Ingredients (use vegan versions):

• silken tofu
• Vogue vegeterian soup base

Directions:

Blend tofu and instant soup base in a food processor.

Great with crudites, toast points, or tortilla chips.

Serves:

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

• dill
• miso
• tofu
• tamari
• lemon juice
• asparagus

Directions:

Puree tofu, miso, tamari, lemon juice and fresh dill in a
food processor until smooth. Cut asparagus into small
pieces and cook in boiling water until fork tender. Add
cooked asparagus pieces to food processor and blend with
the tofu mixture.

It does not need to be cooked any further…but if you want
to…

You can put this in small souflet dishes (or one big
souflet dish) and bake it. It will rise slightly. Garnish
with a pretty sprig of dill.

or, use it as a dill sauce much as you would use hollandais
sauce.

Serves:

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

• 8oz regular soft tofu (patted as dry as possible)
• 2 tablespoon of vinegar (rice or cider)
• 1-2 tablespoon vegan sugar (brown or turbinado)
• 1-2 teaspoon salt
• 1-2 tablespoon water
• 2-3 tablespoon oil

Directions:

Blend all ingredients except oil. While the mixture is
still churning, slowly pour the oil in through the top of
the blender. Use your discretion when adding ingredients.
Less for thicker mayonaise, more for thinner. The thinner,
runnier stuff works great for fake tuna salad or potato
salad.

Serves: approx 12oz

Preparation time: 5-10min

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

• 1 package cranberries
• 20 oz can crushed pineapple, juice reserved
• 1/3 cup raisins
• 1/2 cup walnuts
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 cup apple sauce
• 3/4 cup water

Directions:

Cook water, pineapple juice, cranberries, and raisins over
high heat until most cranberries have popped (about 15
minutes). Remove from heat and add remaining ingredients.
Serve hot or cold, stores well.

Serves: 6

Preparation time: 20 min

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

• 2 little cans of tomato paste
• molasses
• apple cider vinegar
• largley diced medium onion
• oil for cooking
• seasonings to taste:
• salt
• garlic powder
• ground red iepper (optional)
• Spike
• pepper and whatever else you want to throw in
• Liquid Smoke

Directions:

First, heat a pan on medium high heat. When it’s
heated, cook onions in oil until they are carmalized
(light to dark brown). If they turn black, don’t worry, they’ll
still taste ok.

Once you get that going, put the cans of tomato paste in
a small pot. Add molasses and apple cider
vinegar. (A LITTLE , or rather large, HINT: Molasses
makes a BBQ sauce sweet. Apple cider vinegar makes
BBQ sauce tangy. SO, depending on how you like your
BBQ sauce- for example, I prefer mine a little more
sweet and tangy than some people, you might want to
add more or less of both depending on taste.) Stir this
for a while, and your onions should be done. Stir
onions in along with all your other spices.

A NOTE ON SEASONING: BBQ sauce absorbs a lot of
flavor, and the mixture of tomato past, molasses and
apple cider vinegar are pretty overpowering. To
compensate, add a lot of spices. It might seem like
you’re adding too much, but you’re not. Add some more.
And for the best results until you get it down, taste
periodically.

Liquid Smoke: THIS IS NECESSARY. otherwise, your
BBQ sauce will taste like wierd katchup. Add a good
amount depending on how smokey you want your BBQ
sauce to be. You can also use more of this in place of
salt.

Salt: use a lot of it and if you screw up and make it too
tangy or sweet the salt will cover it up.
Garlic Powder: use a good amount of this. Usually how
I judge it is I add until I think I added too much, then i
put more in (the same applies for salt, actually).
Ground Red Pepper: if you like spicy BBQ add a good
amount of it, but if you don’t it tastes fine without it,
though I might call you a wimp.

Spike: I always use this stuff. If you don’t have spike,
you’re not a vegan cook. With that said, use a good
amount of this, too.

Pepper: duh. to taste.

Whatever else: See, one of the coolest things about
BBQ sauce is that it can have a million different tastes.
KC Masterpiece won’t cut it and all of the good sauces have honey BBQ sauce
Experiment, make your own, and have fun.

Soundtrack: Youth of Today: We’re Not In This Alone LP

Serves: A lot

Preparation time: 15 minutes