La Belle Vie Holistic Living

When I was younger I loved quiche. Loved it! And it was one of the dishes I mastered and loved to make as a kid as well (the others being chocolate chip cookies and meringues). When I became vegan, I wasn't quite ready to give up on quiches, and trying to make one was actually one of the first vegan things I tried. I had an excellent recipe in university, particularly the one time that I mixed up the ingredients and put all the oil that was meant for the crust in the filling - yum! Sadly though, I misplaced the recipe and haven't been able to find it since. We were originally supposed to have one of his exciting salads for dinner. But, he went out and I ate all the lettuce (it's not my fault! You can't leave me alone with a head of lettuce! It's one of my many weaknesses!)...So, I had to find something else I could make for dinner, fast. Luckily, he had also bought medium firm silken tofu instead of our usual extra firm tofu (pffft! what a tofu amateur!). What el...

I heart potatoes. In every form. (Well except cold potato salad dressed in mayonnaise...because that's just wrong). I particularly like fries. I slice my potatoes thinly (WAY too lazy to do the fry shape...lazy with the cutting, impatient with the waiting to cook), toss with olive oil, cayenne and sea salt (or whatever herbs I have around...usually just cayenne and sea salt...), lay out on a cookie sheet and cook at 425 degrees for however long it takes. Usually takes 25 minutes. Sometimes I'm too impatient for even that. Particularly after my last attempt, during which, being so super excited to be making them again after a number of years, I made way way too many, which meant they didn't cook properly and a bunch burned (I got impatient and tossed them into the broiler. Then did it again. aziness trumps learning from my mistakes); they were still delicious. But yes, back to the impatience of waiting for fries to cook...I decided to try an even quicker way!!!: 1 Swe...