Quinoa Instapot Stew (Vegan, GF, WFBP)

You don't have to add all of these ingredients.   Feel free to omit for substitute.  Or change the portions, but you probably will have to limit how much you increase the portions as it uses and instapot. 

Ingredients

3/4 cup quiona

3/4 cup water

28 oz can diced tomato

14 oz can corn

1 medium size onion chopped

2 large stalks of green onion chopped

1 red banana pepper* or 1/2 red bell pepper chopped or sliced in rings

1 green bell pepper

About 10 beet leaves or other large leafy green leaves such as kale chopped

Greens from about 2 carrots (can be omitted if you can't obtain these)

1 large or 2 small potatoes chopped 

1 to 3 tsp chili powder

1 tsp salt

Using stew setting combine all ingredients in an instapot.   

*If you don't grow banana peppers yourself, a red banana pepper might be very difficult to find in a store.   

Cinnamon Apple Bread

Easy WFPB Pumpkin Cookies
Lime Flavored Rice
Mint Salad (WFPB)
No Grate Potato Latkes
No Knead Basic Bagels

Paprika Hummus

Tomato stew with carrot tops
Tofu with Green Onions
Vegan Cheese and Banana Pepper Bread
Veggie Crumbles Lettuce Wraps

                                      

No Grate Potato Latkes (vegan, gf)

Ingredients 

6 potatoes (whole is fine)

2 onions (purple onions work especially nicely) thinly sliced

1/4 cup fresh dill finely chopped

Either about 1/2 cup earth balance plus 1/2 tsp salt or 1/2 cup oil +2 tsp salt (possibly more or less of these ingredients based on taste or wanting to limit these).

Cook the potatoes by boiling them.  This works best my using a large soup pot and covering the potatoes completely with water and bring them to a boil on high.   Than lower heat to about 3-5 and cover with a lid and cook for about one hour.   Make sure potatoes are soft enough to mash.   

While the potatoes are cooking, you want to start your onions.  A frying/stir fry pan is good for this.    You will use some of the oil for the onions, about 3 TBS is recommended for best flavor, but you can use less.   Heat the oil and then add the onions over medium high heat, about 6.   Cook for about 10 minutes on this higher heat.   Then lower the heat to about 2 and cook for about 45 minutes.  

Combine the potatoes, onion and fresh dill.   If using oil, just add the salt.  If you using Earth Balance add a few TBS to the mixture.   Mash with a potatoes masher and stir with a spoon until everything is mixed together evenly.      

If you like you can reuse the frying/stir-fry pan from earlier, as long as nothing burnt in it.   Put the pan on medium heat about 5 and heat the oil.   Meanwhile make flat pancakes out of the mixture. Place these in the pan.   Cook on each side for about 5 minutes.  You will probably have to repeat this step several times to get through all the pancakes.   Add oil if the pan looks even close to being dry.    

This recipe can be made in larger or smaller quantities.   

Cinnamon Apple Bread

Easy WFPB Pumpkin Cookies
Lime Flavored Rice
Mint Salad (WFPB)
No Knead Basic Bagels

Paprika Hummus

Tomato stew with carrot tops
Tofu with Green Onions
Vegan Cheese and Banana Pepper Bread
Veggie Crumbles Lettuce Wraps

                                      

Ten #bansuv Twitter Users to Follow

Interested in the rising topic of banning SUVs.   Here are ten Twitter accounts worth following:

Act Urgently! Just found this account very recently and it has great tweets and retweets.  And yes, we have no choice but to act urgently things are going bad fast. 

Angie Schmitt Calls the account the SUV anti-stan account.   She is currently working on writing a book about the pedestrian safety crisis.   Tweeting about safe streets (and other topics) from Ohio. 

Betsy Gamrat - What is particularly impressive is that Betsy is tweeting us not from a major city, but from New Hampshire.    Lots of great anti-suv tweets and takes on the automobile makers. 

CJ Wojo Coming to US from NY, if you like dogs, banning SUVs and dogs that want to ban SUVs than following CJ is a must. 

Courtney Babb Lecturer in urban planning coming to us from Perth in Australia.    Another account full of great anti-suv and pro-people tweets and retweets. 

Dublin Velo 2019 As I was looking for number 10, I went to my Twitter to find I had just been followed by this account and upon looking at it I love it!   Granted we don't think Mars is far enough for Elon Musk.  After all they are always discovering new far away dwarf planets.

Lloydalter  Has written a number of good quality anti-suv articles for Treehugger.com.  Here is one of his more recent articles on this subject.

Richard Campbell Representing Canada (Vancouver) we admire Richard's persistence and frequent use of the #bansuv hashtag. 

Sam Also representing a diversity of places Sam comes to us from Minneapolis.   Accounts features a whole variety of great tweets about cars, suvs, and other topics. 

Travis R. Eby Tweeting from NYC Perhaps, not a ban SUV account so much as a ban all cars account (which I also agree with).   Good strong posts. 


I realize there are many more excellent #bansuv Twitter accounts out there and hope to include more of you in the future.  As some of you may have noticed I also tried to include people from a variety of places.   I also apologize for those of you not on the list.    If you would like to be included in a future list please comment below or on the social media post where this has been tweeted and I will look into your account and the possibility of including it in a future list.  And don't forget the #bansuvs tag!

                                   

A few of my books above!  Buying my books is a great way to support this blog and hopefully even better future projects to create real Vision Zero.   

Vegan cheese and banana pepper bread

Ingredients:

1.5 cups warm water

1 packet yeast

3 Tablespoons flax seed

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 package Daiya Vegan Cheese

2 fresh banana peppers thinly sliced

Somewhere between 3-7 cups flour-getting the texture right is more important than trying to measure an exact amount. 
Enough Earth Balance or oil to grease the pan.    

1. Combine the water and yeast.  Stir and then allow to sit for a few minutes.   

2. Add the flax seed, salt, vegan cheese and banana peppers and stir.  

3.  Add flour one cup at a time and possibly slower at the end until the flour can form a ball that you can almost pick up.   

4.  Allow to rise for about one hour.  Half way through preheat the oven to 375 degrees.   

5.  Give the dough a quick knead.   That being said, despite many people saying kneading is an absolute must, I have a times skipped this step and things turned out okay.   

6.  Place in an earth balanced or oiled pan.  I prefer a fitted round baking pan to help give the bread shape.  Bake bread for about 40 minutes.  Check at 30 minutes.

Cinnamon Apple Bread

Easy WFPB Pumpkin Cookies
Lime Flavored Rice
Mint Salad (WFPB)
No Knead Basic Bagels

Paprika Hummus

Tomato stew with carrot tops
Tofu with Green Onions
Veggie Crumbles Lettuce Wraps

                                      

Tofu with Green Onions

Ingredients

1 or 2 packages tofu

1 cup frozen rice

2 large stalks of green onion finely chopped

1 TBS sesame oil

1/4 cup soy sauce

Add the sesame oil and soy sauce first over medium heat (5 or 6).   Place frozen rice in the center.   Place tofu and green onions around the sides.   As the rice defrosts stir it all together.    

Cinnamon Apple Bread

Easy WFPB Pumpkin Cookies
Lime Flavored Rice
Mint Salad (WFPB)
No Knead Basic Bagels

Paprika Hummus

Tomato stew with carrot tops
Veggie Crumbles Lettuce Wraps

                                      

Mint Salad (Vegan and Oil Free)

This salad recipe is given in portions.   Make as much or as little as you like.  Portions are approximate, just estimate!    Except for the dried cranberries and lemon, I grew all the other ingredients in my indoor garden.   

One of my mint plants

10 parts romaine lettuce (cut into bite sized pieces)
3 parts fresh mint (doesn't need to be chopped)
A few pieces of chopped green onion
1 tablespoons lemon juice
About 10 dried cranberries

The salad

Wash and combine all ingredients. 

Helpful hint: Always grow mint in pots, away from other herbs as it sets runners and will take over! 




Blueberry Mint Pancakes

Cinnamon Apple Bread

Easy WFPB Pumpkin Cookies
Lime Flavored Rice
No Knead Basic Bagels

Paprika Hummus

Tomato stew with carrot tops
Veggie Crumbles Lettuce Wraps

                                      

No Knead Basic Bagels (vegan, option for WFPB)

Bagels can be problematic because store bought bagels often contain something called l-cysteine which has multiple sources which can include the hair and feathers of animals.   It also can be made from human hair which would probably make it vegan, but similar to animal hair and feathers still falls into the gross category.  It is also sometimes made from coal tar-not really something I want to be consuming either. 

Luckily it isn't as hard as you might think to  make your own and bagels often freeze well so you can make them in large batches and freeze some.   These actually come out fine without kneading.   It also doesn't require exact measuring and the recipe can be doubled, tripled, halved etc.   If you are going to double or triple you may need a very large bowl or perhaps multiple bowls.   You will also need a very large baking tray or multiple trays.   It is also helpful to have a deep spoon that is several inches deep or a basket. 

On another note the oil is not a requirement but does make the bagels a bit softer. 

Ingredients

About 2 cups warm (not hot) water

1 packet yeast

Optional: 1 Tablespoon oil

1/2 tsp salt

About 6 cups whole wheat flour, possibly as many as 8 cups

A separate 6-8 cups water (boiling)

1/4 cup baking soda
1/4 cup earth balance or parchment paper

1.  Add the yeast to the warm water and wait a few minutes.   

2.   Add the oil, then the salt, and then the flour until the dough is strong enough to hold a loose ball shape.   Let the dough rise for about one hour.   You may want to consider covering the bowl with a towel.   For those not familiar with the term rise, it basically means leave the dough alone for about an hour, preferably in a slightly warm location.   

3.   Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.   Combine the baking soda with the second set of water and boil.   Prepare a baking tray either with 1/4 cup earth balance or parchment paper.   Do not go light on the earth balance as the bagels tend to stick easily.     

4.   Divide the dough into portions and make into a snake shape.   Then combine the two ends to make a circle shape.   Make sure to leave a decent size hole as it will tighten during baking and boiling.   

5.   Be careful and consider using gloves here.   Once the water mixture is boiling place each bagel in a basket/deep spoon and lower one at a time into the solution for about 30 seconds each and then place on the baking tray.   Do not leave the bagels in for much longer than this.   

6.   Bake for about 45 minutes.   Check at around 35 minutes. 

Blueberry Mint Pancakes

Cinnamon Apple Bread

Easy WFPB Pumpkin Cookies
Lime Flavored Rice

Paprika Hummus

Tomato stew with carrot tops
Veggie Crumbles Lettuce Wraps