i just want to keep eating it!

alright. last night i made some vegan pizzas. i looked at a pizza dough recipe for ideas. i didn't feel like going to the grocery store to buy yeast like you're supposed to use in pizza dough so i figured,
"hey! baking soda rises, why can't i just use that?" so i did.

mix baking soda in warm water.
add a bit of olive oil, and add flour by increments. i used whole wheat.
the more flour you add the harder it is to mix, you sort of have to put your hands in for the kneading. unless you have a cuisinart mixer and are opposed to hand goo. i think hands are the way to go.
rip it in half. ball it up and roll it out on a wooden board or a plastic one. make sure there is a thin layer of flour on the board for flattening out your dough. and sprinkle dough on your mush as you go so it won't be sticky.

once you have your dough all flattened out in your desired pizza shape, put on cookie sheet and bake for just a few minutes.

the dough recipe suggested if you wanted to use wheat flour, to only use half wheat and white for the other half. but... me being me. why would i want to use white flour?? very few nutrients. just empty carbs. i'm going full throttle with my wheatiness.

i got some immitation mozzerella cheese, and tomato sauce, and some shredded cheddar daiya cheese. then i put some broccoli, mushrooms, garlic, and immitation chicken on top. yum.

it turned out pretty well i think. but the whole wheat crust turned out suuper filling. and maybe a bit bland. and i probably could have piled on the toppings more.

 













tonight! i made vegan mac&cheese for the first time!
once again i looked at a couple recipes for guidance, but didn't follow them exactly.
it turned out to be pretty simple.

make pasta like any other pasta you would. in a bowl next to it mix flour and olive oil. the two recipes i based my creation off of used different methods for the cheese sauce. one of them used vegan butter and non-dairy milk and nutritional yeast, the other used vegan sour cream and daiya cheese. hmm.. so i used olive oil, flour, almond milk, and daiya cheese. :)

so yes, heat and mix the oil and flour first. it makes this weird paste, but then you add the milk and keep stirring. i suggest to add the milk partial-cup at a time. then add the cheese half way through the milk adding, then finish adding your milk. 
this is when it starts getting gooey and more cheese-like. daiya takes a bit longer to melt than dairy cheese, but just be patient. 
i also added some diced garlic, oregano, salt and freshly ground pepper.

once your pasta is cooked and drained, mix in the cheese sauce! but don't pour all of it in at once because there might be too much cheese for pasta. 
also, i found that adding more garlic powder on top was yummy.

oh! also i used tri-color vegetable pasta, hence the colored pasta in the picture. :)