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I had this last week. It's so simple and delicious. I just put it all in the crockpot for a couple of hours:

1 pkg polenta, sliced
1 can fat-free tomato sauce
1 can mushrooms
1/2 cup sliced onion

Enjoy.

This is a simple middle-eastern recipe i loved growing up:

Black Eyed Beans (- dried and cooked from scratch)
Whole-Wheat Pitta Bread
Lemon juice (to taste)
Crushed Garlic
Dried Wild Mint (different variety available in ethnic markets)

Boil the soaked beans.
Toast the pitta pread, tear it up into pieces and arrange in shallow bowl, Soak ladels of the thick dark bean stock into the bread (like an italian bread salad), top with some beans, and season with lemon juice, wild mint, pepper and crushed cooked garlic (sauteed in cooking-water). It's like a yummy healthy middle-eastern version of beans on toast, and is very satisfying.

LOL... to funny how people must google and get recipes & not realize what type of recipes are really here... LOL

I just made a super-simple, super-delicious avocado salad that consisted of:

- 2 x avocados (I had to use two because here in Canada, we get REALLY SMALL avocado varieties)
- 1 tbls of flax oil
- pepper to taste
- sea salt to taste
- 1-2 tbls of apple cider vinegar

Mix and enjoy!

Chipotle Mashed Sweet Potatoes

3-4 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and diced.
3-4 dried chipotle peppers
nonfat soy milk

Peel and chop the sweet potatoes, steam them for about 45 minutes.
rehydrate the chipotle peppers in boiling water.
Using a hand potato masher, mash the sweet potatoes, adding soy milk as necessary for consistency.
Chop the rehydrated chipotle peppers and add them to the mashed potatoes. You may wish to add a little of the hydrating water.
Salt and pepper to taste.

Sweet potatoes hold the spice very well. A very tasty dish.

Savoury Stuffed Pumpkin

1 small-med eating pumking (like a sugar pumpkin)
your favourite rice
large onion, chopped

Cut the top from the pumpkin as if you were making a jack-o-lantern. Scoop out seeds (save to make roasted pumkins seeds) and most of the pulp.

Put pumpkin in baking dish with about an inch of water and bake about 30 mins.

Meanwhile, cook your rice with the onion.

Stuff the cooked rice/onion into the pumpkin and bake about another 30 mins (until tender and rice is slightly browned on top)

Variation: Sweet Stuffed Pumpkin--use raisins or sultanas instead of onion.

Savoury Variation: Cook rice/onion with some bouillion powder and/or a savoury herb like sage.

Sweet Variation: Cook rice/onion with a sweet herb like cinnamon, allspice, etc.

Rocket Rice and Lentils

Your favourite rice
Your favourite lentils
Sun-dried tomato paste (or regular tomato paste)
Bunch of raw rocket (arugula) leaves (washed)

Cook rice and lentils together with a big dallop of tomato paste. Put rocket (arugula) leaves in a big bowl. Spoon the hot cooked rice/lentils over the leaves and give a big stir. Eat.

Garlicy Greens Soup

1 huge onion
6 huge cloves garlic
1 huge bunch of your favourite greens (spring greens, kale, collard greens, mustard greens, chard--but not cabbage or spinach)
10 cups vegetable broth

Put all in a big soup pot, bring to a boil, and simmer all day long.

Simples.

Port Mushrooms over Rice

For a special treat...

Your favourite mushrooms (cleaned and sliced)
Port (any cheap Port from the grocery store)
Your favourite rice (Basmati + Wild Rice mix is good)

Place mushrooms in a large sauce pan. Pour in enough Port to cover the mushrooms, plus a little more.

Simmer the heck out of it--the longer the better. It smells heavenly.
Serve over hot, cooked rice.

I know it's alcohol...but maybe the alcohol all cooks away! A bit of crushed garlic as the 4th ingredient doesn't go amiss.

Quick-cooking split Orange Lentils are fab and cook in under 10 minutes.

Savoury Orange Lentils: put all in a pot and cook over med. heat.
1 c. orange lentils
2 c. water (maybe a little more if they start to stick)
1 t. (or more) Garam Masala
Big dallop sun-dried tomato paste

Sweet Orange Lentils: put all in a pot and cook over med. heat.
1 c. orange lentils
2 c. rice milk(maybe a little more if they start to stick)
1 t. (or more) cinnamon
1t. honey (or pinch stevia)
FAB FOR BREAKFAST!

Easy Black Bean Soup

1 can Mexican spiced diced tomatoes and chillies
1 can of black beans drained
1 block of frozen spinach

Toss all into a medium pot and heat, adding water if you need to thin the soup. Enjoy!

My youngest son, Christopher, 26, gets the credit of bringing home the big news of becoming a vegan, and that was 2 yrs ago now. I resisted at first but as I watched him lose wt and clear up his eczema I was a believe,r slow but sure. That is what I am reading on this great website. Avoiding all animal products and getting healthy at the same time. YES!!
So I wanted to tell you all his favorite meal is usually any kind of potatoes, and brocc, cauliflower, cabbage and lots of any spice which as garlic, curry, and spice mixes that are sans salt. His all time favorite soup is lentil, and we are making up pots of that a lot.
We also like gimme lean products, the sausage flavor type.

Lentil soup
Place half a bag of lentils, in a large 6 QT pot of water, or veggie broth I add one bouillon cube (Rapunzel, a vegan with no added salt or MSG)
Sautee the veggies you want in soup: chopped up onion, carrots, and celery in EVOO or water, then add to the pot
Add 2 - 3 potatoes, chopped up with skins on and that will thicken up the soup. And /or add some barley to pot and let it cook in soup.
Add 2 bay leaves, some sea salt and some cracked pepper for flavor.
Lentils need to cook for about 40 minutes
I think it tastes better the second day for sure!

Is this spam, or just a recipe with an EGG in it? No eggs, folks!