Vegan "Buttermilk" Biscuits and "Sausage" Gravy

I'm not going to even pretend this was my idea -- I found this on the VegWeb site and made them this morning...AMAZING. Seriously. I'll just copy and paste. :)

Ingredients:

"buttermilk" biscuits:
2/3 cup non-dairy milk
2 teaspoon lemon juice
3 tablespoons canola oil
1 tablespoon apple or orange juice
2 cup unbleached white pastry flour (wheat flour just won't make fluffy biscuits, I have
tried)
2 teaspoons non-aluminum baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
gravy:
1/2 tube Gimme Lean, sausage flavor
salt and pepper
2-3 tablespoons non-hydrated margarine (or olive oil)
2-3 tablespoons flour
1 1/2 to 2 cups water

Directions:

Start with gravy. Put margarine or oil in pan and turn on medium. Add Gimme Lean and break into very small pieces. Sprinkle with pepper and stir fry.

Preheat oven to 400*F. In a glass cup or bowl, add lemon juice to non-dairy milk and let it rest for a few minutes to thicken. In a different bowl mix oil and juice and beat them together with fork.

Place flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl and stir together. Add oil mixture and mix until it resembles bread crumbs. Then stir enough of the reserved soured milk so the dough leaves the sides of the bowl and SLIGHTLY sticky (not enough and biscuits will be dry).

Place on a floured board and roll or pat to 1" thick and cut into 2 1/2' round biscuits and place on dry baking sheet. Place in oven and bake until light golden (10-12 minutes).

Right before biscuits are done make gravy. Make sure Gimme Lean is nice and browned. Deglaze pan with 1 cup water for 1 minute then mix remaining 1/2 cup water with flour to make thin paste. Add to sausage pan, stir constantly until thick. Season with salt and pepper.

**Note: pepper should be very prominent in the taste! Add enough to really taste it. Fresh cracked pepper is the best for this.

Take biscuits out of oven and cut in half and spread liberally with margarine and top with ample amounts of gravy.

This serves 2 people with gravy on four half biscuits. This can feed more people if you use a whole Gimme Lean, and double the other gravy ingredients.

Serves: 2-4

Preparation time: 20 minutes

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I used all-purpose flour, and they turned out great. Strongly recommend this!

call for simple vegan-ish recipes

Hello food-bloggers! I have been having some stomach pain lately and my doctor recommended that I stop eating eggs, cheese, and fried food for awhile until we figure out what's causing it. I'm a vegetarian with somewhat limited resources, so eggs and cheese constitute a pretty large portion of my diet. Especially eggs! So cheap and so filling! Now I am going to tell you a list of what things are commonly available in the DR and you, perhaps, will provide me with a delicious recipe I can make?

- Fresh vegetables: carrots, onions, peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, potatoes, auyama squash. (Not quite the same thing as pumpkin, but for recipe purposes I think it will work in place of pumpkin.) Sometimes tomatoes.
- Fresh fruit: bananas, pineapple, papaya, apples (sometimes).
- Pretty much any canned vegetable.
- Bread.
- Any type of canned bean. Also dried, but I don't have a pressure cooker and I am too impatient to cook them forever.
- Brown rice, white rice.
- Pasta.
- Tomato sauce.
- Most basic spices and condiments.
- Flour, baking powder, other baking necessities.

With these things, mostly I eat: some combination of those veggies stirfried with rice or noodles, or in a sandwich. Or pasta with sauce. And hummus with everything.

I can only bake in a Dutch oven.

Oh and only cheese is banned for me, not other dairy. So if you have a recipe with milk or yogurt, that is okay.

OK go! Feed me!