Easy Lemonade

Ingredients:

• 4 lemons
• 7 tbsp sugar
• 5 cups water

Directions:

Mix all ingredients. If you want to be fancy, grate some of the lemon peel into the drink.

Easy Vegan Chocolate Cheesecake Pie

Ingredients:

• 1 package silken tofu
• 1 12 oz. package vegan chocolate chips
• 1 8 oz. tub vegan cream cheese
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoon maple syrup
• 1 vegan graham cracker pie crust

Directions:
In blender, blend tofu until smooth.

In medium bowl, combine sugar and cream cheese and 2 tbsp of the smoothed tofu and beat using an electric mixer until smooth. Add this mixture to blender. Blend again until smooth.

Melt chocolate chips in double boiler or microwave. Add melted chips to blender and blend until chocolate is mixed (this may require some stirring). After this is well blended, add maple syrup and blend for 30 seconds.

Pour mixture into pie crust until full, refrigerate until stiff.

Easy Vegan Banana Bread

Ingredients:

• 6 or 7 very ripe bananas
• 1 1/8 cups maple syrup
• 1/3 cup canola oil
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 3 cups whole-wheat pastry flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)

Directions:
Mix & mash the bananas, maple syrup, canola oil, and vanilla extract.

Sift together the pastry flour, baking soda, and salt. If you’re adding nuts, mix them in.

Blend the two mixtures and divide into 2 small lightly oiled loaf pans. Bake at 350 F for 40 minutes, or until center is set.

Easy Vegan Pizza Crust

Ingredients:

• 3 cups whole wheat pastry flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 12 oz. beer (you can get by with club soda)
• Spices (optional: basil, oregano, onion, garlic, salt, sugar, etc)

Directions:

Combine all ingredients. Once you have your dough flatten it to make your pizza crust. The dough doesn’t have to rise, and if it’s too sticky to work (and it probably will be) then sprinkle flour on it. Adding flour won’t hurt anything. You can add quite a bit more flour if need be.

Top with sauce and toppings and bake for 20-25 minutes @ 400 F. Eat!

FYI, the 3 cups of flour can be 3 cups of whole wheat pastry flour, or 2 cups unbleached all purpose flour and 1 cup whole wheat flour, or whatever you have on hand. The texture and flavor of the dough changes with the kind of flour, beer, and spices you add. Also, you can take your beer out of the fringe to let it warm up a little as you get your other ingredients ready...remember, an ice-cold beer will mean handling ice-cold dough with your hands.