Roasted Red Bell Pepper Sauce

I attempted to make a recipe called "Millet-Stuffed Chard Rolls" from the book Forks Over Knives. (If you haven't watched the Forks over Knives documentary Click Here to watch it for free!)  I couldn't find millet or chard leaves so I ended up making a romaine wrap with couscous with the roasted red bell pepper sauce.

Good thing this book tells me how to roast a pepper because I had no idea. This is how I did it and the book explains that you can place it in the oven to roast. I really enjoyed the smell of it because it reminds me of a dish my mom makes. So it took about 5-10 minutes to get the pepper looking completely charred. After it's all black you want to let it cool then peel the charred skin.

The ingredients you will need to make the roasted red pepper sauce are:
Half 12 ounce package extra firm silken tofu, drained
1 large red bell pepper, roasted and seeded
1.5 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
1 tablespoons chopped dill
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freashly ground pepper
Zest of 1 lemon (i totally forgot to add this in, but it still tasted good)

This makes about one cup of the sauce but you can double it to make two cups.

All you have to do is combine everything in a food processor, I used a blender, and puree until smooth and creamy. Super simple and easy and it tastes so good! At first it reminded me of hummus, which I love, so I had no problem with it. It's a bit spicy but not too hot.

Here's a not very good photo of how I ate the couscous "roll" it was very messy and delicious!

//Monica

gfreely November box

 Even though i didn't expect to get a sceond box i was so happy i got this one because of the brownie! Anyways this is the November 2012 gfreely box and again this is not a all vegan goodies box but i think for $19(+$5.95 shipping) it is worth it. If you wan to give gfreely a try click here!

 These four products were my favorite foods in this box. I loved the brownie, it was all chocolaty goodness. The baked lentil chips i wasn't to sure about but when i tried them they were surprisingly good and i would buy these again. I have tried the Enjoy life brand cookies and i loved them because they were vegan and i really enjoy the Seed & Fruit mix i think its a good little snack which i will definitely buy them again. There were two products that weren't vegan but my sister did enjoy eating them. Overall this box was really good and i was really excited for it so thank you gfreely!!

-Monica

Veg-It-Up food truck & BabycakesNYC cupcakes

 Today my friend and i wanted to see the levitating rock at LACMA but before we got there we saw a line of delicious food trucks waiting for us to check out and the first in line was Veg-It-Up, a vegan and vegetarian food truck. When we got there the guy was about to close the "windows"  but saw us walking up to him and offered to leave it open if we were going to buy something so we said YES of course! We weren't sure what we wanted so we asked him what he liked and he mentioned the "Chicken" Wrap.

"Chicken" wrap $6.95

 This delicious wrapped thing is the "Chicken" wrap and inside of it are onions, lettuce, peppers, tomato, and a avocado spread, you can also get it with a spicy Tabasco sauce but we didn't get it with it. This wrap was so good even without the Tabasco sauce because it was a bit spicy well i loved it even though I'm not a huge fan of peppers it all worked together and if i see this truck around again i will for sure try it out again. You can check out there website here for their prices and locations.

Carrot Cake, Vanilla

And these lovelies are from BabyCakesNYC and I'm pretty sure every vegan in LA has heard of these cupcakes because they serve vegan, gluten free, soy free, wheat free, and refined sugar free goodies so for anyone who is allergic these are perfect or for anyone period. Well we got these from the M Cafe on Melrose Ave and they only carried two of Babycakes cupcakes which were carrot cake and vanilla and two muffin tops but i don't remember what flavors they were. They were both really good and not too sweet at all but what i noticed the most about these babies was the frosting. Both frostings tasted the same but the consistency was different from any other cupcakes frosting it was kind of gum like but super smooth. The only bad thing about these were the price because it's a bit pricey, $4.50 each, but definitely something to try.

-Monica