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Vegan Muddy Buddies (Puppy chow)

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A couple days ago I wanted something sweet but didn’t want to eat anymore Oreos because being a beginner vegan that’s pretty much all I knew about “Vegan OKd” treats. So I went to my pantry and looked and noticed I had stacks of unopened Chex mix cereal. I guess my son and I weren’t eating it fast enough I didn’t notice it was building up in my pantry. Anyway Instantly I thought OH COOL I CAN MAKE MUDDY BUDDIES/PUPPYCHOW (however you want to call it)

The recipe I found was only in bulk which was good since I had so many boxes of Chex mix Cereal in my pantry. I had Corn and Rice chex so I decided to be spontaneous and put both into the mix. So HERE WE GO!

You are going to need a BIG BOWL for this one and I would recommend a rice scooper or wooden spatula/spoon to mix everything together. I used a wooden rice scooper. Only because as much as possible you don’t want to crush the cereal into crumbs when you mix.

Ingredients:

  • 9 cups of Rice or Corn Chex mix
  • 2 cups dairy free chocolate chips of your choice ( I used 4 boxes of 4oz dairy free chocolate) Side note if you are not vegan feel free to use whatever chocolate you wish.
  • 2/3 cup peanut butter ( I used all natural peanut butter. But you can use any peanut butter of your choice)
  • 1/4 cup coconut oil of your choice ( Room temp. )
  • 4 cups powdered sugar ( Now this is optional but actually necessary. If you’ve eaten this before it keeps the mix from sticking to each other especially if you are going to store it in the fridge. Unless you like block chocolate with chex mix which actually wasn’t really bad it actually tasted really good. To be honest though I did not use 4 cups of powdered sugar I just poured some and mixed some until everything looked like it was moderately covered. )

Directions:

  • Put the 9 cups of chex mix into the big bowl.
  • In a separate “microwavable” bowl put the chocolate, Peanut butter, and coconut oil.
  • I microwaved it for about 4 min. and stirred everything together with the wooden rice scooper. But you can do this process how ever you see fit. Or what works best for you. As long as all of those ingredients are nicely stirred together you’re good to go.
  • After everything is well stirred and the mix looks smooth pour the mixture onto the Chex and very delicately fold the cereal into the mix until everything is covered with the tasty chocolate mixture. Make sure you do it delicately unless you want alot of crumbs in there. We don’t want them to turn into those nestles mini crunch snacks. We want to have the full cereal in there.
  • When everything is mixed into your liking start pouring the powdered sugar into the bowl. DON’T DOUSE THE MIX just sprinkle and mix sprinkle and mix until its nicely covered to how you like it.

And that is the end to the directions. When you are all well and satisfied with what you have infront of you go ahead and put them into tupperwares save them for later put them into the fridge or just enjoy the whole thing in one sitting like I almost did. Makes good gifts and party snacks.

I hope you guys enjoyed this recipe as much as I did and I also hope to be able to share more recipes with you folks later on. Have a good week everyone and stay happy.

Supposed to be a Quesadilla but looks like a softshell taco…

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So I usually specialize in making Japanese/Asian Vegan food but today I wanted to try something different.

If it’s anything other than tofu that I love it’s… SPINACH!! and so I found this recipe online out of nowhere because I of course was hungry and it was lunch time. I had some spinach on hand and tortillas too only thing was being on the big island of Hawaii you can rarely find anything vegan and I’m not the type to go scavenging the whole island just to find some vegan cheese and other things SO! I make do with what I got.

I had to use chickpea water from the can for another recipe so I had all these chickpeas and me being Mrs. Don’t like to waste anything decided maybe I can use this today. So from the recipe I found I had to completely alter the whole recipe because I didn’t have any vegan cheese and I didn’t wanna waste all these chickpeas…

If you follow me on the Amino Vegan  app I posted that I would put up my recipe so here it is.

Prep time: Depends on how fast you can prep
Cook time: Depends on your speed and speed of your stove
Servings: 2

  • Ingredients:
  • 2 tortillas
  • Thawed out frozen spinach
  • Chick peas
  • Vegan Chipotle Mayo
  • Regular Vegan Mayo
  • Oil of your choice

Directions:

Okay so I’m going to admit that this really isn’t one of the healthiest recipes I have made but I’m not going to lie it was delicious. I only used 1/3 of the can of chickpeas because I just made enough for me which was 2 quesadillas. ( I did save the rest in the fridge for another recipe I have in mind)

  1. Microwave the chickpeas for about a minute and a half (1:30) and hand mash the chickpeas using any mashing tool you have. (Honestly I like to smash the chickpeas or anything in general by hand unless you really need the blender or food processor. It’s just that there’s a different texture that comes out that you can’t get by using the blender or processor.)
  2. Now before I became a vegan my husband’s friend made this grilled cheese sandwich in which she used mayo on the outside of the bread and it made it very crisp so in this step put a thin layer of the Vegan Mayo on the outsides and a thin layer on the inside of the tortilla. (this step is optional but it does add ALOT of flavor. Like I said it’s not one of the healthiest recipes I’ve made)
  3. take the frozen spinach and follow directions to thaw or microwave. I like mines warm so I followed the microwave instructions. ( I use Frozen Spinach because its alot cheaper than fresh spinach and it takes less time to prep)
  4. take 1/3-1/4 cup of the chickpeas depending on how much you want to put in to your quesadilla and add about 1-2 table spoon of the Chipotle Mayo. (add to your taste preference.)
  5. Take your spinach and layer it onto the tortilla put as little or as much as you like but just remember it does have to close so don’t put too much in there.
  6. then take your chickpea mix and spread it over your spinach layer and then fold the tortilla in half. (Now for this step it really is your preference on how you make it. You can make it into a flat pizza like a quesadilla or you can make it like how I did. Reason I folded it in half is I like to save money. So you can either cut the tortilla in half and make it into a quesadilla or use two separate pieces.)
  7. Take a TBSP of your oil of choice and put the quesadilla on the pan. Heat the pan up first of course before you put the quesadilla on that way it makes it more crisp and doesn’t give the tortilla time to soak up the oil. That wouldn’t be too pleasant.

Best eaten hot and enjoy your quesadilla. Now you don’t only have to use the same amount I did or do it exactly as I did. This is pretty much to preference. But it’s cheap and if you have company coming over it doesn’t take too long to make. (if you don’t mind it being a little bit unhealthy)

I hope you guys enjoy this recipe and I hope to share more with you folks soon!