I'm Back!!! Thanks To Vegan MoFo!

I know it's been an AWFUL LONG TIME since my last post and I have LOTS and LOTS of catching up to do which I will certainly be trying to do VERY SOON!

I have to THANK Vegan MoFo for the swift kick in the butt I needed to get back into posting here at My Blissful Journey.  I have participated in Vegan MoFo for YEARS and was very exciting it was returning once again.

Today's prompt is Favorite Food which is pretty impossible for MOST of us to do, I think, because we usually get so excited about foods that are vegan in general!  BUT...having said that...I will attempt to post about one of my favorite foods...CHICK PEAS.

It's funny I remembering not really loving Chickpeas when I was small.  I think it was because of the texture.  Fast forward several years and BAM!  I LOVE THEM!  I love that more and more as the days go by, actually.  So for today's post I will be feature a few of my favorite dishes that contain chickpeas.

First up...Kale, Chickpeas, Onion, Garlic, Red Bell Peppers, Hemp Seeds, Turmeric, Spices, Vegan Sour Cream, Sriracha! There may or may not be carrots in there, too! I can't remember. This was the first one I did of many when I first picked up a HUGE bag of chopped Kale.

If you mix the Sour Cream and Sriracha into everything else it made a nice sauce, too!

On top of this heaping pile of nachos I made a sunflower seed based sour cream. I also used chickpeas, avocado, corn chips, taco sauce, nutritional yeast, and tomatoes. With the chickpeas I put them on stove top first with paprika, onion, cumin, and garlic and chili sea salt. 

The Sunflower Sour Cream had 3/4 C Sunflower Seeds, 3/4 C Water, 2 T Lemon Juice, 1 t Wildtree Garlic Galore, and 1/2 t Wildtree Absolutely Onion which is NOW Vegan AND Organic!

Here's a Mediterranean Chickpea Salad of sorts I have done in the past! Here's what's in it...

2 C Chickpeas

1 C diced tomatoes

1 Yellow Bell Pepper

1/4 C Parsley

1/4 C Chives

1 T Oregano

3 T Balsamic

Sea Salt/Pepper to taste

Cauliflower Chickpea Casserole is something I need to revisit again soon!  I remember it being YUMMY!

2 C Chickpeas

1 Pound Frozen Cauliflower

5 Carrots

2 Handfuls of Chives

1 C Vegan Bread Crumbs

1 C Water

2+ T Grapeseed Oil

1 T Wildtree Garlic Galore

To Taste Wildtree California Garlic Pepper

I started with Spinach, Chickpeas, and Carrots. I made a mild cheesy sauce with Almond/Coconut Milk, Earth Balance, and left over Egg Trick Seasoning (the recipe for that is from The Vegan Zombie Cookbook). I then topped it with baked Tater Tots. Next step - I covered it in leftover vegan cheese sauce I made with a combo of almond milk, Daiya Cheese, and spices. Then I sprinkled Wildtree Taco Seasoning and Hemp Seeds over it! This was pretty amazing if I do say so myself!

Chickpea Vegan Egg Salad

2 C Chickpeas (sprouted, mashed/in Ninja)

1 T Tahini

2 T Vegan Mayo

2 T Dijon Mutard

3 T Onion "Greens" (Onion Sprouts/Shoots)

1 T Lemon Juice

1/2 tea Garlic Powder

1/2 tea Kala Namak (Sea Salt)

1/4 tea Turmeric

Vegan Irish Stew (with Chickpeas)

6 C Water

6 tea veggie bouillon (Wildtree)

1 pound of potatoes

3 carrots

1 stalk celery

1 onion

1 pound Chickpeas

4 tea Bragg's Liquid Amino's

1 tea California Garlic Pepper (Wildtree)

And of course...no vegan post talking about Chickpeas would be complete without some sort of Hummus, right?  And this is just your basic or base hummus!

2 cans of chickpeas

2 Tablespoons Lemon Juice

7-10 cloves of garlic or 2-3 Tablespoons of Minced Garlic

2 Tablespoons Tahini

garlic flavored oil (or olive or Grapeseed oil) to taste

spices of choice

OH!!!!!!  Also...NEW THIS YEAR!!!!

The Sororitea Sisters will be participating in Vegan MoFo!  Yup!  The Tea Review Blog that I co-founded is participating and contributing at least 1 vegan tea post each day during Vegan MoFo!  Be sure to check it out, link up, comment and let us know that Vegan MoFo sent ya!  

The Sororitea Sisters

My Chickpea Casserole Was Featured!

Hi Gang!  One of the many projects I am involved in is writing for The Raw Food World NEWS Site!  They have a lot of great recipes in their recipe section, too!  This is one of the many recipes of mine that I submitted - and guess what...they featured it TODAY!  For the entire recipe, instructions, and information CLICK HERE.

A short list of ingredients that were used in this recipe were...

• 2 cups brown rice pasta
• 3 tbsp flour
• 2 tbsp grapeseed oil
• 1 cup almond milk (or nut-milk of your choice)
• 1/2 cup vegetable stock
• 2 cups chickpeas
• 1/2 cup bread crumbs
• Pinch paprika

Vegan Mofo ~ Leftovers & Multiple Dishes

Since I didn't blog yesterday - today is my first Vegan MoFo Post of 2014!  Happy Vegan MoFo!

I have a lot of things to blog about but want to hold off on the updates on Paco since we have another appointment later today.  I do want to THANK everyone who has sent well wishes, vibes, prayers, thoughts, and such!  I appreciate it so much, thank you! 

Jumping in with this first post for Vegan MoFo - I want to talk about using left overs as well as using a food that I have used in a multiple dishes this past weekend.

It officially started with a Chickpea Salad that I had made using Chickpeas, Chipotle Vegan Mayo, and Pickle Relish.  Even tho I don't have a photo of that - it was simple and it made a large batch.  I had a couple of sandwiches out of it as well as a side dish.  I then decided to take it one step further and made this mash out of it...I added the leftover Chickpea Salad to cooked zucchini and tomatoes that I did on stove top with a little Garlic Grapeseed Oil and a little Dill.  I combined the leftovers with the newly made dish here.  That was another meal.  From there I made some baked tofu as you can see in the first photo.  I used Hemp Oil and some Wildtree California Garlic Pepper as the seasoning.  It turned out pretty awesome. 

I snacked on the baked tofu.  But then I added it to the leftover mash combo for another meal idea. 

But I didn't stop there!  I then cooked up about 1/4 C of Red Quinoa and added the final leftovers to yet another meal.  You can see this photo below.  I have to say I was very impressed with myself.  Getting multiple meals out of leftovers but also creating new meals as well as new leftovers and then new meals from those leftovers!

I am not the best at re-thinking meals using leftovers.  I usually just use them as-is and eat them as straight-up leftovers.  But I want to take that to the next level.  I know we shouldn't eat the same thing over and over - we need to get a diverse diet with different foods and different food combos.  But at the same time I don't want to waste food.  That's another reason why I want to push myself in the leftover department.  This may be a sub-category to my 2014 Vegan MoFo Adventure.  But I want to stick with my annual theme and blog about new-to-me foods and recipes, too, so you will be seeing a lot of that here on my blog this month!

Coconut Kale & Chickpea

Last night I made a HUGE batch of this for lunches for the rest of the week and it turned out pretty good.  It's not all that spicy like more of the curry-like things I have made but the flavor is tasty, regardless.

In this dish I have the following:

1 Can of Coconut Milk

4 C Chickpeas

3 C Diced Tomatoes

1 Small Onion

4 T Minced Garlic

2 tea Ginger Powder

1/2 Bunch of Baby Kale

 2 T Coconut Secret Coconut Nectar

1/2 tea Turmeric

1 tea Cinnamon

I'm going to be trying various sauces in the near future - some curry, some sweet, some maybe even sweet and sour.  Another project I have for Christmas Eve is vegan dips for all to enjoy!  And of course I will have many more Dehydrator Posts planned for this week, too!  Stay Tuned!

Lots of Vegan Foods - Hobo's, Bean Dishes, Sauces, Mac N Cheese, Snacks, Side Dishes, and Experiments!

I've sort of been a blogging fool today!  So keep scrolling down!  I have 4 posts today!  This post is specifically a FOOD Post, tho!  This first one I did a while back and did some greens up and on top of that did black beans and black-eye-peas with some onions and red peppers.  On top - you see that awesome sauce?  I have to say I LOVED this sauce and will be making it often!   It has the following in it:  

1/2 C Tahini, 1/3 C Hot Sauce, 1/4 C Water, 2 heaping tablespoons of Nutritional Yeast, 1 Clove Garlic.

It was totally yummy!  Spicy but cheesy!  YUM!

On the 4th of July my husband and I just stayed home - which was rare - but nice!  He's been wanting to do some grilling but it's been so rainy here this season that it has been hard.  We did get a little bit in that day, tho!  He is a fan of what he calls "Ho Bo's" and I have always done a Veggie version with a veggie burger but I wanted to try it with Tofu!  That is what I did here!  This is the BEFORE photo.  It has Potatoes, Mixed Veggies - Corn, Carrots, Green Beans, Onion, Tofu, Cabbage, Earth Balance, Wildtree Rancher Steak Rub.  I have to say I was very excited with the way it turned out!

Here is the AFTER photo!  I do like "crispy" and "crunchy" edges on mine!  YUM!  The one side of the tofu turned out a bit better than the other but the flavor was just what I hoped it would be!  I'm looking forward to doing it again soon!

I think I forgot to take a photo of the Brown Rice Side Dish I did that day!  Oops!  It was basically Brown Rice with Carrots and Onions and I used a now discontinued Wildtree Product called Asian Potsticker, I believe.

I always look for Vegan Mac and Cheese ideas and I have to say this next one may be the best yet!  I did tweak it quite a bit from the original recipe I found online!

This has the following in it:
2 T Earth Balance
1/2 T Dijon Mustard
1/2 T Yellow Mustard
1/2 T Hot Sauce
2 T Flour (I used Bob's Red Mills All Purpose)
3 T Nutritional Yeast
1/2 C Almond Milk (or more to taste/consistency)
2 slices of Toffuti Mozarella Vegan Cheese Slices
Small handful of Daiya Cheddar Shreds
Handful of Rice Crumbs

This next photo I have done a few variations of before but thought it was still a tasty mention.  Pecans with Hemp Seeds/Hemp Hearts.  All I did was a little Maple Syrup with Cinnamon and Nutmeg and Raw Cane Sugar.

Another Quick and Easy dish I did this past weekend was a chickpea side.  Many of you know how I LOVE chickpeas!  For this one here are the ingredients:
3 T Apple Cider Vinegar
1 T Bragg's Liquid Aminos
1 tea Dijon Mustard
1 T Tahini
3 T Water
2 C Chickpeas
1/4 C Parsley
Splash of Balsamic

I also used up the rest of the lentils I had on hand over the weekend!  I must get more!  Especially after making this with it!  It was so GOOD!
2 C Cooked Lentils
1 Stalk Celery
2 T Minced Parsley
2 T Lemon Juice
1 tea Miso
1/4 C Roasted Sunflower Seeds
It was totally YUMMY!

For this next dish - I purely did it for experimental reasons as I am not as 'seasoned' with Wheat Berries as some people are.  Here's what's in this one...

1 C Wild Rice (cooked)
1/2 C Wheat Berries (cooked)
Grapeseed Oil as needed (I used Jalapeno for a kick!)
1 Onion
2 Carrots
2 T various Herbs (I used Wildtree's Opa! Seasoning)
1 Clove Garlic
1 tea Dijon Mustard
1 T Rice Wine Vinegar
About 10-ounces of Mushrooms

This turned out pretty good, too!  I like to call it Chewy Wheat Berries and Rice.  I planned for a good portion for my lunch today but I also saved a little bit to try yet another experiment on!  Veggie Burgers!  I added Bread Crumbs to them and formed a patty and did them on stove top.  The flavor was nice but it still broke apart a bit.  Next time I will take Opal's Advice and BAKE them!

Hats, Chickpeas, Raw Sauce, Chi-Wee, and Global Juice

 Good Morning!  I've been talking HATS with a few people and thought I would post another one of my winter hats here!  I purchased this one from a local artisan back in December.  She not only makes hats and scarves but she's a Photographer, too!  All of her work is wonderful.  I procrastinated during the 'craft show' and didn't make my purchase until the end...prior to buying this one I had my eye on a RED one.  But I do like this one, too!  I'm wearing it much more than I thought I would.  I know I look like a 'goof' but you can see how long my hair is these days...it goes beyond what you see here, too!  Sorry for how 'yellow' these look.  Our Living Room has that sort of lighting so you will see that in many of my Living Room Photos that I take.  I have a few other things to share with you today, too!

 Some Bubbly...and I don't mean Champagne!
Check out these chickpeas!  They are from last night!

I did them on stove-top with Garlic Grapeseed Oil, 1/2 C Parsley, 2 T of Tahini, and 1 T Lemon Juice as well as a little Wildtree Lemon Pepper to taste and cooked down.  It BUBBLED! 

 Here's a closer look at them and when they were done and ready to serve.

They were pretty good!  I'm going to be testing some more Tahini Sauces out soon!  This was a neat start!

One of my new favorite blogs is The Raw Project!

She's really making me WANT to try a lot of new things!  PLUS...she's a fellow Chihuahua House Hold!

I even 'stuck to' the recipe - which I rarely do!  Mine didn't turn out as awesome as hers!  You will have to check her post out!  I didn't do it justice!  I am going to try this one again and SOON.  Mine wasn't CREAMY enough.  I think I might try adding more water.  It could be that I didn't have it in the blender long enough, too!  I'm using a NINJA.

I did, however, take half of this and added some of the batch of this and added a little bit of Aztec Chocolate Spice Blend from Made With Love Detectible Edibles.

I think I would still want it thinner and creamier so I am totally blaming this one on myself!  I think it's a neat recipe and LOVE that the original recipe she posted was RAW :)

The Sweater Adventures continue!  Last night I put a different sweater on Paco right after dinner!  He didn't mind me putting it on him and I will now say I am CONVINCED it totally changes him and his attitude!  So we have decided to let him rip-roar thru the house for a while and then when it's 'calm-down' time we will put the sweaters on him!

Towards the end of the night when he was all about MAXIN' and RELAXIN' he went under the blanket on my legs and vegged out for a while.  When I called his name he struck a pose that I captured here.

 Earlier in the evening I caught him sitting rather 'prim and proper' on the arm rest of DH's recliner!  He's never done this before.

I put him thru another 'test'.  I went up to my Craft Room for about 20 minutes.  He's been chewing on one of our end tables to get my attention or chewing on the banister to the stairs to get my attention lately when I go upstairs or go in the kitchen and don't let him come with me...I would like him with the other dogs in the living room sometimes, ya know?  Anyhow...this TEST...worked!  I'm now sure what it is about this Sweater Method but he's being so much better...WAY LESS mischievous!  It's a Chi-Miracle!

And of course...I HAD to share this one with you!  This was him watching TV late at night (prior to the darker photo above!).

We were catching up on The Office.  After that we watched a documentary about Black Bear Ranch - a Commune in California on Netflix.

I'm gearing up to participate in some of the calls over at Global Juice Fasting Day starting tomorrow.  I probably won't do the actual Juice Fast NOW but I LOVE the info and always learn a lot from them when I do listen in.  I also try and increase my juices and smoothies even if I don't do the actual FAST...so hopefully you will be seeing some of those tidbits here soon! 

Well, that's all for now but I might be back later today or tomorrow at the latest!  Have a great day!

Manic Monday & Weekend Food

I'm optimistic this week will be better than last week.  That's all we can really, do, right?  Talk ourselves into a better week!?  Anyhow...I have LOTS to share with you today!  Lots of RANDOM Stuff but still - it's STUFF - at that!

I ended up LOVING the Peanut Butter Company's Dark Chocolate Dreams Peanut Butter and when I went to Tops on Saturday THEY had Mighty Maple so I got that one!  And BOY oh BOY is it GOOD!  I put it on toast yesterday for Breakfast and it was YUMMY!  I also did Vegan Cheesy Grits with Daiya Cheddar - those were pretty awesome, too!  I found Potato Cakes at Aldi's a while back and they didn't have any animal ingredients in them!  Woot!  I did two of those in a frying pan with some Earth Balance and that was my LARGE Sunday Breakfast.  I'm not usually a Breakfast person but I am REALLY trying to be because I know how important it is!  I made a Potato Cake for my husband and that is why I used Earth Balance instead of Grapeseed Oil.  I am out of my Nautral Flavor and I don't think he would have liked the Garlic or the Basil Pesto with this!  I also have a little bit of the Discontinued Chili left...I'll have to savor it!  I might have to try and make my own.  I know it won't be AS good but it will be an option to my flavored Grapeseed Oils.

Last Week I did a few Ethiopian Dishes and I enjoyed them both.  This week I am going to try a few things from Thailand.  I do like Thai Foods but haven't MADE very many...YET.

Friday Night I was waiting for my Husband's Dinner to be done (in the oven) and while I was waiting I decided to do some "Thai Curry Chickpeas".

They turned out pretty awesome, if I do say so myself!  I would 'chalk this one up' as one I would do over and over again!

Here is what I did for these Chickpeas!

12 to 14 ounces of Chickpeas

1/2 C of Cilantro or Coriander (I used Cilantro)

1/4 C Lemon Juice

1/4 C of Onion & Chive Blend (Wildtree)

1 T Garlic Galore (Wildtree)

1/2 t Cayenne

1/2 t Cumin

1/2 t Ground Coriander

2 T Braggs Liquid Aminos

2 T Garlic Grapeseed Oil

4 T Coconut Milk

Dog Break!  Yes!  I have more food in this post but I have to add some pics from the furkids this weekend, too!  Eventho it was SUNNY it was COLD and WET and all-around questionable weather!  At least we didn't get the FEET of snow they were calling for!  

Here is Riley and Suzie.  If you zoom in you might see that Riley was sticking his tongue out.  Suzie was barking at my husband.  He likes to mess with them sometimes.  He'll talk and she'll bark and half howl back.

I ended up finding some Tofurky items at Tops, too!  I will post more about those on Midweek Munchies.  But I did jump right in with a dish last night for dinner.  It was a Saute of Sorts.  

2 Carrots

2 Celery Stalks

A Random Amount of Green Beans

1/4 - 1/3 C Onion & Chive Blend (Wildtree)

1 Tofurky Italian Sausages (the ones with Sun-Dried Tomatoes) 

2 T Garlic Grapeseed Oil

This is what it ended up looking like when it was done!  I decided to do some Brown Rice to put underneath.  This is WAY different than most of the foods I have been making flavor-wise.  I think next time I would add Potatoes and FOR SURE Some Balsamic.  It's pretty good the way it is here but I liked it even more when I tossed and mixed everything together!  I also added some Vegan Parmesan Cheese on top, too!

I stepped outside my comfort zone on this one and it was a pretty good attempt!

Another Furkids break!  This Furkids Break is being brought to you in part by...PACO!

This was a rare capture!  I just happened to have my iPhone on me and him on my lap FACING me and somewhat vegging-out for the afternoon on Saturday!

I'm so excited I got this pic of him.  He looks so serious...it makes me laugh!  Of course shortly after this photo he was back up and running around!

I warned you I had a lot to post today!  Here is ANOTHER thing I did Last Night!

It's a Mediterranean Walnut Sauce!  Again, VERY different from anything I have ever tried doing before but I was very excited about it!

I used one of my Ninja Blenders for this and it worked awesomely!

For this sauce I used...

1/2 C Walnuts
1 C Parsley
2 T Garlic Grapeseed Oil
1 T Tomato Paste
3 Cloves Garlic
1/4-1/2 C Water to thin

I used half of this sauce to top Bowtie Pasta which you see here and I am going to use the other half to top Veggies, I think.  So...I think that is about it for now but I hope to do my Meal Planning later today and need to do another dish for tomorrow...so stay tuned for additional posts!

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• Blue Mondays
• Just Another Meatless Monday
• Macro Monday
• Made By You Monday
• Make The Scene Monday
• Mandarin Monday
• Meal Plan Monday
• Meatless Mondays From A - Z
• Menu Time Mondays
• Mix It Up Mondays
• Monday Mellow Yellows
• My Meatless Mondays
• Postcards From Paradise
• Project 52
• Simple As That
• Veggie Mama's Meatless Monday
• Marvelous In My Monday 
• Camera Critters
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Top 20 Ingredients I Can't Live Without!

Alicia Silverstone over at The Kind Life posted about the 20 ingredients she can’t live without. As did Cadry at Cadry's Kitchen.  So I decided to follow suit!  Here are my TOP 20 Ingredients in random order.

TEA - As many of you know I drink A LOT of tea.  All day...all night...I have even started using it in dishes!  All sorts of tea...Black, Green, White, Yellow, fruit and herbal tisane's, Oolongs, Pu-erh, Blends, Purple, Guayusa, Rooibos, Honeybush...the list goes on and on!

CHICK PEAS & BLACK BEANS - I was going to list these separate but came up with too many items I MUST HAVE in my kitchen, apparently!  The older I get the more I LOVE Chickpeas.  They are so versatile!  I would have also put HUMMUS on the list but it's not just ONE Ingredient it's a FOOD, a dish, a delicacy, really.  Okay, okay...you can tell I LOVE hummus!  Well, Chickpeas are one of the ingredients so it works, right?

GRAPESEED OIL - Why GSO?  I think this sums it up nicely!  I LOVE IT!  If you want to order some let me know!!  I can have it shipped directly to you!

LEAFY GREENS - I know this is more than ONE but I couldn't resist!  There are so many Leafy Greens to choose from and they ALL have their benefits!

CASHEWS - And other nuts, really.  I'm very fortunate to NOT have allergies to Nuts!  I don't think I would be able to deal with that intolerance, to be honest!  I'm finding Cashews are very versatile as well and now that I'm NOT doing dairy there are many things I can do with them as a substitute. 

NUTRITIONAL YEAST - I have used it for YEARS - but have been using it on a weekly - sometimes daily basis these days!  Along the same lines would be HEMP HEARTS and CHIA SEEDS, I guess, too!  For Digestion Issues/Benefits as well as a protein option.

VARIETY of RICES - Again, I am a REBEL, here, and noting more than one but I really can't help it!  Just when I think I know which RICE is my favorite I discover new ones...like Medleys from Bob's Red Mills as well as FORBIDDEN RICE, lately, too!

QUINOA - Quinoa is in a category all of it's own for me!  I have been eating it for years but continue to be amazed by it!  I LOVE the nutritional benefits as well as digestion support but also the texture and flavor and the ability to make it MORPH!

TOMATOES - Any kind, really.  I could go on and on about THE TOMATO but I will let it speak for itself!  YUM!

BALSAMIC VINEGAR - Yes!  BALSAMIC VINEGAR...Wildtree Brand, specifically.  And I'm not just saying that because I sell it!  The flavor CANNOT BE BEAT!  Plus it has the Grapeseed Oil Base, too!

TAHINI - I thought it was just for HUMMUS but it's good for SO MUCH MORE!!!  I'm using lately in Cheese and Cream Alternatives, too!

GARLIC - Need I say more?  I just LOVE it!  I can't get enough of it!  I'd put it on cereal if it were allowed.  Okay...that might be a stretch...but...you know what I mean, right!?

ONIONS - They give flavor to EVERYTHING and they make the perfect base for many things!

LEMONS & LEMON JUICE - I almost over looked this one.  It's one of those things I really use a lot of but just USE it and tend to forget about it BUT if I run out...there is HELL TO PAY, Mister!

CORN - It's so sweet, It's so cute, It's SO GOOD!  I have been using it more and more to kick certain recipes up a notch as well as add to leftovers, wraps, salads, etc.  So simple - yet - SO effective!

COLORFUL BELL PEPPERS - LOVE them!  In every way!  I find myself adding them to EVERYTHING and then some!  The sweeter the better!

SPROUTS - When I was a toddler they used to be one of my 3 favorite foods (next to Dried Apricots and Lima Beans - which SHOULD also play a part in this list somewhere...there...they just did!) and I lost touch with Sprouts for a while but have been having FUN Sprouting my own Sprouts at home on and off again for a couple of years!

CARROTS & CELERY - Mostly because I can't have one without the other - and because they are right up the same alley as Onions and Garlic and Corn!

ALMOND MILK - I prefer Almond Milk to any of the other Milk Alternatives.  It's my default, really.

AVOCADOS - I wish I could have one everyday but they are really expensive here but when they are on sale!  I'm ALL OVER THAT!  Nom.Nom.Nom.

Hope you enjoyed my list!  If you do one let me know!

Cheesy Veggie Rice Casserole

 Above you will see this casserole being assembled - before baking - without the 'sauce'.

In the above you will see:
Broccoli
Yellow & Red Bell Peppers
Celery
Chickpeas
Basmati Rice
Slivered Almonds

(tossed in some Wildtree Onion & Chive and Garlic Galore)

Here you can see it after I combined everything and baked it.

What I did for the 'cheesy sauce' was the following...

1 1/4 C Soy Milk
1/2 C Nutritional Yeast
2-3 teas Cornstarch
Splash of Lemon Juice
1 teas Wildtree Onion & Chive Blend
Squirt of Mustard
Pinch Cayenne Pepper
1 T Tahini
Wildtree Lemon Pepper to Taste

I made this to lunches and will certainly try it this way - be itself - first - but might add some or all of the following for the left overs or future batches:

Tofu
Tempeh Bacon
Crumbles
Corn and/or Peas

I was also thinking about using as a filling for pitas and wraps, possibly.

Left Overs - Spinach Rice Chickpea Dish

The other night I made Vegan Creamed Spinach and that recipe can be found HERE.

Last night I had that for dinner and wanted to do something a little different with the left overs for my lunch today.  So I took a little bit of the following:
Splash of Wildtree European Dipping Oil - Chili (Grapeseed Oil)

Chickpeas
Corn
Long White/Basmati Rice

I heated it up and am eating it now!  I'm VERY happy with this left over concoction!  I would definitely do it again!  It's tasty!

Marinated Chickpea Salad

The older I get the more I do with Chickpeas!  They are so versatile!

This past weekend (continue reading I blog more about this) I also made this Marinated Chickpea Salad!  It's a flavor combo I would have NEVER thought of myself - it started with a recipe on line and morphed from there!

Here's what I did...

1 Can of Chickpeas

1 Cup of Corn (I Used Frozen)

1/4 C Celery

1/4 teaspoon Paprika

2 T Apple Cider Vinegar

1 T White Vinegar

1 Clove Garlic

1 Squirt of Yellow Mustard

Wildtree Grapeseed Oil

Wildtree California Garlic Pepper to Taste

I would FOR SURE make this again!

 

Chickpea Broccoli Casserole (Variation)

 I should really just BUY this book!  I've borrowed it from my library at least 3 times now.  It's a nifty book.  This past Friday evening - I made this...

 

Chickpea Broccoli Casserole with a few small changes.  This is NOT my photo - I found it online but it looks very similar to the casserole I made.

This casserole (the way I did it) has the following in it:

Chickpeas

Broccoli

Veggie Stock

Onion

Carrot

I used Whole Wheat/Whole Grain Bread broken up by hand instead of Bread Crumbs

I used Wildtree Natural Grapeseed Oil instead of Olive Oil

It turned out really well if I do say so myself!  I was quite pleased with it!  Perfect for Office Lunches!

Roasted Chickpeas

So sorry I don't have a picture but I HAVE to share something with you all!

Last night I made roasted Chickpeas and I must say they were totally YUMMY as well as being a nice snack AND comfort food!

What I did was...

1 can of chickpeas
Aprrox 2 Tablespoons of garlic grapeseed oil
(Wildtree) Adobo Seasoning
A dash of Sage (powder)

mix

in oven at 450 for 30 to 35 minutes (make sure you keep an eye on them especially the last 5 minutes so they don't burn!)

YUM!