Yummy Vegan Yogurt

I just wanted to share with you a delicious Vegan Yogurt.  I just love this yogurt.  To me it is way better then regular yogurt.  You would not even know it is Vegan.  I love that !!!

It is called SO Delicious Coconut Milk Yogurt.  And just like it's name is is SOOOOO DE-Lish. 

Give it a try and let me know what you think of it.

Vegan Peanut Butter Fudge

I just made the easiest fudge in the world.  It tastes like you slaved over a stove when in all actuallity it takes less then 15 minutes to make.

If you are using the Florida Crystals powdered sugar be sure to buy two packages unless you have some already on hand.  3 2/3 cups is just slightly more then the package has in it.

I put a picture of the ingredients below so you could see what the Earth Balance and Florida Crystals Powdered Sugar are. 

Vegan Peanut Butter Fudge

Ingredients:

3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons Earth Balance

1 cup Peanut Butter

3 2/3 cups Powdered Sugar 

Crisco (greasing the pan)

Melt the Earth Balance in a small saucepan over VERY low heat.  Once melted stir in the peanut butter.  As soon as you have the peanut butter mixed nice and smooth, turn off the heat.  Stir in the powdered sugar.  It will get a bit tough to mix but just keep mixing.  Spread into a greased 9x9 pan and chill until hardened.

I LOVE peanut butter so the next time I make this I will add a bit more peanut butter.  But this came out surprisingly well for so few ingredients and so little time.

You could also make this in the microwave by melting the butter and then mixing the peanut butter in until smooth and then the powered sugar.  I have not tried it this way, but I am sure it would work out very nicely.

Is Sugar Vegan?

I decided to post this in anticipation of my next recipe.  Some sugar's are vegan and some are not.  I choose to use the Florida Crystals sugar as this is totally vegan.  And it tastes just like regular cane sugar. 

It is my understanding that cane sugar is filtered though bone char which is actually burnt animal bones.  Beet sugar is not filtered so if you can find beet sugar you could use that also.

I have substituted Brown Rice Syrup for sugar also with very good results. 

Honey is not vegan and I choose not to consume artificial sweeteners so that is not a choice for me either.

Vegan American Chop Suey

I have been following a Vegan Diet since February 2010.  So, far I love it.  I do slip up once in a great while and have cheese or something sweet like ice cream.  But not very often.  I have not had any meat of any sort since February.  I choose to follow a Vegan Diet for the health benefits but also because the abuse animals suffer to become food for people.  I do not condemn those that choose to eat animals products.  To each his own.

I hope that by doing this blog people will see that Vegan cooking/baking can be really delicious.  I will be honest and upfront about all the recipes that I try and I will try to post pictures with each one that I try.

So I have just now tonight decided to do a blog of my vegan cooking experience.  I am going to cook something vegan everyday that I can and create a post about it.

Tonight I cooked an American Chop Suey type dish with a homemade tomato sauce.  It is really delicious.  My Husband and Mother-In-Law both liked it very much.  My kids did not try it, but that is par for the course in my houseold.

Vegan American Chop Suey

Ingredients:

1 onion
2 cloves garlic
olive oil
1 eggplant
3 zucchini
1 green pepper
10 tomatoes (or whatever works for you)
Fresh Basil
Oregano
2 tablespoons arrowroot
1/4 cup hot water
2 boxes Quinoa elbow macaroni



Melt the Earth Balance in a large saucepan.  I diced up an onion and garlic and sauted until just tender.  Then I diced up a large eggplant, and 3 zucchini and sauted them until they were tender.  Then I put in about 10 tomatoes and a green pepper diced up.  I let all that cook until the tomatoes were broken down pretty good.  Then I add lots of fresh basil and some dried oregano.  I let this simmer for about an hour and let it reduce and thicken up a bit.  Then I put about three quarters of this into the blender to make it nice and smooth.  I left a quarter of it so it could have some nice chunks in it.  It seemed thick enough to me so I dissolved about 2 tablespoons of arrowroot into a bit of hot water and stirred that in and let it simmer a bit longer.  While this was simmering I put on some water to boil with a bit of olive oil.  I then boiled some Quinoa elbow macaroni and added that to the sauce.  I used two different kinds of the Quinoa Pasta because that is what I had on hand.

I hope you like this and let me know if you make it.