Indulging

I'm totally in indulge mode this week and I'm quite okay with that.  We're talking a lot of beer/carbs!  Naughty.

Groceries:

CSA this week! Fresh figs!! What should I make?

I also bought a few other things like tofu, avocado, Gardein "chicken", spinach etc

Food Prep:

The plan was just to make granola but how can you bake oats and not want to make oatmeal cookies?! 

Breakfasts:

Homemade granola with blueberries and almond milk

I ate a lot of pumpkin oats this week! 

Pumpkin latte with sugar free coconut whip! I used Stevia.

Protein pancakes (I just subbed protein powder for some of the flour) topped with almond based vanilla yogurt, blueberries and sugar free coconut whip.

Lunch/Snacks:

Homemade tortilla with Gardein chicken, lettuce, black olives, homemade "cheese" sauce (almond milk, nutritional yeast and some other spices) etc

Ate this with Beanitos black bean chips, yum!

I still have a smoothie pretty much every day but the pictures were getting repetitive. This one uses The Amazing Meal protein powder.

Dinners:

Pizza and beer at Lamppost Pizza before seeing Elysium with my husband.

Grilled up some Gardein chicken burgers (I use the "chicken parm" patties, they are so good), fries and zucchini.

Veggie pasta with homemade tomato sauce. I also made a "cheese" sauce using nutritional yeast, water and and psyillium husk powder... it looks pretty legit but it was weird. haha I thought the psyllium husk would just thicken it but it made it very...goopy. Honestly, it looked like mucus and almost killed my appetite.

BBQ tofu burger, so good!! Definitely recommend making it.

Stir fry with brown rice, quonia, carrot, bell pepper, broccoli, onion, cashews and Archer Farms Mango Curry sauce which is amazeballs.

Wednesday night we picked up Thai food (I had the panang curry with mock duck and the next day my husband pointed out that the duck may only be vegetarian. He gets it all the time so I wanted to try it, totally didn't think about the fact that it could contain egg! So I guess I'll ask next time but honestly, I didn't love it. It was SO soft. I prefer tofu). Anyway, we took our food to Indian Joe Brewery to meet up with friends!

Desserts:

Pumpkin bars! So good!

I made a healthier peach cobbler and it was delicious! My husband really enjoyed it as well. Next time I may just do the crust on top and possibly do a mix of peaches and strawberries.

Oh, Cookies...

I have been eating a lot of cookies, yes. Let's just get that out of the way, shall we? haha 'tis the season and all that.

I made these pumpkin cranberry cookies but I used whole cranberries which give this awesome pop of sourness (I love sour stuff). I also added chocolate chips and Ener-G in place of the eggs.

Last nights random dinner. Trying to use up whatever is around the kitchen. 

Veganized a snickerdoodles recipe and brought them to a party.

 Not the best ravioli ever but pretty good. I really want to try making these ones.

Black bean quesadilla

This is good!

A really delicious burrito. I made some very tasty buffalo tofu (just covered it in buffalo sauce and fried them) plus baked chickpeas in bbq sauce.

Giant chip!

 Yummy juice

A wrap that I wayyy overfilled haha

Can't go wrong with a good book, hot tea (Traditional Medicinals Organic Peppermint) and homemade cookies.

I had this a few times this week. Oatmeal with raisins and goji berries.

Vegan Mofo: Pumpkin Breakfast & Dessert

 

It's not October without pumpkin recipes! 

Pumpkin Steel Cut Oats

1/3 cup steel cut oatmeal (gluten free if you prefer)

1 cup water

1/4 cup canned pumpkin

12 tsp cinnamon

1 pinch nutmeg

1 tbsp raw sugar or agave

1 tsp vanilla

4 tbsp granola or sugar free cereal (optional)

2 tbsp nuts (I used almonds and walnuts) 

splash of non dairy milk (optional)

 

Cook your steel cut oats and water according to package directions. Just before it is fully cooked, add the rest of the ingredients minus the cereal.  Finish cooking. Add it to your bowl and stir in cereal (I used Ezekiel Golden Flax which has 0 sugar, lots of whole grains and protein! It is not GF fyi). Feel free to add a splash of non dairy milk! Enjoy. It's very hearty and delicious.

 

with almond milk!

Pumpkin Pie Soft Serve

1 frozen sliced banana

4 tbsp canned pumpkin

1 tsp pumpkin spice powder

a dash or two of nutmeg (go easy. you can always add more after you test taste)

Add the frozen banana slices to your food processor and being to process. Once they start to become a bit mushy, add the rest of the ingredients. 

Continue to process until nice and smooth! Test it to see if you need more spice or pumpkin.

 

 

If you've never made soft serve from bananas, you'll be amazed! The banana taste isn't super strong and they make for a very similar texture to soft serve ice cream. Not the exact same, of course, but close. Eat up because it melts quickly!