Vegan Ranch Dressing
vegan, makes 1 jar

What You Need
1 cup vegan mayonnaise
1/4 cup soy milk
1 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp black pepper
2 tsp fresh chopped parsley
1 tbsp cider vinegar
1/2 tsp fresh chopped dill or 1/4 tsp dried

What You Do

Combine all ingredients in a bowl, blender, or food processor and mix well. Transfer to glass jar and secure with air tight lid. Chill before serving!

Quick and Easy Low-Cal Vegan Comfort Food: 150 Down-Home Recipes Packed with Flavor, Not Calories (Quick & Easy)
I just wanted to share that the cookbook I did the photos for last summer is available today on Amazon, and will be in stores May 15th.

All of Alicia’s recipes are amazingly delicious, but my favorites are the Caesar salad (tastes just like it’s non-vegan counterpart) and the lemon blueberry cake, and I normally hate cake.

Tom’s favorites are the cheesesteak recipe and the gyros.

chili cheese dogs using rice cheese, Amy’s chili, and Yves jumbo dogs.

udon noodles with vegan oyster sauce (mushroom base) and garlic asparagus

simple pickles over steamed sticky rice

I used this recipe, but used whole wheat flour instead of white and an egg replacer instead of the apple cider vinegar and baking soda and found it much more savory and enjoyable. (Not that it wasn’t before, but you know what I mean.)

So Delicious Dairy-Free Ice Cream Sandwiches

The Basil Hemlock Loaf
vegan, 1.5 lb

Store bought bread tastes like crap. And bakeries are awesome but you can’t always keep track of the ingredients, and you don’t always have access to them depending on where you live, so making your own seems like the best thing to do! We use a bread maker for our bread, but you don’t have to. If you want to bake it in the oven it tastes just as delicious! I’m kind of going nutty for our bread right now, so I started with a basic loaf and I plan to get a little crazy and try Gluten Free, FRUIT BREAD, and cinnamon swirls! I hope you enjoy this loaf as much as we do.

What You Need
1 1/4 cups water
3 cups all-purpose non-bleached white flour
2 Tbsp vegan margarine
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp basil
1 1/2 tsp yeast (we use “Bread Machine Yeast”)

What You Do

1. Add the ingredients to the bread maker in the order they are listed, except for the yeast. Make sure you measure as accurately as possible because that makes a difference! To add the yeast, make a little pocket in your ingredients and add the yeast there. It should look like this:

2. Select your preferences, (we do basic white, medium crust) and hit start!

3. Depending on your bread maker and a bunch of other factors like if you measured everything properly, etc, etc- you should keep an eye on the loaf in the beginning stages. When it starts the kneading cycle, take a peak and make sure it’s not to dry and lumpy. If it is, add a tsp (or tbsp) of water, depending on how much is needed. Start by adding a small amount, because a little bit really does go a long way. If you add too much and it starts slopping around and is too wet, don’t worry, just add a tsp or two of flour and it will fix itself. You want it to smooth itself out so it looks like a proper loaf when it’s done.