Recipes and Notes from October 9, 2005

I want to thank each student for making my first cooking class a great success. You girls were awesome and I mean awesome!! I’m so proud of all of you for your contributions and participation. I have no doubt all of you will be successful in life. Excitedly, I’m proud that you tried new things with fantastic enthusiasm.

Here are the recipes, and feel free to call or email me if you have any questions.

Have one of your parents call me if you plan to come next week, so I know how to plan. We will be cooking dinner for one parent.

Thanks again,

Paige

Banana Muffins: 2 cups of flour, ½ wheat, ½ unbleached flour, or all unbleached flour, 1 and ½ tsp. baking powder, ½ tsb baking soda, cream 1/3 cup margarine, ½ cup of sugar (raw), 2 large bananas, 4-5 tbsp. of soymilk, 1 tsp. vanilla

Mix the dry things and bananas, margarine,sugar,vanilla together separately, and then add together, add milk. Bake at 350 degrees. 45-50 min. for bread and 35-40 for muffins. Oil the pan

Tortilla Soup: (so easy)
5 cups of veg. broth
1 ½ cups salsa
2 cans of beans (pinto or, black beans)
cook stove top for a least 30 min. med. to low
add cilantro to taste, chips crushed, squeeze of lime, sprinkle cheese at the end while serving.

Humus Wraps: 1 can of chick peas (drain and save juice), 2 tbs tahini, sprinkle garlic powder, all season, tiny bit of lime. Put in food processor, add juice to get consistency.
Put on tortillas, pitas, bread, and add sprouts, cheese (soy cheese option), cucumber, tomatoes, use your taste here to guide, remember humus pizza for snack- (add to bread top with cheese and put in toaster over.) Don’t forget other Wrap Ideas we talked about for lunches.

Tuna Pasta: 1 box of pasta of choice, 1 can of tuna, don’t’ forget the spinach (1/2 package of frozen chopped thawed), rice vinegar of choice, dill, a little 1-2 tbs of mayo (vegan style is what we used in class, but any is ok), we used vegetarian parm. Cheese and nutritional yeast in class, but any cheese options will work well. Mix up.

1 package Whole wheat pasta, couple shredded carrots, 1 cucumber chopped, 1can white beans canned drained, Annies cowgirl ranch is what we used in the pasta, and a little vinegar.