VEGAN Green Bean Casserole

This year my family is stopping by on Sunday and I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna make them eat vegan. (Don’t tell them, it’s a surprise!)
But I am going to make Green Been Casserole…Vegan Style. Now I can pull this off, (I think) even with them cause low and behold French’s Original French Fried Onions are vegan!
Green bean Casserole
But here’s the twist…
Cream of Portobello
Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup is not vegan, though Imagine’s Creamy Portobello Mushroom Soup is, but not condensed. I am going to play with the ratio of soy milk to mushroom soup and see how it goes…I’ll let you know.
Happy Holidays!!!!!

Gourmet Vegan Cookies

Liz Lovely
The Vegan’s vegan cookies. Very famous with vegan’s in the know.
Cowboy

Cowboy Cookies
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Frontier

Frontier Cookies

Peanut Butter Classic

Peanut Butter Classics

Snapdragon

Ginger Snapdragons

Cowgirl

Cowgirl Cookies

I was introduced to Liz Lovely Cookies by a regular visitor to Almost Vegan, Danielle (her blog – joeparadox.com), who I suspect is twice the vegan I am judging from the tips and recipes she sends me.
Baking a Difference in the World
Liz & Dan Holtz
Liz & Dan Holtz create their vegan masterpieces in Vermont. They don’t ship all over the USA yet and their cookies are in very high demand. I talked them into sending me some, because they don’t sell them here in Michigan.
Well, it is not just hype. These are really incredible cookies. Obviously hand made (like it says on the bag) and really tasty. Very generously coated with chocolate on the back, (Cowboy, Cowgirl and Peanutbutter) and choc full of all kinds of great things except trans-fats so eat up!
Find out more about Liz Lovely on their — really nice website.

Vegan Potstickers

Oh God, are these good…
Health is Wealth Potstickers
Back when I ate creatures I used to go to a little sushi joint in Chicago on Division called New Japan. It was a very small, very quaint hole in the wall, but they had the best food and I always got pot stickers.
I found these Health is Wealth Potstickers and thought I’d give them a try and they are incredible. Bake them in the oven (only 10 minutes). I made up a little hot mustard soy sauce dip and YEOW.

Creature Cookies – Vegan

These Mad Moose Organics’, Creature Cookies are lots of fun and extremely tasty!
Creature Cookies
100% vegan.
You know, I went to their site and it seems like these cookies are made for kids, but I got them for myself and ate them, and I’d do it again. I like the fun cartoon creatures on them.
Vanilla wafers, banana wafers, and chocolate wafers all with chocolate-fudge filling. Yum.
www.madmooseorganics.com

Tasty Tofurky

This was my first Tofurky, and I just ate the last bite tonight!
Tofurky
At first, I didn’t think it was the best thing I had ever tasted for Thanksgiving dinner. I purposely stay away from recreating carnivore experiences because I think that is setting myself up for failure, and that may have been the problem. But the Tofurky grew on me… or maybe it was like any other Thanksgiving dinner: The leftovers are always better later or the next day or the day after that or the day after that.
I really enjoyed making a hot Tofurky open-faced sandwich, smothered in mushroom gravy on nice, toasted, fresh sourdough bread I bought the day after for just this type of thing.
Tonight it was especially tasty.

Happy Thanksgiving

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Here is a dish believed to have been served at the First Thanksgiving.
Stewed Pompion (Pumpkin)
4 to 6 servings
4 cups cooked pumpkin or squash, roughly mashed
3 tablespoons [butter]<–(Substitute vegan margarine)
2 to 3 teaspoons cider vinegar
1 or 2 teaspoons ground ginger
? teaspoon salt
In a saucepan over medium heat, stir and heat all the ingredients together. Adjust seasonings to taste, serve hot.
Whatever you eat, may you have a happy holiday!
Best wishes,
Denise

Little Debbie’s Vegan

Believe it or not!
Little Debbie Apple Pie
The worst thing about being vegan is when I find something like this… I was on the road at a gas station/mini mart, I happened to reached down and read the ingredients on this Little Debbie Apple Pie while the cashier did her thing and…wow. This pie is vegan. I’ll take it.
Now, when I was not vegan I wouldn’t have allowed someone to force feed me a Little Debbie, but I savored this pie and my new discovery.
God help me.