The Ultimate Spinach Sandwich

I eat mostly vegan meals these days and miss having warm sandwiches for lunch, so I started playing around with garlic - which is my favorite. I discovered my all time comfort food sandwich! It has few ingredients and can be made in 5 minutes flat!

Ingredients:

1 bunch washed spinach
5 cloves garlic or less
2 slices bread
Vegenaise
Oil

Directions:

Warm a a little oil up in a pan on med heat while you slice up your garlic. I don't mince the garlic but rather keep them in large pieces since I love the taste of garlic!

Next place your garlic in the pan and gently fry.

Place your bread in the toaster.

Now that your garlic has been frying for about 45 seconds place your spinach in with the garlic and gently mix it around. Turn the heat down a bit and the spinach will start wilting down.

Take out your lightly toasted bread and spread your chosen mayo around, we use Vegenaise . Once the spinach is all wilted, place on the bread. Cut and serve warm!

This sandwich goes great with raw baby carrots or possibly some homemade baked fries!

Eggless "Mmmm" Muffin

This is an easy one! Everyone (well people who don't or can't eat eggs) has made one of these but I am posting anyway since it is yet another family favorite.

Ingredients:

Vegan cheese of choice

Muffins

Olive Oil

Extra firm tofu

Garlic powder

Nutritional Yeast

Tumeric

Salt 

Pepper

Veganaise

Directions:

Cut a block of tofu into 4 or 5 square thin pieces. Place on towel to drain.

Once the water is mostly gone from the tofu, lightly oil your frying pan and turn onto medium heat. Place tofu onto pan and start to fry. 

Sprinkle a bit of any or all of the nutritional yeast, garlic, turmeric, salt or pepper. Heck add some cajun seasoning if you like but just make sure you use enough so your tofu tastes like something. Fry about 3 minutes.

Turn the heat down to low and flip the tofu over and add some seasoning. If you are adding vegan cheese do it now so it can start to melt a bit. (I can't stand most vegan cheese so I skip it).

While the other side is heating up on low put your muffin in toaster to heat up. Once warm add some veganaise and place tofu on muffin. 

Most people put smart bacon or add some morning star sausage but I feel this recipe is great without adding anything else.

Orange County Veggie Sandwich

This recipe is for my favorite all time sandwich! I like this sandwich to have mushrooms, squash, zucchini and bell peppers but this recipe can be altered to use any vegetable you like! Get creative and use a leek... whatever you prefer!

Ingredients:

1lb loaf bread

2 zucchini sliced

2 squash sliced

1 bell pepper sliced

14 oz mushrooms sliced

8 oz spinach

Garlic mayo

Directions for baking:

Preheat oven to 400F.

Lightly oil your baking pan with olive oil.

Place your vegetable on baking pan and drizzle with olive oil. Cover with foil.

Bake for approximately 15 minutes or until the vegetable start to soften and remove from oven keeping the foil over the vegetable so they remain warm.

Turn off the oven and spread some of the garlic mayo on the flat, cut side of your bread loaf.

Place bread in oven for a few muinestes until the bread starts to get a bit crispy.

Remove from the oven and cut each side of the loaf to size for each person you are serving. Place the vegetables on your loaf and enjoy!

Directions for grilling:

Set your grill to high heat.

Brush vegetables with olive oil on both sides. Brush grate with oil.

Cook for about 3 minutes, turn, and cook for another 3 minutes. The peppers may take a bit longer.

Remove from grill and set aside.

Spread some of the garlic mayo on the flat, cut side of your bread loaf.

Place on the grill garlic mayo side up and cover with lid for 2 minutes until the bread is warm and slightly crispy.

Remove from grill and cut each side of the loaf to size for each person you are serving. Place the vegetables on your loaf and enjoy!

Easy Garlic Mayo

This is my favorite recipe for using on any veggie sandwich! It is so easy and requires minimal prep I made it often for lunch and occasionally for dinner. This recipe is for a 1lb loaf of bread sliced in half for sandwiches.

Ingredients:

1 head garlic
1 cup Vegenaise
1-2 tbsp lemon juice to suite your taste
Olive oil

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400F.

Cut the top part garlic head off and place in tin foil. Drizzle with olive oil and wrap up in tin foil.

Place garlic in oven and bake at 400F for approximately 45 minutes or until the garlic is soft.

Once garlic is soft remove from oven and open foil to let the garlic cool off.

Once cool enough to touch squeeze garlic cloves out of their skins and place in vegenaise. Smash the garlic and mix in remaing ingredients.

Place in the refrigerator until you are ready to use it!

Quick Style Sandwich

So, have you ever made a recipe that called for 3/4 block of firm tofu but didnt kknow what to do with the rest? Well, I have dozens of times saying oh I will use it for something but never did and it would be wasted. One day after I made my Yummy Bread Salad I saved some spinach, tofu and tomato to make a sandwich for lunch the next day. At the time I was sick and needed easy meals. All I did was pan fry my tofu and assemble my sandwich as you see below and lunch was done!

 

If you have a unseasoned piece of tofu season well and pan fry with some oil, fry a few minutes on each side, seasoning again before you flip the tofu over.