Quick Dinner: Soup and Sandwich.

Hot homemade tomato soup with garlic and basil. Yum.


Leftover "crab" cake sandwich on Ezekiel toast. Double yum.


Quick Tomato Soup

1 14oz. can stewed tomatoes with juice, blended until smooth
1 very small onion, minced (about 1/2 cup)
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 TB olive oil
2 TB fresh basil, chopped
2 TB soy sauce
2 TB tomato paste
1 TB nutritional yeast
1 1/2 cup plain rice milk (I use Trader Joe's Enriched Original Rice Drink)
salt and pepper to taste.

In a small pot, saute onion and garlic in olive oil until soft. Add blended can of tomatoes, basil, tomato paste and soy sauce. Stir to break up paste and bring to a boil. Slowly add in rice milk. Add nutritional yeast and lower heat to simmer for 10 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste. Before serving drizzle with basil infused olive oil.

Mock Crab Cake Wrap, Cauliflower White Bean Dip

Yesterday's "crab" cakes made beautiful wraps for lunch today.


Also on the lunch menu: cauliflower white bean dip. This was adapted from the "Lower Fat Cauliflower Hummus" recipe from Veganomicon. I didn't have any chickpeas so I used white beans as a nice and creamy substitute.

Mock Crab Cakes, Oven Baked Risotto and Steamed Spinach

This was fabulous! I had some tofu that I needed to use up and for some reason I wanted to make "crab" cakes. I've never had a real crab cake before because in my omni days I was never a fan of seafood. It doesn't matter because these were so delicious. I got the recipe from vegweb here. I did a few things differently by making my own "Old Bay" spice blend, adding a bit of spelt flour to the tofu mixture to bind it better and dusting the cakes with farina before baking. They came out crisp on the outside and tender on the inside. I served it with homemade remoulade sauce (Tyler Florence recipe using eggless mayo and omitting anchovies), a beautiful oven baked risotto and steamed spinach with lemon. The risotto was perfectly creamy and so comforting. It was a perfect side dish to the crab cakes.


Inside shot.