Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Cinnamon Swirl Bread, Vegan Cake Doughnuts, Tuscan White Bean Pizza and Mexican Pizza

I cut the sugar, left out the raisins, and omitted the topping from this cinnamon bread recipe but it was still delicious! The original recipe was full of sugar, had raisins which my hubby and one son don't like and was topped with additional sugary topping so I decided to modify it to be a bit better, though I am sure the original recipe is quite tasty! Very soft and moist bread. Yum!

Cinnamon Swirl Bread (adapted from Urban Vegan
3 cups flour
1 T instant yeast
1 T soy flour
1 1/2 t cinnamon
scant 1/3 cup unpacked brown sugar
1 t salt
1/4 cup canola oil
1 cup warm water
In large bowl, mix all ingredients. Place in oiled bowl, cover with damp towel and let rise until doubled, about 1 hour. While dough rises, combine 1/4 cup unpacked brown sugar and 1 t cinnamon. Set aside. When dough is risen, form it into an 8x12 in shape. Sprinkle sugar cinnamon mixture over the dough. Roll up jellyroll style beginning at the short edge, tucking ends under and pinching slightly. Place in oiled 9in loaf pan. Cover with damp cloth again and let rise an hour. Preheat oven to 350. Bake risen loaf for 35-45 min or until lightly browned.

I have to admit, I really love doughnuts. Unfortunately, they are so unhealthy that I rarely indulge in their yumminess. I do enjoy making them sometimes and actually feel a tad better when I eat them because there are Jo hidden ingredients and at least I don't totally submerge them in oil! These were super yummy cake doughnuts.

Vegan Cake Doughnuts (modified from Better Homes and Gardens)
3 1/4 cups flour
2 t baking powder
1/2 t cinnamon
1/4 t nutmeg
2/3 cup soy milk
1/4 cup earth balance, melted
substitute for 2 eggs
2/3 cup sugar
1 t vanilla
In a large bowl, combine 2 1/4 cups flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, 1/4 t salt. In a separate bowl, combine milk and butter, and egg substitute. Use elecgtric mixer to beat dry ingredients combined with wet ingredients until well combined. Add remaining flour and mix well. Cover bowl and chill 2 hours. Turn dough onto floured surface and cut out doughnuts with a 2 1/2 in doughnut cutter. Heat a Dutch oven with enough oil to cover bottom of pan (about 1/2 inch)and fry doughnuts for 1 min on each side or until lightly browned. Drain on paper towels. Toss in powdered sugar, cinnamon sugar or top with glaze.

I decided to try a couple of new pizza recipes this week and they turned out to be yummy results! I started.with a recipe from Vegan on the Cheap but of course modified as usual. I also came up with a completely new recipe for the Mexican one. My kids really loved them and never mentioned the fact that they were cheeseless pizzas! I was actually really surprised at how much they loved them!

Tuscan White Bean Pizza (adapted from Vegan on the Cheap)
1 recipe pizza dough (any recipe will work and I don't have time to type mine out:-))
3 garlic cloves minced
3 t oil
1 1/2 cups cooked white beans
1/2 t salt
1/2 t pepper
1/3 cup vegetable broth
1/3 cup chopped fresh basil
1 yellow zucchini or green zucchini
3/4 cup pizza or pasta sauce

Place dough on a pizza pan and press to desired thickness. Heat oil and add minced garlic. Cook until golden. In bowl, combine garlic oil, beans, salt, pepper, and broth. Mash beans until smooth. Spread pizza sauce over pizza crust. Spread bean mixture over pizza sauce. Top with fresh basil and sliced zucchini. Cook at 425 for 15-20 min or until crust is browned.

Vegan Mexican Pizza
1 recipe pizza dough
1 1/2 cups refried beans
1/2 cup taco sauce
1/3 cup chopped cilantro
1/2 cup chopped green onions
1 1/2 cups guacamole
1 1/2 cups crushed tortilla chips

Place dough on pizza pan and press to desired thickness. Spread beans over crust. Spread taco sauce over beans. Top with cilantro and green onions. Bake at 425 for abougt 15-20 min or until crust is browned. Top slices with guacamole and tortilla chips.
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Crispy Herbed Potato Stack

Crispy Herbed Potato Stack
I was going to try a recipe for herbed scalloped potatoes and at last minute decided to do something fast and easy. I made up the recipe and it was yummola! I layered sliced russet potatoes in a baking dish, drizzled with olive oil, and then sprinkled with coarse sea salt, fresh ground pepper, basil, rosemary, paprika, and garlic powder. Then I baked them at 425 fr about 45 minutes. They were crisp and very flavorful!

My thrown-together salad today - after discovering I had no leftovers for lunch!

Tamale Fixings

Tamale Fixings
Plain pintos (for Keith), pintos, corn and onions; corn, jalepenos and Daiya; mushrooms, sun dried tomatoes, and chard

Making these was a bit time-consuming but kinda fun! They didn't turn out as good as I had hoped - the outer tamale part (not the filling) just wasn't as flavorful as tamales I have had in restaurants. I have another recipe I will try for the dough next time. Tamales are one of my favorite foods so I won't give up on this one!

"Buttermilk" Blueberry Pancakes

"Buttermilk" Blueberry Pancakes
I modified one of my favorite pancake recipes to make it vegan and then I added blueberries. Turned out quite yummy. Soymilk sours and thickens well - very similar to buttermilk. I have been really impressed with it's ability to substitute for real buttermilk.

"Buttermilk" Blueberry Pancakes

Egg replacement for 1 egg
1 1/4 cups soured soy milk (put 2 T vinegar into a 2 cup glass measuring cup. Add enough soy milk to equal 1 1/4 cups)
2 T canola oil
1 cup flour (I wouldn't recommend whole wheat or whole wheat pastry - it really takes away from the fluffiness of these pancakes)
1 T sugar
2 t baking powder
1/2 t baking soda
1/2 t salt
Blueberries, optional

Mix dry ingredients. Add wet ingredients and stir just until combined. Heat griddle pour about 1/4 cup batter for each pancake. Sprinkle blueberries on pancakes after ladling onto griddle. Cook just until golden on both sides.

Veggie and Seitan Lo Mein

Veggie and Seitan Lo Mein
Overall, this was fabulous! However, I don't think the seitan added much so I would just leave it out next time. The lo mein also needed about double the sauce so I would simply do that next time for added flavor. This was especially spicy and yummy with some Sriracha drizzled on top. I made our favorite veg egg rolls to go with this and it was truly a Chinese treat!!

Veggie Seitan Lo Mein

I really did my own thing for this recipe so I am just going to outline the instructions and include the sauce recipe. I heated oil in a large skillet and added 3 minced cloves of garlic and about 1 cup of half-moon cut onions (I was out of green onions but next time I would use green onions as I like them a lot in Chinese food) and about 1 cup matchstick-cut carrots. After about 5-6 minutes, I added about 1/4 lb of whole green beans. I cooked these veggies until tender. Meanwhile, I cooked a 16oz package of chow mein noodles. Once the veggie mixture was cooked, I poured the sauce on the veggies, heated through and tossed with the noodles. Next time I would double the amount of sauce and have adjusted amounts below to reflect double recipe.

Sauce (Source:Adaptable Feast)
3 T soy sauce
3 T rice wine (I used 3 T rice vinegar and 1 t sugar as I didn't have any rice wine)
3 t sugar
4 T black bean garlic sauce
Mix all ingredients and toss with above mixture.





Chinese Broccoli Wontons in Ginger Soy Broth

Chinese Broccoli Wontons in Ginger Soy Broth
Pretty yummy. I found that steaming the wontons worked much better than the recipe suggestion to boil them. The broth was very mild and a bit too mellow for us. Still pretty yummy though. I added extra veggies to the wontons and scallion to the broth. The seasoning in the wonton filling was quite tasty!

Chinese Broccoli Wontons in Ginger Soy Broth (Source: Vegan Yum Yum)

(As usual, I modified several things so it's not exactly the recipe in Vegan Yum Yum!)

1 cup chopped broccoli
3/4 cup shredded carrot
1/2 cup chopped scallions
1 T oil
1 t fresh ginger, minced
1 clove fresh minced garlic
1/2 t hot chili sauce (such as Sriracha)
1 t hot Chinese mustard
2 T plus 1 t soy sauce
4 cups water ( I think this might have been more flavorful had I used vegetable broth or faux chicken broth???)
6 slices fresh ginger
1 T mirin (I used a splash of cooking wine as I didn't have mirin)
1 1/2 t sugar
2 t rice vinegar
1/2 t salt
1/2 cup chopped scallions
16 wonton skins

For filling: Heat oil in skillet and add broccoli, ginger, garlic, carrot, onion and cook until veggies are crisp tender. Add chili sauce, mustard, 1 t soy sauce and stir to combine. Remove from heat and set aside.

To make wontons, take one skin and place in diamond shape. Fill with 1-2 t filling. Fold in half to make a triangle and moisten edges with water and pinch sides to seal. Set triangle in front of you with point up and take the 2 side points and bring them together in front to cross. Set aside and prepare remaining wontons. When finished, place wontons in a steamer basket and steam over pot of boiling water until translucent.

Meanwhile, in a pot, combine remaining ingredients (except wontons) and simmer 10-15 min.

Place 3-4 wontons in bowl and ladle broth over wontons. Serve.