Vegan Adventures: 15 Bean Burrito

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I have to admit living on St John I have far teetered off of my vegan lifestyle with little access to fresh vegetables, and cooking at home on a budget with a shelf full of beans hand delivered by Ivan’s Mom. 

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What ingredients you’ll need:

Flour tortillas, 1 avocado, 1 can of tomatoes, (or 3 chopped roma tomatoes, 1/2 yellow onion, 5 cloves of garlic and a bag of 15 types of beans, salt+pepper.  

Step One:

Fill a large pot with salted water, then add beans cover the pot, stir occasionally on medium heat. Allow the beans to cook until they are tender this may take 2-3 hours. If you notice the water evaporate low, add hot water (microwaved or stove heated) adding cold water will shock the beans.

Step Two:

Prepare the flavor, chop your onion, garlic, and tomatoes.

Add olive oil to a large pan, saute onions and garlic then add tomatoes and cooked beans. Stir and salt to taste.

Step Three:

Slice up an avocado and add your delicious beans to the tortilla. Roll burrito, and eat. YUM. 

Vegan Adventures :: Tofu Manicotti

It has been exactly 50 days since I last ate cheese, dairy or any animal products. At this point I feel like I’ve gone so far I can’t imagine eating any of those things bleeeeh (no offense carnivores:) I do however enjoy myself some yummy plant based, mock cheese that that tastes even better than dairy cheese and doesn’t have all that gross grease ick?) Daiya Mozzeralla “Cheese”  does is for me, their website reads: “A revolutionary new dairy-free vegan product” - is it ever!! After finding it in our local grocery store I decided to play my hand at the vegan version of one of my favorite Italian dishes using this recipe.

Vegan Adventures :: Soyrizo Burrito

One late night we went on an adventure to the only store open in Phoenix at 2am (Walmart - womp womp) to see what we could find to eat…we crafted something amazing and I’m now addicted and its soooo easy to throw together in 10 minutes flat. 

Shopping List:

  • Flour Tortillas
  • Soy Chorizo (Trader Joe’s kind is the best)
  • Pinto Beans (we cheated and grabbed chipotle smoked pintos in a can - so good!) 
  • Almond Cheddar Cheese (optional goodness.)
  • Vegan Aoeli
  • 1 Medium Tomato

Instructions: 

1. Heat pinto beans in a small pot heat soyrizo in a pan, if you are using the Trader Joe’s kind there is really no need for additional seasoning its already perfect!

2. Warm the flour tortilla(s) on a comal or big pan if you don’t have one.

3. Combination time, lay the warm tortilla flat and just like they do at Chipotle, add a few good spoon fulls of pinto beans, soyrizo, toss on some diced tomatoes(or salsa if you have it would be amazing.) Spread a tablespoon of Aoeli on the tortilla, sprinkle on a little of that graded almond cheese, and roll. 

Vegan Adventures :: Mexican Hot Chocolate Snickerdoodles

Hooray for my first successful batch of vegan cookies - I didn’t burn them and they taste delicious! I followed this recipe right (here). 

Be Vegan For 30 Days..or more.

A few weeks back while I was somewhere along the Coast of Maine Ernesto called me with the news, that he was going vegan for a while and getting really militant about being healthy. Sort of a dream come true to me, considering I’ve been on/off in attempt of losing more than a few extra pounds for far too long. So here goes I am on day 17 of an all Vegan diet, not doing it for the animals (selfishly doing it for myself, and happen to be saving cows+pigs+fish daily). 

We have become regulars at Green, an amazing vegan restaurant that recently opened in Phoenix. Its kind of embarrassing how much we go, and I’m only 2 days from being Mayer on four square, but one of the most amazing salads of my life for only $6 you can’t beat that!!

Also exciting Green will be serving a special vegan thanksgiving dinner, I’m strongly considering it - after all they have proven to make anything they touch delicious. 

Fresh+amazing+natural juices, my favorite combo: Berry Juice+Berry Lemonade.

My BBQ “faux pork” salad. Amazing.

His Buffalo “faux chicken” sandwich & Thyme Fries, vegan ketchup and ranch (really it exists!)

Here is a short list of other amazing vegan friendly spots in Phoenix, Arizona: