Grilled Asparagus Sandwiches

This recipe takes some previous preparation if you use the cheese substitute we did. It is from The Ultimate Uncheese Cookbook", and it is great for melting on sandwiches. It makes a great grilled cheese.

Grilled Asparagus Sandwiches

Ingredients:

• 2-4 slices Colby Cheeze from The Ultimate Uncheese Cookbook"
  
• 6 stalks asparagus, cleaned and sliced
  
• 4 slices bread
  
• Earth Balance spread (optional)

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 400
   
2. Place asparagus on a baking pan.
   
3. Drizzle a little olive oil on it and bake for 8.
   
4. Spread Earth Balance on the outside of your bread if you want.
   
5. On inside of sandwhich, place cheeze slices, then asparagus, then cover with butter side out.
   
6. Grill until gooey.

Great Mid-Week Meals

I didn't plan anything this week because we were trying to go through what is in our pantry and freezer.


Yesterday's Dinner:

• Leftover Lentil patties
  
• WF Potatoes O'Brien mixed with rice milk and Earth's Balance to make mashed potatoes
  
• Frozen peas

Tonight's Dinner:
Today I went to pick up some bread and came across some great looking asparagus, and we made grilled asparagus sandwiches with tater tots.

Rob's Mega-Savory Happy Fun Stuffing

My husband named this recipe, so if you think it's weird, talk to him. Anyway, this stuffing is a vegan type of boxed stuffing (like Stove Top). There is no baking required for it, so it's super fast to make.

Ingredients:

• 11-12 cups stale bread, torn into pieces (We used Trader Joe's French Baugette)
  
• 1 onion, chopped
  
• 4 cloves garlic
  
• 4 stalks celery
  
• 2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  
• 1 - 1.5 cups vegetable broth
  
• 1 Tbsp poultry seasoning
  
• 1 Tbsp parsley
  
• 1 Tbsp Bragg's

Directions:

1. Sauté onions and garlic until soft.
   
2. Add celery and cook for 2-3 minutes longer.
   
3. Add all the spices and vegetable broth, and bring to a boil.
   
4. Take pot off heat and add bread pieces.
   
5. Mix until all bread is moistened and let stand for 5 minutes.

Literary Vegan Musings

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”- Alice Walker

"But for the sake of some little mouthful of meat, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy." - Seneca, Roman philosopher

"No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does." - Henry David Thoreau

I just discovered that a few people whose work I really admire were vegetarians.
Leonardo da Vinci
Albert Einstein
Ben Franklin
Bob Marley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly
Percey Bysshe Shelley
Henry David Thoreau
Vincent Van Gogh
HG Wells

Weird Al Yankovic is a vegan, and I wonder if that was before or after the "Eat It" video.