Forums: September 2010 Kickstart Forum Archive: Hi Guys
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Jasmine Joined: 03/02/10 Posts: 35	Hi Guys Posted Monday, September 13, 2010 at 4:54 PM This is Jasmine - I am back - I am still Vegan and still losing weight and still happy about it - however, I am needing variety in my menu as I kind of got stuck on certain items and need to branch out - as those of you who know me remember - I am not a cook but I have been trying. Already, from reading your postings, I have picked up some ideas to make my menu interesting again - to try new things.
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Oceandog Joined: 01/10/10 Location: California, USA Posts: 642	RE: Hi Guys Posted Monday, September 13, 2010 at 5:00 PM Hi Jasmine! Welcome back and congratulations on the continued weight loss! I think this site has many great recipes and I know Dr. Barnard, Alicia Silverstone, and Dr. McDougall, as well as Rip Esselstyn (sp?) all have cooks books out there for a great variety. I could use some variety myself but I don't have time to cook at the moment juggling 2 jobs. In time I will though and I am looking forward to it! Good luck! Always offer kindness and a soft word to the beings around you; You do not know their journey. Your words can be the hug they need or the shove that breaks them.
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Susan Levin Joined: 12/26/09 Posts: 1187	RE: Hi Guys Posted Monday, September 13, 2010 at 5:03 PM Not much of a cook, aye? Have I ever shared my chili recipe? You need a strong wrist to open all the cans. I made it last night to kick off football season! 4 cans of beans (I used 2 kidney, 1 garbanzo, 1 black) 2 of those super large cans of diced tomato 1 little can of tomato paste 2 regular cans of tomato sauce 1 super large can of stewed tomatos water for proper consistency chili powder cayenne pepper Slap Ya' Mama (best spice mix ever from New Orleans) Red chili flakes I pretty much add as much as I want of any of the above until it looks and tastes right. You could even add a can of corn if you want. Then, for exercise, I haul all the cans down to the recycling room of my apartment building! It's the best. It lasts me a few days. And I bake some pretty killer corn bread to go with it. It's one of my favorite cold-weather meals, and it only takes as long as it takes to open cans and heat up the pot. Susan Levin, MS, RD PCRM Director of Nutrition Education
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Oceandog Joined: 01/10/10 Location: California, USA Posts: 642	RE: Hi Guys Posted Monday, September 13, 2010 at 5:06 PM Susan I must tell you that even though you are a professed noncook, my sister has you beat....she wouldn't even be able to manage that! I am the cook, just not enough time to do so! Always offer kindness and a soft word to the beings around you; You do not know their journey. Your words can be the hug they need or the shove that breaks them.
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Bugsmom Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 2068	RE: Hi Guys Posted Monday, September 13, 2010 at 9:07 PM Susan, I need your corn bread recipe! Hubby already makes an awesome veg chili but most corn bread recipes call for an egg and/or some added fat. --Deb
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Susan Levin Joined: 12/26/09 Posts: 1187	RE: Hi Guys Posted Monday, September 13, 2010 at 9:58 PM All right. Don't hold it against me if you hate it! I have peculiar taste. preheast oven to 350 degrees 1 cup corn flour 1 cup whole wheat flour (or whatever flour you like) 1 tablespoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1/3 cup apple sauce (instead of oil) 2/3 cup pure maple syrup (i use a little less and top off with blackstrap molasses) 1 cup plant milk of choice (used almond the past two nights) mix each separately. then mix together. pour in iron skillet. cook for 35 minutes. Yummy. Susan Levin, MS, RD PCRM Director of Nutrition Education
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MommaLuna Joined: 08/31/10 Posts: 35	RE: Hi Guys Posted Monday, September 13, 2010 at 10:30 PM Susan Levin wrote: All right. Don't hold it against me if you hate it! I have peculiar taste. preheast oven to 350 degrees 1 cup corn flour 1 cup whole wheat flour (or whatever flour you like) 1 tablespoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1/3 cup apple sauce (instead of oil) 2/3 cup pure maple syrup (i use a little less and top off with blackstrap molasses) 1 cup plant milk of choice (used almond the past two nights) mix each separately. then mix together. pour in iron skillet. cook for 35 minutes. Yummy. Susan, Do you make your own applesauce? I can never find it without added sugar.
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cathyb Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 149	RE: Hi Guys Posted Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 12:43 AM There is a book called Conveniently Vegan that has super easy recipes with everyday ingredients.
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Susan Levin Joined: 12/26/09 Posts: 1187	RE: Hi Guys Posted Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 6:44 AM Quote: Susan, Do you make your own applesauce? I can never find it without added sugar. No, I don't make my own. I buy it when it goes on sale at the health food store. However, I think the brand Mott's makes a pure apple sauce. Susan Levin, MS, RD PCRM Director of Nutrition Education
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cch22 Joined: 09/08/10 Location: New York State Posts: 999	RE: Hi Guys Posted Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 7:58 AM yes just look for a jar that says unsweetened. They are usually singular row and at the bottom. Susan is right motts does make one. Across the front it says Natural & no sugar added. I even found it in small to go containers. It has apples, water, ascorbic acid (vit c)
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slowcarr Joined: 12/27/09 Posts: 33	RE: Hi Guys Posted Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 8:55 AM Trader Joes & Meijers, if they are near you, both have organic unsweetened applesauce. I think Kroger does too in their health food section. Also try the websites fatfreevegan.com & vegweb.com. for many recipes. Although with vegweb I usually leave out the oils & replace with water.
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Bugsmom Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 2068	RE: Hi Guys Posted Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 9:06 AM OOh yummy! That's so not unusual, sounds great! Being in New England, we get real maple syrup right from the guy who taps the trees (it's worth holding out an extra month to get the dark amber instead of the light grade A stuff). Now that it's apple season here as well, we'll probably be making our own applesauce at least once (it's an annual thing). It's so easy to make applesauce - I even did that once way back in middle school cooking class. We leave the peels on usually to make a lightly blushing applesauce. No special equipment needed (unless you plan to do enough to can it). A big soup pot, a knife (to quarter/core the apples), and a potato masher (if you've got a food mill, great, but not required). A fun thing for the holidays is to add whole cranberries when cooking the apples and making an apple-cranberry sauce to go alongside holiday meals. --Deb
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MommaLuna Joined: 08/31/10 Posts: 35	RE: Hi Guys Posted Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 9:26 PM Wow! I made Susan's corn bread this evening and it was the best! My husband who never wants to try anything new and wants everything dry dry dry ate three pieces and never batted an eye. It is really moist and so flavorsome. Thank you Susan. Here it is so you don't have to search the boards preheast oven to 350 degrees 1 cup corn flour 1 cup whole wheat flour (or whatever flour you like) 1 tablespoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1/3 cup apple sauce (instead of oil) 2/3 cup pure maple syrup (i use a little less and top off with blackstrap molasses) 1 cup plant milk of choice (used almond the past two nights) mix each separately. then mix together. pour in iron skillet. cook for 35 minutes.
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Susan Levin Joined: 12/26/09 Posts: 1187	RE: Hi Guys Posted Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 9:32 PM Yea! I made some this weekend too. Yummy. Susan Levin, MS, RD PCRM Director of Nutrition Education
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revolutionoftheheart Joined: 01/07/10 Location: NYC Posts: 164	RE: Hi Guys Posted Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 5:10 PM Bugsmom wrote: OOh yummy! That's so not unusual, sounds great! Being in New England, we get real maple syrup right from the guy who taps the trees (it's worth holding out an extra month to get the dark amber instead of the light grade A stuff). Now that it's apple season here as well, we'll probably be making our own applesauce at least once (it's an annual thing). It's so easy to make applesauce - I even did that once way back in middle school cooking class. We leave the peels on usually to make a lightly blushing applesauce. No special equipment needed (unless you plan to do enough to can it). A big soup pot, a knife (to quarter/core the apples), and a potato masher (if you've got a food mill, great, but not required). A fun thing for the holidays is to add whole cranberries when cooking the apples and making an apple-cranberry sauce to go alongside holiday meals. --Deb Hay there Bugsmom -- I have one of those mechanical apple-peeler-core gismos. It saves a bit of time if you use apples alot. I make this chopped baked apple dish (I don't do the skins anymore, they get papery to eat), just with raisin, walnuts, and cinnamon. I'm imagining putting maple syrup in that and drooling at the moment, but, that kind of kicks off my sweet tooth. I've gotten used to the natural sweetness of the apples themselves. The cranberry addition sounds delish, but then you sure do have to sweeten it up. "In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought." Isaac Bashevis Singer, author, Nobel Prize 1978
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revolutionoftheheart Joined: 01/07/10 Location: NYC Posts: 164	RE: Hi Guys Posted Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 5:32 PM cathyb wrote: There is a book called Conveniently Vegan that has super easy recipes with everyday ingredients. Thanks cathyb for the tip. I just ordered it from my library: The Convenient Vegetarian : quick-and-easy meatless cooking / Virginia Messina and Kate Schumann. There's also a similar title: Everyday vegan: 300 recipes for healthful eating / Jeani-Rose Atchison ; illustrated by Audrey Colman. "In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought." Isaac Bashevis Singer, author, Nobel Prize 1978
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Bugsmom Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 2068	RE: Hi Guys Posted Friday, October 8, 2010 at 10:51 AM revolutionoftheheart wrote: Hay there Bugsmom -- I have one of those mechanical apple-peeler-core gismos. It saves a bit of time if you use apples alot. I make this chopped baked apple dish (I don't do the skins anymore, they get papery to eat), just with raisin, walnuts, and cinnamon. I'm imagining putting maple syrup in that and drooling at the moment, but, that kind of kicks off my sweet tooth. I've gotten used to the natural sweetness of the apples themselves. The cranberry addition sounds delish, but then you sure do have to sweeten it up. We've got one of those too - picked it up on our honeymoon 17 years ago! But, we want to keep the skins and we don't need a lot of cutting for making apple sauce, just core it and throw it into the pot. For doing pies/desserts, we use the "APCS". With the cranberries added, we just use a bit more cinnamon and a little agave to sweeten it again. The honeycrisp apples we usually use for sauce are quite sweet and mild to start with.
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cch22 Joined: 09/08/10 Location: New York State Posts: 999	no cook salad Posted Monday, October 11, 2010 at 6:32 PM HI I found this recipe & tried it. It's a little spicy, which we like. It is also a little salty due to the olives.. but they add so much in the way of flavor i would not leave them out. Good news is..it has beans and there is no cooking required. I like to have a salad available. Makes dinner and lunch quick! cch22 Moroccan Chickpea Salad 16 oz can of Chickpeas ½ cup Black Olives-not canned (this adds a lot of salt) 2 Tomatoes-chopped 1 Purple Onion-diced 1 Red Pepper-cored and diced ¼ cup Red Wine Vinegar 3 Garlic Cloves-crushed ½ teaspoon Cayenne Pepper 1 Tablespoon Cumin (I used about ¾) ¼ cup Fresh Parsley (I used a good sprinkle of dried) Mix all ingredients. Serve chilled.
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revolutionoftheheart Joined: 01/07/10 Location: NYC Posts: 164	RE: Hi Guys Posted Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 10:50 AM Bugsmom wrote: revolutionoftheheart wrote: Hay there Bugsmom -- I have one of those mechanical apple-peeler-core gismos. It saves a bit of time if you use apples alot. I make this chopped baked apple dish (I don't do the skins anymore, they get papery to eat), just with raisin, walnuts, and cinnamon. I'm imagining putting maple syrup in that and drooling at the moment, but, that kind of kicks off my sweet tooth. I've gotten used to the natural sweetness of the apples themselves. The cranberry addition sounds delish, but then you sure do have to sweeten it up. We've got one of those too - picked it up on our honeymoon 17 years ago! But, we want to keep the skins and we don't need a lot of cutting for making apple sauce, just core it and throw it into the pot. For doing pies/desserts, we use the "APCS". With the cranberries added, we just use a bit more cinnamon and a little agave to sweeten it again. The honeycrisp apples we usually use for sauce are quite sweet and mild to start with. You're honeymoon? How sweet. Now that must be a sentimental piece. Thanks for the apple sauce tips. Also, when you use the APCS (I have a Cooks Club) do you find that this black stuff forms every couple of cranks on the skewer? From the sheer friction I guess. It's so annoying, I have to keep swabbing it with a paper towel and washing my hands and be careful it doesn't get on the apples. "In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought." Isaac Bashevis Singer, author, Nobel Prize 1978
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revolutionoftheheart Joined: 01/07/10 Location: NYC Posts: 164	RE: no cook salad Posted Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 10:51 AM cch22 wrote: HI I found this recipe & tried it. It's a little spicy, which we like. It is also a little salty due to the olives.. but they add so much in the way of flavor i would not leave them out. Good news is..it has beans and there is no cooking required. I like to have a salad available. Makes dinner and lunch quick! cch22 Moroccan Chickpea Salad 16 oz can of Chickpeas ½ cup Black Olives-not canned (this adds a lot of salt) 2 Tomatoes-chopped 1 Purple Onion-diced 1 Red Pepper-cored and diced ¼ cup Red Wine Vinegar 3 Garlic Cloves-crushed ½ teaspoon Cayenne Pepper 1 Tablespoon Cumin (I used about ¾) ¼ cup Fresh Parsley (I used a good sprinkle of dried) Mix all ingredients. Serve chilled. Sounds delish cch. Recipe noted. Thanks. "In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought." Isaac Bashevis Singer, author, Nobel Prize 1978
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