Vega: part of a balanced breakfast

This morning I woke up with a vengeance. Put my on greek godess dress at the early hour of 9:06, started the laundry, and whipped out the Betty Crocker (cookbook this time, not icing). As far as baking goes, most recipes transfer well from regular to gluten-free-vegan with simple substitution. For this mornings pancakes I used a g-free flour master mix, apple sauce instead of oil, soymilk instead of milk and some egg replacer for the egg. Easy enough. G-free flour isnt as nice to cook with as regular so I added a couple more tablespoons of soymilk and apple sauce then Betty originally suggested. Because of the xantham gum already present in the master flour mix, the replacer was probably not necessary as the flour is pretty adhesive already. Mix it up, slop some of that goop in the fry pan and voila, out turns some fairly decent pancakes.

Now for the protein.

With the boyfriend helping me house sit my parents place for the week, all bacon in the area was gone by day three. To bad for him but luckily for me left over agedashi (deep fried) tofu isn't as in demand as slices of pork sides. Boiled that tofu up (makes it nice and warm and gets ride of some of the oils), sliced it and doused it with the worlds greatest salad dressing - Wineland Dressings "Roast garlic balsamic vinaigrette. It's from the Okanagan valley in BC and I put it on almost every savory dish I eat these days. For my animal eating counter part I made my signature egg - fried with melted havarti (throw a lid over the egg and cheese for the last 30 secs and the havarti melts in to a beautiful blanket of lactose).

Lastly, the VEGA. Two scoops of this protein powder, a handful each of frozen blueberries, raspberries and ice, topped with a 1/2 cup ish of whatever veggie/fruit juice v8 blend is in the fridge and a splash of soymilk. Now, most vegans don't eat honey and that's cool but at my parents local farmers market there is some very nice beekeepers who make very nice honey and I feel the bees are doin fine so I added two tablespoons of lemon flavored honey right before blending all of the above. Should your bonnet get in a buzz about honey some raw sugar and a dash of lemon juice would do nicely as well. This was my first time using any VEGA product and it was honestly one of the best smoothies I've ever had. The Hemp protein in the vega mix gives the smoothie a really raw, kind of grassy taste that I love. Even the non Vegan, meat eating man's man sitting beside me liked it. Should mother nature not be your favorite morning taste, simply add just one scoop of powder and you'll still get a balanced and nutritious smoothie.

I am now healthy, not hungry, and off to fold the laundry and other such domestic things.