Birthday Vegan Brunch, Dinner, Cake

I can't give the recipes for any of these meals because I had no part in them. The four children at home took over the preparation and cleanup while I lolled around and waited to be served.

The brunch consisted of a potato pancake/hash browns patty, home fries, sweet potato and onion, some kind of vegan sausage, scrambled tofu, toast with Smart Balance, hot Roma, and cold mimosa. All very tasty.

Dinner was very yummy. They looked up the recipes for Spanish rice, Sweet and Sour Sesame Tofu, and Oven Baked Kale, which turned out to be crisp and chewy all at once. Again, yum!

 

Dessert was a cake called Boston Cream Pie. A one-layer vanilla cake (flavored with almond extract in this case) was sliced horizontally in half and filled with vanilla pudding. It was topped with melted dark chocolate and ringed with blueberries. My favorite! I had some for breakfast the next day.

 

Thank you, children, for making my birthday so special. (I enjoyed the calls from the farther-flung too!)

Scrambled Tofu and Garlic Toast

Last night I didn't feel like cooking anything very complicated, so I decided to make some SCRAMBLED TOFU. The good thing about this dish is that it is all in one pot, so there is an easy clean up afterwards. It also lends itself to various additions, so it is something you can make every week or so, changing the flavor if you want. We like having turn around days, with breakfast for dinner, but scrambled tofu is good any time, really.

The problem many people have with tofu is that it is white, flavorless and flabby. This recipe will solve all three issues. I like to make a lot of something, if I am going to the trouble of doing it at all, and having the leftovers in the refrigerator for the next day or two is a nice bonus, so I used three tubs of tofu last night. A person living alone could get two meals from one tub.