Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Veggie Pot Pie

I haven't been crafting much over the past few weeks.  Work has kept me busy and with the heat we have been experiencing, well it's been to hot to craft!  Today was my first day of vacation and I decided to do some cooking.  Again, because of work, I'm usually to tired to cook anything extensive, but today I got the cooking bug and made two things.  First I made Vegan Brownies.  When people hear "Vegan" they automatically think "ewwww".  All it means is that there are no animal products in the food!  No eggs, no dairy.  That's it.  Doesn't mean it's loaded with tofu or some freaky health food product, it's a normal everyday brownie that has no eggs or milk in the batter!  They came out fantastic and I didn't think to take a picture of them.  The recipe is here though: Vegan Brownies.

In addition to the brownies, I decided to make a Veggie Pot Pie.  Now I have never made anything like this!  And the one time in the past I tried to make a pie crust, it was so crumbly and gross I gave up.  This time I had some pretty good success overall!  The crust came out wonderfully, though I didn't have enough to cover the whole pie.  Next time I'm going to double the crust recipe.  It was delicious though, and the filling was so good!  I messed up and read the salt as 1 tablespoon, instead of the 1 teaspoon, so the filling was very salty, but other then that it was fantastic.  Also, the filling recipe calls for 2 potatoes...I used two sweet potatoes, and the recipe called for soy sauce and instead I used Brigg's Amino Acids, which tastes exactly like soy sauce.  Really delicious and good for you too.  The pot pie was a huge success!  Everyone wants me to make it again and I plan on doing just that, except next time I will make more crust and use less salt!  Here is the recipe for the crust and for the veggie pot pie:  Crust and Veggie Pot Pie  Also, here is a picture of my finished pie: