Review on Happy Herbivore's alfredo sauce

So while making the muffins i realized i would not want just muffins for dinner. I went looking through some of the random recipes i had printed out to possibley be in the fat free recipe vegan book. and found happy herbivores alfredo sauce recipe. Now ive said it time and time again me and tofu are still testing out our relationship. so i was a bit skeptical on  using  silkened tofu . but i was amazingly wrong about it it was a delicious recipe and honestly i would of never thought nutritional yeast would actually  make it taste cheesy.
  you can find her recipe on her website  or on the link above. the only things i changed on her recipe was the cayenne pepper i used the hot sauce instead  and instead of the vegan parmesan cheese i used Follow your heart vegan mozzarella cheese . I paired this recipie up with a gardine  marinara chicken  and it was to die for.

THIS WAS A GREAT RECIPE i suggest you follow her website and try to make all the yummy things she has.

I hope you try her site soon.
 Yvonne-Marie

yesterdays activities

So my fresh direct order came in on Friday after noon although i was not able to pick it up my brother did and i got to go look through what i got last night. However the groceries you will see here were not all just from fresh direct some were from  a local Latin grocery store by me and I was shocked they has some of these important staple spices.

bananas are my favorite fruit

a couple of things from gardein because they are so good at what they do.

nutmeg and raw sugar the nutmeg was 99 cents

I got 2 containers of the cream cheese because I'm thinking about making a cheese cake :)

I got these at the Latin store by me i have been looking for these ingredients like crazy every where for a cheap price each was 1.09  i know the sesame seeds are not a major vegan staple but to me they are .

This was my shopping along with some peppers and onions and scallions that i needed to make some other good stuff. if you have any recipes you would like to share post them or tweet me to get my e-mail.  to send it my way and it will be added into the recipe book.

will be posting more soon go check out the new muffin recipe

Yvonne-Marie

Gluten free Banana oatmeal muffins

So yesterday i decided to experiment with a few recipes this one in particular i got from love veggies and yoga she is really good at  recipes that are not time consuming and that don't ask for things that are not in your kitchen. i did this recipe because i have a bunch of bananas and wanted to see what i could make from them. I absolutely love bananas they are my favorite fruit. I did make a change in her recipe but its not too serious its just what i would of preferred.

Vegan Gluten Free Cinnamon Raisin Banana Oatmeal Muffins (what a mouthful of a name!)


1 large ripe banana

1/2 c dry oats

1/3 c brown sugar

1/2 c white sugar

1 heaping Tsp Cinnamon

1 heaping Tsp Vanilla Extract

1/2 tsp Baking Soda

1/3 c raisins (omit, or use other dried fruits, nuts, seeds, etc. as you prefer)

Note: If you want to reduce (or even omit) most of the sugar, feel free. I like sugar though.

Note: There is no water, mylks/milks, or liquids added. If you feel you need a splash of something, go for it. A splash though, that's it.

Yields One Dozen 3-Bite Muffins

so i started off by getting all my ingredients together .

most of these ingredients you can find at home or at any local store. so the only things i really changed was that i put about 1/2 a cup of raw sugar  in place of the other two sugars only because i figured the banana is sweet as is.

I mashed the banana and its makes a pudding like liquid is semi smooth and slippery.

then combine all the ingredients and stir it up.

then pour the mixture in to muffin pans (i used cupcake pans meaning it only made 1/2 a dozen  but if u use a mini muffin pan it makes about  a dozen ) make sure not to forge to place the cupcake holders.

this was truly Delicious it was a yummy dessert and my mom even loved this.

I hope you guys enjoy this recipe as much as i did

Happy eating

Yvonne-Marie

Todays food discoveries

So today i decided i was going to try everything and test out new flavors. Last night i began to prepare a new recipe which is in my FOOD tab of my blog. I also decided to prepare my breakfast ahead of time. I have so many Florida mango's left that I just don't know what to do so i decided to pour some blue agave on the slices i had cut up. I placed the pieces into a small container and shook them up and placed in the refrigerator. This morning when i was ready to have breakfast I woke up to mango's that had absorbed the agave and were juicy. 

it really was as delicious as it looked

then for lunch i had the jerk tofu the new recipe I was blabbering on about that is in my FOOD tab.  i had that for lunch you can go check that out.

I had a dunkin donuts peach tea (my current addiction) with no sugar.

while at dunkin donuts i tried to convince my nana to  not put milk in her coffee and just have it black but that did not go over to well her words were "  no no i gotta have my coffee with milk" i finally convinced her that instead of the whole milk to at least use the skim (i know to vegans this is still using the cow but I'm trying its a slow process to get my family into healthy mode) and she surprisingly did and enjoyed it to.

Also a great thing that happened today was that my mom surprisingly decided to FEED me when i say feed i mean buy me all the spiced and veggies that i needed to  make some excellent vegan recipes. Her reasoning behind buying me all this stuff was that she felt as tho she was depriving me of eating food with flavor lol but at least i was able to get the things i needed.

Well now that i  probably rambled on for some time I'm ready to get to doing my job and then heading out to Staten island tonight for some quality time with one of my sisters.

Happy Eating

Yvonne -Marie

Jerk TOFU recipie

I made this one i was inspired by celery in the cities blog. this recipie is simple all you need is:
Jerk sauce
salt papper
diaya cheese (optional)
onion white
and green bell pepper

I started with the picture above three slabs of tofu they were fairly thick slices. I pressed them and then copped then up and places two tbl spoons of the jerk sauce.

2TBL spoons was a really good amount i placed the pieces in foild and rubbed them for about a minitue in the sauce then slosed it up and placed in my refridgerator for an over night marinating session.

After i had preped my tofu i chopped this White onion in to pieces along with this green bell pepper.

I like fairly small piences so they were chopped up pretty good.

after both were chopped i sprayed some palm olive oil onto a small frying pan and saute'd the vegies with salt and pepper so that they could have there own little flavor.

The pepper and onion looked so good and smelled awesome.

This morning i took the tofu pieces out and they definatly soaked in all of not most of the jerk sauce. I placed the tofu pieces into  the  glass bowl with the onions and peppers and mixed evenly then i dont know why but i placed about a hand ful of diaya cheese and placed in the oven to back for 30 minutes at 300 degreese.

And for those of you who know about my battle with making tofu taste somewhat decent. I must say that this was definatly a good recipie and it definatly filled me up for the day. I hope you guys  try this and like it as much as i have.

Happy eating

Yvonne-Marie