Day 12

Yesterday was quite a yummy day. For dinner I made the vegan sloppy joes from Vegan Girl's Guide to Life. SO GOOD! Then I made vegan brownies. I was going to make vegan caramel sauce for them, but I was too lazy.

1 tbsp olive oil
1 small onion, sliced
3 cloves of minced garlic, or about 1/4 tsp garlic powder
8 oz tempeh, crumbled
1 green bell pepper, sliced in strips
2 tbsp mild chile powder
1 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp salt
1 can tomato sauce
1 tbsp brown sugar
1 tbsp yellow mustard
1/4 tsp liquid smoke (optional, but it's good!)

Preheat a skillet with olive oil over medium heat, add onion and saute for 5 minutes until translucent.  Add the garlic and crumbled tempeh and saute for 3-5 minutes until lightly browned. Add the bell pepper allowing it to soften for about 3 minutes, then add the chile powder, cumin, and salt, stirring to coat. Stir in the tomato sauce, brown sugar, mustard and liquid smoke. Turn down the heat to medim-low and let simmer for about 10 minutes, allowing the sauce to coat everything. Serve hot on whole wheat hamburger buns and enjoy! Use napkins. They're messy. Hence the title. Duh.

 Wasn't planning on making the brownies, but they sounded really good. And after making non-vegan brownies for my friend (very tempting), I wanted to make vegan ones for me! They were quite tasty. Next time I'm going to add the caramel sauce to make it a bit sweeter.

 Goes best with a cold glass of almond milk!

2 cups all purpose flour
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 cup water
1 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla

Preheat the oven to 350 and grease a 9 x 13 pan. In a medium bowl  stir together the ingredients until well blended. Pour into pan and bake for 25-30 minutes. Serve with a glass of almond milk :)

These were my breakfast. I'm going to have another one now. See ya!