🍪 Cookies 🍪

Cookies can get you into a festive spirit or liven the mood. They can be great as cute gifts or a nice treat to yourself. Here are two cookies recipes that we’ve tried and love. And that’s the way the cookies crumble!

>1 https://www.noracooks.com/vegan-chocolate-crinkle-cookies/

Krista found this recipe on Pinterest and created cookies that were a hit!

>2 https://lovingitvegan.com/the-easiest-vegan-sugar-cookies/

Crystal baked up these very cute sugar cookies and these cookies can be easily customizable to different shapes. This can be a great recipe to make with your friends and family.

>3 https://thevietvegan.com/vegan-snickerdoodles/

Try these snickerdoodles! Krista made some and they‘re adorable

*you can also halve the amount of butter if you wish

🍝 Easy Pasta 🍝

Hey guys! Hope you guys are doing well! A lot of people have been brushing up on their cooking skills while being stuck at home and this is a really easy beginner recipe if you want to try!

time: 30 mins

serves: 4-5

ingredients:

-12 oz pasta

-water

-1/2 tablespoon oil

-1 teaspoon salt

-onions, cilantros, assorted vegetables

-2 tablespoons garlic

-4 tablespoons nutritional yeast

-1 to 2 teaspoons of sugar

-1 cup of milk (we used almond)

optional but encouraged:

-3 teaspoons slap ya mama

-1/2 teaspoon Cajun spice

-dash of mushroom seasoning

1) on high heat boil 8 cups of water

2) once boiling, add pasta, oil and salt and turn down to medium heat

3) cook until soft, around 10 mins (not too soft though, you don’t want it to fall apart)

4) prepare the veggies by cutting

5) check the noodles by trying to break the pasta and try to taste for texture

6) drain pasta

7) use same pot and put garlic and onion and a teaspoon of oil to sauté in the pot

8) put in the vegetables into the pot and soften

9) add slap ya mama, yeast, sugar, spice, and milk to the pot

10) add pasta after everything is evenly combined and then close the lid to cook a little more and soften slightly

11) ready to serve!

*mushroom seasoning can be found at asian grocery stores

*this recipe is great for clearing your fridge of veggies and is super customizable for your preferred tastes

Miso Soup

It‘a December and that should mean it’s cold right? Well it’s Houston so it’s still muggy, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy a nice cozy soup. Settle down with this classic favorite from Japanese cuisine. Miso soup!!!

time: 30 mins

serves: 5-6 (but you’ll definitely want seconds!)

ingredients:

-2 tablespoons dried seaweed (Or more of you prefer)

-2 tablespoons miso paste

-4 cups of water

-14 oz soft tofu* (one package) -1 teaspoon salt (or more to taste)

optional but encouraged:

-1 tablespoon mushroom seasoning

1) cook down the seaweed first (boil) 5 mins to reduce odor and then drain out the seaweed

2) then pour the water into the now empty pot and heat the water over medium heat and stir while adding the miso paste in

3) cut the tofu into cubes but don’t add it in the water yet*

4) add the salt into the water along with the mushroom seasoning

5) then add into the seaweed and cook for approx 15 mins until the seaweed is tender

6) add tofu into the pot

7) ready to serve!

*we used the Housefood tofu brand with a 2/6 firmness level but you can use any kind! *you can cube the tofu within the package to reduce using a cutting board