I once thought about opening a soup, salad, and sandwich shop and only serving vegan food there, but never once using the term vegan in the menu or in advertising or anything. If anything, I would call it “gourmet” and just expound upon how great it is to eat locally produced, healthy, “homecooked” foods! It’s not that hard to make vegan taste “good” either (another common misperception); I’ve made delicious vegan pizzas, sandwiches, nachos, and all kinds of yummy things with soy and rice cheeses.

However:

Vegan “cheese” is an abomination before the Lord. And me. It is disgusting.

During my periods of veganism I substituted nuts, nut butters and avocados. I did not pretend they were cheese. A bar of soap also looks like cheese, but tastes as much like it as…well, soy and rice “cheese.” When the Revolution comes, all who pretend to enjoy fake “cheese” will be publicly exposed as the liars they are, issued an avocado and sent to re-education camps.

Mix everything and store.

Pancake: combine about 3/4 c mix with 1 T veg oil and enough water to make a thick batter. Preheat skillet and add about 1 T oil, when very hot pour on batter. Cook, flip, cook, eat with maple syrup.

Variation: add semisweet chocolate chips to batter.

Note: if buying flour in bags rather than bulk (NY stores don’t compare with SF in the bulk department) get Arrowhead Mills flour. Do not, under any circumstances, use “Bob’s Red Mill” buckwheat flour, which tastes like dirt.

Air. Ha!

Multi-Grain Quick Bread and Waffle Batter

2 Cups Light Buckwheat Flour.
! Cup Roasted Yellow Corn Meal.
1 Cup Whole Wheat Flour.
1/2 Cup Light or Dark Brown (or even White) Sugar.
2 Teaspoon Baking Soda.
2 Teaspoon Cream of Tartar.
1 Teaspoon Salt (optional).

Mix all of the dry ingredients together.

1 Cup Sour Cream
1 1/2 to 2 Cup Organic Milk.
1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract.
1/2 Cup Natural Peanut Butter (the kind whose ingredients is just peanuts and salt).
3 Whipped Egg Whites.
3 Egg Yokes and 3 Tablespoons Olive Oil.

Adjust the amount of milk for either quick bread or waffle batter.
2 Cups of Organic Milk for Quick Bread.
1 1/2 Cup of Organic Milk for Multi-Grain Waffle Batter.

Grease 8 by 9 inch Pyrex Dish with 2 Tablespoons of Olive Oil or Olive Oil Spread that has been dusted with some of the Unbleached White Flour. Bake at 375 Degrees for 30 minutes or until the surface cracks, and toothpick or knife comes out of the center clean.

A new recipe which I just created. The bread smells like there is chocolate in it, but there is none. The Roasted Corn Meal it is a nutty aromatic flavor which is impossible to duplicate.