Time:

45 min (15 min to prepare, 30 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

1.5 each kilogram zucchini
6 each pickling onions
6 each fresh sweet basil...
6 each cloves of garlic
12 each tufts of fresh...
2 tablespoon salt
3 cups olive oil
3 cups white wine vinegar

Directions:

Wash and cut the zucchini into 5cm rounds, then cut lenghtwise into quarters, you should end up with long triangular sticks.
Either crush the garlic or chop finely.
At this point add all the ingredients into pot and bring to the boil, stirring once in a while.
Once it starts boiling, let it boil for exactly 5 minutes and then remove from heat.
Pack the zucchini into jars and distribute the onions evenly between the jars.
Pour over the hot juices (with the he...

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ingredients:

1 each gram pitted fresh...
1 each gram...
0.5 each gram shredded...

Directions:

1. In large bowl mash dates with potato masher (make sure to check each date to make sure even the pitted ones are without pit)

If they seem too dry add just enough hot water to moisten them

2. Crush mixed soft nuts and mix into the mashed dates

3. Roll the date/nut mix into balls

4. Fun part - spread out shredded coconut on table and roll the date/nut balls around until sufficiently covered with coconut

hence the name...

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

American

Notes:

* I put quite A bit...

Ingredients:

1 each 1 cup Cooked Wild...
1 each 1 cup Cooked...
1 each 1 To 2 uncooked...
1 each Potatoes -- cut...
1 each 1 To 2 tablespoon...
1 each 1 x Salt to taste

Directions:

* I think this would be good with a couple of table spoons of orange juice for extra flavoring added before cooking.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

American

Ingredients:

1 each olive oil
1 each handful of raisins
1 each thyme
4 each or 5 green olives
4 each or 5 calamata olives
0.5 each red sweet pepper
1 each onion
1 each garlic clove
1 each molasses
1 each Mixed-grain or...

Directions:

* Prepare the dough as indicated in the package (usualy it only needs to add warm water).
* Extend the dough and cover with a tiny layer of olive oil, rub the garlic clove (chopped), and cover with the rest of the vegetables, finely chopped.
* Spread the thyme and the raisins, roll it and let it rise for 30 minutes, in a warm place (cover with a damp cloth) and, before putttimg it into a preheated oven (230 gas mark), cover it with a layer of olive oil and molasses.
Bak...

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

1 each large round...
1 each eggplant, about 1...
1 each sweet red pepper,...
1 each sweet yellow...
1 each bunch fresh...
0.333333 cup pesto sauce

Directions:

Cut top off of bread and scoop out some of the insides (save for croutons or bread crumbs).
Layer ingredients thinly, starting with hommus on the bottom, ending with pesto sauce on the top.
Add top of bread and wrap tightly.
Let sit 2 hours or more.
Cut into wedges & serve.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ingredients:

3 each boiled potatoes
5 each french beans
0.5 each teacup boiled...
2 each chopped green...
1 each large bell pepper
0.5 teaspoon ajinomoto powder
1 teaspoon chilli powder
2 teaspoon Soy sauce
0.5 each teacup plain flour
3 tablespoon oil, bread...

Directions:

Mash the potatoes coarsely.
Cut the french beans and bell pepper into small pieces.
Heat the oil in a vessel.
When really hot, add the vegetables and ajinomoto powder.
Cook for at least 3-4 mins.
Add the potatoes.
Add the green chillies, chilli powder, soy sauce and salt.
Cool the mixture and shape into balls.
Mix the flour very well in 1 teacup of water.
Dip the balls in this paste and roll into bread crumbs.
Just before s...

Time:

32 min (30 min to prepare, 2 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

American

Ingredients:

1 each 4 ounces tempeh...
1 each 1 small onion --...
1 each 1 green pepper --...
1 each 1 tablespoon oil
1 each 1/4 cup bulgur
1 each 8 ounces tomato...
1 each 1/2 cup boiling...
1 each 1 tablespoon...
1 each 1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 each 1/2 teaspoon salt
1 each 1/2 teaspoon cumin
1 each 1 teaspoon mustard
1 each 1 teaspoon garlic...
1 each Hamburger buns

Directions:

* Saute tempeh, onion, green pepper, in oil 10-15 minutes.
* Pour boiling water over bulgur; let sit while other ingredients saute.
* After 10-15 minutes, add soaked bulgar, tomato sauce, and spices to tempeh mixture.
* Simmer 30 minutes.
* Serve on hamburger buns.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon salt
1 cup bread crumbs
1 cup Oatmeal -- Cooked
4 tablespoons oil
0.5 cup Walnuts -- or pecans
1 each small Onion
1 each medium Potato
0.5 teaspoon sage
2 tablespoons Soy sauce

Directions:

Grind or chop in blender first 3 ingredients.
Saute in oil until soft.

Add remaining ingredients.
Mix thoroughly.
Form into burger patties and fry until brown on both sides, or bake on oiled sheet at 350 degrees.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

1 each K potatoes
150 each g green pepers
150 each g onion
1 each rice milk
1 each olive oil
1 each salt

Directions:

*Peel and cut the potatoes and cook them until they´re soft enough.
By the time, fry the peppers and the onion cut in half centimeter squares (aprox).
*When the potatoes are cooked, smash them, mix with the peppers and the onion and pour rice milk just to make a dense mass.
*Pour a tablespoon of oil on a frying pan and when it´s hot put the mass on it and give omelet form to it.
*After a minute or two, turn it with a dish, pour another tablespoon of oil on t...

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

American

Ingredients:

1 each 1 package Mori Nu...
1 each 1 packet Hidden...
1 each 1/2 cup vegenaise
1 each 3 tablespoons...
1 each garlic powder to...
1 each salt to taste

Directions:

* Process it all in a food processor.
* This turned out pretty good and tasted a lot like the old dressing I remember from my pre-vegan days.
I think the mayo had a lot to do with it.
Be sure to get a vegan mayo that tastes really good (I think vegenaise is the best I've ever had).
* To make dressing, you could probably just do soy milk, vegan mayo, and maybe a little lemon juice to get the bite of buttermilk.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

1 cup water
2 each small cloves...
2 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 each to 2 Tablespoon...
0.25 cup nutritional yeast
3 tablespoon quick-cooking...
1 tablespoon arrowroot (or...
0.125 teaspoon Dry mustard
1.5 teaspoon onion powder
0.5 teaspoon salt, or...

Directions:

Place all ingredients in a food processor or blender, and process until completely smooth.

Pour into a small saucepan and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until smooth and thick.

Cook the sauce until you reach the consistency you want - it will thicken right up to a spread if you let it.
If you're going to have it sit while you assemble the pizza, stop cooking when it's a little on the thin side and cover the pot.
It thickens as...

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

American

Ingredients:

0.25 cup or less chopped...
1 each avocado
0.333333 each lb tofu
0.25 teaspoon garlic salt or...
1 each tomato, chopped,...

Directions:

Peel and remove seed from avocado.
Place in mixing bowl and smash with fork until it is a paste.

Add 1/3 lb of tofu to mixing bowl.
Smash tofu with a fork until it is mixed with avocado.
Mix it until the mixture is one color.

Add chopped onions, garlic, lime juice, salt to taste, and one chopped tomato.

Ready to place on bread with lettuce or alfalfa sprouts.

The tofu gives the guacamole a creamier taste, more th...

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

American

Ingredients:

1 each 2 cups unbleached...
1 each 2 cups sugar
1 each 1/2 cup cocoa
1 each 1 teaspoon baking...
1 each 1/2 teaspoon salt
1 each 1 cup water
1 each 1 cup vegetable oil
1 each 1 teaspoon...
1 each 1/4 cup chopped...

Directions:

* Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
* Mix the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl.
* Mix together the remaining ingredients and add them to the flour mixture.
* Stir until well blended.
* Pour into a 9 x 13-inch pan and bake for 25 to 30 minutes.
* Let cool for 10 minutes before cutting into squares.
* MAKES 16 BROWNIES

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

American

Ingredients:

1 each 1 tablespoon....
1 each 1/2 Cup. onion...
1 each 1/2 Cup. celery...
1 each 1/2 Cup. carrot...
1 each 1/2 Cup. green...
1 each 1 clove garlic...
1 each 1 14.5 oz. can...
1 each 1 1/2 tablespoon....
1 each 1 tablespoon....
1 each 1 tablespoon....
1 each 1 teaspoon. pepper
1 each 1 15.5 oz. can...
1 each 8 kaiser rolls or...

Directions:

* Heat olive oil in a large skillet.
* Add onion, celery, carrot, green pepper, and garlic.
* Saute until tender.
* Stir in tomatoes and next 4 ingredients.
* Cover, reeuce heat, and simmer 10 minutes.
* Add kidney beans and cook an additional 5 minutes.
* If using kaiser rolls: Cut a 1/4" slice off the top of each kaiser rolls; set aside.
* Hollow out the center of each roll, leaving 1/2-in think shell;
reserve the inside of roll...

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

American

Ingredients:

1 each 1 cup TVP
1 each 3/4 cup Boiling...
1 each 1 Green bell...
1 each 1 Onion -- minced
1 each 1 Stalk celery --...
1 each 1 Carrot -- minced
1 each 1/3 cup Water
1 each 2 8 oz cans...
1 each 1 1/2 tablespoons...
1 each 1 tablespoon...
1 each 2 tablespoons...
1 each 1 1/2 teaspoons...
1 each 1/4 teaspoon...
1 each Hamburger buns

Directions:

* Combine TVP and boiling water and set aside.
*"Saute" bell pepper, onion, celery and carrot in 1/3 cup of water in a deep skillet or dutch oven until soft, about 5 to 7 minutes.
* Add TVP and remaining ingredients and cook over medium heat for 5 to 10 minutes until heated through.
* Serve on toasted hamburger buns.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ingredients:

1 cup TVP granules (soy...
1 each scant cup boiling...
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 OZ can pinto beans,...
0.25 cup whole wheat bread...
2 each cloves garlic,...
1 teaspoon oregano
2 tablespoon tahini paste
1 tablespoon Soy sauce
1 teaspoon sugar, salt and...

Directions:

Pour boiling water over TVP and tomato paste in a bowl.
Stir and let rest for 10 minutes.
In food processor, combine TVP mixture and remaining ingredients except for flour.
Pulse until mixture is almost a puree.
Dust hands with flour and shape mixture into 6 burgers.
Dust them lightly in flour.
Layer the burgers with sheets of waxed paper and refrigerate for a least one hour.
Cook on a grill covered with foil for about 10 minutes on each side o...

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

American

Ingredients:

1 each medium tomato...
0.5 cups olive oil
0.5 teaspoon salt
0.5 teaspoon chopped garlic
0.75 teaspoons TABASCO pepper sauce
2 tablespoons lime juice -- (1...
3 tablespoons tomato paste
0.333333 cup cider vinegar
1 each poblano chile or...
0.5 teaspoon dried oregano,...

Directions:

In bowl of food processor, combine vinegar, tomato paste, lime juice, TABASCO Sauce, garlic and salt; process 30 seconds.
With motor running, gradually add oil until mixture is emulsified.

Transfer dressing to medium bowl.
Stir in tomato and chile pepper.
Season with oregano and black pepper.

Just before serving, season with additional salt and Tabasco sauce, if desired. Makes 2 1/2 cups.

Time:

25 min (20 min to prepare, 5 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon ground cumin
2 each large tomato,...
3 tablespoons fresh cilantro,...
1 each white onion,...

Directions:

Preheat oven to 250.
Toast the cumin on a sheet of foil until it turns a deep brown, about 3 minutes.
WATCH carefully to make sure it doesn't blacken and burn.

Toss the tomatoes with the onion, cilantro, cayenne and toasted cumin.
Season with salt.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

0.5 each packages silken...
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons energy egg...
5 cups shredded zucchini
3 cups mashed firm tofu...
1 each small onion, diced
0.5 teaspoons Italian seasoning
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons basil
0.5 tablespoons McKay's Chicken...

Directions:

We also had tofu manicotti for Christmas Eve, and I really liked it, as did all the meat eaters and ovo-lacto vegetarians in the family.
Here is the tofu filling recipe from the Five Loaves cookbook that can be used in lasagna or manicotti:

1. Place onion and shredded zucchini in a saucepan with 2 T. water and simmer for 5 minutes.

2. Meanwhile, mash tofu and add seasonings. Stir in the zucchini and onion. Makes approximately 6 cups.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

American

Ingredients:

1 each 1 cup. chopped onion
1 each 1 cup. chopped...
1 each 2 teaspoon....
1 each 2 cup. sliced...
1 each 1 (15 oz.) can...
1 each 2 lb. firm tofu
1 each 1/4 cup. tomato...
1 each 1 teaspoon. sugar...
1 each 1 teaspoon. cumin
1 each 1/2 teaspoon. basil
1 each 1 teaspoon. salt

Directions:

* Saute onion & pepper in margarine or oil.
* Add mushrooms & saute about 2 minutes.
* Stir in tomatoes & spices & simmer about five minutes.
* Cube tofu & add & simmer another 5 to 10 minutes.
* Ladle over rice or lightly toasted burger buns & serve.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ingredients:

1 package of firm tofu
1 pinch of kelp powder
2 each scoops mayo, or...
1 tablespoons brewers yeast
1 pinch of mustard

Directions:

Drain tofu, mush tofu until curdled. mix ingrediants to taste. it will taste good on bread or crackers.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ingredients:

1 each Baked beans tin
1 each onion
8 OZ Mushrooms
2 each Tomatoes
1 teaspoon full of Vegan...
0.5 teaspoon of Oregano
0.5 each Red pepper,...

Directions:

Firstly fry the diced onion until slightly brown.
Then add the muchrooms and fry for a about 1/2 minutes then add diced tomatoes and red pepper and stir.

Then add worscestershire sauce, oregano, black pepper and the garlic and stir in.

Lastly add the beans and simer.

Tastes good on a jacket potato and is good as a dip at buffets or parties.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

American

Ingredients:

2 cups water
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 each large jalapeno --...
1 tablespoon garlic -- minced
0.5 cup onion -- chopped
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 OZ pkg Fantastic...
1 OZ can corn kernels...
0.25 cup minced fresh...

Directions:

Heat oil in a large saucepan.
Saute onions, garlic, jalapeno, and cumin for 1 minute, stirring frequently.
Add water and bring to a boil.
Whisk in the bean flakes (use a whisk or they will lump up) and salt to taste.
Cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 5 minutes.

Stir in the corn and cook, uncovered, until heated through, about 1-2 minutes.
Stir in cilantro just before serving.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

American

Ingredients:

0.25 cup FF Italian dressing
2 tablespoon chopped parsley
1 tablespoon chopped fresh...
0.25 cup chopped red onion
0.25 cup chopped sweet...
0.25 cup chopped sweet red...
1 each to 10-oz package...

Directions:

Rinse and drain peas.

Time:

25 min (5 min to prepare, 20 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ingredients:

3 each to 4 Strips of...

Directions:

Brown tempeh strips on all four sides in oil over medium heat. Serve immediately with maple syrup and cinnamon.

This is also wonderful with peanut butter on it!