nachos!!!

Yay for nacho night! Also, yay! for new digital camera, I'm gonna have much better pictures of food!

So... its tortilla chips, covered in Amy's Black Bean chili, some spring mix, a nacho cheese sauce (w/ black olives) and avocado.

Nacho Cheese Sauce Recipe! (i found it here!)

ingredients:
2 cups. water
1/4 cup raw cashews
1 4.25 oz. jar of pimentos
1 cup nutritional yeast
2 Tb cornstarch
1 Tb lemon juice
1 1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp cumin

-blend all together until really smooth (i use the stick blender)
-heat in sauce pan over med-high heat, whisk alot.... it'll get really thick and nacho-cheesey in like 8-10 mins

sundried tomato alfredo over fettuccini, grilled asparagus and double-garlic bread

It was time for another "Lost" night dinner :) Leah brought over some nice wine and some really yummy garlic bread (the bread had whole cloves of garlic already baked in). I grilled some asparagus on the stove top on a grill pan, just tossed with a lil oil, salt and pepper.

I also made some fettucini alfredo, I cooked up a pound of whole wheat fettuccini, and tossed it with the sauce. Here's the recipe for the sauce:

Ingredients:
1 cup raw cashews
1 tsp lemon juice
1/2 box silken tofu
2 Tb nutritional yeast
1 Tb earth balance butter
2 Tb soy milk
salt and pepper
1 chopped onion
2 cloves chopped garlic
2-3 Tb sun dried tomatoes

-In a food processor, place all of the cashews in, and pulse until the nuts are a fine powder. Add in lemon juice, tofu, nooch, butter, process until smooth. Add in the soymilk, process-- this should be a thick paste now (cream cheese texture)
-In small frying pan, cook up the onion and garlic in a little oil, until a little brown.
-Add onion, garlic and sun dried tomatoes into food processor, process again until smooth.
-Transfer sauce into small sauce pan
-While your pasta is cooking, add in some starchy pasta water into the sauce, and whisk until you get the consistency you want, I added about 2-2 1/2 cups of starchy water.
-Combine the pasta with the sauce (yum yum!)

easter food :)

i forgot to take pictures of everything we made for easter... we made potato rolls, broccoli salad, gimme lean sausage w/ fried peppers and onions, and lemon bars.

this is the dough for the yummy country-style potato rolls (Veganomicon). they came out super tasty!

and pretty! aren't they yummy-looking?? my omni sister-in-law said that "you can totally bring these over for dinner again" and "they kind of taste like bagels"

these are lemon-bars from The Joy of Vegan Baking... i think im in love with vegan lemon bars.

mellow yellow soba noodles w/ tofu

i'm going to get an actually digital camera, so i can have better pictures of my food. these are all with my camera phone, and it doesn't really do justice to the yumminess of dinner.

tonight i tried a variation of a recipe that was in a recent vegetarian times magazine. i made a package of soba noodles, cut up a package of precooked asian-marinated baked tofu, i tossed the noodles and tofu together with a yellow sauce i made. the sauce was: 1 chopped small onion, cooked in a couple tablespoons of oil, then i added in turmeric, brown sugar, salt, pepper, 2 cloves crushed garlic and a scoop of sesame seeds.