Cucumber Pasta

Gluten free, carb free noodles!  Jennie used the Zyliss and made cucumber noodles and topped them with a Wow Butter dressing.

I made Glazed Matchstick Carrots with edamame too.  Here's a link to that recipe.

Glazed Matchstick Carrots

Another early dinner before she heads out to work in a  bit.  I like eating early.  I can clean up, exercise, and relax!

2 hothouse cucumbers
3 tablespoons Wow Butter, or nut butter of your choice or sunbutter
2 tablespoons Bragg's Liquid Aminos
Black pepper
Water
1/4 cup cashews or other nut or seeds

Peel and Julianne the cucumbers.  Place on a big bowl.

Melt the nut butter in microwave safe bowl.  Add the Bragg's and pepper.  Add enough water to get the desired consistency, like a salad dressing.

Toss to coat the cucumber.  Add the nuts or seeds.  Serve with other veggies, hot or cold.  Cucumbers this way make a great cold pasta salad too...  I'm thinking vegan sour cream and olives and tomatoes.

Holy Smackers! S'MORES!

Len found great vegan, gluten free marshmallows!  They are made in our home city of Chicago too.  So awesome!

Lunch is served!

Simply Delicious Gluten Free Vanilla Cookies, or Cinnamon
Chicago Vegan Foods Vegan Gluten Free Dandies Marshmallows
Trader Joe's Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips

Place 4 cookies on a cookie tray.  Place a marshmallow on top.  Heat under your broiler.  We used the toaster oven.  Watch them closely.  As soon as the marshmallows puff and get golden on top, remove from oven.

Press some chocolate chips into the marshmallow.  Add the top cookie and devour!

What a treat that my children have NEVER EXPERIENCED BEFORE.

Thanks to Chicago Vegan Foods for being corn free too!!!!!!!  

Find them here and check out their products:  http://chicagoveganfoods.com/

Dreamy Cinnamon Rolls

My stomach has been upset more than usual the past several days (dammit parsnips).   I've either been in too much pain to eat, or I'm starving!  When I went to bed last night, I was starving and dreaming of cinnamon rolls.  

I haven't been sleeping well either which is strange.  Maybe it's the heat, the stomach pain, the night owl young adults living here... Whatever the reason, I had plenty of time to think of a good way to make cinnamon rolls.  

My Po-TAY-Toe Rolls recipe makes super soft bread.  I figured I would adapt it and come up with a sweet, spicy breakfast treat!  It's way too hot to fire up the deepfryer on the deck.  I'm not going out there!  That means doughnuts were not an option today.

Preheat oven to 375 and grease a round cake pan with shortening.

1 package yeast
1/3 cup Very Vanilla Soymilk, heated to 110 degrees
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup shortening, softened (I use Earth Balance)
1 tablespoon maple syrup
1-1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 cup mashed potatoes
1/2 cup warm water
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 to 2-1/2 cups GF baking mix
1 tablespoon melted margarine mixed with 1 teaspoon maple syrup for brushing
Cinnamon sugar for sprinkling

In small bowl, combine yeast and hot Soymilk.

In mixer, cream shortening and sugar until light.  Beat in the maple syrup and cinnamon.  Add mashed potatoes, warm water, yeast mixture, one cup baking mix, and salt.  Mix until smooth. Slowly start adding more baking mix until soft dough forms. It will be very soft but won't stick to your hands.

Divide your dough into thirds (like a peace sign).  Shape into 9 equal circles (three per third)  and arrange in pan. Cover with plastic wrap and towel and allow to rise on top of your preheated oven.

Uncover and bake 15 minutes. Remove from oven and brush with melted margarine, maple syrup combo and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.  Don't be shy.  Use all of the margarine, maple, allowing it to coat the entire pan full.  

Return to oven and bake an additional 5 minutes or until tops are golden.

Hey, hey, hey... Good-bye

Once again, a new food has done me wrong.

My relationship with parsnips is over.
Damn you for making me love you.
Damn you for making me sick two days later.

I'll be OK without you though.  It is also important to try new foods periodically, so, I'm not sorry I did.

Farewell...