Quick Fajitas

This is a really quick fajita recipe. You can use the flavors I did or do your own! I used seasoned tofu, in which I dry fried* it. Because my tofu had seasoning on it, I only left it on the pan until the seasoning turned blackened, so my tofu was left nice and soft. If you want, you could dry fry your tofu first and then season it later so it has more of a firm/crunchy texture. I don't have specific measurements for this recipe, but here is basically what I did:

Ingredients:
2 carrots
1/2 large onion
1/2 red bell pepper
2/3 block tofu, pressed
Cumin
Dried cilantro
garlic powder
Green Pepper Tabasco sauce
Sazon (Mexican seasoned salt)


*If you haven't dry fried before, I recommend it! Just press your tofu and slice it however you want. Then add it to a heated non stick pan without oil. Then you just let it cook until brown on both sides, it creates a really interesting texture!

First, I chopped the veggies and started cooking the carrots by adding them to the skillet with some water. Once they started to get soft, I added in the onion and red pepper. Once everything was tender, I added in all of the seasonings to taste (except for the Sazon) and the Tabasco sauce.

I prepared the tofu by coating it in the Sazon and then dry frying it until it was blackened. Then I sliced it and added it into the veggies. I served this on Ezekial Sprouted Grain Tortillas.

Roasted Red Pepper Mushroom Burgers

We really like burgers, so here is another type I recently made! Basically, I just make combos of whatever we have on hand, or whatever we like! Michael requested a chipotle black bean burger, so that of course turned into a different burger consisting of roasted red pepper, mushrooms, and tofu!

Ingredients:

1 red bell pepper

1/2 cup mushrooms (chopped)

1 small onion (chopped)

1/2 block tofu (pressed)

1/4 cup Nutritional Yeast

1 T dried cilantro

1 tsp ground cayenne

1/2 tsp smoked paprika

1 cup breadcrumbs

Roast pepper until skin is charred. While it's roasting, sautee the chopped onion and mushrooms until tender.

Once red pepper skin is completely charred, allow to cool and then peel off skin, and chop.

Add all ingredients except breadcrumbs to food processer and process until smooth.

Put mixture into separate bowl and add in breadcrumbs.

Bake at 350° for 10 minutes on each side, or until browned.

This made six burgers and they had a nice smoky taste.  Serve with any condiments, we used ketchup and mustard and had them on rye!

Feta (ish?) and "Ice cream"

Yesterday when I was with my friend Dawn, she mentioned how she recently made a really good salad that had a ton of stuff in it. Well, I eat salad every day for lunch and I'm always trying to find ingredients to add to it to make it my entire meal. I decided I wanted to make Vegan Feta, but I've never actually had feta.. (I may have a long time ago, but I have no recollection of it.) So, basically I just waned to add some tofu to my salad to add a good protein source to help keep me fuller longer. I've seen some recipes for vegan feta, but for some reason the idea of adding moist tofu to my salad didn't appeal to me, I wanted it to have a different texture since there are already so many ingredients in a salad with a ton of moisture. So, this is what I came up with (and I'm sure it doesn't taste anything like feta, but I thought it was good and I didn't eat again until my post-workout snack!)


Ingredients:
1/2 block firm tofu (pressed and crumbled)
1 Tablespoon Nutritional Yeast
1/2 teaspoon rice vinegar (I'm sure balsamic could be used, I just love rice)
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon oregeno
1/2 teaspoon basil
salt and pepper to taste


Add all ingredients and mix:

Then spread out onto greased cookie sheet and bake for about 20 minutes at 350° then let cool:

This was a great addition to my salad which also contained butter beans, Upton's bacon, carrots, cucumber, and sunflower seeds!

After dinner tonight we made banana "ice cream", which is one of our favorite desserts to make. I've seen it on many blogs, but the first place I saw it that made me try it was from the Happy Herbivore. The first time I tried this, I really didn't think it was going to be good. But it gets to be soo creamy like ice cream! And you can add whatever you want, like frozen blueberries or strawberries, peanut butter, or chocolate chips like we did! The only problem is that it gets really melty pretty quickly.. Make sure you use really ripe presliced bananas (even if they look TOO ripe, as you can see one piece is extra brown in my photo). 

I really recommend trying this, it's very good!