Barbeque Sweet Potato Steaks
This easy vegetarian recipe is for vegan people because it use steak sauce and that is why vegetarian addicted will not cook this recipe.
Ingredients (use vegan versions):
- sweet potatoes
- steak sauce – Lea & Perrins is. Trader Joe’s too.
Directions:
Buy potatoes that are straight and plump. I’ve done this with both
orange and yellow flesh varieties with good success. You may even be
able to use regular potatoes.
Slice sweet potatoes the long way into around 1/4″ (1 cm?) slices.
Brush with steak sauce. Let sit for a little while
Place on BBQ (Turn once).
The potatoes get that wonderful grill pattern on them too!
Recipe by Michelle Dick.
Serves:
Vegan Biscuits
Vegan biscuits are always a good choice for a sweet desert in your family. These vegan biscuits are not so full of fats like the one non vegetarian but you have to it them moderated even if the vegan biscuits are so good.
Ingredients (use vegan versions):
- 1 package prepared, frozen soy sausage crumbles or patties (I use Morningstar Farms)
- Up to 1/4 cup flour (preferably white but whole wheat works too)
- Up to 4 cups plain vegan soymilk (full fat or low fat works best but non fat may be used)
- packaged biscuit mix (check label for milk ing. – use 1/2 cup vegetable shortening and
- water to make biscuits)
- lots of pepper (and I mean LOTS)
- lots of salt or salt seasoning (I use Lawry’s or Johnny’s seasoning salt)
- 1/2 medium onion, finely chopped
- Up to 1/2 cup vegetable oil
Directions:
Prepare biscuits according to package directions – preheat oven to bake biscuits but let dough sit, covered (on counter or in refridgerator) while you prepare the gravy. Remember the secret to great biscuits is to use COLD margarine or shortening and to not overmix. Turn stove on to medium high, and preheat a drizzle of vegetable oil in the pan. When pan is hot, add chopped onions and saute until almost cooked. Add frozen sausage crumbles and continue to saute until cooked. Set aside cooked onion/sausage mixture in a bowl.
In the same pan, reduce heat to medium, and prepare a roux by mixing about 2-3 tablespoons flour with enough vegetable oil to make a heavy paste (about 1-2 tablespoons of oil). Add oil and/or flour to get the correct consistency. Stir and cook the roux for a couple of minutes over the medium heat, then slowly add about a cup of soymilk to the mixture, stirring continuously. You must stir continously to avoid lumps. Contiune to simmer the gravy over medium heat and add more soy milk as needed (this may require several cups of milk).
If you accidentally add too much milk, just add a bit more flour (not more than a teaspoon at a time). Also, the longer you cook the gravy, the more it will reduce and thicken. As the gravy is simmering and reducing, put the biscuits in the oven and bake according to package instructions. Add the onion/sausage mixture to the gravy and continue to stir and simmer until the biscuits are done. Add salt and
pepper to taste – you will probably find that you’ll use more salt and pepper than you expected.
Halve the warm biscuits and pour gravy mixture over them and serve. Yum!
Serves: 3-4
Preparation time: 45 minutes
Vegan snickerdoodles
I have tasted snickerdoodles for the first time at a friend house. Snickerdoodles have an amazing taste and the sugar topping was just melt in my mouth. After this experience i decided to prepare vegan snickerdoodles version. Before you do something preheat prepare your oven to 300 celsius degrees.
Ingredients:
* 2 1/2 cups self rising flour or all purpose
* 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1 cup brown sugar
* 1/2 cup white sugar
* 1 cup vegan margarine, softened
* 2 “eggs”
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
Topping:
2 Tablespoons sugar
2 Teaspoons cinnamon
Combine topping and set aside.
In a medium size bowl combine self rising flour, salt, cream of tartar, and baking soda. In a larger bowl, with an electric mixer, blend the margarine and sugars. Add the eggs and mix well until fluffy.
Add the flour mixture and blend at a low speed until the dough comes together.
Shape dough into balls and roll in the cinnamon sugar topping. Make sure to flatten them when placing them onto the baking sheets.
Bake for about 18-20 min and wait for them to disappear.
Organic Black Tea
Organic black tea have the same savory aroma and pleasant taste as many other black tea varieties. Organic black tea is different than the other tea varieties because it is grown in natural environment.
Black tea growing and processing keep the same methods for hundreds of years in ecological tea plantations from Asia. Organic agriculture is a strong method which protect natural resources rather than deplete. In these kind of tea you will not find any chemicals, synthetic fertilizers, chemical food additives or plant growth regulators.
Not only now this tea is made from Organic habits, but in the last three years there were no herbicides, insecticides or growth regulators on the land used for production. Farmers are using crop rotation, composting and other methods to sustain the soil and planet health.
Black tea is one of the most popular blend in our days. It have a strong dark color and good flavor. Consumed on a regular places it can replace the coffee. Medicine encourage people to drink organic black tea due to the following health benefits:
- Cardiovascular events is decreased
- Cancer prevention
- Heart attack and stroke reduction
- Half amount of caffeine than coffee
My suggestion is to try 
or
Organic Pure Black – 10 count bag refill.
Vegetarian video recipes: Green beans with pearl onion
See the first vegetarian video recipe from our site. It is one of the most easy vegetarian recipe and explained in a video it`s great to share with you.
Ingredients
* 1 fluid ounce olive oil
* 3/4 lb green beans (fresh, frozen or canned)
* 10 ounces white pearl onions, peeled
* 1/2 tablespoon summer savory
Directions:
Boil the fresh green beans for 5-8 minutes or until they are tender.
Sauté the pearl onions in the olive oil until they are translucent.
Add the green beans (with ends removed) and summer savory and cook over low heat until heated through.
Season to taste with salt and pepper, add some unsalted butter if desired and serve hot.
Make it even yummier and heartier by throwing in some crumbled bacon or small diced ham.
Gnocchi vegetarian – sweet dessert
Gnocchi italian food is based on potatoes but you can try all sort of flours. The recipe presented by Quick vegetarian recipe is very easy to cook. Sweet gnocchi are the best option for you dessert. Try this simple vegetarian recipe.
Ingredients (use vegan versions):
- potato
- plain flour
- sea salt
Directions:
Boil potatoes with their skins on in well salted water. When well
cooked drain, leave to cool slightly. Peel skins off & mash well, the finer the better, the potato will be dry & powdery. Add 1 part flour to 4 parts potato eg. 1000g potato needs 250g flour. Add salt if desired or herbs & spices. With hands mix well until a dough is formed. Transfer to a floured bench knead for a few minutes. Devide dough into workable portions. Roll into thin logs, approx. 1.5cm & chop along into 2cm pieces, put a fork mark on each put aside on floured tray. Boil a large pot of water drop gnocchi in, boil until
the gnocchi floats to the top count to 20 & take off the boil.
DO NOT OVERCOOK. Give a quick rinse under cold water serve immediately. My favourite is a pretty basic Napolitana sauce which is chopped garlic & onion sauted in olive oil basil, tomatoes, vegie stock & a few chopped sun dried tomatoes.
VERY IMPORTANT: A large part of the success of gnocchi is keeping the potatoes dry, that’s why their skins are kept on for boiling, a wet potato mixture will produce gluggy gnocchi.
Serves:4
AKKI ROTI – Rice flour Roti
Ingredients (use vegan versions):
- 1 1/2 cups rice flour
- 2 teaspoons jeera
- 1/2 inch ginger finely cut
- 3/4 cup onion finely cut
- coriander/
- green chillies (according to taste, from Indian/Asian stores)
- salt
- cooking oil
Directions:
1) Lightly grease a mixing bowl with dairy free margarine. Mix the rice flour, jeera, onions in the bowl till it forms a light crumbly mixture.
2) Add hot water to the mixture and let it stand for 5-10 minutes.
3)Add coriander, green chillies, ginger and mix well with water to form dough, slightly
looser than the consistency of Chappati dough.
4) Make into medium-sized balls.
5) On a skillet, pat the balls into a flat shape. Dribble oil along the sides.
6) Wait till the edges turn brown.
7) Flip it over and brown on other side. 
Makes crisp, crunchy rotis which should be served hot.
9) Generally, whole rotis don’t result because of the brittleness of rice flour.
Serves: 4 – 6
Preparation time: 15 min
Vegetarian advertising
Vegetarian sceptics suggest vegetarian lifestyle is more expansive than the non vegetarian one. If we are thinking that healthy food will give us more strength than the other and we won’t go to doctors so much like other people, we will admit that vegetarian investment have a good ROI ( return of investment ) on long time .
Vegetarian advertising is complicated and expensive i can say. I have just analyzed some vegetarian advertising offers and i saw these prices:
468×90 banner – 10$ for 1000 impression.
125×90 banner in sidebar – 7$ for 1000 impression.
I think these prices for vegetarian advertising are making our products more expensive because the niche is not so big and it is strange to ask for 10$ for 1000 impression when the advertising from Google adsense won’t bring you more than 3$ CPM.
But there are great ideas for other company to exploit the financial recession. For example some green sites are moving to a green hosting. Do you really think that hosting company is green? I don’t think so. They are just promoting their hosting services using the new trend: green lifestyle.
In Germany a long term vegetarian advertising had wonderful results, because the meat consume was lower with 10% in 10 years. Even if the vegetarian advertising is expensive, a great idea will bring you the success in a vegetarian business.
Vegan high cholesterol – a myth
Non vegetarian people are trying to get excuses and they are saying the vegan recipes contain high colesterol. In fact, the only way to have cholesterol is from animal products and ingredients.
Cholesterol is produced by the animal livers. The plants don`t have livers, so there is impossible to found cholesterol in plants products. Cholesterol is not a necessary nutrient for a healthy diet. But vegetarians will not say that cholesterol is always bad for our organism. Cholesterol production is normal and healthy for our body, but not an essential part. Unfortunately too much cholesterol increases the risk for stroke and heart disease.
Anyway don`t imagine that being vegan will results in lack of cholesterol for your organism. Liver is the one who stimulates the cholesterol production and it is driven by genetics, diet, and other factors. It is not recommended for a vegan person to eat a lot of hydrogenated vegetable oils, because it can cause the liver to produce more cholesterol than necessary.
In conclusion, the recent studies show that vegans have about 35% lower blood cholesterlo level than omnivores.
Now, you are free to pick one of our vegetarians recipes from our site and prepare special dinner for your friend/girlfriend .
Pressure Cooker Rich Vegetable Stock
Today i want to present some vegan pressure cooker recipes. Comparing vegetarian soup with the soup with meat, this one is healthier and you can prepare in a vegan pressure cooker in just 20 minutes.
Ingredients (use vegan versions):
- 1 1/2 tablespoon barley miso
- 2 small carrots cut up (scrubbed, not peeled)
- 1 bunch scallions cut up
- 1/2 head garlic
- 1/2 to 1 full strip kombu (type of seaweed)
- 2-3 sun dried tomatoes
- 1 bay leaf
- 8 cups water
Directions:
Combine all ingredients in a pressure cooker and cook for 20 minutes.
This stock works really well with the diner gravy recipe in the Chicago Diner
cookbook.
Serves: Alot!
