Mole Enchiladas

I don't even know if these are enchiladas, and this isn't quite a recipe but...

The filling was: Hard tofu (from that Philly company), one onion, fried, some peas, some spinach, and some corn.  That was fried together in olive oil (really the veggies were dumped in near the end) with salt and pepper.  I added some white fake cheese shreds from Follow Your Heart. I think it was the pizza blend?

Those were rolled into tortillas and placed in the bake pans after oil-spraying the glass bake pans.

Then, I took 2 jars of Costco tomato sauce with half a jar of Mole sauce (Donya Maria brand, glass jar with yellow lid) and mixed them. I first warmed up the Mole so it would mix. I used my hands to mush it together.  I put that over the "enchiladas".  Then I realized there was not enough liquid, so I opened 2 (or maybe 3?) cans of coconut milk and poured it in along the sides of the glass pans until the liquid was at least halfway up the enchiladas. I sprinkled the yellow fake cheese (the brand from Greece I think) on top of that, just a little bit.

I baked that until it was bubbly.  Probably 350F or 375F?

Buttercream Frosting

Zachary wants me to blog this as well from Betty Crocker, but this one we did adjust it.  Zachary used Country Crock instead of butter and once used almond extract instead of vanilla. It takes color well!

Ingredients:

3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup Country Crock- just from the fridge is fine.
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla or other flavoring
optional: coloring

Steps:

1 In medium bowl, mix powdered sugar and butter with spoon or electric mixer on low speed. Stir in vanilla and 1 tablespoon of the milk.

2 Gradually beat in just enough remaining milk to make frosting smooth and spreadable. If frosting is too thick, beat in more milk, a few drops at a time. If frosting becomes too thin, beat in a small amount of powdered sugar. Frosts 13x9-inch cake generously, or fills and frosts an 8- or 9-inch two-layer cake.

Zachary's Vegan Chocolate Cookies

This is actually from Loving It Vegan but if it disappeared from her site, we'd be devastated, so we are recopying it here for safe-keeping.

Vegan Chocolate Cookies:

• 1/2 cup (112g) Vegan Butter
• 1/2 cup (100g) White Sugar
• 1/2 cup (100g) Brown Sugar
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1 cup (125g) All Purpose Flour
• 2/3 cup (56g) Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/4 tsp Salt
• 1 Tbsp Soy Milk (or other non-dairy milk)
• 3.5 oz (100g) Vegan Dark Chocolate + more for topping (chopped into small chunks)*

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C).
2. Add the vegan butter and brown and white sugar to an electric mixing bowl and cream together. Add the vanilla and mix in.
3. Sift the flour and cocoa powder into a mixing bowl and mix in the baking soda and salt.
4. Add the dry ingredients to the wet, mixing in by hand until crumbly.
5. Add the 1 Tbsp soy milk or other non-dairy milk and mix into a thick cookie dough.
6. Add the chocolate chunks and mix in. Your cookie dough will be very thick, but sticky enough to easily roll into balls.
7. Roll into small balls and space evenly on a parchment lined baking tray.
8. Bake for 10 minutes. The edges will be firm but the cookies will still be soft in the middle. This is fine, they will firm up as they cool.
9. Press in a few more chocolate chunks to the top of the cookies as they come out of the oven if you like (optional).

Festive Noodles

This is to remind me as best I can - what I made for the Holiday Party yesterday in the Math/Stat department.  Jun Lu liked it so I wanted to write this down.

I roasted the walnuts in the oven and roasted some Hemp Hearts on the stovetop. (Hemp Hearts is a legal safe food product and has nutritional value and has no THC in it! They taste and look a lot like sesame seeds.) I used all the Golden Curry pack and most of a large "Thin Spaghetti" pack.  I used way more oil than probably I should have.  At that point, it was acceptable but it seemed to be missing something.  I added the cranberries for a little extra color and flavor, but the base flavor needed something. So, I added this soy sauce, some of this "Grandma Spice" (chili oil) and also some "Bakon" yeast, which I got at Amazon. The curry and "Grandma Spice" are from H Mart.  I think the Hemp Hearts are from the co-op. That's about as much as I can recall. I don't think I added salt or pepper.  (Accidentally, there is pepper in the photo as well as a lemon which was on my counter, but they were not in the noodles.)

Mint Lemon-Limeade

1/8 cup of chopped fresh mint

6 cups of water (less if you want ice)
1/2 cup of lemon juice
1/2 cup of lime juice
1 to 1 1/2 cups of sugar


1.   Put all ingredients into big jug
2.   Stir
3.   Refrigerate

ZIR

Vegan French Toast

The new neighbors brought over some "country bread" that just looked like it ought to be made into French Toast.  So here is my try:

1c oats
1c flour
1T baking powder
3T sugar
blended.

Then I added several cups of cashew milk and water.
There was slightly more milk than water. By the time I added
the liquid, the blender was 3/4 full or fuller.

I added cinnamon and some oil and a little salt to the mix.

This seems to be working.  It covers more bread than I expected. Probably 1 1/2 to 2 loaves easily. The bread soaks up the liquid faster, so you may need to add a little liquid to the batter as you go, maybe halfway through.

"Beans"

This is just "beans", until I find a better name.

2 t black mustard seeds.
1T oil initially, start heating up those seeds while you cut the..
2 Onions, cut up into half-rings. 
Add to the oil.
1/8 c of Badia Curry
1/8 c of white vinegar
1/8 c honey.

a 15 oz can of beans (white northern, small white etc...)

I kept adding oil as needed to keep the thing from burning or looking dry.
This is served atop rice. Add salt to taste.