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...
  

Faux Cheeseburger Quesadilla

At a Glance

• Feeds: 2 people
• Difficulty: Easy
• Time: 15 minutes
  

Ingredients

• Veggie Crumble
• Shredded Monterrey Jack and Cheddar Cheese
• 2-4 tbsp BBQ sauce
• McCormick's Hamburger Seasoning
• Medium Flour Tortillas
• OPTIONAL: Finely chopped white onion
  
• OPTIONAL: Substitute the kind of cheese that comes pre-made with taco seasoning on it...it really kicks things up a notch!
  

Method

• In small frying pan, add chopped onions with a little non-stick spray on medium heat. You want to cook the onions a little, but not too much. If you like your onions crispy, just put them on low heat until you're ready to assemble your quesadilla.
  
• Heat veggie crumble in microwave until defrosted, according to directions on package
• Add BBQ sauce (as much as you like), and hamburger seasoning, then mix well
  
• Turn large frying pan on to medium/low heat, add a little non-stick spray
  
• Return to heat in Microwave until fully cooked (should only take a couple of extra minutes)
  
• Put flour tortilla in pan, pushing it around to coat in a little oil
• To one side of the tortilla, add cheese, then burger crumble, then onions, then a little more cheese on top
  
• Let it cook until the cheese barely begins to melt, then fold the tortilla over on itself, closing it up.
• Let it cook a little longer, then flip over, being careful not to overcook one side. You want the outside of the tortilla to be crispy, but not burned.
• Repeat process for as many quesadillas as you want to cook.

Serve with more BBQ sauce, or some sour cream/guacamole usually tastes good too.

Margherita Flatbread Pizza with Faux Sausage

At a Glance

• Feeds: 2 people
• Difficulty: Easy
• Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 x flatbread, 6x10 inch pieces, rosemary & peppercorn variety (or your choice)
• 8oz mozzarella cheese
• 1 package of Fresh Basil (0.6oz)
• Pizza Sauce (enough to cover the flatbread pieces)
• 2 x Fake Sausage circles (Morning Star Brand)
• 1 tsp Sausage seasoning

Method

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Put sausage in microwave until it is cooked according to directions on package
• Chop basil, not too finely, removing the stems completely
• Cut mozzarella into large circular slices
• Cover flat bread with pizza sauce
• Remove sausage from oven, and chop/crumble up into smallish chunks
  
• Assemble pizza by putting basil on first, then mozzarella, then sausage.
• Sprinkle sausage seasoning on top of pizza
• Put in oven for 15 minutes, checking around 10. Depending on your oven, you'll want to make sure the base crisps up without the top burning. You do not want your cheese to brown on top. If you're worried about cooking too much, turn to 300 degrees, and until bottom crisps up, then turn to broil for 2 minutes.

Potato Quesadillas

At a Glance

• Feeds: 2 people
• Difficulty: Easy/Medium
• Time: 15-20 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 cups frozen cubed hash browns (or freshly cubed (1/2 inch cubes) potatos, or leftover mashed potatoes)
• 4 medium sized flour tortillas
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1 tsp season-all
  
• 1 tsp chili seasoning (not chili powder)
• 1 tbsp ketchup
• 1 bag grated Mexican Cheese Blend. You can vary how much you need depending on how many quesadillas, and how thick you are making them.
  
• Non-stick spray
• 2 tbsp tomato salsa (mild, medium or hot...your choice)
• OPTIONAL Side Items: Sour cream, Guacamole
  
• OPTIONAL ingredients: 1 tbsp Red Pepper Flakes (for more spice)
  
• OPTIONAL ingredients: 1/2 cup chopped onions (if you like onions)

Method

• For smooth quesadillas: Heat potatoes in microwave until defrosted. If using fresh potatoes, microwave them until they are just barely cooked and slightly mashable. If you're using leftover mashed potatos, you dont have to cook them before adding to the quesadilla.
  
• For crispy quesadillas (preferred method) you'll want to defrost or slightly cook the hash brown cubes a little and then put them into a hot frying pan with just a little oil to crisp them up just a little. When they are crispy (but not burned at all), remove from heat.
• Add hash browns to a big mixing bowl
• Add cumin, season-all, ketchup, chili seasoning, onions, red pepper flakes to bowl and mix well, coating each cube with some flavor. Be careful not to mix too vigourously if you are going for the crispy method.
  
• Warm Frying pan to medium-low heat, spray with non-stick spray.
• Put flour tortilla unfolded into pan, put a little bed of cheese down on one side, add potato mixture to same side, and then top with a little more cheese.
• When the cheese begins to melt, fold the tortilla over. It should seal itself with the cheese as its glue.
• Flip the folded tortilla one more time so the top half gets another round on the bottom.
• Remove from pan, repeat for as many quesadillas as you want to make.
• Serve with some sour cream, guacamole, or even some ketchup, if you like it that way.

Easy Cheezy Faux BBQ Cheeseburger Pizza

At a Glance

• Feeds 3-4 people
• Difficulty: Medium
• Time: 25-30 minutes

Ingredients

• Pizza Crust (pillsbury works well)
  
• 8oz (1 package) grated cheddar cheese
  
• 1 small onion (diced, sliced, chopped whatever you want)
  
• 1 package vege Crumble by Morning Star (or some version of soy burger crumble)
  
• 2 tsp sausage seasoning
• 1 packet McCormick's Grill Mates Hamburger Seasoning (meatloaf seasoning can substitute if you can't find the hamburger flavor)
  
• Sweet Barbeque Sauce (this will be your base, so enough to cover base of pizza crust)
• 2 tbsp Ketchup
  
• OPTIONAL: Bacos, Fake Bacon Bits, peppers (but dont put so much on that it takes away from the burger-like taste)
  
• OPTIONAL: left overs from sloppy no's or faux meatloaf work well on this meal
  

Method

• Preheat oven to temperature for pizza dough to be cooked
  
• Take pizza dough, roll it out on cutting board with flour or corn meal to keep it from sticking
• Put burger crumble in microwave for a couple of minutes to defrost. You don't want to cook it much at all, as this will happen in the oven. Just enough so that you can separate it and it is not frozen at all anymore.
• Combine ketchup, spices and burger crumble, then microwave for 1 minute.
• Put as much BBQ sauce as you want on your base of the pizza. Remember, more BBQ sauce means more hot liquid when you bite into the slice, so be careful how much you pile on there. Try putting some on the outside of the crust too, so some cheese will stick to it and make it all delicious.
• Put thin covering of cheddar cheese on the pizza base. Yes...put the cheese on first.
• Put burger crumble mixture onto pizza base...as much as you want.
• Put onions onto pizza
• Cover with thin sprinkling (or as much as you want) of cheddar cheese. The less you put on, the better the underneath will cook in the oven. IE: dont put so much cheese on that the cheese burns before the crumble and top of the pizza base cooks properly.
• Put pizza(s) in oven and cook according to instructions for crust.