, tempeh bacon, dill pickle slices and teese on a Trader Joe’s crust

hamburger pizza with teese

BBQ “Chicken” Pizza with Pineapple: Mah Wah chicken, Trader Joe’s BBQ smoky bbq sauce, pineapple tidbits, teese, Trader Joe’s crust

bbq chicken pizza with pineapple

“Pepperoni” and Tempeh Bacon Pizza on Herb Crust

pepperoni and tempeh bacon pizza

See, we had vegetables too!

teese pizzas and veggies

Verdict? A++++ Would buy again! Next up, I’m going to try quesadillas with it.

This is low-calorie, right?

Hey, so if I used whole wheat penne in the Pumpkin Baked Ziti recipe from Veganomicon that makes it have, like, negative amounts of calories and fat, right? Right? Sigh, I guess not. It makes an ass-ton too, so I’ma need to freeze some of it. It kind of dirties a lot of dishes and takes a while, slightly less then 2 hours from start to face stuffing, but like the Butternut Squash Lasagna, it’s worth it. I even made the bread crumbs for it from a bread I tossed in my bread machine at the end of last week.

Pretty in the pan. 

pumpkin baked ziti

All messed up on my plate.

pumpkin baked ziti on a plateÂ