Green Girl Catering

I'm starting up a vegetarian and vegan catering company, pretty crazy. I've really been thinking about it for a while now and then i started thinking that I could probably actually do it. So I started thinking of a name and making a website. I really like Green Girl Catering and a friend is coming up with logo ideas. I'd say thinking of how I want a website to look has been the hardest part so far. I haven't really had the time to spend on it though because of work. I'm hoping when I choose and name and logo for sure it will come together. We will see.

Here's a recipe for peanut butter cookies:

1 1/2 cups flour
1 tbsp margarine1 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup oil
3/4 cups sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
3 tbsp water 


Mix all ingredients in a bowl, roll the dough into 2-inch balls, place on an ungreased cookie sheet, and bake at 400°F for 10 to 12 minutes. 

Vegan Stuffed Mushrooms

Last night I decided to try making stuffed mushrooms, they turned out o-m-g good. Mushrooms are one of my favorite foods, I could probably eat them with anything and when you combine that with garlic and bread crumbs what can go wrong? 

1 pkg large mushrooms
1 onion
3 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp bread crumbs
1/2 tbsp nutritional yeast
1/2 tbsp crushed garlic
parsley
oregano
salt
pepper
vegan parmesan

Cut out the stems from the mushrooms and chop them up, chop up as much onion as you have stems and saute in a pan with 2 tbsp olive oil. Add garlic and seasonings and continue cooking for about 3-4 minutes. Add bread crumbs, yeast and cheese and stir, if mixture is dry add 1 tbsp of olive and spoon into mushroom caps.
Cook mushrooms in oven at 375 for 15-20 minutes!

before cooking

Mac and Cheeze

Mac and cheese is basically the best food on the planet so I had to try and make a rockin mac and cheeze dish! I used whole wheat shells for the pasta to make it slightly healthier but you can use any kind.


1 box pasta
1½ cup nutritional yeast
1 cup veggie oil
1 cup water
¼ cup soy sauce
1½ cup milk
½ tbsp salt
1 tbsp paprika
¼ block of tofu (firm)
bit of mustard

Preheat oven to 350℉. Cook pasta, drain, dry. 

Combine all other ingredients in blender and blend until creamy. 

Add pasta and sauce to pan and cook for 15 - 20 minutes. 

before cooking

After 

Suasage and Bean Dinner

My roommate and I made this the other night, just a mix of beans, soy sausage and veggies simmered together, it turned out amazing. We used kidney beans and sundried tomatoes for this meal, great choices.

veggies 

mix of hot sauce, spicy mustard and taco bell mild sauce :) 

finished! 

side dish of field peas 

Legit Taco Salad

Mmmmm tacos! My favorite kind of food is mexican so I make this dish a lot. I use vegan soy meat crumbles and a packet a taco seasoning to make the "meat" and then put tortilla chips on a plate and pile it up with lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, salsa, guac, tofutti sour cream and taco bell sauce (my fav). This time I cooked mushrooms, onions and tomato in the meat part to season them as well.

legit 

Wonders of Tofurkey

TOFURKEY is awesome :) I love using the sliced kind for sandwiches to take to work. It's so simple and tastes delicious. Usually I always use veganaise, sliced soy cheese, lettuce and tomato. Sprouts are great to put on it too and this time I used a chipotle mustard and it was heaven. 

beautiful! 

And last night my roommate made some sort of sausage gumbo type meal, not really sure what to classify it but it was damn good. She mixed peppers, onions and tomatoes in a pan with some olive oil for a minute and then added some of these italian flavored tofurkey sausage links that are off the chain. She cooked that until the sausage was cooked and poured in a can of organic pinto beans and let it simmer for about 15-20 minutes and it was the best tasting thing in the world. Hot sauce, salt and pepper were added as well. 

dank

Pasta, Turnips and Twice Baked Potato

Tonight my roommate and I cooked together and she made whole wheat pasta with sun-dried tomatoes and mushies / turnips and I made twice baked potatoes. I think since becoming vegan in only about 2 months I already eat more veggies than I used to before. Everything was so great, I am in love with turnips now and I used to hate them!

For the pasta my roommate used a box of whole wheat spaghetti noodles and cooked those until tender, in a pan she heated up the tomatoes and mushrooms until soft. She put the noodles back into the pot, added the mushies/tomatoes and a can of organic red sauce and waited until the sauce was heated. It was beyond amazing, I couldn't stop eating it.

Twice Baked Potatoes 

2 baking potatoes

1/4 container tofutti sour cream 

1 tbsp soy margarine

1/2 block shredded soy cheese

1-2 tbsp soy milk

garlic powder

minced garlic

salt

pepper

oregano

parsley

paprika

Prick the potatoes with a fork and microwave for 5 minutes each.

Combine all the ingredients except the paprika in a large bowl. 

Once the potatoes have cooled, cut them length-wise and scoop the centers out, leaving enough to keep the sides slightly firm. Add the potato flesh to the other ingredients and mash together.

Spoon the mixture into the empty potato skins, top them with paprika, and bake at 350ºF for 15 to 20 minutes.

before baking

yummy!

The turnips were made by following the package directions, we bought them frozen. Here's the finished meal, I can't wait to eat leftovers tomorrow :)