Meal Plan

The age old question  - "Whats for dinner?". There's really no escaping it because you have to face it every single day of your life. Being vegan, it's even harder to decide! It's always between tofurky oven pizza or pasta if I'm in a rush to decide. So, I came up with a meal plan for this week and will hopefully be updating my blog every week with these new meal plans! Inside of the meal plans will be recipes I have and haven't done before, so tons of new recipes will be written and old ones will be linked! Hope this helps you! 

Green Monster Facial Mask

I turned into a monster Sunday night from a facial mask that I thought up and made! All you need is:

• Avocado
• Olive Oil
• Kiwi
• Blender

The avocado in the mask deeply cleanses into your skin getting rid of most of the dirt left on your face. It opens small pores clearing and cleansing all of the dead skin cells and prevents acne breakouts. 

The kiwi in the mask is for vitamin c purposes. Vitamin C helps restore skin tissue and heals skin. It neutralizes radicals (such as fine lines in the skin, dryness and wrinkles) and makes you look younger. 

The olive oil in the mask helps cure dryness on the skin. 

I'm kinda silly!

Yummy!

Take your avocado and slice in half. Remove the pit, and smush all of it into a bowl (besides the outer shell). Then, cut your kiwi in half and squeeze out the deliciousness. Pour about 1/4th olive oil into the bowl and blend all together. Put a hot towel on your face to open your pores, put Vaseline on your lips and smear all of that over your face! 







If you have any questions or concerns, PLEASE email me at: thevganteen.blogspot.com.
Use this mask as an opportunity - Scare someone! :)
-Ilana xo





Sources:
-http://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/information/nutrition/vitamin-c-benefit-skin.htm
-http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20121220105915AAcA5aU
-http://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/beauty/anti-aging/olive-oil-for-skin.htm

Not Your Ordinary Quesadilla!

Enjoying my Lemonade? Just cut a thin slice of lemon and place it on the side of a cup - makes anyone feel retro!

Because Sunday nights are always about finishing up projects... And eating mouthwatering, worth burning-your-tongue-for-food! Thanks Ronald for giving us an assignment. I hate bio. But enough about school! Lets get foody ;)

What you'll need!
                         Oils

• Olive Oil
• Canola Oil
• Coconut Oil (Optional)

                  Ingredients

• Daiya Cheese
• Baby Spinach
• Tomato
• Onion
• Garlic
• Mushroom (Optional! I was going to put this in, but I didn't have it at the time.)
• Flour Tortillas (Or whole wheat - I just prefer white flour tortillas... What kind of vegan am I? Haha.)

Actually crying. I want to eat this again sooo badly...

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

First of all, you want to get everything prepped. Cut the onion into slices vertically (or however you like your onions.) and set aside. Un-Clove (is that a word?) garlic and peel the white shell off (or in bio, the membrane) and cut into thick chunky garlic slices. This is the time where you would get the mushroom out also! Place the onion (mushroom) and garlic in the frying pan and drizzle with olive oil. Fry on simmer (or heats 1-5) until a light yellow, or if you're cooking with mushrooms, cook until you can cut the mushroom in half with your spatula (or whatever utensil you're using to fry the items).

While the oil is popping in the frying pan, pop out an oven tray that you can cook tortillas on. Generously coat the pan with canola oil. Lay one tortilla to one of the sides of the tray and take some of the oil that was on the pan and spread it lightly on the top of the tortilla that is facing towards you. Take the daiya cheese and spread on half of the tortilla. On top of that, put the spinach. Then, slice the tomato into thin slices and put however many tomatoes on as you want. I only did three! By now, your frying pan mixture should be done. Put some of the mix on top of the tomatoes, then fold over the unused portion onto the portion with ingredients on it (basically like a taco!).

Continue this method with however many quesadillas you make.

Put in the oven for 7 minutes, then flip quesadilla onto the other side. Cook for 7 more minutes, for a total of 14 minutes in the oven. Wait 5-10 minutes to cool - if you can!

If you have any questions or concerns, please email me at thevganteen@gmail.com

Don't burn your tongue - I learned the hard way!
-Ilana xo

Food Porn!

You know you love cooking when you sigh out loud thinking about the delicious food you're having as a midnight snack tonight. Get ready for a dinner that you (and whoever you share it with - but why share when you can have it all to yourself? ;)) will never want to stop eating, and takes 20 minutes to make. Talk to you all soon! 

Who knew that the food in the back of your cupboard could turn into a meal for days?

Hey guys! I've been thinking about new simple recipes and this one got me. I need lunch for tomorrow also so... why not something that's quick, cheap, easy and simple to pack up?

What you'll need:

• Rice (I used whole grain)
• Bok Choi
• Green and red peppers
• Tofu
• Olive Oil & Canola Oil
• Braggs Soy Sauce

Get out a pot that you think can hold one cup of rice and two cups of water. I think you get the picture there! For every one cup of rice, use two cups of water. Put two cups of water in the pot on the stove and wait until it boils. When it boils, set one cup of rice into the water, turn heat down to simmer and cover with a top.

       Time for one of my favorite vegetables!! Cut the butt (the end of the bok choi) off of the vegetable and scrub any dirt off with warm water. Cut the bok choi in half vertically and place in a pot, filling the pot half way with water. Put the pot on the stove and set heat for medium to low simmer. Cover with top.

       Cut up the peppers any way you want. Coat the bottom generously with olive oil and place the peppers in. Cut the tofu into cubes, and place those in too.

Check on the bok choy! To see if it's ready, take a fork and see if you can stick it through. If you feel any hardness to the vegetable, leave it on for about 5-10 more minutes until soft and stab-able.

Check the rice and see if its ready! If all of the water is absorbed by the rice, taste to test! If still a bit hard and all water is absorbed, add less than 1/4th cup water. Cover back with top.

Stir the peppers and tofu together until the green peppers turn a bit brown and are also stab-able and soft. Turn everything off when done.

       Mix together in a bowl and add a decent amount of braggs. Taste to test. Add 1/3rd cup olive oil and 1/3rd cup canola oil, serve while hot and enjoy!!

If you have any questions or concerns, please email me at: thevganteen@gmail.com.

Hope you enjoy this quick meal for days!

-Ilana xo 

Mercy for Animals Action Center

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Biggest honor to be mentioned on a website by my favorite organization Mercy for Animals! Representin! 

Veg Celebs

Guess who just pledged 22 more days of veganism? My girl Beyonce! You go girl.