Almond Butter Carob Chip Cookies!!

So, I had picked up the Clean Eating magazine in hopes of finding a fun new recipe to cook!! So I read magazines from back to front.. So I flip open the back cover and there was a recipe titled Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies!!!! SUPER EXCITED!!

Preheat the oven to 350.

In a bowl add:

1 cup almond butter

3/4 cup sucanat

1 large egg

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp sea salt

Chocolate Chunks - Dark chocolate, carob chips, or chocolate chips which ever you prefer. I made these cookies with vegan carob chips.

Mix!

Place on a cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes....

ENJOY!!!

Peace and Love,

Green Teen

Pizza - Lavash Style!

My co-worker Rickalicious introduced me to two wonderful things on Friday. M's Pub in the old market, and Lavash!! So, I decided to take my new found love for lavash and see what I could do.... So here it is!!

Veggies!!

I chopped up mushrooms, Roma tomatoes, spinach, and some fresh garlic and roasted it at 400 degrees for about 15-20 minutes.

LAVASH!

I found it in the cracker section of Hy-Vee.

Top the lavash with roasted veggies.

Add cheese. I added Rice cheese vegan style!!

ENJOY!!!

Ab & J Roll-Up

A great quick snack is a Almond butter and Jelly roll-up!! Super easy, Quick, and Delish!! Switch it up and use Agave Nectar instead of jelly!!

Ab&J Roll-Up

Jelly Shout-Out: This jelly was homemade from the Bailey's! They used grapes from their vineyard!! This particular jelly is Marquette Jelly!! DELISH!! Thanks Bailey's!!!

Corn Chowder's gone vegan!!!!!!!!!

Soo... one of my favorite soups of all time is Panera Bread's Summer Corn Chowder.. I just LOVE it... So, when you decide to start the vegan transformation you begin noticing that more and more things that you love and crave aren't in the realm of foods that your new lifestyle allows... Summer Corn Chowder was one of those things.. it is a cream based soup... cream means milk.. milk means, blood, pus, casien.... no need to go on!!! Soo.. I happened to catch an episode of Oprah where she had a famous vegan chef named Tal Ronnen, who just came out with a book called the Conscious Cook. While on the show he cooks one of his soups and uses cashew cream.. also known as my new found love!!!!!!!!

So I decided I wanted to make a corn chowdery soup made from the cashew cream. So to make Cashew cream you need to soak raw cashews in water covered overnight... You then rinse the cashews and place them in a blender and pour in water to cover the cashews with an inch of water above them... then blend and WAA LAA.... Cashew Cream!!!!!! You then use cashew cream like you would a normal milk cream...

Cashew Cream!!! :)

Okay.. Now to the soup... So you have your cashew cream made, we need to work on the soup...

I cut potatoes, carrots, and butternut squash into cubes. Chunkily diced an onion. Then drizzled with olive oil and S&P.. (I am still new at this so I didn't really know what other seasonings to add...) Then I baked them at 400 for about 25 minutes, cooked all the way through.

My veggies roasting so nicely!!!!!!

With the veggies a roastin' I began to work on the base of the soup.. I took and added a thing of veggie broth and then added the cashew cream and boiled. Then added corn, I would have liked to add the frozen sweet corn my parents bag every year but I didn't have any so I settled for yellow and white frozen corn.

Stir.. Stir.. Stir.....

Now that your base is going all Colbie Caillat, and getting all bubbly.. Time to add the veggies!!!

I just added Tastefully Simple garlic garlic, and S&P.. I need to work on the seasonings part!

Just stir and enjoy!!!!!!!

There she is folks!!!! Delish Corn Chowder with not an animal product in sight!!!

Loves!!

Cashew Creameeney!

Roasted Romas!

The hardest thing about being a vegan is cooking!! Yes, there are GREAT recipe books out there.. and if I live in LA our NYC.. I may be able to cook a recipe from one of those books!! But I am 25 years old.. busy.. and living in the midwest... Sooo this along with a common question, "soo.. if you can't eat meat.. or animal products.. what can you eat?" I have decided to start posting some recipes of delish vegan delights!!!

Roasted Romas

Bad picture.. took it with my cell phone...

Tonights menu:

Roasted Roma Tomatoes and Mushrooms over Olive oil, Basil Angel hair pasta.........

Preheat oven to 375-400

Slice mushrooms and Roma tomatoes and lay them on a cookie sheet.

Sprinkle with olive oil, salt, pepper, and basil.

Bake for 15-20 minutes...

Cook angel hair pasta.

Toss pasta with a lil olive oil, salt pepper, basil. (You may add other seasonings you enjoy such as garlic salt.)

Dice fresh chives. (If you would like.)

Top with roasted tomatoes and shrooms.. and ENJOY!