Ideas - Recipes / Cooking
Use Your Imagination, although some things don't go together... (Zuchini on pizza - NO NO NO!)
My Girlfriend roasting eggplant...
Breakfast | Appetizers | Salads | Dressings | Soups | Samwiches | Breads | Thai | Chinese | Middle Eastern | Italian | Mexican | Japanese | Indian | Snacks / Treats | Deserts | Drinks | Assorted Dishes / Sides
Some of these Recipes are mine, some aren't, some are just ideas. ...my main objective is to have a lot of really
yummy vegan Recipes (Aside from personal reference, when some one asks me in a puzzled fashion what on earth I eat...).
I only have a few recipes up now, many are by friends or family... and I need to get more...
Also, I've tried to catagorize things well, look around, a Thai dish maybe in appetizers and vice versa...
I don't believe any of these recipes are any one elses intelectual property, how ever before using any of these in a published sense
check with me and or those people first, all rights are retained to the recipes.
Why Vegan/Vegetarian? Primarily the Health benifits, Also the extreme ecological effects (aprox. 100 people can be fed vegetarian from the land & resources used to feed a single person). ...and it's not my greatest
concern, but I don't care for slaugter and animal treatment is largely very bad. I will probably post some additional links
later, for now... www.Vegan.com (I haven't really checked it out...)
Chart for cooking Grains, Pastas, & Legumes (Beans)
Ingredients - some useful information about various ingredients... (Sweeteners, Oils, Spices, etc.)
Breakfast
- Mom's Tofu Scramble (Fresh Cubed tofu, Onions, Red Pepper - Yeast, Braggs & Tarragon for flavor)
- Mango Oatmeal
- Crepes - Buckwheat Recipe (Stuffed w/ Strawberries, blackberries, rasberries, mangoes, peaches, etc. & pure 100% Maple Syrup)
- Pancakes (Buckwheat - Recipe)
- Potato Pancakes
- Home Fries
- Hash Browns
- Waffles
- Scones (Blueberry, Strawberry, Blackberry, Cranberry)
- Coffee Cake
- Mochi (Japanese baked rice "things")
- Cinnamon Rolls (Sticky Buns)
- Muffins
- Begals
- Smoothies
- Muscli, Granola, Cereals, or hot Cereals (oat, cream of wheat, ...), & Milks (soy - Silk or Soy Dream, rice - Rice Dream, almond - commercial or easy to make at home-See Drinks)
Appetizers
- French Fries
- Edamame (Japanese - Boiled & Salted, served hot or cold)
- Avacado Eggrolls (Avacado & palmentos, a Cheese Cake Factory Favorite in yummy sweet ??? & tamarand sauce)
- Brushetta (Italian, toasted french bread w/diced tomatoes, onions, minced garlic, & lots of Basil)
- Humus & Toasted Pita Bread - See middle eastern.
- Foccacia - Italian
- Stuffed Portabello Mushrooms
- Grilled Red Pepper & Portabello (Eat them hot off the grill, w/oil & soy sauce, also an excellent main course if you have enough)
Salads
- Alex's Cucumber Tomato & Garlic Cous Cous Salad Recipe
- German Potato Salad (Vinaigrette, Green Onions)
- Potato Salad (poppyseed dressing... or)
- Pasta Salad (Penne, Shells, Elbows, ~Sqiggles - Tomatoes, Roasted Red Pepper, Kalamata/Greek/Black Olives, Croutons-add while serving)
- Baby field greens or romain (Tomatoes, Artichoke Hearts, Kalamata/Greek Olives, Grilled Asparagus, Sundried tomatoes, Avacado, Mushrooms, Alphalpha Sprouts, Toasted Sunflower seeds, Why do many restaurants serve the worst lettuce-Iceburg? ... ok ok, so it's cheap & stores eternally.)
- Fruit Salad (Mellon, )
- Tabouleh (See Middle Eastern)
- Greek Fettoush Salad (Tomatoes, Cucumbers, & Green Pepper, Greek Vinaigrette dressing - Also good with Greek Olives, Onion, & if you eat cheese ... Feta)
- Three Bean Salad (a sweet salad with Kidney, Green, and Wax Beans)
- Lubieh (Bean salad, See Middle Eastern)
- Japanese - Asparagus Salad (lightly boiled asparagus w/ sweet miso dressing)
- Seaweed Salad (See Japanese)
- Cucumber Salad (See Japanese)
Dressings
- Store Bought - Newman's Own - Balsamic Vinaigrette (Some of his others are a little bland...)
- Balsamic Vinaigrette
- Red Wine Vinaigrette
- Rasberry Vinaigrette (Not so sweet & sugary as most store bought dressings!)
- Black Cherry & White Wine Vinaigrette (Silk Black Cherry Yogurt, a little less than half white wine vinager, just enough real maple syrup to offset the vinager, a touch of soy sauce, a small amount of mild vegetable oil, goes nicely on spinach salad)
- Greek Salad Vinaigrette
- Topopo Salad Vinaigrette - recipe.
- Balsamic / Nutritional Yeast Marinade (Grilled Portabellos...)
- Honey Mustard
- Jay's Cafe
Soups
- Mom's Chick Pea Stew Recipe
- French Onion Soup
- Classic Miso Soup (Japanese-, Miso, Soy Sauce, Scallions, Tofu, Seaweed)
- Miso Soup Raw Variation (Japanese) Recipe
- Tomato Soup
- Cabbage Broth/Soup
- Potato Leek Soup
- Potato Soup
- Lental Soup
- Split Pea Soup
- Black Bean Soup
- Carrot Soup (Not my favorite, but easy and pretty good... cook down half shreaded carrot & half shreaded potato & season)
- Chili (TVP or Tofu, kiddney beans, pento beans, chick peas)
- Three Bean Chili
- Mom's Chili Recipe
- Re-Fried Beans (Saute Onions Garlic if desired, pour in pento beans & mash w/ honey & a little cumin?)
- Gazpacho (Wedge of lemon on side, I've never personally found a gazpacho I really liked a lot)
Samwiches
- Open Face Tomato
- Tofu, Letuce, & Tomato
- Hummus & Tomato (Good with Mustard & Alphapha sprouts or Baba-Ganoush)
- Falafal (Typically with Tomato, Alphalpha sprouts, & hummus or Thahini sauce)
- Gyro - Type of Middle Eastern/Greek samwich
- (Toppings: Grilled Tofu, Grilled Eggplant, Grilled Onions, Grilled Portabello Caps, Lettuce, Alfalpha Sprouts, Tomato, Onions, Cucumber, pickles, Artichoke Hearts, Pepperoncini (Slightly spicy), Banana Peppers (More pickley), Red Onion, Fresh Basil)
Breads / Crackers / Pizza Dough
- Basic Whole Wheat Bread Recipe
- Pizza Dough - Recipe (I haven't tried this recipe - looks fair, Hyvee has a pizza dough mix which is vegan and pretty good if you don't want to start from scratch.)
- Tizerian Sponge Bread (Makes Excellent Bread, Cinnamon Raisen Bread, Herb Bread, etc.)
- Buckwheat Dumplings - Recipe (Un-Tried)
- Indian breads (See Indian - for Naan, various spicy flat breads, Lental, Rice & such)
- Biscuits
Thai
- Thai Curry! (Red is probably my favorite, followed by Panang or Green, you also have Mussaman & Yellow)
- Red Curry/Vegetable - Recipe
- Red Curry w/Potatoes & Chick Peas - Recipe (Slightly indian style ingredients, but very tasty - Fresh Basil!)
- Panang Curry (a peanuty curry)
- Green Curry (Some times very good, although usually I've found red curry to be tastier)
- Mussaman Curry (Typically with Potatoes & Peas, slightly indian/vietnamiese in style)
- Pad Thai (Sweet noodle dish, one of Thailands most famous dishes)
- Spring Rolls (Imperial, Fresh, or Thai Rolls - not fried - chilled, steamed rice paper rolls - stuffed with rice noodles, carrot, cilantro, cabbage?, cucumber, Pineapple?)
- Vegetable Egg-Free Rolls often available as well as the fresh rolls.
- Vegetable Fried Rice
Chinese (Generally greasy & dull in flavor - but there are exceptions, a few very good restaurants...)
- Vegetable Egg-Free Rolls
- Mushu Vegetable (w/out egg, Yummy dark stir fry of julienne veggies put in a pancake w/plum sauce)
- Egg Drop Soup (Was my favorite way back when, prior to becoming 100% vegetarian, don't know of a vegan version)
Middle Eastern
- Grape Leaves (Seasoned rice rolled in grape leaves, often with tomato & lemon)
- Hummus! - Recipe (I don't usually use a recipe but here is an aprox. one, Pureed chick peas, Olive Oil, tahini(sesame butter), lemon, garlic (or try roasted garlic), cumin, often topped with spicy sauce) Alt. Recipe
- Baba-Ganouj (Garlic & Lemony Eggplant dip)
- Pita Bread (Typically served with Hummus & Baba-Ganouj, fair raw & very good toasted with olive oil & garlic)
- Tabouleh (steamed cracked wheat, tomato, parsley, lemon, olive oil, braggs, ) Recipe
- Potato Kabobs
- Spinach Filo Pastries
- Lental Soup
- Falafel (Fried chick pea balls, often as samwiches)
- Riz B Halib (Rice Pudding)
- Gyros (See samwiches)
- Baked Eggplant (w/Garlic, Tomatoes, & Onions)
- Lubieh (Mediterranean beans, garlic & tomatoes)
- Shish Kabob
Italian
- Home made Pizza or Calzones (Pepperoncini, Artichoke Hearts, Calamata Olives, black olives, Sun Dried Tomatoes, Roasted Eggplant Slices, Roasted Asparagus, Tomatoes, Pineapple?, Onions, Roasted Garlic, Red Pepper, Olive Oil/Garlic Oil, Herbs-Basil/Oregeno, )
- Pizza Dough - See Breads.
- Lasagna (Noodles, Sauce, Spinach & other vegies baked to crisp on top)
- Fettuchini, Angel hair, Penne, Spinach Ravioli - (Deboli's = good brand/ingrd. - Toppings: Eggplant, Artichokes, Red / Yellow Peppers, asparagus)
- -Sauces (Marinara, Roasted Red Pepper, Fresh Diced Tomatoes/Basil/Garlic- flash sauted, Olive Oil & Red Wine or Balsamic Vinigar, salad dressing)
- Pesto! (I've made a variation myself - it's different vegan, and a friend of the family's had an amazing classic pesto recipe)
- Polenta (Fried corn "mush" patties - typically in a marinara)
Mexican
- Topopo Salad! (Chips, re-fried beans, w/ toppings tossed in a special vinigarette) - recipe.
- Guacamole - very much to taste, my own recipe
- Home-made Salsa - Large Quantity - a friend's recipe.
- Mango Salsa
- Salsa Verde (Green salsa)
- Tomatilio Salsa (Seem slimy to my recollection)
- Cheaters Salsa (Easy fresh tasting salsa, in a ~24 once jar, drain about 1/2 the liquid & add one 10 once can of Rotel Milder Diced Tomatoes & Green Chilies - top with (Mild/Med/Hot) Pace Pecante & mix)
- Refried Beans - a good/old friends recipe.
- Seven-Layer Dip (Refried Beans, Quacamole, Chopped Tomatoes, Green Onions, Sliced Olives, ...)
- Nachos
- Burritos
- Tostadas
- Tacos
- Enchaladas (Small burrito w/Tasty red sauce, some people use red sauce w/melted cheese)
Japanese
- Sushi (Avacado Cucumber Roll, Asparagus Roll, Avacado/pickled Dikon Roll, Inari = sweet tariyaki tofu/Bean Curd pockets stuffed w/rice)
- Ingredients: Dry Nori Sheets, Sushi Rice (Prepared to be sticky - vinaigar sauce), Asparagus, Cucumber, Avacado, pickled Radish/Dikon, Seaweed Salad, Shitake Mushrooms, Pickled Carrots?, Noodles, Spinach?, Scallions, Toasted Sesame Seeds,
- Sushi Types:
"Maki Roll" - veggies surounded by rice/nori or (inside out) nori/rice (half sheet)
"FutoMaki" - "Big roll" simply a larger roll (whole sheet) - can be inside-out
"Nigiri" - "fish" hand molded on top a ball of rice
"Temaki" or "Hand Rolls" - cone shaped & eaten without chopsticks
"Sashimi" is Sushi with out rice - boring if you're vegetarian
- Slicing sushi - a little trick to keep it even: Instead of slicing ~1" at a time, slice roll an half, put halfs side/side slice an half, etc. (Use a very sharp smooth knife, wipe w/wet towel).
- Dip in Soy Sauce (mix a little Wasabe in for a kick), everything w/pickled ginger! Also smear wasabe in some things - like Inari. Sprinkle scallion slices on top, & toasted sesame seeds on the rice.
- For a little help making sushi here is a tutorial some one put together - How to (No point in re-inventing the wheel)
- Edamame - See Appatizers
- Seaweed Salad! (Combination of funny transluscent seaweeds & solid seaweeds in mild vinaiger dressing, if made right - Yum!)
- Tempora (An assortment of breaded/fried vegetables w/brothy sauce, often Sweet Potato, Broccoli, Onion, Zuchini...)
- Hiyayakko (Chilled tofu w/seaweeds, green onions & bonito flakes, some times ginger, in sauce)
- Ageh-Dashi Tofu (Age?) (Fried tofu w/flakes in ginger sauce)
- Tofu Wedges (Fried tofu triangles, with dipping sauce & soy sauce)
- Mochi (Variation, balls stuffed with Japanese bean paste)
- Miso Soup (See Soups)
- Udon & Soba (Two types of Japanese noodles, haven't had any thrilling dishes with them...)
- Cucumber Salad (in light rice vinaigar dressing, Looks very good, always has Crab in it!!!!)
Indian
- Rice & Lentals (w/ chutneys-Mango & Currys - Indian)
- Indian Curry - Chick Peas & Potatoes
- Potato or Spinach Samosa
- Garlic Naan (pretty good/common flat bread)
- Flat spicy crispy Bread (Assorted tasty breads, lental, rice, etc.)
- Sambar - Lental Soup
German
- Sourkraut
- Cabbage Rolls?
- German Chocolate Cake (See Deserts...)
Snacks / Treats
- Apple Slices & Peanut butter (Raisins)
- Peanut Butter Balls
- Peanut Butter Cookies
- Chocolate Chunk Cookies
- Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies - recipe.
- Lemon Poppyseed Cookies
- Ginger Spice Cookies
- Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
- Vegan Macroons?
- Scottish Shortbread
- Popcorn, (Olive oil, N. Yeast/Herbs, Carmel, Peanut Btr Carmel... , Garlic Popcorn!)
- Fast & Easy - Corn Chips, w/ a can of corn, a can of black beans, salsa to cover, Opt. Diced tomatoes & chilis, Extra spice or taco bell sauce...
- Tofu Jerky
- Crystalized Ginger (Ginger is good for digestion - dried, tea, etc.)
- Dried Fruit (Papaya-very good for digestion, Strawberries, Pinnaple, Dried Cherries, Apricots - best un-sulphered - but not as nice to look at)
- Nut stuffed Dates (Walnuts, Almonds or Pecans)
- Blooming Onions (Friend sliced whole onions)
Deserts
- Aunt Susan's Ice Cream Cake - recipe.
- Apple Cobbler
- Peach Cobbler
- Banana Bread
- Brownies - Recipe (A recipe I haven't tried, supposed to be great & gooey)
- Fried Bannanas (Thai, 1" Banana slices wraped in eggroll wrapers, fried and topped with Nuts & Honey)
- Baclava (Middle Eastern - Layers of Filo Dough / Nuts / Honey)
- Sorbet
- Soy Delicious / Soy-Rice Dream (Good plane, or as a topping for hot brownies etc. - Try Chocolate Obsession, Cherry Nirvana)
- Icecream - Pineapple!, Strawberry/Bannana, Bannana, Peach/Bannana (Frozen Fruit, put through champion juicer w/plate, peel bannanas pre-freeze!!!)
- Chocolate Pudding (Mori-Nu Recipe...)
- Rice Pudding (Riz B Halib - Middle Eastern Version)
- Tapioca Pudding
- Soy Yogurt (Vanilla, Strawberry, Lemon, Lime, Blueberry)
- Soy Yogurt Ice Cream (Mix Blueberries & Yogurt (haven't actually tried with soy) w/Maple Syrup, place in ice cream maker...)
- Carrot Cake
- Easy Chocolate Cake - Recipe (I haven't tried this recipe, looked simple...)
- Tofu Cheese Cake (German Chocolate Cheesecake, Strawberry, Peanut Butter/Chocolate)
- Pumpkin Pie - Recipe (I haven't tried this one yet, I've used the Mori Nu recipe - it's fairly good)
- Keylime Pie
- Milk Bread (Indian?, crustless bread on a plate, soaked in lightly sweetened milk - IE Silk & Maple Syrup, orig. Goats Milk)
- Dutch Apple Pie
- German Chocolate Cake
- Peanut Butter Cups
- Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans
- Chocolate Covered Strawberries, Dried strawberries, cherries
- Alternative Baking Co Cookies (Not technically a recipe, but so good they're worth mentioning, Lemon Poppyseed, Espresso Chocolate Chunk, & other assorted flavors)
- Sweedish Ginger Snaps
- Scottish Shortbread Cookies
Drinks
- Soy Kiefer (Strawberry, Raspberry)
- Almond Milk (Good topping for cerial, easy to make - Blend almond slivers, water & stevia, possibly with Sunrider Pina Colada powder)
- Mom's Nut Milk (Almond, Recipe)
- Hot Chocolate
- Chai Tea
- Teas (Toasted Rice & Green Tea, Lemon Zinger, Mint)
- Spiced Cider
- Un-Egg Nog
- Sassafras Soda (or Tea)
- Home made Root Beer or Sasparilla!
- Lemonade / Limeade (Ginger Lemonade)
- Veg Juices (Carrot Juice-Organic/Peeled, Tomato a little odd but very thirst quenching, Wheat Grass - Not very tasty but very healthy, Many people combine different juices including Ginger - Lemon - beet)
- Fruit Juices (Apple-Fresh-Cider!, Pinnaple, Coconut Milk, Water Mellon, Cantalope, Orange, Grapefruit)
Assorted Dishes / Sides
- Fried Green Tomatoes!! (Dip slices in Soy Milk & Egg replacer, roll in corn meal, fry with plenty of oil, paper towel & devour)
- "Grilled" Eggplant, Tofu, Asparagus... (Easy way to make tasty semi-grilled items for samwiches, pizza, or otherwise. Heat up a frying pan, put about half oil & half Tamari or Soy Sauce, brown & ...)
- Cajun Red Beans & Rice (For a quick alternative - try cous cous, Rice takes about an hour to cook)
- (Carol Ryce) Mom's Shepard's Pie (Mashed Potatoes over veggies & sauce with pepperica on top baked to a crisp brown, Spinach, Broccoli, ...Recipe)
- Cous Cous w/Peas & diced Carrot
- Baked Potatos (Twice Baked Potatoes, Potatoes & Gravy, Olive Oil/Soy Sauce or Braggs/Yeast)
- Garlic Mashed Potatoes (Olive Oil, roasted Garlic, soymilk)
- Gravy (Stir Fried Onions, Mushrooms, Soysauce, Flour, Soymilk, Nutritional Yeast)
- Artichokes (Thick balsamic dip- ~balsamic vinigar/olive oil/nutritional yeast/lime, Roasted onions & olive oil or butter - yuck, )
- Stuffed Artichokes (Usually made with cheese - bread crumb cheese stuffing - not vegetarian)
- Spinach Filo Dough Pastries
- Stir Fry
- Corn on the Cob
- Stuffed Cabbage Leaves
- Roasted Garlic (Break garlic up into cloves w/peel, put in very small pan with olive oil, slowly roast - peel & use - Pizza/French Bread/Baked Potatoes etc.)
- Baked Garlic (For french bread, etc.)
- Sloppy Joe (Tofu, TVP, or Tempah)
- Veggie Hot Dogs
- Veggie Burgers
- Mom's Sesame Tofu Burgers
Other possible sources for Vegan (Strict vegetarian) recipes... Low Fat Veg Archive,
Small Household Veg Recipes,
Vegan Grocery Store Items
