It starts with a little bit of flour

3 cups to be exact.
1 cup of organic canola oil
4 tbs of soy milk
2 tsp of salt
Combine salt and flour. Mix soymilk and oil and add to the flour. Roll half in ball and use roll out with a rolling pin. Prior to a rolling pin, I just used a full spaghetti sauce jar. It worked perfectly.

Roll out about 11 inches in diameter and then transfer it to a 9 inch pie pan.
Add peaches and berries.



Make sure mommy isn't looking...


Add sugar mixture to the fruit, but leave some for the top.
1/3 c flour
1/4 melted margarine
1 c turbinado sugar
1/2 t cinnamon
1/4 t nutmeg
dash of ginger
Since we don't have a microwave we melted the margarine in the preheated oven. Combine ingredients and crumble the sugar mixture with fingers for a good mix.


Roll out the other half of the pie crust and lay on top. Poke holes for ventilation. Add remaining sugar mixture on top.
Bake in over at 350 for 30 to 40 minutes until crust is golden brown.





Most importantly, remember don't give pie to a toddler before nap time. I can say that she has reached her processed sugar quota for the week.

What do get a chocoholic for her birthday

Fred bought me the mint bar as a present from Wasabi from up above...yes we are weirdos. He also made me vegan chocolate cream cake for my birthday. Ivy sent me a package for my birthday. It got here a week ago. She told me I could not open it until my birthday. If I would have known it was five bars of organic chocolate bars, I would have long opened it by now. And my downstairs neighbor gave me the ice cream bars. I think Blanket will be doing cartwheels for weeks to come.

WFD?

Baby is craving protein so tonight we had veggie loaf:

My modification of a recipe from veggie loaf, from Veg source. The original recipe was just TVP, oats, bread crumbs and vegetable bullion. I rarely buy bullion so I make my own veggie stew to flavor the TVP and kept the veggies for bulk.
2 carrots
1 onions
2 garlic cloves
1 zuchnni
1 squash
1.5 cups TVP
oats
barley
bread crumbs
water
salt
Braggs amino acid
Grate all the veggies or toss them in the food processor or Vitamix, if you'll like me. Add enough water to cover the veggies. Bring to boil. Let simmer for a bit. Add TVP and let it cook down. Add enoug oats, barely, and bread crumbs to soak up excess water. Season it with salt and Braggs. For more flavor add a veggie bullion cube to the water and veggies. Transfer to bread pan. I don't have one anymore so I just put it in a pie pan. Bake on 350 for 45 minutes. Midway, you can glaze with ketchup if you like or make a special tomato sauce. I was lazy today, so it was ketchup.
and vegan mac and cheese:



Yet another modification of a recipe. This is a combination of two recipes. One recipe is the recipe without the bell pepper and the other recipe uses cashews, oil and water instead of soy milk. Cashews were too expensive at the store, so I just improvised.

Box of macaroni
2 cups soy milk
1 red bell pepper
3/4 cups nutritional yeast
3/4 cups flour
salt
lemon juice
garlic powder

Boil macaroni and drain. In blender puree bell pepper and milk substitute. In saucepan add flour and nutritional yeast together then stir in the liquid. Mix well and then cook on low long enough for it to thicken. Add lemon juice, salt and garlic powder to taste. Combine macaroni and sauce in casserole dish. Bake on 350 for 30 to 45 minutes. I topped it with bread crumbs today.

It was worth it.

Our trek to the health food store was worth it. I got some cough syrup to ease this annoying cough and carrots to make Daddy a special surprise.
Another modified recipe.
2 bananas
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup canola oil
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1.5 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp salt
3 cups carrots grated (We made juice and used the pulp)
1/2 c raisins

Smash bananas in a big mixing bowl. We use a potato masher to mush it up really well.



Add sugars and oil and blend well.



In another bowl shift dry ingredients. Then shift it into the wet mixture and blend.


Add carrots and raisins and mix


Pour in a greased 3 by 8 pan and spread. Bake at 350 for 40 minutes to an hour. We baked ours for 40 minutes and it turned out perfectly moist.

We even iced the cake. I cut the cake in half so that I could layer it.


Our vegan carrot cake

Okay doesn't look delicious, but I'm proud to say the cake turned out very moist and sweet.

Mina was very proud of baking the cake. She was reluctant to let our friends have some. She kept going into the kitchen and asking for the cake. We went to visit them because they just had a beautiful baby girl. After we left, she threw a small fit. I told her that cake was better shared.

Feeding my craving

Nothing like homemade vegan truffles prepared by a loving husband. Hard part is not eating them all at once. I already had four of each today. If the baby comes out like a hollow chocolate bunny I would not be surprised.

Cookies and cream truffles

Raw chocolate truffles