Time:

10 min (5 min to prepare, 5 min to cook)

Meal type:

Sauces & Seasonings

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Notes:

I substituted...

Ingredients:

1 cup fresh basil leaves
0.25 cup raw cashews
3 each to 4 teaspoons...
10.5 ounce pkg lite silken tofu
1 each to 2 tablespoons...

Directions:

Place the basil, cashews, and garlic in a food processor.
Process until smooth.
Add the tofu and cheese, if desired, and process until smooth and creamy.

Time:

2 hr 10 min (10 min to prepare, 2 hr to cook)

Meal type:

Sauces & Seasonings

Ethnicity:

American

Ingredients:

1 cup frozen cranberry...
0.333333 cup sugar
1 each oz. pkg fresh or...
0.5 cup dried cranberries...
3 tablespoons orange marmalade
2 tablespoons Fresh Orange Juice
2 teaspoons minced orange peel
0.25 teaspoon ground allspice

Directions:

Combine cranberry juice concentrate and sugar in heavy medium saucepan.
Bring to boil over high heat, stirring until sugar dissolves.
Add fresh and dried cranberries and cook until dried berries begin to soften and fresh berries begin to pop, stirring often, about 7 minutes.
Remove from heat and stir in orange marmalade, orange juice, orange peel and allspice.
Cool completely.
Cover; chill until cold, about 2 hours.
(Can be made 3 days ahead. Keep ref...

Time:

10 min (5 min to prepare, 5 min to cook)

Meal type:

Sauces & Seasonings

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

2 cups of Basil ( or 1...
0.25 cup pine nuts
0.25 cup firm tofu (keep...
2 tablespoon Tahini, olive...

Directions:

Compive basil, pine nuts, tofu, garlic, lemon juice and Tahini in blender. Blend untill smooth. You will probably need to add more lemon juice untill it starts to process. Add salt and Olive Oil too if you like. Toss in small chunks of tofu while blending if you want to thicken sauce. Pour over some freshly cooked angel hair, toss arround and serve hot.

You may toast the pine nuts to bring out the flavor of the pine nuts. You may also replace pine nuts with walnuts. Omit oil an...

Time:

15 min (5 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Sauces & Seasonings

Ingredients:

1 each medium potato,...
1 each small carrot,...
1 each small onion,...
1 each clove garlic (I...
1 cup water
1 teaspoon salt
4 each oz. tofu
0.5 cup brewer's yeast

Directions:

Cook potato, carrot, garlic, and onion in the 1 cup of water till vegetables are very soft.
Pour into blender, along with tofu, salt and brewers yeast, and puree.
Add more water if necessary.
The ending consistency should be very thick, like a cheese sauce.
If you like a bit of a "kick" to the sauce, like what using sharp cheddar would give, add some hot sauce.

You'll be tempted to use more than 1 cup of water, but don't until the...

Time:

30 min (10 min to prepare, 20 min to cook)

Meal type:

Sauces & Seasonings

Ethnicity:

American

Notes:

Use this recipe for...

Ingredients:

8 tablespoons Vegetable oil
3 each cloves garlic --...
2 each slices yellow...
8 tablespoons all-purpose white...
4 teaspoons nutritional yeast
4 tablespoons low- or...
2 cups water
0.5 teaspoon sage
0.25 teaspoon Ground black pepper
0.5 teaspoon salt
5 each white mushrooms...

Directions:

Measure the vegetable oil into a small saucepan.
Cook the garlic and onion in it for about two minutes on medium or medium-low heat, until the onion is a bit tender and translucent.

Add the flour, yeast, and tamari to make a paste.
Add the water gradually, stirring constantly.
Bring the gravy to a boil on medium to medium-high heat, stirring constantly -- the gravy has to boil for it to thicken.
(Grandma always told me to cook gravy for a full five m...

Time:

25 min (10 min to prepare, 15 min to cook)

Meal type:

Sauces & Seasonings

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

1 each bunch fresh basil...
0.75 cup pine nuts
5 each whole cloves garlic
0.5 teaspoon salt, several...
2 OZ Tofu
0.25 cup yeast and/or soy...
0.75 cup extra virgin...

Directions:

Combine all ingredients EXCEPT OIL in the bowl of a food processor.
Process until semi-smooth.
With processor running, add oil in a continuous stream.

Toss with pasta, serve on toasted bread with tomatoes, etc.

All of these amounts are approximate.
Adjust them to your own taste.
It's pretty hard to mess up.

I often use other herbs besides basil.
Right now there's a cilantro pesto in the fridge, and last ...

Time:

35 min (15 min to prepare, 20 min to cook)

Meal type:

Sauces & Seasonings

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

0.333333 each white onion...
1 each clove garlic...
1 each red bell pepper...
1 each yellow bell...
1 each green bell pepper...
2 each cans tomato...

Directions:

Saute the garlic and onion till the onion is soft.

Add bell peppers, cook till soft.

Add spices.

Add mushrooms. Cook till soft. (I was able to leave this alone for a while.)

Add tomato sauce. I add a little bit more spice here because sometimes the flavor cooks off.

Turn the burner down low and let it simmer while you cook the pasta. It will thicken a little, but it distributes the flavor.

You can prett...

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Sauces & Seasonings

Ethnicity:

American

Ingredients:

2 cups fresh or frozen...
2 each ripe pears,...
1 each medium apple,...
1 teaspoon grated orange...

Directions:

Combine all ingredients except sweetener in a saucepan, and bring to a simmer over medium heat.
Continue cooking, uncovered, until cranberry skins pop and mixture thickens slightly, about 10 minutes.
Add sweetener to taste if desired.
Serve hot or cold.