"Fakin Bacon" Potato bacon strips #vegan #WFPBNO

I was playing around in the kitchen last night making some Cheese sauce and had a small pile of potato peels just begging me to do something with them. So I made these crispy strips.

Peel some redskin potatoes making the peel as long and wide as you can. Put the peels in water and set aside.
Use a mortar and pestle or small coffee grinder to crush half a teaspoon of fennel seeds and a 1/4 teaspoon of crushed red pepper seeds. Mix in 1/2 teaspoon of onion powder and 1/2 teaspoon of garlic salt and 1/4 tsp of smoked paprika.  Add about 3 TBSP of water to make a paste.
Brush both sides of the peels with the past. Cook them in an air fryer at 400F for 40 minutes or lay them on parchment paper or aluminum foil and bake them in the oven or toaster oven at 375F for 30 minutes, flip them and bake for another 40 minutes until they are crispy.

Cheezy Sauce #WFPBNO #Vegan

Add roasted red peppers to make it cheddar 

(The Maize and Blue color is not a coincidence!)

Time for some All American comfort food.

How about some guilt free, vegan cheesy potatoes or macaroni and "cheese"? No cheese, oil or nuts involved. I really enjoyed making this. My kids even tried the macaroni. My daughter said it tastes like the famous brand name that comes in a box. That's pretty high praise!

For dinner tonight I had a salad with my

Cheezy Macaroni. Once on my plate, I seasoned it with my favorite Mediterranean spices and sea salt, sliced up some cherry tomatoes and wound up coming back for seconds.

Prep time:  15 minutes

Cooking time:  20 minutes

Total time:  35 minutes

Recipe

3 large redskin potatoes

6 TBSP Nutritional yeast

4 TBSP Tapioca flour

1 TBS lemon juice

1/4 cup white vinegar

1/4 tsp Tabasco 

1 TBSP salt

1/4 tsp Turmeric

1/4 tsp smoked paprika

1 3/4 cups of starchy water from the boiled potatoes.

(Add roasted red peppers to the blender to give it the orange cheddar color)

Peel, cut up and boil the potatoes in at least 2 cups of water with the TBSP of salt. Save the starchy water.

Put 1 3/4 cups of the starchy water from the potatoes and everything else into your blender or food processor and puree it until smooth.

Pour the mixture into a saucepan and cook it on medium low heat stirring constantly until it thickens (about 20 min).

Add a little more water if it's too thick. Let it cool allowing it to thicken a little more and serve warm.

Season with salt, pepper etc. to taste.

Enjoy!

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Oil free Hummus #WFPBNO #vegan

Oil Free Hummus

I was at the supermarket and try as I might to find one, there was no hummus available without processed oil.  So I made my own.

Here's the recipe:

2 cans of Chickpeas 

1 can of fava beans

3/4 cup of sesame seeds

4 cloves of garlic minced

juice of 1 large lemon

1 tsp cumin

2 T Bragg's Aminos (or lite soy sauce) 

2 T apple cider vinegar.

Put the sesame seeds in a non stick pan on low heat stirring occasionally until they start to brown. Same with the minced garlic. Drain and rinse the fava beans but include the aquafaba (bean water) with the chickpeas. Put everything in your blender and blend until smooth scraping down the sides as needed. Refrigerate before serving.

Breakfast!!! #WFPBNO #foodismedicine #eattolose

Breakfast time! I'm a creature of habit and have the same breakfast almost every day. The first meal of the day is just as important as any other so I make it count. Usually the morning is rushed and I don't always have my steelcut oats already to go. Instead I use quick oats loaded up with seeds, fruits and berries with a few spices to kick it up a notch. I buy the quick oats at the local bulk food store for about a dollar per pound. It's plenty of food to keep me happy until lunch and beyond.  Nutritionally, it's a sound foundation covering a daily dose of Omega 3's, fiber and phytonutrients with grains, fruits, berries, seeds and even nuts if you like. I'm less inclined to over do it with the nuts and seeds when I'm not using them as a snack food but rather as an ingredient in a meal. It's easy to make, takes just 5 minutes and totally delicious!!

Quick Oats Plus!

1 Cup Quick Oats

2 Cups hot water

2 T Milled Flaxseed

1/2 t Cinnamon

1/4 t Turmeric

1 Banana

1/2 Cup Blueberries

1/2 Cup Raspberries or other fruit

Optional - a palm full of crushed nuts

Mix together the top 5 ingredients and microwave for 30 sec. Top it with sliced banana, berries and crushed nuts. 

If it's too hot add some vanilla almond milk or non-dairy milk of your choice.

Guilt Free Spaghetti Squash Alfredo #wfpbno #glutenfree #nutfree #dairyfree #oilfree

WFPBNO Spaghetti Squash Alfredo 

Gluten Free and Nut Free

 Last night I came home hungry and found a spaghetti squash in the fridge. I hadn't had one in a long time. I also hadn't made any Alfredo sauce in quite a while and decided to try and make Spaghetti Squash Alfredo. Cooking the squash was easy enough. I just cut it in half, removed the seeds, put it on a pan with parchment paper and sprinkled it was dried onion flakes, oregano, garlic powder and a light dusting of salt. It went into the oven at 400F for 40 minutes uncovered.

• Previously I made the Alfredo sauce out of tofu but thought I'd experiment to come up with something new. There was a package of dried Great Northern White beans in the cabinet that looked like it needed to be cooked. I rinsed them and put them in the pressure cooker with water, onion powder, garlic powder and about a teaspoon of salt. They needed to be well cooked to make the sauce creamy so I set the timer for 75 minutes then let it vent naturally.

When I was done there were plenty of beans and sauce left over.
If you are reheating the sauce stir in some extra water because it will get very thick after you put it in the fridge for the night.
Speaking of tonight, I have some whole wheat fettuccine noodles waiting for me at home that are very excited to joint in the fun! Can't wait!!!

Guilt-free Spaghetti Squash Alfredo

CREAMY VEGAN ALFREDO SAUCE.
Serves 4

2 Cups Great Northern White Beans
1.25 cups unsweetened non dairy milk
6 T nutritional yeast
5 T tapioca flour
6 cloves of garlic
1/4 cup white vinegar
2 T lemon juice
1.5 T salt
1 t garlic powder
1 T basil
2 T dried parsley
1/8th t ground pepper


Add everything to your blender and puree thoroughly. Pour it into a sauce pan and stir over medium heat until it gets thick and creamy (about 10 min.) Mix it up with your spaghetti squash or fettuccine noodles of your choice and enjoy!

5 Full years a vegan and WFPBNO! Lentil tortillas. Gluten free, oil free, guilt free. #vegan #eattolose #foodismedicine

Lentil Tortillas

Its been 5 full years since I changed from the standard American diet to a vegan lifestyle. A few months later as I learned from my mistakes, giving up oil and processed foods, I went all in joining www.PBNSG.org (free!") and fully transformed to Whole Foods Plant Based No Oil. I wish I had been open to all this when I was younger.  I wasn't ready. It's the best thing I ever did for myself!  Starting at age 58, I weighed 284 lbs. At age 60 I was down to 184 lbs and had so much energy that I became a runner for the 1st time in my life which helped me lose an additional 10 lbs.  Now, at age 63, with no meds and the blessings of my doctor I'm  keeping my weight steady around 175 lbs,  I run 5K's at 10 minutes per mile, eat until I'm full, feel great and look younger!
  I ran 2 miles on the treadmill then did free weights and circuit training at Planet Fitness today. I came home and made these.

Lentil Tortilla with Tuna-ish Salad

Gluten free, oil free, sugar free, guilt free!
My very 1st try at lentil tortillas.
They came out great!!
Easy too....
3/4 cup of lentils soaked in 1 1/4 cups of water for 4 hours.
Throw it with the water and all into a blender with 1/2 tsp Cajun seasoning and 1/4 tsp of salt.
Blend the shit out of it until it looks like pancake batter.
Use a non stick pan on medium heat.
Spread out 1/3 cup of batter into a disk on the pan.  When the steam stops (about 90 sec) flip it for another minute. I used a spatula to loosen and flip them.
Add fixings like a taco or burrito.  Go crazy!!!