Monday, July 6, 2009

Hot Buffalo Tofu Wangs Recipe




1 cup spelt flour
1 tbsp. oregano
1 tsp. granulated garlic
1 Ib. tofu, cut into triangles
1 cup safflower oil/vegetable oil
1 cup red hot sauce (your choice of lowest sodium)
1 cup Earth Balance Butter 1-2 tbsp. turbinado sugar
1 tbsp. dried minced onion 1 clove garlic, minced

Preheat oven at 350 degrees.

Add granulated garlic and oregano to spelt flour. Coat the tofu with seasoned flour. Heat oil in skillet and add tofu. Cook tofu until golden brown on all sides. Drain on paper towel.
Heat hot sauce in a saucepan. Add butter, sugar, garlic, and minced onion. Simmer until bubbles form. Pour sauce over tofu in a casserole dish, cover and place in oven for 10-15 minutes. Serve.


Serves: 3-4
Meal Time: 15-25 minutes

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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Quick & Easy Vegetarian Recipes-Ebook

In order to make changes in your life right now, you have to be open and non-resistant to change. Transformation is a process which most people are afraid of because it requires them to live outside of their box. We go through our whole lives thinking we are living because we go to work, pay the bills, eat junk food and then expect to have excellent health. Your body is your temple, your life source and what we put into it is clearly visible through your measure of health, well being and longevity. We all strive to live a quality life and age gracefully, so why not feed it foods that will aid us on our journey.
The first step to transforming your mind is to be open to eating healthier by preparing these transitional recipes from the e-cook book: Quick & Easy Vegetarian Recipes To Heal Your Body. These recipes will allow you to have familiar tasty healthy food, such as, Buffalo Tofu 'Wangs' and Marinated Collards. You will not only enjoy every recipe, but you will be enticed to
try other healthy foods. This e-cook book is the bridge to the other side of EATING HEALTHY & TRANSFORMING YOUR LIFE!Here is a delicious recipe from the e-cook book that is healthy, hearty and satisfying:

Succulent Seductive Salad
1 lb tofu (firm)
1 tsp dried oregano
1 cup spelt flour
½ cup pecans
5-8 tomato slices
4-5 avocado slices
1 ½ cup safflower oil
¼ cup shaved carrots
1 Ib mixed field greens
½ tsp granulated garlic
1-2 tbsp 100% maple syrup
1 tbsp Earth Balance Butter
1 tbsp. turbinado sugar/ raw sugar
¼ cup red onions, sliced thinly
2 tbsp chopped fresh cilantro

Citrus-ginger Dressing

½ cup olive oil
2 tbsp. Shoyu sauce
2 tbsp. 100% maple syrup
1 tbsp. fresh ginger, minced
1 fresh tangerine
any citrus fruit, juiced
½ tsp. oregano/basil, dried

Cut tofu into cubes. Add oregano and garlic to flour. Coat tofu with seasoned flour. Heat oil in skillet and add coated tofu to hot oil. Cook until all sides are golden brown. Drain.Heat another skillet with butter. Add maple syrup and tofu and stir until tofu becomes a brown caramel color.

Repeat #3 process, but add pecans and sugar in place of tofu. Set aside and cool. Layer mixed greens, tofu, pecans, tomatoes, onions, avocados, carrots and cilantro. Stir citrus-ginger dressing and add to salad to serve.

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How To Maintain Your Perfect Weight And Still Eat Your Favorite Foods

Monique Marion Sharp has been serving vegetarian food to the movers and
shakers of Atlanta metropolitan for the past seven years. While serving the ommunity, she has worked at Atlanta's most popular restaurants and hotels
observing and learning everything from the kitchen to the front of the
restaurant.







Thursday, December 18, 2008

Raw Food and Vegan Recipes

By Gary Pearson

Nutritionist and fitness experts say that going on vegan diet can be a healthy choice. Others would say it's an exaggerated version of a nutritional diet and risky to embrace because the human body scientifically requires not just fiber and good carbohydrates but also high protein which vegetables have a little amount of. Not all can tolerate eating raw food and vegan recipes in every single meal. But those who can manage such diet plan are expectedly lean and fat-free. Certain dishes that fuse veggies and root crops together can be costly at times, which is why all-veggie diet isn't a preferred diet among majority of individuals.
Good nutrition always comes with raw food and vegan recipes, balanced protein and carbohydrates. Yoga followers are on vegetable diet, which is why most of those who practice it appear to be skinny or slim. Organic food may be good source of fiber that our body highly requires but it doesn't accelerate the development of muscles. If you are muscle builder, vegetables are not good to eat alone. You have to integrate some considerable amount of protein that contains all the amino acids you need for muscle building. Vegans usually go for foods like apples, beets, carrots, raw grains, oats, rye, sesame seeds, almonds, oranges, pumpkins, tomatoes, asparagus, broccoli, red peppers, spinach, buckwheat, pomegranate, cabbages, etc. Eating green salads without any meat content is strictly vegan but if you put in some chicken breasts or bacon strips in it, that's deemed to be semi-vegan.
Fruits and vegetables are recognized to be good sources of vitamins and minerals, aside from fiber, good carbohydrates and antioxidants. Raw food and vegan recipes are usually broiled or boiled, not fried or mixed preservatives or additives. Raw whole grain muesli, oat yogurt, green salads, tomato salad, vegetable soup are among the vegan recipes that are considered healthy and effective for those who want to lose weight. Preparing raw food is ideal for those people whose schedule is too hectic in that they don't have time to cook anymore. Vegetable dishes are fitting to those with high blood cholesterol and health-threatening issues. You can never go wrong with vegetable diet, as per vegans.
If you find yourself being overweight or obese, maybe it's high time that you shift to a healthier diet plan. Perhaps you can consider eating raw food and vegan recipes. You can give it a week and discover the results yourself in order to gauge the efficacy of embracing an all-veggie diet and eating raw food. If you are too dedicated to lose weight and manage yourself healthily, you can make it in a longer period of time. But if you are too weak to tolerate such stiff diet that deprives you of other healthy foods found in lean meat, then you won't survive in dwelling on a vegan diet for a longer time.
Gary Pearson is an accomplished niche website developer and author.
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