Jun 28, 2010

banana-chocolate chip pancakes

Kate made today's lunch. She not only loves pancakes, but she thinks the flipping is out of this world! The only thing better than flipping pancakes, is eating them. She wanted to do something different with her pancakes today so she blended bananas with her wet ingredients. Of course, she used whole wheat flour.
Yeah, breakfast for lunch.
Why not?

Cost Breakdown:
white whole wheat flour: $1.50
almond milk: $2
chocolate chips: $1
bananas: $2
maple syrup: $3
Total to stuff 5 people:
$9.50




Jun 27, 2010

french dip

Family Favorite night. French Dip. I worked in restaurants most of my life, and French Dip was something that many featured on their menu. This has to be one of the most difficult sandwiches to recreate vegan since the sandwich itself has nothing but sliced meat on it and the dipping sauce, au jus, is made of meat drippings.

Difficult, but not impossible. It is a Sunday Fave because we managed to do just that: take something wholly meat-laden and recreated it delicious and added nothing to it and took nothing away (except the meat). The seitan is inspired by Bryanna Clark Grogan's 'beefy' seitan. The au jus uses vegetable broth, portabella mushrooms (do not be deterred by this even if you hate 'shrooms) and onions. It is divine!

Cost Breakdown:
seitan: $2
mushrooms, onions: $2
vegetable stock: $1 
bread: $3
Total for 5 sandwiches:
$8.00