Not very exciting

Last weeks post sucked because I was sick while doing it. This weeks has hardly any food as I was sick while I would have otherwise been cooking.

Vegan Momma raves about the Lemon Garlic Pasta from edbv so much that I had to finally make it. Now I can see why she makes this pasta so much. This was quick and easy to throw together and it tasted light and refreshing. The kids dug it, too.
I made this granola loosely based on Granny's Grand Granola from Raising Vegetarian Children. I love that it gets tahini in my kids. They aren't to inclined towards tahini but it has so many good things in it. This is a nice basic granola recipe that would be super easy to expand upon. Cherries, cranberries, raisins, coconut? You name it.

I tried out the Tofu Aloo Gobi from Vegan Express. I wasn't super impressed. Everything was sort of bland and I needed to add extra liquid. I had to salt my portion a LOT in order to like this. Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, I made this recipe at about peak time of stuffy nose/cough. That may have influenced things a touch. Well, maybe I'll try it again.

I have this picture of these banana pancakes, obviously. I can't for the life of me figure out what recipe I used or which book I pulled it from. I have no effing idea. They were good.

For an Oscar Party I made the Chocolate Brownies from JVB, not pictured. The omni's at the party gave these brownies rave reviews. They called them moist and wonderful. This is not my personal favorite recipe but I like my brownies less cakey. I like them slightly chewy and hard on the edge. Flatter and more dense. These are my favorite brownies.

Hopefully I'll be bringing more to the table this week, but I seriously doubt it.

Granola

Lately I've been having this urge to make my own granola. Then after we had those great Acai bowls I just had to do it. I used Cathe Olson's recipe called Millet Crunch Granola. Ummm, if you can't tell from the picture, mine has no millet. But next time it will. I just didn't have any.

I love that this recipe has tahini in it. No one in my house likes it plain and I just love running across recipes that sneak it in. This recipe is also unique in that it uses agave nectar in loo of maple syrup. I've read that agave nectar doesn't cause the sugar spike that many other sweeteners do.

I add chopped dry apple and some dried cranberries. Next time I might try some cinnamon and just apples. I didn't have pepitas so I used slivered almonds. This recipe really is very adaptable. I imagine most granola recipes are really just jumping off points.

If you like cereal, muesli, or of course granola, give this recipe a shot.

http://www.vegfamily.com/whole-family/vegan-holiday-gifts.htm

You have to scroll down to see it.