Faux Sausage & Cheese Bites

At a Glance

• Makes about 15-20 bites
• Difficulty:Easy
• Time: 20-25 mins
  

Ingredients

• Biscuit mix (jiffy or bisquick works well)
• Any extra ingredients called for by your biscuit mix
  
• Cheddar cheese
• Morning Star meatless sausage crumble, or meatless crumble (beef version)

Method

• Preheat oven according to biscuit recipe
  
• Follow directions to make one batch of biscuits from your mix
• Defrost about half a bag of the meatless crumble (sausage works better than the beef variety)
• After meat is defrosted, add to biscuit mix
• Add about 1 cup or 1 1/2 cup of cheese. Mix well.
• Take spoonfuls of mixture and place onto cookie sheet (make them the size according to the biscuit mix)
• Bake (usually at 400-450 degrees) for about 10-15 minutes

For added deliciousness, split the cooked biscuits and add egg, or a slice of cheese. Ketchup also goes nicely.

Fake Philly Cheesesteaks (or Chicken Philly)

At a Glance

• Feeds: 2-3
• Time: 15 minutes
• Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients

• Soy Steak Strips OR Vege Burger Patties OR vege-chicken patties
• Large Green Pepper
• Large White Onion
• Hoagie Rolls
• Velveeta Cheese
• Worchestershire sauce

Method

• Cut pepper and onion into long thin pieces
• First, warm up the fake meat in the microwave, about half of the required cook time (according to box instructions)
• Warm olive oil/spray in frying pan on medium heat
  
• If using chicken or burger patties, cut into strips. If using steak strips, leave as is
• Put pepper, onion, fake meat into frying pan (when pan is heated up)
• Splash in some worchestershire sauce (to taste)
• Put hoagie rolls in microwave to warm, or in oven if you prefer a crusty roll (instead of soft)
  
• Cook until onions and peppers are soft, and fake meat is 98% done
• some of the fake meat may crumble or clump together. This is totally okay.
  
• add velveeta for a few minutes until melted fully
• remove from pan, put desired amount onto rolls
• add ketchup if you want, salt and pepper to taste...serve with sweet potato chips, fries, whatever you want...
  

Strawberry Vinegarette Salad

At a Glance:

• Feeds: as many as you want (this recipe based on 4 servings)
• Difficulty: Medium
• Time: 5-10 minutes

Ingredients

• Baby arugala & romaine lettuce
• strawberries
• goat's cheese
• olive oil
• red wine
• candied walnuts
• balsamic glace vinegar (thicker than regular balsamic vinegar dressing)...(these are also available in pre-flavored varieties, like raspberry, strawberry etc if you prefer)
  

Method

• Chop lettuce into bite size pieces, mix together well
• slice strawberries thinly
• top the lettuce with strawberries, crumble goat's cheese on top
• add walnuts if desired
• add dressing, salt and pepper to taste
  

Dressing Method (this will make enough for several salads)

• in bowl, add 1/2 cup of balsamic vinegar glace, 1/2 cup of olive oil
• add splash of wine (or more if you prefer)
• Mix well, and quickly drizzle on top of salad before it seperates
  

Super Simple Bruschetta

At a Glance

• Feeds 2-3 people
• Difficulty: Easy
• Time: 10-15 minutes
  

Ingredients:

• Fresh baked loaf of bread
• Organic tomato sauce (canned)
• Italian Seasoning
• Basil
• Garlic Salt
• 1/4 white onion
• 1/2 large tomato
• mozzarella cheese (grated)
• parmesan cheese (grated)
• butter
• red wine
• garlic salt
• olive oil
  

Method

• Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees
  
• Cut tomato into large chunks
• dice onion
• sautee onion with butter in pan
• mix italian seasoning, basil, garlic salt, splash of wine into the tomato sauce in a bowl (excess of this is great on pasta)
• brush the bottoms of the bread with olive oil (if you have an olive oil with basil, this is good too)
• put desired amount of sauce mixture, then onions, then tomatos, then cheeses on top (unbrushed side) of bread
• bake at 400 degrees until cheese melts and turns golden brown. This should take around 5-10 minutes at most
• Remove from oven and enjoy!