Day 7: One Week Vegan & Toaster Oven Pizza

The oven finally got looked at today, but won't have a part until Monday, so yet again, I had to improvise.

I have made the vegan pizza before using the same recipe and it's always turned out wonderful! Cooking it in the toaster oven, it didn't turn out quite as well, but was still a tasty pizza none the less!

I used this recipe for the dough: http://vegweb.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=96af27e894ae2fd4187eff3006107ebe&topic=8128.0
This recipe is GREAT, but instead of cooking it at 500°, we cook it at 450° for about 20 minutes. It also works great for bread sticks.

The sauce is a special recipe made by my roommate, Paul, but you can use any recipe for pizza or pasta sauce you would like.

I used Follow Your Heart Vegan Gourmet Mozzarella. It melts nice and tastes really good! Mmmm.

For this pizza I added pineapple chunks and raw green peppers cut into pieces both that I added after it was cooked. Only problem with adding the pineapple right after it comes out of the oven was the juices made the cheez runny before it fully set. So might want to wait a few minutes until it hardens, or squeeze the pineapples dry. Still yummy even runny!

Day 1 - pt 3: Dinner - Mac & Cheez, Shopping

Finally got the house cleaned and got to go shopping. For a weeks worth of meals and a few extras, we only spent $23 at Save-A-Lot (mostly on Produce) and $68 at Walmart, with a few needed and unnecessary things added in there. I'd say for the weekly meals we probably only spent $50? Not sure if that is good or not, but we'll find out as time goes on.

We already had some elbow macaroni made and we were sick of the usual pasta sauce or garlic and olive oil we had been using, so we decided to find something new. Thanks for my cheese loving friend Ally, I looked to the "The Ultimate Uncheese Cookbook" and decided to make a 'cheez' sauce for some mac & cheez. Due to copyright laws I am not sure if I can post the entire recipe here, but if you own the book I used the "Amazing Mac 'N Cheez Sauce" on page 64. It used flour, nutritional yeast, salt, onion powder, garlic, paprika, mustard, olive oil, and rice milk. I'm not sure how that combination of things give you the slighly cheezy taste it does, but it works and was quite tasty! If you are looking for it to taste like cheese, I don't think it really does, but it is definitely worth a try!

Day 1 of Veganism complete. Wonder what I'll make tomorrow!