first up: grilled cheeze. a few weeks ago the voracious vegan had posted her recipe for some scrumptious looking grilled cheeze sammies! i printed out the recipe, but it was soon buried throughout the weeks. i found it last weekend when go’n through my stack of recipe awesomenesses and decided our lives needed a good grilled cheeze sammie. hooray! and what a goooooood grilled cheeze sammie it was! i had my sammie on 2 slices of the foods for life brown rice bread, and dan enjoyed his on some ezekiel sprouted bread we've had in the freezer forever. we found the pickled jalapenos to be a bit overwhelming, so next time we make these we’re gonna use a fresh one or just omit them entirely. our jalapenos have been open for a while and are pretty darn strong in their pickled juices – so they overwhelmed the cheeze sauce a bit. jerks! i think we're gonna also add in some ground cashews for even more cheezy, nutty goodness the next time we make these delicious sammies again. you better believe we’ll be making these grilled cheeze sammies again and again and again! they’re easy peasy to make, the cheeziest, and absolutely awesome! 
wednesday night we got home late after a tough workout. no worries though, we whipped up a pasta sauce lickity split; one inspired by miss v.! she had posted her recipe for creamy cashew tomato sauce and i knew it was something we had to make! pasta is dan’s absolute fav (we used brown rice pasta)
, and i’m a huge red sauce fan – especially when you add the word creamy in there. mmmmmmm! we ended up tweaking miss v.’s recipe a bit, as we had less raw cashews than i thought, and some csa tomatoes that really needed to be used up. our adjustments: we didn't have soy milk powder so instead we used a splash of plain hemp milk, we used 6 roma tomatoes, and just ¼ a cup of raw ‘n soaked cashews. i blended the cashews in the food processor with ¼ a cup of water to make them even more creamy. we chopped up the tomatoes and sauteed them with some onion (the onion we had was starting to look sad and needed to be made into something yummy as well) and the twice the amount of garlic (super garlicky is our style!) before we tossed ‘em in the food processor with the blended raw cashews. dan & i went nuts with the basil and added in about 20 fresh leaves and about a tbsp of fresh oregano from our garden as well. since we didn’t have tomato paste we omitted the water (and braggs) because our sauce has plenty of water from the extra tomatoes, although it cooked off quickly. i believe dan claimed this to be the best pasta sauce to date, miss v.! we cannot thank you enough for the glorious recipe! oh yeah, along with our cashew ‘n creamy sauce we added in a little roasted eggplant and summer squash as the csa didn’t have any broccoli last week. i wish we hadn’t eaten all the pasta last night – because leftovers for lunch today would have rocked my world! this means we’ll be making miss v.’s pasta sauce again super soon! yay!
csa: corn, green beans, tomatoes
local: garlic
garden: oregano, basil
18 comments:
Mmmmm I love a good grilled cheese sandwich.
those cheesy sammies look soooo comforting! and i'm glad the pasta sauce delivered! i love those creamy reds as well. thanks for sharing all your fresh alternatives! i'll be over for dinner soon!
Good timing...I had a killer craving for grilled cheeze and tomato soup today :) YUM YUM!
Those sandwiches look major! I've been in a big sandwich mood myself lately and those look fab!
And I love cashew paste in things: its one of the best things I've learned since being vegan- how to turn nuts into creamy deliciousness!
Mmmm, I lave creamy pasta sauces with all kinds of nuts!
Thank you soooo much for the reminder that I need to make this sandwich. I saw VV's post too, and printed it out, but it got buried. Boo! Now I'll remember to make this. I've got a bag full of fresh jalepenos that need usin' and I think I'd choose fresh over pickled too.
I love a creamy marinara too. You're making me hungry!!
Why do you need cheese when you got cashew nuts,, right?!!! Love the sound of both of these recipes and as you have a track record of recommending recipes my kids just love I think I may well be perusing these recipes... !
Your pasta sounds yummy! I'm a sucker for red sauce too. I grew up eating a lot of Italian food and I still get the occasional craving for a good marinara.
both things look AWESOME, but the pasta especially! I absolutely love creamy red sauces. will try that soon. YUM!
I also feel you on the quick & easy eats. when I get home from work+workouts, it's 7pm or later so I like a nice big salad or something that takes less than 20 minutes. the truth is I'm too lazy to clean up, so I'd rather eat leftovers :)
A good grilled cheese?! Is it possible! I'm going to have to check out that recipe post haste!
The tomato cashew pasta looks delicious and creamy - amazing how cashews or other nuts can make such good sauces. And you can never go wrong with vegan grilled cheese!
ooh those sammies look great. I did laugh at you calling the jalapenos jerks!! hahaha.
the pasta looks great too, I love a good creamy tomato sauce as well.
Oh yum! I can't choose which to drool over first!
You know, I bookmakred both of those recipes! I love how our palettes think alike! Have an excellent weekend sweet Jessy!
That pasta looks super yummy! And I definitely need to try the grilled cheez.
I made your eggplant curry the other day, and it turned out super delicious! I loved it.
Yum--thanks for reminding me of grilled cheeze--haven't had one of those in AGES. And that pasta sauce does sound terrific with the added eggplant. Hope you have a great weekend!
YAY! I'm so glad you tried my grilled cheese sandwiches, they are one of my favorite things. Salty and crispy on the outside and ooey gooey spicy cheeziness on the inside! I love your idea about putting ground cashews in there, that would really up the cheeze factor.
Wow! That is a great looking plate of pasta. Looks like your week of busy eats was super tasty!
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